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'I swear I posted it'

  • 10-09-2013 11:39AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    For the first time in forever I trusted the national postal system to deliver some car insurance documents without registering them and guess what... they went for a Burton.

    I always thought the 'I swear I sent them' was just made up, spurious excuse but here I am with an hour of form-filling and requesting all kinds of stuff from my other insurers all over again.

    And they wonder why I have trust issues...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    The post works perfectly for everyone else, they just have a vendetta against you.

    Are you one of those people who keeps your dog in your front garden?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    What's a Burton? Some English slang?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    What's a Burton? Some English slang?

    Yes, yes it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    What's a Burton? Some English slang?

    "Gone for a Burton"? Have you been living under a rock?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭WeHaveToGoBack


    An Post can be a joke. I've had several things go "missing." I even had something removed from an envelope and the empty envelope still sent to me!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Are you one of those people who keeps your dog in your front garden?

    Yes. I had him chained to a post but he ran away. Another post I couldn't rely on :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Did you not tip the postman at Christmas?

    You have to, it's the done thing

    Tenner and a tin of roses is enough

    No wonder An Post hate you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    cantdecide wrote: »
    "Gone for a Burton"? Have you been living under a rock?

    I must be living in Rock House, Rock Estate, Rock Town too because I've never heard this expression.

    Gone for a Burton? A Richard Burton? Gone for a Richard? Gone for a Dick? The letter has turned gay? Wha? I don't get it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Maybe a dog attacked the postman and ate the letter when he was delivering?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    cantdecide wrote: »
    "Gone for a Burton"? Have you been living under a rock?

    Have you been living in England?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 blackraspberry


    Happened to me once when I posted a bank draft! Never turned up at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭SolitaireX


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Did you not tip the postman at Christmas?

    Do people actually tip the postman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    gramar wrote: »
    Have you been living in England?

    Why does that sound like an accusation :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    cantdecide wrote: »
    "Gone for a Burton"? Have you been living under a rock?

    This is Ireland. You used obscure UK slang. That's the equivalent of a Wexford person walking into the Ritz and asking for a warm blaa.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Many moons ago when i was in secondary school the CAO rep said we should send our college course acceptance by REGISTERED post. The second significant statement the same rep made was that if this still got lost in the post by the postal service there was still little enough legal recourse. So maybe consider another postal service - they do exist ib duiblin at any rate can'nt rememnber the name tho.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Happened to me once when I posted a bank draft! Never turned up at all.

    I had to post off a driver's license application with a bank draft a few weeks ago. There's a backlog with the licenses at the moment so for three weeks I was worried that it never got there.

    It would be great if they would just pop you an email when they receive the application but I suppose that's too much to ask.


  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Remy Zealous Locomotive


    What in gods name is "gone for a burton"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭whitewave


    Damn it someone explain what going for a Burton means, I can't work it out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    whitewave wrote: »
    Damn it someone explain what going for a Burton means, I can't work it out

    Really?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    whitewave wrote: »
    Damn it someone explain what going for a Burton means, I can't work it out

    From Yahoo answers
    It was RAF slang in world war two, and was taken from a series of adverts for Burton Ale - there would always be someone obviously missing from the scene, ie an empty chair or something, and the catch phrase was 'He's gone for a Burton'
    RAF crews used it as a euphemism for people killed or missing in action


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  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Remy Zealous Locomotive


    1. Gone for a Burton
    22 up, 20 down
    To shamefully fall over in an embarrassing fashion whilst sprinting to glory.

    A traditional British phrase of obscure origin, possibly from the armed forces, Burton On Trent or the tailors Montague Burton
    Stefan never got his bus, he's gone for a burton.


    The letter fell over?
    ...okay


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Diddy Kong


    Gone for a Burton is a euphemistic phrase meaning to die. It was used in World War II especially in the Royal Air Force when referring to aircrew who had crashed or been killed in action.

    In the modern day, the phrase can mean numerous things other than death. A thing can be said to have 'gone for a Burton' if it is broken or lost. A person who has been said to have 'gone for a Burton' can also have gone missing or failed, rather than died.

    Link to wiki.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    maximoose wrote: »
    From Yahoo answers

    I like my explanation better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    whitewave wrote: »
    Damn it someone explain what going for a Burton means, I can't work it out

    Never heard it either, probably a local colloquialism from the sticks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,701 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Ok so gone for a burton means gone to die

    But your letter is not a living object so expression still does not make sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    bluewolf wrote: »
    What in gods name is "gone for a burton"
    whitewave wrote: »
    Damn it someone explain what going for a Burton means, I can't work it out

    WWII RAF Flyboy slang for going missing or being killed in action.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,952 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    hardCopy wrote: »
    WWII RAF Flyboy slang for going missing or being killed in action.

    It's a phrase my whole family used. Then again my dad was in the british army. maybe that's where he picked it up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I entered a thread griping about the post and learn a little something about WWII slang, thanks AH, you've been fantastic ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    bluewolf wrote: »
    What in gods name is "gone for a burton"

    My insurance docs :pac:



    Gone for a Burton means missing in action.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭MrFrisp


    bluewolf wrote: »
    What in gods name is "gone for a burton"



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_for_a_Burton
    .


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