Cool or Naff???

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Re: Cool or Naff???

Postby Superdave4 » Mon 30.11.2009, 16:42

Yep, naff. Sorry. :smt120
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Re: Cool or Naff???

Postby Nickydee » Mon 30.11.2009, 17:52

muley wrote:
Tyger wrote:What's naff?



from answers.com ...

naff adj. Chiefly British Slang Unstylish, clichéd, or outmoded.

HTH

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According to the Radio 4 programme I was listening to last week it comes from Polari (g-a-y slang)[hyphens needed as the word "gray" automatically changes to gray when I preview my text] and was used to dismissively refer to heterosexual people. Believed to be an abreviation of " Not Available For F**king". It was introduced as a less offensive expletive verb ("naff off") in the '70s UK television show, Porridge. "Naff off!" was also famously used by Princess Anne in 1982...

Up to now I thought all those hours, I spend travelling for work listening to Daytime Radio were wasted!
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Re: Cool or Naff???

Postby Tyger » Mon 30.11.2009, 19:55

Nickydee wrote:
muley wrote:
Tyger wrote:What's naff?



from answers.com ...

naff adj. Chiefly British Slang Unstylish, clichéd, or outmoded.

HTH

Jim a.k.a. muley


According to the Radio 4 programme I was listening to last week it comes from Polari (g-a-y slang)[hyphens needed as the word "gray" automatically changes to gray when I preview my text] and was used to dismissively refer to heterosexual people. Believed to be an abreviation of " Not Available For F**king". It was introduced as a less offensive expletive verb ("naff off") in the '70s UK television show, Porridge. "Naff off!" was also famously used by Princess Anne in 1982...

Up to now I thought all those hours, I spend travelling for work listening to Daytime Radio were wasted!


So hetero sex is now considered "outmoded" in the UK? No wonder your birth rate has declined so much!
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