hedley Clubnobber's definitions

desolation

a desolation: Describes most inner city areas or major British conurbations. Robbed of individuality by retailing corporations, bent politics, comprehensive education and architectural vandals over a period of decades. More atmosphere on the lunar surface, somewhat less ineteresting than watching paint dry.

a. 'This town is dead'.

b. 'It's a desolation of a place. Let's go to Cardiff before they finish that off too'.

by Hedley Clubnobber September 16, 2008

anoesis

Pronounced 'a-knee-siss':apparently means 'an emotional response to something without understanding' and could be used to describe most British social, political and cultural activity in the 21stC.

a. 'He's just trashed my country!'

b. 'Yeh, he's showing anoesis but he may also be right'

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006

Harvard

A place where you can pay $100k.p.a for an education you can get in any mid-west whorehouse for $50.

He's a Harvard Man therefore he is stupid and spends lots of money on his son's/daughter's miseducation. (Similar to Yale, Oxford or Cambridge institutions)

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006

manci

pronouncewd 'man-key': dirty, filthy, grubby, grimey; derived from a person living in Manchester, UK, known to all surrounding towns as 'Mancs', and associated with the industrial revolution when everyone and everything was a stranger to soap.

a) oh, look at her/him! S/he's manci!

b) indeed, s/he does comes from south Lancashire.

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006

fundamentalist

Mental certainty. Fun at the start, never at the end. Someone who brings fireworks to Armageddon.

a. 'that's fundamentalist nonesense?!'

b. 'in the name of the Prince of Peace, die you doubter!'

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006

go-lightly

A 'go-lighty'; noun/adj. made famous in UK.TV hidden camera show where grossly overweight people go round knocking things down inadvertently.

'Look at the size of him/her, Mate! What a go-lightly'.

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006

care in the community

British poitical euphemism for 'piss off, we don't give a toss'. Usually applied to the disabled, elderly and infirm; a pre-requisite to depriving them of their savings and homes via low standard services. Normal to associate this with abandonment, loneliness and despair. The natural end to the industrial revolution.

Bank manager 1. 'Care in the community would be a good idea'.

Bank manager 2: 'Yes, we must tell the government to do it and sink those needy bastards'.

by Hedley Clubnobber August 27, 2006