"the lads", classic or dud?

paul gascoine.

dud-100

How does a night out with all guys vary from a mixed company night out? If you do go out with just the boys/lads often enough? Does it vary at all?

paul and holly were always paul and holly but to everyone
at ztt by all accounts ped, brian and mark were always
'the lads'. judging from holly's (fantastic)
book however, wishing the lads
were 'here' wasn't something that occured often.

Ronan, maybe it's time to let some girls into the clubhouse?

Anyway, come to NY Ronan, there's lots of girls here who would like to meet ya.

RONAN MAN OF OATS!

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^RIYL laughing at anon tryhard douchebags

Goldstein erroneously reported that TalkSPORT co-host Jason Cundy had died after he failed to turn up to co-present his weekend show in October 2008. This led to some Chelsea fans laying flowers at Stamford Bridge and sending in condolences to the radio station. Goldstein later said he was only joking.

have there ever been 'lads' on ilx

Im part of a great bunch of lads, but tbh as always uk and ireland versions of this phenomenon seem quite different. But i was out with the lads only yesterday fyi

What's the difference? I use 'lads' too.

what for?

To describe a bunch of guys you might go out for a booze up with, for instance

idk whether it's a particularly culchie thing but my girlfriend's sisters and their (female) friends will refer to each other as "the lads".

i think girls do use it around the country yeah. or addressing people of both genders as "lads".

i would probably describe my old friends from where i grew up as "the lads" but fairly sure my mum would have said "are you going out with the lads" if i asked to go to the park when i was 6 or something, so it need not imply boozing and all the things that come later.

i think girls do use it around the country yeah. or addressing people of both genders as "lads".

I've never heard it tbh

lol

i think my most traumatically 'lad' ish recent experience was a night out with a load of ex-trinity girls.....all the hard drinking but none of the gentle craic that mitigates the irish lad-bro compared to the english version

it is strange here - i feel like most reasonable uk people are v determined to separate themselves from the "lad" thing - i've never met any uk "lads" really, i assume it's something you need to have gone to uni to encounter here? occasional workmates maybe...

It depends entirely on the circles you move in, having grown up in London I've seen loads but less and less so as my social habits and work have changed over the years. Pubs becoming more and more socially stratified has had an effect as well.

Sat behind a large table of loudly braying males at Great Queen Street restaurant the other week, pretty sure they would have self-described as lads. City boys but with cockernee geezer accents, possibly faked or adopted.

'Lad'isnt a descriptive title anywhere but urban england, maybe, and sure the problem there isnt what they call themselves, it's the filthy tan ways on them.

I have known 'the lads' to be used to describe mixed groups, exclusively by hardened drinkers of the worst type, exclusively female, great lads tho

i've got at least 2 groups of solid drinking pals that i could theoretically refer to as "the lads" but

a) they're nearly all my age and upwards and lads seems a bit off
b) i'm talking about people who generally meet at the same pubs rather than arrange to go out together

no real objection to "the lads" and don't think it connotes the same thing as LAD culture exactly so

We all mean different stuff when we stay stuff really when you think about stuff

Lad as slang for penis btw, anyone

Not familiar with that tbh

think Father Ted might have placed it in the UK lexicon in a limited way

"Yer lad, in yer hand" - yup, Father Ted did draw this to my attention.

The only times my friends use 'lads' is to denote a group of men they don't like being loud near them (see also: 'legends'), or in the context of 'there's a good lad' when coaxing/rewarding a male dog.

The only times my friends use 'lads' is to denote a group of men they don't like being loud near them

I often use "tories" for this. cos they often seem like they are.

Loaded, one of the titles synonymous with the mid-1990s lads’ mag boom, is to close after 21 years.

Loaded was once one of the the leading titles in a booming lads magazine sector, with sales of 350,000 in 2000.

In recent years the rise of the internet has seen sales plummet, circulation stood at about 35,000 in 2011, the last officially audited figures available for the title.

The magazine is owned by Simian Publishing, a company set up in 2013 for Loaded’s management to take control of the title.

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The @VICEUK of my generation... #RIPLoaded

There was a point about 10 years ago when the boss at a company I worked at flipped out when an apprentice kulak drove into the yard with a rolled up copy of Nuts on the dash of his Berlingo. He got quite a hard fucking and was given a written disciplinary warning about having visible "porn mags" on company property. Even though I immensely disliked the boss I thought he was 100% otm in this case.

I personally think James Brown is one of the vilest & most worthless pieces of shit of his generation and would genuinely wish death upon him. He is that much worthless that he almost makes Paul Morley seem a likeable person. If there is a hell I hope he ends up in some dismal loop; trapped in a white transit van with dumb young guys smoking biftas at 6am, talking about spitting on Lucy Pinder's arse with Moyles blasting out at full whack - aeterno!

There was a point about 10 years ago when the boss at a company I worked at flipped out when an apprentice kulak drove into the yard with a rolled up copy of Nuts on the dash of his Berlingo

lol this is quite a turn of phrase

The worst thing about the Berlingo is 3 seats at the front, would rather lie on some padded dust sheets in the back than listen to the outright twaterry in the front all the way to Selby, even if you are doomed in a crash.

I don't know much about publishing but 35k circulation doesn't seem that bad in this day and age?