Wittering is a particularly nice little Briticism that means someone is going on and on about something of *absolutely* no consequence whatsover. You pay little attention to what someone who is 'wittering on' is saying ("What on Earth are you wittering on about now?").
Particularly useful now that 'twittering' has come to mean something totally different from what it used to...
And it would have to be a sailing boat, a yacht of some description. The Royal Navy actually borrowed a boat I sailed a couple of years back once for a team to take down to the Southern Ocean... I could just see that Steve might have done something like that, so when Danny's complaining Steve would be all "But this is nothing, Danny, when we were down in the Southern Ocean we were facing 40-foot waves...", which would have Danny vowing to get his own back... just as soon as he stopped throwing up...
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Date: 2011-06-15 02:23 pm (UTC)Particularly useful now that 'twittering' has come to mean something totally different from what it used to...
And it would have to be a sailing boat, a yacht of some description. The Royal Navy actually borrowed a boat I sailed a couple of years back once for a team to take down to the Southern Ocean... I could just see that Steve might have done something like that, so when Danny's complaining Steve would be all "But this is nothing, Danny, when we were down in the Southern Ocean we were facing 40-foot waves...", which would have Danny vowing to get his own back... just as soon as he stopped throwing up...