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Regional humor
So in England...or I guess the UK...is there somewhere where you could find stuffy/uptight/persnickety people? Like, if I wanted a joke about finding a person with a gun in the U.S., I'd probably say they were from Texas. Obviously, you know, a stereotype.
ETA: Also, is "the buddy system" a commonly used term in the UK? You know - where you have to have a buddy on school field trips. *shakes fist at the 20,000 people on board the TARDIS*
ETA: Also, is "the buddy system" a commonly used term in the UK? You know - where you have to have a buddy on school field trips. *shakes fist at the 20,000 people on board the TARDIS*
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As for your first question, probably the
As for your first question, probably the <a href-"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Counties">home counties</a> come to mind but thats probably a southern thing!!
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Nuts! So would you be familiar with the term at least? I'm trying to figure out if the Doctor would joke around, saying he needs to start the buddy system.
home counties come to mind but thats probably a southern thing!!
So, could I say something like "oh, they're from Surrey" and people would get a mental image of someone more prim and proper?
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I think saying home counties rather than specifying does work better which you've gone with so this comment is fairly redundant!
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Uptight people. Hmm. If you were from the North, you might refer to Southerners being uptight, but there's no real area. Sorry.
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Actually, I don't remember ever using the buddy system myself. But good to know you recognize it at least. After I just wrote this whole scene...
Uptight people. Hmm. If you were from the North, you might refer to Southerners being uptight, but there's no real area. Sorry.
Dang! Darn your lack of regional stereotypes!
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I recognise what a buddy system is so you'd probably be able to use it, it's just not something that happens a lot at schools. Until I was about 17, you wouldn't deign to speak to anyone in the lower years unless it was absolutely necessary ;)
Now I'm curious to know what you think of as a buddy system, because over here it doesn't have anything to do with age generally ...
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*waits for Jojo*
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I think Jojo may have been guessing that it was a sort of mentoring with an older student being responsible for a younger one?
Any time I ran into it (i.e. elementary school and Girl Scouts), it meant pairing off students within one group/class. Mostly it was for field trips, on the theory that if you paired kids off they were less likely to get distracted and wander off unnoticed. (Hence the potential usefulness to the Doctor.) It didn't always hold up, e.g. if both kids got distracted by the same thing, but generally it worked pretty well.
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That's what it means to me as well. And unlike Michelle, we used it constantly. In kindergarten I think we were even paired off when the whole class trooped to the bathroom.
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(Not insulting your intelligence with the link, but it's a term that might not translate! :D)
As for the buddy system... the closest I ever came to anything like it was being forced to walk in pairs to class by a very frightening male teacher. I'd think it was an easily understandable thing, but not necessarily something the Doctor would say?
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Oh, so I could actually say "Home Counties"?
(Not insulting your intelligence with the link, but it's a term that might not translate! :D)
Not insulted. :)
As for the buddy system... the closest I ever came to anything like it was being forced to walk in pairs to class by a very frightening male teacher. I'd think it was an easily understandable thing, but not necessarily something the Doctor would say?
Arg! :-\
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I suppose if they don't have a cut-and-dried equivalent, you could have the doctor tell people to hold hands :D
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I forgot about that! So, so funny and very school teacher-ish. :D
I suppose if they don't have a cut-and-dried equivalent, you could have the doctor tell people to hold hands :D
*snickers* I'm sure that Jack would be more than happy to comply!
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Now, when I want to tell my Guides (read: Girl Scouts) to partner up, I tell them, "Right everyone, get into twos" or "Everyone find a partner" (and obviously the right everyone is optional *g*). There are a couple of other things that I'll say if I'm exasperated/fed up/being facetious/just want to shut and get a move on, but the two phrases above are the kinda standard. And if I had pick one over the other I'd pick the first.
However, given that I'm Scottish, and apparently this can count as an entire different continent when it comes to the cultural divide, I don't know how much this all helps. *g*
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