Every now and then I see someone on LinkedIn say 'Get hired!' and recall that this exact phrase, in George Macdonald Fraser's flawed but excellent WWII memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, is Cumbrian dialect all at once for 'you're a liar', 'you're having ...
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Every now and then I see someone on LinkedIn say 'Get hired!' and recall that this exact phrase, in George Macdonald Fraser's flawed but excellent WWII memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, is Cumbrian dialect all at once for 'you're a liar', 'you're having me on', and 'go and fuck yourself'
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This is an extraordinary book, by the way. He's a reactionary, a thoroughgoing gammon. The last chapter you can skip, it's just Brexit avant la lettre.
But he's observant of people, and of himself, and especially of a specific mid-20thC culture of Englishness, that makes it worth reading
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@liamvhogan the Flashman books are amazing
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@Kels_316 if you haven't read Quartered Safe Out Here, do yourself a favour---it's by far his best, I think. But skip the last chapter.
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@liamvhogan I haven't, I will add it to the list.
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@Kels_316 by 'best' I do not at all mean 'most enjoyable' or 'fun'. It's a war memoir, and he's a reactionary. Be warned but appreciate.
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@liamvhogan I'm sure I will spend some time doing this