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do you use this term?

"what was his chat like?"

"that's some bad chat."

"guy's got GREAT chat."

pretty annoying

emphasis on performance in personal relationships: DUD

is it a new thing, I only started hearing it used in the last year

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

channa chat?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.auracan.com/albums/2000/12/LeChat10.jpg

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

wtf? is this a grime thing?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

I have heard it from two people: one of my friends, in aberdeen; and, one of the lawyers, at work... they are both pretty social and judgemental... maybe there's a link

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

so you mean they dicuss a third person in terms of how well he can chat?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

if you say something offensive, perhaps: "oooh that's bad chat"
or if they were at lunch with someone boring: "god his chat was so bad"

it's like a combination of the stories you have to tell... the jokes you remember... the places you've been... anecdotes and trivia... how entertaining you are, as company...

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

we can tie it into about girls if that'd help the romantics

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

i'll try and use this today.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Never hear this term. if someone used it in my company i'd punch em in the face.

xpost

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

if you say something offensive, perhaps: "oooh that's bad chat"

I've never seen Cozen and Alan Partridge in the same room, now I think about it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

I've not heard it yet. But I can imagine hearing it. Is it any worse than saying "he's so boring"? Maybe.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

that's fighting chat, Ste.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

I AM ON THE CUTTING EDGE

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

it sounds more london than aberdeen, to me.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

I saw steve coogan in the car park at gatwick north terminal at 1am on wednesday morning. Where was Cozen?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

the AIM session last night was some good chat

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

"that's fighting chat" = not an example of the use of "chat"... because "chat" properly so called is a qualitative judgement on the thing said and the person saying... it's a calculus of entertainment and worth...

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

http://tv.cream.org/images2/chat1.jpg

oh janet street-porter will you ever win

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

if life were an RPG, chat would be an attribute

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

I only use it in reference to AIM chats. Otherwise, not really.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

"if life were an RPG, chat would be an attribute
-- cozen (skiplevel...), October 20th, 2005."

rocket propelled grenade?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

I much preferred the term we used in my Glasgow days - "patter." "yer patter's great, pal," etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

you should come to AIM chat more often nathalie.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

yer patter's gallas.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

away and bile yer tatties.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

braw!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

yup chat is like patter, but maybe a little wider... patter used more directly, usually addressing the person ("yr patter's like watter, pal" etc)...

chat is middle-class where patter working class?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

I use this all the time with certain friends.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

"chat" as an expression is a wee bit peely-wally.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

two other (different) uses:
"cameron, but the chat is davis might chuck it."
"you still saying chelsea won't win the league? that was your chat all last year."

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

People said this all the time last year, at my uni!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

so 'the chat' can mean 'the word on the street' too.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Where by "people" I mean the kids who were in the college bar all the time and kinda mockney.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I think "bad chat" is a pretty usage actually but I wouldn't use it, because they did.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

"chat", itself, isn't bad but its use in cozen's contexts is

"and I give her some old chat" (cool for cats) is good, though

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.morguefile.com/imageData/LOWREZ/indian_chat_food.JPG

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

This is the most negative I've EVER seen (read?) cozen!

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

mmmm chat

sorry adam : /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

you only clicked the thread cause you thought it was about grime though right?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

yes

― Jazz Funeral in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

only to find a bunch of mans chatting breeze

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

you get it yet?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

i think so -- do you think i do?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

annoying

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

cryptic

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I have a squad of people help me be this annoying!!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

can i join it?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

the term

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

word at random

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I agree with the last thing RJG said (for once!)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

is it ok to like that song? it's very good.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

yep

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

are we so different?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

no. but i always disagreed with my no-good brother too.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

if I like you, does it mean you can't like yourself?

I wouldn't want to be responsible for those kind of feelings : (

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

i will never accept that you like anything, so it's okay.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

I like milk

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

liar

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

The last 3 years of my London life to thread.

Always loved 'patter' but it ain't gonna signify.

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

"it's all about"

"banter"

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

young people, tsk

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"banter"

― czn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

"canter"

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

up your game

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

badinage

― Michael White, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

"banter"

welcome to british undergrad lifestyle circa 2007

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

banter is everywhere.

i have a friend who uses banter to mean sort of "quality of atmosphere", eg "went to a party, pretty poor banter", or "how was that gig, any banter", he also says "I had a serious need for banter but there wasn't any going"

I'm pretty sure he knows doesn't take it that seriously as he coined a word "banterlust" at one point to describe waiting around for a party after a club while high.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, meant to say, he knows it is sort of stupid...

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

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