― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
paul and holly were always paul and holly but to everyoneat ztt by all accounts ped, brian and mark were always 'the lads'. judging from holly's (fantastic) book however, wishing the ladswere 'here' wasn't something that occured often.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ronan, maybe it's time to let some girls into the clubhouse?
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 August 2003 05:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― gareth (gareth), Monday, 11 August 2003 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 11 August 2003 07:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 11 August 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, come to NY Ronan, there's lots of girls here who would like to meet ya.
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 August 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
RONAN MAN OF OATS!
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 11 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.truelad.com/
^RIYL laughing at anon tryhard douchebags
― A piping hot bra of tits (DJ Mencap), Monday, 19 April 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
have there ever been 'lads' on ilx
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
What's the difference? I use 'lads' too.
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
what for?
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
To describe a bunch of guys you might go out for a booze up with, for instance
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:11 (eleven years ago) link
I've never heard it tbh
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 10 June 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Monday, 10 June 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
'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.
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
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
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
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 offb) 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
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
We all mean different stuff when we stay stuff really when you think about stuff
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
Lad as slang for penis btw, anyone
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not familiar with that tbh
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
think Father Ted might have placed it in the UK lexicon in a limited way
― dimension nickröss (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ... (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 June 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
adamclyne@adamclyne
Head of Digital (EMEA) @WeberShandwick. Pug owner. Hummus Connoisseur.
The @VICEUK of my generation... #RIPLoaded
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 March 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
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!
― xelab, Friday, 27 March 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Friday, 27 March 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Saturday, 28 March 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't know much about publishing but 35k circulation doesn't seem that bad in this day and age?
― kinder, Saturday, 28 March 2015 04:47 (nine years ago) link