17-01-2013, 20:39
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From Plebs to servants
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17-01-2013, 20:46
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Re: From Plebs to servants
Well if the tories are planning to bring back the feudal system I hope there's a referrendum first.
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17-01-2013, 21:00
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Re: From Plebs to servants
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Well if the tories are planning to bring back the feudal system I hope there's a referrendum first.
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i wanna be a serf
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17-01-2013, 21:22
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Re: From Plebs to servants
What a dick.
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17-01-2013, 21:24
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Re: From Plebs to servants
I don't see what the fuss is about. They are servants, they're paid to serve :/
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17-01-2013, 21:24
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Re: From Plebs to servants
Servers, perhaps, but not servants.
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17-01-2013, 21:28
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Re: From Plebs to servants
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I don't see what the fuss is about. They are servants, they're paid to serve :/
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waiters and waitresses not servants
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17-01-2013, 22:35
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Re: From Plebs to servants
Brilliant.
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17-01-2013, 22:40
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i don't even think he realizes what he said wrong
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18-01-2013, 10:16
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Re: From Plebs to servants
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i don't even think he realizes what he said wrong
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Because he is not perhaps.
serv·ant
/ˈsərvənt/
Noun
- A person who performs duties for others, esp. a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.
- A person employed in the service of a government.
www.thefreedictionary.com/servant
One who is privately employed to perform domestic services. 2. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government. 3. One who expresses ...
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18-01-2013, 10:23
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Re: From Plebs to servants
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Because he is not perhaps.
serv·ant
/ˈsərvənt/
Noun
- A person who performs duties for others, esp. a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.
- A person employed in the service of a government.
www.thefreedictionary.com/servant
One who is privately employed to perform domestic services. 2. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government. 3. One who expresses ... |
However, in the hierarchy of restaurant staff, he has definitely insulted them. Unlike household staff who are referred to collectively as servants. Not the same at all.
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18-01-2013, 11:32
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Re: From Plebs to servants
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Because he is not perhaps.
serv·ant
/ˈsərvənt/
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www.thefreedictionary.com/servant
One who is privately employed to perform domestic services. 2. One who is publicly employed to perform services, as for a government. 3. One who expresses ... |
But that would be a member of the Civil Service, who I have never heard called a servant (and my wife has been a member of the Civil Service for nearly 30 years...).
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18-01-2013, 12:22
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What servants may wear:
Fabric worth no more than two marks for the whole cloth. No gold, silver, embroidery, enamelware or silk. Women not to wear a veil worth more than 12d.
Could be worse though: Carters, ploughmen, drivers of livestock and dairymaids may only wear blanket and russet worth no more than 12d per ell and belts made from rope.
(Sumptuary Laws of 1363  )
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18-01-2013, 13:25
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Re: From Plebs to servants
Sorry perhaps not acceptable use of the word today, but if you serve surely you are a servant.
On the subject of Plebs - it meant( in Roman times) a free, land owning citizen. Ergo I would have been a pleb then .
The words that always sticks with me is shambles - use to mean slaughterhouse or even meat market & Nice, meaning stupid or foolish . Usage changes meanings ( for some. I never use "nice" in the accepted sense these days)
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18-01-2013, 13:36
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Re: From Plebs to servants
Time to build another mountain out of a molehill, is there really nothing better in the country to worry about.
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