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Quote: Aaron @ August 12 2008, 3:22 PM BST

A bit pissy? Uppity? Hoity-toity?

Me or the flight attendant? :)

Maybe technical? That's what I liked about "facilities".

The tone it's meant to be said in. Facilities may be more apt in that case. Someone trying to sound more important or posh than they are.

Kissing in the facilities or cubicles have a whiff of the innuendo about them and are funnier words in their own right. Don't ask me why! :)

Gentlemen, we have a consensus. Even without resorting to throwing dice.

"Facilities" it is.

Thank you both very much!

I need a small sentence to be said before downing a shot.

In German it would be "Wech damit!" ("Away with it!") oder "Hau wech die Scheiße".

Any suggestions? Probably not from Aaron this time. :)

Down the hatch.

Down the hatch.

[Maybe a tad old fashined]

Snap

Bottoms up.

Quote: Marc P @ August 12 2008, 4:53 PM BST

Down the hatch.

(Maybe a tad old fashined)

Doesn't matter. Thanks, you two!

Careful with the brack'ts, Eugene!

Quote: Finck @ August 12 2008, 2:47 PM BST

https://www.comedy.co.uk/green_wing/characters.shtml

Under "Guy".

I wait for two more votes and then I'll get the dice out.

Oh I do love Guy. Lovey

"I've never had a car accident."
"How would you? You don't drive."

Is the "How would you?" correct?

"How could you?"

Thanks!

Btw.: Is this thread annoying? I could maybe try putting all the questions in one post after I've been through the episode once.

Nope, 'tis fine.

Quote: Finck @ August 12 2008, 9:07 PM BST

"I've never had a car accident."
"How would you? You don't drive."

Is the "How would you?" correct?

To me it reads a bit awkwardly because you can be in a car accident as a passenger, and you can cause one as a cyclist or a pedestrian etc etc. So the line, perhaps, out to be along the lines of.

'I have never crashed a car in my life.'
'That's because you've never driven one.'

And if you are going to use could. To make it more accurate, it should probably be...

'How could you have done, you don't drive?'

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