Thread: Could The Rate Change Next Week

Originally Posted by NotDeluded

A prolific user on here called you a "toe rag" neno at the other place. How come he is still such a welcome senior figure on here?!

The person you are referring to has been welcomed back here. Neno has thick skin.

Perhaps you should let the Mods do the modding.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by inquisitive1

I do not think that SGS would call you a "nellie", H2O Lover. Wow, would that be a cold day in Alaska..lol..

she gets like this i always ask her if shes been to the dark side. she has, EVERYTIME!

Originally Posted by NotDeluded

How come you seem so keen on knowing?!

it was just a follow-up question. act a fool, be treated like a fool.if you cant follow the rules ya get banned. thats the way it should be.

Originally Posted by NotDeluded

A prolific user on here called you a "toe rag" neno at the other place. How come he is still such a welcome senior figure on here?!

What the heck is a "toe rag"? That is a new one on me, LOLOL.

I would like to know this too. Could it be that this person is being called an old sock? Or that some people like to keep their toes shiny, and to do that you would need a toe rag? Maybe it was a misprint, and they meant "toe tag"? interesting!

Originally Posted by danny51

What the heck is a "toe rag"? That is a new one on me, LOLOL.

my dad calls me a toe rag, lol......he uses it in the nicest sense, sort of like troublemaker , rascal or imp, LOL

Not that I wish to condone NonDeluded for telling tales out of school. Tut, Tut.

But here you go : TOE RAG

Another term from that inexhaustible store of rude British slang expressions (though it is also well-known in Australia). It means that the person addressed is contemptible or worthless, a scrounger. Though it can be a relatively mild insult among friends, you should avoid saying it to strangers unless you want a smack in the mush or a punch up the bracket.

The original form — in the nineteenth century — was toe rag. It referred to the strips of cloth that convicts or tramps wrapped around their feet as an inadequate substitute for socks. The first recorded use is by J F Mortlock in his Experiences of a Convict of 1864: “Stockings being unknown, some luxurious men wrapped round their feet a piece of old shirting, called, in language more expressive than elegant, a ‘toe-rag’ ”. It didn’t take long to become a term of abuse — in 1875 a book on British circus life said that “Toe rags is another expression of contempt ... used ... chiefly by the lower grades of circus men, and the acrobats who stroll about the country, performing at fairs”.

It seems to have come to wider British knowledge and use from the 1970s on, largely because it was aired in the ITV police series The Sweeney great show about the London mobile detective force called the flying squad (rhyming slang: flying squad = Sweeney Todd - , the demon barber of Fleet Street), a programme that delighted in using London slang.

The tow-rag spelling is sometimes seen because people have lost the link to the original sense, long since obsolete.

It's used in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I think it was Sirius or Ron talking about Kreacher) so it definitely is "toe rag" but I don't know the meaning.

ya learn something new everyday.

Thank you! I stand informed.