Does anybody on here actually use this term to describe Cardiff? Where exactly did it come from?
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Does anybody on here actually use this term to describe Cardiff? Where exactly did it come from?
Students...probably.
Nelsonca61 is no student. See #56 on the Traffic Queue Jumpers thread. Shocked me that did.Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker
I saw Sham69 in the Students Union, the originals, although I wasn't involved the riot at the premature end of gig dust upNelsonca61 is no student. See #56 on the Traffic Queue Jumpers thread. Shocked me that did.
The same ones who use the term chippy alley 😭
Cringeworthy
Probably the same people who use the term "Can I get" in shops!
Do they take shortcuts as well ??
Invented by students and visitors like ‘Chippy Lane’.
No it wasn’t, used by locals in 50’s and 60’s.
They probably also see strange West Indian women at some point
One of the many nuances creeping in to everyday use which I cannot stand.
I'll give you a few more examples:
"So, I was getting on the train..."
"OK, something's not right..."
"Sorry, but I disagree with you..."
This is one thing that can't be blamed on the Millennials either. I listen to the radio a lot, mainly BBC Radio 5 and there are grown men talking that way, mainly that Nihal Arthanayake who's surely in his 40s.
These people use it:
http://www.ilovesthediff.com/
For goodness' sake.
I love to see small businesses doing well, but I really hope that site fails. What an abomination.
Of course it is not called "the 'diff". My wife studied in Cardiff (rather than growing up there) and she doesn't recognise it either. She does call Caroline Street "chippy lane" which is obviously unacceptable, but i think we'd get divorced if she said "the 'diff".
I do think that both are different to "can I get", though. There are lots of examples of people twisting/americanising the English language, but they are different (and less offensive) than strangers renaming parts of our city for no good reason and with no basis.
The guy who owns this company is a customer of mine .He is a top man , so diff is fine with me.
The Diff is in the back axle of rear wheel drive vehicles and balances the drive to each wheel as the car goes round a corner otherwise the car would try and drive through the corner and scrubb the tyres out .
Imo, anyone from Cardiff, or living in Cardiff who uses the terms Diff and Chippy Lane, should be banished from our great city for ever!!
Ummm it's "Chip Alley" to me, but as I'm not from Cardiff so I'm allowed to call it that aren't I?
Let’s get some perspective here. They should be kept in our great city.....and thrown in the Taff!!😋
Anyone who puts "Yeah' on the end of every sentence.
'So I'm on my way to work yeah'
Wankers!
The diff = people who allow protesters to sit on city-centre main roads, even buying them coffees; unlike folk who haul protesters from train roofs and give them a kicking.
hark at billy big balls over here
It might have been all that was left when K..R was unceremoniously removed from our chant of the 70/80s
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