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Am I getting an irritable old git?
| John Harding | 09/07/2018 01:02:43 |
| 33 forum posts | At one work place a youngster declared emphatically that anyone over 50 is an Old Git (house style?) The manager and I laughed and kept the joke to ourselves. 12 to 15 years later at another place I asked a colleauge age 40+ if he thought another emloyee was over 60. Pause," Certainly he's crabby enough to be over sixty" So by proxy I know what ........ John H |
| Hopper | 09/07/2018 02:01:01 |
 7881 forum posts 397 photos | Posted by John Harding on 09/07/2018 01:02:43:
... anyone over 50 is an Old Git (house style?) More of an honorific than a mere position title really. |
| thaiguzzi | 09/07/2018 05:39:08 |
 704 forum posts 131 photos | 9 pages and counting.... What can i say? |
| Hopper | 09/07/2018 05:50:00 |
7881 forum posts 397 photos | Posted by thaiguzzi on 09/07/2018 05:39:08:
9 pages and counting.... What can i say? You could say there is no shortage of irritable old gits carrying on? |
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