theleveller--As Susan has pointed out, you're not in Yorkshire, you're not talking to your family. This is not a dockside pub in Hull on a Saturday night. When you're on Mudcat, you're not even in the UK any more.

Not to be critical of any of those places, but the sort of banter that is acceptable there conveys something different and, perhaps antithetical to what you intend, in the wider world.