The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
That could very well be, Jackie. It's very rare that this is not the case, outside of Sunday night! In fact, I am currently wearing dress slacks and a button down!
If you notice the picture above the cake picture, I'm actually wearing shorts and a t-shirt, which is an even rarer event, almost unheard of!!
For some reason that completely didn't register.. but you're right.. TWO pictures of you out of the norm... I think this day should be marked somehow...
Aodan wrote: I may be mistaken, but I think that birthday cake picture is the first picture I've seen of you Nate not wearing a button down and dress slacks.
Presumably in english, this means a shirt a trousers?
Aodan wrote: For some reason that completely didn't register.. but you're right.. TWO pictures of you out of the norm... I think this day should be marked somehow...
Heh, yes indeed!
Not really sure of the exact date the photos were taken, though...
Is it? Only when I mentioned that particular naming convention in mixed (english) company last night, both parties confirmed that they had never heard the phrase 'button down' in relation to a shirt. Is that what you call em? Bloody Manc!
You didnt say button down last night you said Button up - if you had said button down... I still wouldnt have known what you meant - and you might have said button down...
I'm going for a lie down...
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So just how would you you refer to the type of shirt with buttons on the collar? In such a way that would prevent you understanding the term "button down"?
Obviously almost all shirts button up, that's just foolish. (Thanks for the insight Stead)
I would refer to it as a shirt. With buttons on the collar. To be frank though, I don't feel I'd need to clarify the presence or not of buttons on the collar, particularly by making up a whole new name for it. Who gives a toss? Girls, maybe...
I had this discussion not too long ago with my wife, she says "Button Down" shirts. I say "Button Up". I think its a gender thing. She does have a point though, most people (at least me) start near the top of the shirt and work down with the buttons "Button Down"
But why aren't they just 'shirts'? It's kinda like saying a 'round' instead of a ball or a 'cube' insted of a die. If I went around calling things by one of their properties, I'd get into all sorts of trouble. My TV remote has a load of buttons on it, so I'm gonna call it a button from now. Come to think of it, my doorbell has a button on it, the front of my microwave has buttons and so does my phone. They're all buttons. I'm gonna heat up my dinner in the button right after I answer the button, and change the battery in the button. Yup. That's a sensible way to name stuff!
ROFL, my friend Tom in High School had one of those old Zenith Console TV's that had a HUGE remote (weight about 5 pounds)...........anyway he used to call it "The Buttons", I had forgotten about it, thanks for reminding me, it was funny.
Dudes, they're button-down, collared shirts. It's just more descriptive, like t-shirt, or hooded sweatshirt. Now with time, the reference becomes abbreviated, like 'Button downs' or 'hoody'.
Not all shirts look the same or serve the same functionality/purpose, so at some point the human race must have decided to describe these inanimate objects, shirts, in greater detail, I guess.
You could refer, in similar fashion, to your tv remote control as you tv remote control with many buttons, but seeing as most tv remote controls do in fact have many buttons, the extra level of description might be considered a little gratuitous. But just a little.
