Back in the day

[dotty.]

we used to call people 'Dingbats' when they had been particularly stupid or annoying, or stupidly annoying, can we still use that term these days without causing offence? ( not that i care who i offend like)

[Bobbisox]

neither do I !!!

[dotty.]

no but you make more of an effort to offend than i do

[Bobbisox]

do I ???
you were so much nicer as dot hawkes.. ;-)
no offence like..

[dotty.]

no I've never set out to be 'nice' I've just not bothered to be annoying but I;m getting my second wind now

[Bobbisox]

I am sure you are

[dotty.]

that's reassuring then

[hasbeen2]

dotty in my day they were called stupid barstewards not dingbats.

[starone]

Are you two children going to fight all night?

[Andyvon]

I've never heard people referred to as dingbats Dotty. I thought dingbats were puzzles like rebuses or conundrums.

[dotty.]

nothin to see here starbuck move along, Voyeurism is too hard to spell proper .

[Bobbisox]

not me Star...

[dotty.]

no we used to call people Dingbats, I'm goin to find out where it started, i think it was on a TV show

[starone]

I didn't intend to watch, or hold anybody's coats. In fact I'm off to bed and leave you to it.

[ummmm]

I remember calling people that....how old are you again?

[dotty.]

Me? I'm 32, but I look 25.

[Andyvon]

I wouldn't ask Dotty that Ummm but I'm 48. We used to call people lots of things but I never heard of Dingbats. Perhaps it's a regional thing. I'm just north of London.

[dotty.]

aww never mind andy someone has to live there, it may have been cannon and ball you knwo now i think about it

[starone]

Dingbat - slang term used to describe someone silly, noteably applied to the TV character Edith Bunker by her husband Archie.

[Andyvon]

That sounds about right Dotty. I can just see Bobby Ball calling someone that as he twanged his braces!

[dotty.]

oh no!!! it was Rowan and Martin';s laugh In wasn;t it? Jo Ann Worley or whatever her name was, i will find a link