Any time.
PeeWee squirms:
You started this with your mindless anal wanking on about "nearside/offside".No, you started it, by using such silly unintelligible terms.
Or, if you wish, you started it by dredging up that utterly worn-out, stupid, annoying old "anal" hobby-horse that sloppy fuckwits always resort to as a "defense" of their sloppiness.
You're still using it above here, I see, BTW.
It's common parlance over here (and elsewhere). In other words, it's not "feudal horsie talk", it's normal usage, which is why I used it. Duh.OK, when you're posting on the UK-StraliaNet, feel free to talk whatever variant of horsie-talk you want.
But when you're posting here on the INTER-national INTER-net, please don't try to claim that your weird backwaters-of-a-dead-Empire dialect is "normal" usage, 'coz it sure as fuck ain't.
You could have simply said "eh? offside? Wossat?",And that, my blind young friend, was actually what I was doing.
but instead you started babbling on about football and hockey:On the contrary, Grasshopper, I used the *exact* correct kind of terminology for my purposes here.What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!?[SNIP: Excessive quotage]
Anyway, what's a "zone error" on a football "field"? Please take care to use the appropriate terminology when attempting to be sarcastically funny.
When I'm asking (as you correctly surmised, hopefully in a "sarcastically funny" way), "Are you using that term in the technical sense of '...' as we laymen would call it?", I better be careful NOT to use too technically-"appropriate terminology" in my own rephrasing, or the effect is spoiled for all non-aficionados of the subject at hand.
HTH!
