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RE: Interesting movie - British Bikes - Django - 01-20-2019
Ton up boys: I wonder, how it comes, that `ton' is a synonym for 100 miles/hour? Any ideas?
RE: Interesting movie - British Bikes - Cormanus - 01-20-2019
Django, try this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton#Informal_tons.
Apparently in Britain 'ton' is used to mean 100 of anything.
From the news at the end of a Two Ronnies program many, many years ago: "An elephant as just done a ton on the M1. Please drive carefully and treat as a roundabout."
RE: Interesting movie - British Bikes - GoldOxide_imp - 01-20-2019
Learned some new old slang today.
RE: Interesting movie - British Bikes - Django - 01-20-2019
Thank you, Cormanus.
RE: Interesting movie - British Bikes - Paris_imp - 01-23-2019
(07-20-2014, 04:08 AM)Voitus_imp Wrote: Hi,
Just watched this [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNUYHhoDiU]movie. Quite interesting. And one sentence at the end - "they had character, which is an euphemism for not being reliable". I guess taking away time, one had to spend with his bike repairing or modifying it, crippled the relationship in some way. Internet forum, even an interesting one, is not a substitute :-).
Voitus
Warsaw, Poland.
I enjoyed that. For one thing, I never quite understood the Mods and the Rockers until watching that video. I suspect the division is even deeper than described.