English colloquialism (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colloquialism) or What On Earth Are Those Darn Brits Talking About Now aka What the feck are you on

Calling all septics,
Do you need access to an American/British dictionary.
Well now's your chance to learn something.

With the influx of Brits to the boards I think its time we explained exactly what we are talking about.

So post your queries here and a jolly Brit will be along to straighten you out and explain.







Inspired by Allheart and Valinors_sorrow, cheers ducks, it's all Geoff's fault really.

Okay, what's with all the bloody stuff? :eek: Let's just get that out of the way right off! LOL

And how universal is TA for thank you and how did that get started?

And hatstand? Now there's a really doosie! Oh gawd, am I even getting it right? I mean we just call 'em mental and let it go at that! LOL

Bloody - A mild oath, used as an intensifier.

Okay, what did my friendly brit mean when he said, "Sorry, I cocked that all up"... I didn't agree nor disagree, I just politely shook my head.. Was that okay to do? LOL

"I cocked that all up" - to make a mess off/messed up

The version I prefer it "Total Balls Up" or "Tits Up" (TU) ;)

Wait one minute... I just read that... what about Val and my Cheer ducks? Give me that dictionary :):)

Ta I'm sure is just the lazy man's thank you, it's pretty much universal in england.

If something is hatstand, it's rather insane. I don't know how that got started.

I shouldn't be pleased when I am referred to as "cheeky" should I? Hmmm

Cheeky, well it depends on the context.
It can be both good and bad either funny or "taking the piss" - "Are you messing with me"

It was all in good fun, surely not in "taking the piss", yikes, I sure hope not :)

Err, confused, what is this thread about? :confused:

Geoff about bloody time you dragged your sorry arse off the sofa and taught the septics how to speak proper ;)

Septic? In medicine it means that you are really very very sick.

You could start with "septics"

Ta
(Quick to learn :)

Oh my... loving all of this I am.

I have some questions for my friend from across the big pond:

1. On one of my favorite shows, Braianiac, they have a part called "I Can Do Science Me". I understand it basically means "I can do science"... but is the Me added at the end a normal Brit thing?

2. "Weedy". Am I correct to remember that this means what we'd call "Whimpy:?...that is, slight of size or musculature; not necessarily derogatory but more observational?

3. "Bloke". Does that mean "just any old guy"?

... more to come no doubt...

I have never heard of cheer ducks/taking a piss/ hatstand, but I knew bloody. Most of these things are just context problems, except for the one's I listed. It's amazing how we can both technically speak the same language, but they both can be so different. I prefer to speak ebonics, forsizzle my nizzle, I'm rolling fat and looking to go dumb

What actually are in "bangers"? Are they any good?

Bloke = Guy, yep.
Weedy = like a weed, scrawny etc
"I can do science me" is funny because it's completely grammatically incorrect, but they're trying to be a scientist... or at least its meant to be funny :)
Cheers means thanks... and ducks it just another word for people... strange one that one...

Bangers are either very old cars, that go bang when the accelerate. Or just plain sausages - nothing special, just another word for them.

This is fun.

So what happened to SEPTICS? Does that mean we are poisonous?

"mobile" is our cell phone... right ?

And if I were to say I need to take a little "nappie"... doesn't that mean diapers?

But I still do need clarification on "spetics"... do I say "ta" or... no "ta" ? :)

Here goes then
Rick;
1/The me on the end is a gramaticl joke, similar to "Use correct grammer like what I does"
2/Weedy/whimpy pretty interchangeable to a point
Weedy - weakling (physical)
Whimpy - weakling (mental)

Allheart;
Septics - Septic Tanks - Yanks - Americans
Its rhyming slang, get it ;)

Mobile - cell

Catching on fast

Why do you call it a loo not a bathroom or restroom?

I got it... however, we may have a "falling out" over it :)... Just kiddn. (ish)

Why do you call it a loo not a bathroom or restroom?

A loo is a toilet.
A bathroom contains a bath and sometimes the loo as well and a restroom is somewhere with a big soft sofa, cold beer and a telly ;)

Yes, it's a mobile phone, I've never heard a little nappie - I assume it's a nap. Nappy means diaper tthough, yes.

Septics Curly is workign on I think :)

Damn, my internet is slow, :|

A restroom contains a sofa, I thought that was a living room.

LOL rest as in to lie down ;)

Retstroom isn't used in English

I knew the loo was a toilet, but I didn't know that you had a completely different definition for a restroom, crazy.

Now... the wanker=f word in America right?

LOL okay... yes, rest is to lie down because you are "snackered" is that right?
But how did a loo become a toilet?

And one from our side... um... it's a "cigarette" over here.. okay?

And a fag = a cigarette :rolleyes:

I think I got this one, loo, in reference to Waterloo, where the french took a big dump on Napoleon, am I right?

To Wank - masturbate
Not snackered but knackered - very tierd

Fag is a ciggie as well as a gay man


Spot on Wizz

To Wank - masturbate
not snackered but knackered - very tierd


Thanks... I was somewhat close :)

You have any for us?

I thought wanker was like an a.s.s. h.o.l.e. or the f word, mainly because I have a friend who lives in England(wales) and that's what he said...

Wanker is someone into, ermm, pocket billiards? We seps have our own versions of goofy terms!

As CurlyBen only touched on it...

Knackered comes from when horses went to the Knacker's Yard at the end of their working life to get cut up for meat and glue... they got Knackered... It's actually evolved to mean "to be tired from sexual intercourse"... although most people say it to mean any kind of tired.

Football is soccer
Chips are crisps
Trunk of car is boot or is that the hood?
And the terms for desserts are all screwed up!
Puddings are often not sweet or pudding like
Cakes are not cakes nor cookies cookies
However I believe a twinkie is still that 'round the world so there's hope yet!

... what about the loo

A wanker isn't actually someone who masturbates... it pretty much does mean a.s.s.h.o.l.e

A wanker isnt actually someone who masturbates... it pretty much does mean a.s.s.h.o.l.e


Yeah that's what I thought, because I know from personal experience I have been called a wanker and if it meant masturbation, that insult wouldn't have made sense... still the question of the loo looms...

chips are crisps
trunk of car is boot or is that the hood?

Crisps are chips and chips are fries.
Trunk is the boot.

What's this about desserts? :p

Wanker - jerk off

Wankered - drunk

Merchant banker - wanker

Wankers - jerk offs


Yes wizz you are corect about Waterloo.

V_S, trunk - boot; hood - bonnet

Isn't there something in England called like a sheppard's pie...

Sheppard's pie is made from minced lamb with a mashed potato topping.
Cottage pie is the same but made with minced beef.
Both can be topped with cheese if you want.

Score one for the loo... I actually thought it had a connection, but I was just making a funny...

Does it really always rain in England? Is it raining today?

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwordorigins/loo

About the loo :)

Sheppard's pie is great, it's not really a pie, just meaty loveliness with onions in a dish with mashed potato on the top.

There's also a Ploughman's lunch which is cheese and pickle sandwich, with salad. Which is just a commercialisation of a farouite dish :)

The whole world has climate but only England has weather ;)
Even after you have watched the forecast you can never be 100% sure exactly what it will do.

Now I am hungry.

And if someone looks "smart" that means stylish... right :):)

It rains a lot on the West side - they're on the receiving end of the Atlantic Drift.

Smart means dressed well - in a businesslike manner - Also "dapper" means the same thing... not casually dressed.

Makes sense. I know your country must be beautiful with the age of all the buildings. Must be breathtaking. And must be quite green as well.

Oh yeah, got another one. A "lawn" over here... is your "garden" over there.. right?

Lawn - is normally a patch of grass occupying the centre of the garden often surrounded by flowers and shrubbery

We say lawn... Garden is the whole thing with flowerbeds etc... lawn is the grass
Curly wins :(

Some places are better than others for the old buildings and lovely greenery :)
But yes some places are utterly breathtaking.

Same here (about the lawn)

Thanks so much for all the insight!! It was great fun.

Amazing same words, just different meanings.

Lol this thread is crackin me up! How about this one: "He's AC/DC!"

AC/DC - swings both ways - Bisexual

Cap,

I can only imagine how breathtaking... any places in particular?

Think the Ac/Dc is the same here as well.

Bristol is a lovely city, Lincoln too from the top of the hill at night is wonderful... Colchester has so much history (Oldest town in britain)... So many places have a lot of history around them.. these are just the ones I know. London of course has so much to explore too!

Thanks Cap.

I will look them up and learn more about them. I can only imagine.

Oh yeah, someone once said... "don't be daff"... didn't ask what they meant, kind of figured it out... but go ahead... daff.. meaning...

Daft - silly.

Yup as I thought. Now I feel armed with information... thank you :) hee, hee

Now for one of my favourites..

How would you react if I slapped your old April?

You wouldn't make it to May :):):)

Oh I love the term daft! And arse, so much better than butt!

And who knows the story about the hand signal of V of victory (palm turned in, not out like the Nixon-famous peace sign) being the UK eqivilency of flipping the bird? Didn't that have to do with the french cutting off the fingertips of the english archers when caught so that to hold those two whole fingers up now is a kind of bugger off signal? Am I getting that tidbit of quirky brit trivia right??

Hahahah

More rhyming slang!

April --> April in Paris --> Aristotle --> Bottle and Glass --> Arse.

It was featured in an episode of "only fools and horses"

Val!

That's actually a widely believed myth... nobody knows where the insulting V sign originates.

Well it's a great myth then LOL

And I think the most used adjective is lovely, even the guys use it... everything is a lovely this or lovely that, just lovely! LOL

Actually one of the earliest depictions of it was by a French satirist... something he certainly would not have done if it was a sign of defiance against his country

When are we going to talk some aussie slang

That'll get you bastards confused as this dipstick!

Bring it on Skell boy ;)

Haha Val you are just lovely m'dear

Skell clear this up for me, do you guys ever call cans "tinnies"?

I have to confess, an aussie accent can be a humdinger! I have sailing friends and they kept talking about sailboats as something that's sounding like aye-deens. So I am aye-deening this and aye-deening that to no end trying to figure it out!

Care to explain Skell? Or did this fall flat cos' this more about sailing than Australia?

Right now I'm as full as a boot (drunk) so anything I say can't be read as fair dinkum (real, genuine.

And you prefer arse than butt Val.

I got one for you. How about next time your husband is giving you a gobful tell him you'll give him a kick up the clacker instead of butt.

:eek: :eek: :eek: LOL

Skell clear this up for me, do you guys ever call cans "tinnies"?

Only real bogans (person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer) drink 'tinnies' down here.

I drink a Stubby (375mL of beer in a glass bottle).

Those type of people "stand out like a shag on a rock" (very obvious)

Like it skell
For Val
Ozzie - next time your husband is giving you a gobful tell him you'll give him a kick up the clacker instead of butt.
Brit - Next time your old man is gobbing off at you tell him you're going to kick him in the instead of his arse.

USA- Run and hide under the nearest rock ;)

Sailing is a sport for the filthy rich down here, and probably everywhere. No one here has cared about sailing since Bondy and the boys one the Americas Cup all those years ago.

No what I am talking about?

Curly Ben might like this little aussie saying we have. It is a shot at the poms but they know we love them!

When you are thirsty it is quite common to say "im as dry as a pommies towel". Pommies never shower you see. I don't need to explain anymore do I?

Now wait just a minute there, we have a few more guts than that here!! LOL

Ok this is just getting far to amusing anyone for a cup of char??

Well maybe I am showing the range of circles I travel in :o but in America a sailer is more like an ex-hippie who turned a relaxed version of Sierra Club member if Sierra Club members were pirates instead? :p

And aye-deens were the way the aussies referred to the 18 meter racing boats there--- very fast lovelies.

Mrs Curly--What in tarnation is char? Eeew!

And yes you do SKELLY, what is a pommie, apart from being hygiene phobic?

Hey Skell one for you.
"Austrailia the land where men are men and sheep are nervous"

Ill give you a clue milk and suger dear??

Well for the uncultured amongst us char comes from char lady, the person that brings the TEA around.
You know TEA that hot beverage made from stewed leaves, served with milk or lemon.

Pommie - Used as a disparaging term for a British person, especially a recent immigrant.
Ps it's the French that don't wash not the Brits ;)

I love tea but I understand the UK is being taken over by coffee, is that true?

What about petrol as opposed to gasoline?

Sorry, has that one been covered, I was asleep.. :)

Come on Geoff wake up it's only midnight ;)

Hey Skell one for you.
"Austrailia the land where men are men and sheep are nervous"


Ben, that is our Kiwi friends. ;)

We have enough sheilas to go around with out going down that path!

Haha

I thought it was the Welsh.

POM stands for Prisoner of Motherland.

Which being a convict settlement, the original australians were in fact prisoners of motherland (England)

It has just got to the point today where we call all our English friends a pommy!

It is actually a term of endearment.

And don't we have a lot poms here at the moment with the Ashes being on. Only Ben and geoff no what I'm on about now!

The welsh,

They are a different kettle of fish all together.

I once had a friend (happened to be gay) who liked to talk in a fake british accent. He was good at it (or so I thought LOL) and so I began to mimic him. We were sitting at the Sun Café outside one day having lattes and chatting like this when a British tourist with the most propah Queen's accent stood up and bawled us out for making fun of her when we didn't even know she was there. At the very end of the tirade, the one line I can recall of her indignation was how we "weren't even doing it correctly!!" :eek:

(We never did it again either) :o

Hahaha very good Val.

I must admit, so many Americans think they can talk with a perfect Aussie accent. They are so far wrong it isn't funny. It borders on insulting.
LOL!!

And why are the Welsh different fish? LOL

Different kettle of fish?

Just means they are a different lot. Or so the poms keep telling me!

Well I do know that you can understand the English and you can understand the Irish but I swear the Scot we had in our office, it was a full week before I realised he was speaking english too!

Ahhh the scots, I have a good friend from glasgow and I phoned a florist to get some flowers delivered to her to cheer her up... and this florist I could not understand at all... she would keep garbling and laughing... so I would laugh too... seemed to work

Luckily my friend's accent isn't so bad... :)

Anyway,

I better shoot through (leave) and leave you bludgers (lazy person, layabout) to keep it up.

And just one to leave you with Val.

Next time you and your husband are enjoying each others company in an adult manner, once he is getting quite excited you can comment on his ability to "crack a fat" (get an erection).

Hooroo (goodbye)

Love the Scots. Now they are dry as a pommies towel with there sense of humour.

Had a cab ride in Glasgow once and didn't understand a word he said except for 'time to pay'!
LOL

What a "rip snorter" (great, fantastic - "it was a rip snorter of a party") of a thread!

LOL Ta Skelly, I shall keep that phrase on the tip of my tongue! :p
Wooohooo LOL

Okay, I'll add a few to the list that haven't been mentioned. Correct me if I'm wrong. And please be kind. I'm only one quarter English and a full half Polish, mind you. The other quarter is Scotch-Irish :)

"Lolly" = Truck
"Tube" = Subway
"Flat" = Aparatment
"Shanty" = Beer and Lemonade (helps keep the kid quiet while your at the pub, and most notable for starting Ozzy Osbourne on his famous path of excess)
"Sod Off!" = F**k off! :eek: :D
"" = Testicles. Or "I really screwd that up!"
"Shag" = Engaging in sexual intercourse
"Randy" = Horny. Something no self-respecting Brit would ever consider naming his kid! Though it does lend itself to a great joke with gullible American tourists of such the moniker. :)

And in which year did a Harvard honor student outrow an Oxford student at Henley?

Lorry is truck..
Tube was only used for "The London Underground"... although other subways are now often called tubes because of familiarity with this one.
Beer and lemonade is a Shandy!
"!" means "Damn!" (as well as testicles)

Hmmm not to be a wet towel, the kind everyone but a Pommie uses LOL, but isn't it lorrie for cart and shandy for the beer/lemonade drink?

Oh you beat me to it! LOLOLOL

The only reason I know about lorry is the line in the Neil Young song about them rolling by with a cold wind whipping LOL

A very quick lesson in Polish for everyone... Anyone wishing to comment on my above post can simply reply by saying "Dziekuje niemy dupa." Literal translation, "Thank you dumb a$$." :D


Lorry is truck..
Tube was only used for "The London Underground"... although other subways are now often called tubes because of familiarity with this one.
Beer and lemonade is a Shandy!
"!" means "Damn!" (as well as testicles)

Thanks for the corrections. Yes, lorry. Sorry about that, I'm a bit rusty. :)

I am married to the polishest man I know LOL Maybe I should say your line, Thomas, instead of the one Skelly suggesed LOLOLOL

And in which year did a Harvard honor student outrow an Oxford student at Henley?

Surely such an atrocity has never occurred??

This isn't the longest thread yet, but I'll bet it's the fastest growing one in history--over a hundred posts in less than three hours! Blimey!!

Crikey!!

Holy Cowabunga?

Mama Mia! :eek: Oy Vey. :rolleyes: :)

What does "piss off" mean? I have a lot of Brits tell me to piss off.

Probably about the same as "Sod off." Either way, it probably isn't good. :)

I just feel compelled to point out that All heart's "won't make it to may" comment literally made me laugh out loud. Anyway, I have a question, do you guy's, aussies, english, and the other ones sharing the island with you, get American T.V. I am positive you do about the big stuff, american idol, survivor, all that crap. But how about American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey(thank you canada)? I know you get YOUR football(soccer), but how about our sports I guess. Mainly due to Soccer is the ugly step cousin of American Sports. And I want to know what influence American Sports has on certain society's outside of this country.

Actually, now that you mention it, they say, "Piss off you old Sod." What ever does it mean?

Mainly due to Soccer is the ugly step cousin of American Sports. And I want to know what influence American Sports has on certain society's outside of this country.
Well, there you go. The ugly American winning friends and influencing people all around the world!

Mainly due to Soccer is the ugly step cousin of American Sports. And I want to know what influence American Sports has on certain society's outside of this country.

You could just as easily say that American Football is the bastard son of Rugby. It all depends on which side of the pond you live on. :)

Oh crickey, blimey, Oy Vey and Mama Mia, I missed all the fun!! Isn't that a kick in the arse!

Had fun catching up though. All too funny.

Great thread guys :)

Mainly due to Soccer is the ugly step cousin of American Sports. And I want to know what influence American Sports has on certain society's outside of this country.

You could just as easily say that American Football is the bastard son of Rugby. It all depends on which side of the pond you live on. :)

Real football the step son of American football.
Yeah right wizz.
As Thomas has rightly said it's a bastard version of rugby

Just for wizz; This will clear things up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#History)
Just out of interest America DIDN'T invent everything, sorry to burst your bubble ;)

K... we have some awful misinterpretation going on right now... lol. IN MY COUNTRY, the saying ugly step sister doesn't make a reference to relation or descendence, but just how much one is disliked. I was merely stating that in America, soccer is the least favorite. Not the origins of it. I wasn't make a joke on your behalf. I already know about rugby and that stuff, I was just asking whether American Sports influenced your community. You didn't need to get all wanker on me and try and sod me off. Lol. I also know we didn't invent everything... But WHO WON THE WAR! THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT! BRING IT ON CURLY MAN! Your going down like your ancestors...

We may not have invented everything... true... so it doesn't burst our bubble :), but we did invent bubble gum :):) hee hee

http://yesrick.com/rh011398.htm

We may not have invented everything...true...so it doesn't burst our bubble :), but we did invent bubble gum :):) hee hee

http://yesrick.com/rh011398.htm

Yeah we did, we rocked the hell out of the gum industry...

Standing proud and blowing bubbles.. :):)

OK wizz, I really can't be assed with this crud so I'll pass.
To answer your sports questions; Yes American football, and other sports, do have a following allbeit very small.

Just out of interest America DIDN'T invent everything, sorry to burst your bubble ;)

Well, historically speaking, largely from the perspective of many now widely used modern implements, that honor would belong most notably to the Chinese. Spaghetti may be an Italian tradition, but the Chinese invented it. :)

Curly - what does "assed" mean? Sorry, really don't know.

Thomas - I never knew the Chinese invented spaghetti. How do you like them apples. Never knew that.

I was merely stating that in America, soccer is the least favorite. Not the origins of it.

I know more than a few soccer players myself. Soccer was the only sport I myself played in my youth, though I wasn't on a team for long, as I'm not really into competitive sports in general.
As well, if you lived in specific parts of New England here where large Brazilian populations reside, you'd see a whole different side to things. I've seen virtual parades of honking, flag waving people driving through the streets on a rare occasion after a big game, so thick traffic was slowed. You don't see that everyday or with every sport. :)

I tried to find a good list of Chinese inventions online, but I couldn't find one. It is amazing the things they have invented, things you wouldn't necessarily expect. I used to have a book with a list of hundreds of such, but I no longer own it.

Haha, fag meaning cigarette reminds me of "weed". Don't you brits call cigarettes "weed"?

Here in US, "weed" is almost always used to mean marijuana :)

In this country, people used to refer to a bundle of sticks as a "faggot" or "fagot." Now we just call it kindling. :)

Nah marijuana for weed here too.
Faggots are a kind of meatball, as well as a gay person.

If I'm knackered should I get some kip?

That would be good NK, but after a quick fag ;)

Mmmmmm faggots, mash and gravy, maybe some mushie peas on the side.

Yes! Yes you should! Get some kip or go for a kip :)

Lol yeah you always need some kip after a quick fag Curly? :p

Disclosure: I'm Canadian but worked in a pub in London (W1) one summer, travelled Europe then ended up having an overseas romance with a sweet nurse from Kent.

Cool at least you'll know some of what we're talking about there, NeedK ;)

Okay, I have to ask, what is kip?

Just to throw caution-to-the-wind,I thought some of these words might help our American cousins:

Ackers- Money
Adu - How are you?
Ar'l goo tClent - Expression of surprise
Alloy - Friend
Arse Cream - Frozen confectionery (as in choc ice)
Blastid- A more polite word to use instead of "Bloody"
Booza - Ale House etc…or one who frequents one
Cucka - Oven
Donnies - Hands (Wash your donnies)
Garridge - Where you keep your car. (or "mowta")
Mucker - A good friend that can always be relied on to lend a hand with any job no matter how dirty. He will always muck in with you
Ooroyt - hello (informal greeting)
Windas - Windows. Operating system for computers developed by Moikrasof :D

Okay, I have to ask, what is kip?

Hi there Allheart
Kip means to get some rest ! Sort of a short sleep, so you would take a kip.:)

Good post CB I had no idea there where so many Brits on this bord lol

Hi Kip means to get some rest ! sort of a short sleep, so you would take a kip.:)


Thanks nwsflash:):) Much appreciate.

thanks nwsflash:):) Much appreciate.


Your more than welcome;)

Didn't realize that myself, that there were so many of our British friends on-board either.
I better brush up on my "English".

This sure is helping a lot.

Wow thank you Nez! T'was downright educational!

What I don't get is maths...
We say either mathematics or math but mathsssssss, I can't hardly say it without sounding like I have a blastid lispppppppp, crikey!

Hehheehe, Val. It's about time you learnt to speak English proper, flike what we does.

I can't hardly say it without sounding like I have a a blastid lispppppppp, crikey!


LoL :p

You seps are so wrong. Math is one mathematic, maths is many mathematics!

So would "Sep" be one American and "Seps" be many Americans, she asks with a smile :)

Ev neer laughed sae much en ah ma life, yer a cracking mi up! Noo wev aw gat the English sussed ken wee stert awn the scottish? LOL!

Spell Check took an hour! Ha! Ha!

Jocks, septics and ozzies, help we are being over run by bloody foreigners ;)

Jocks, septics and ozzies, help we are being over run by bloody foreigners ;)


Is it possible to submit an application requesting a name change? :confused:
Something about "septics" just seems to "stink":p

Jocks, septics and ozzies, help we are being over run by bloody foreigners ;)


LoL no its just the E.U :p

What I find odd is that americans don't have taps they have faucets but tap water comes out of them.

Can't be assed means can't be bothered...

LOL vyki... thank you. :)

The one that always gets me is PANTS go on the outside while SHORTS go underneath.
What the feck is going on with that!!

And the shorts can also be referred to as "drawers"...

Well the only one wearing shorts over her pants is Madonna, no wait that was her bra..?
But the one I like is ringing someone up -- here you better have your wallet ready LOL

Pants and shorts both are called "britches" here in the south.

Very true J_9... I forgot that... Guess that's where the saying... "Don't get your britches in an uproar", came from huh? LOL


Well the only one wearing shorts over her pants is Madonna, no wait that was her bra...??
But the one I like is ringing someone up -- here you better have your wallet ready LOL


LOL Val soooo true... and if you say I am going to give someone a ring... you better be ready to march down the aisle and say " I Do"... right :)

The Phone Goes Ring Ring!!
That's Where It Comes From!
It's Simple Words For Simple People!

And don't even get me started on fannies...

But I thought a fanny was a bootie? Looks positively lost now.

*Runs away to hide*

He is being VERY rude ill take him out back and slap him senseless now...
It's another word for your fufu ;)

AHahhahahahaahha

Ooooh I'm not digging the curlster out of this one.

Glad to hear it Cap or ill be slapping you senseless too ;)

And for the record he bloody edited that post up there with the fufu bit!!
AnD I EdItEd ThIs OnE ToO :p

Im seriously going to throttle him... I'm going to go cry to rick now and j_9 she will tell you off...

Okay wifey, stroppy?

I know a lot about Ben!! But it was supposed to be our secret! Remember? (just say yes) LOL

Okay wifey, stroppy?

I know a lot about Ben!!!! But it was supposed to be our secret!! Remember? (just say yes) LOL


Giggles woo hoo would you like him I can dhl him in the morning :D

Ben you're not hiding very hard, you are still behind me! I can see you very well.

Go careful there J I wouldn't stand there too long those hands wander!!

... moved out of the way just in time!! He tried to grab the britches!!

Thank heavens you didn't have a thong on wedges in them are hell tee hee

A wedgie here is called a "booty hang" LOL

Woo hoo we found another meaning with two name :D

What i find odd is that americans dont have taps they have faucets but tap water comes out of them.

can't be assed means can't be bothered...

Taps are for dispensing beer. It would be a shame to waste them on water. :)

Very true J_9...I forgot that...Guess that's where the saying..."Don't get your britches in an uproar", came from huh? LOL

I assume this translates as "Don't get your knickers in a twist" in proper English? :)

I assume this translates as "Don't get your knickers in a twist" in proper English? :)
Oh now isn't that an interesting migration because the first I ever heard of it, some bratty woman was going off on me for having just laid down some law with her at work and she said, "don't get your panties in a wad!" :mad:

And I was so miffed, mostly at not understanding what the @#$# she was saying, that all I could think to throw back at her in a huff was, "a fooking wad of what??" :eek: which broke the whole office up, much to my chagrin.

I am not good at the snappy come back but sometimes out of sheer ignorance, I hit pay dirt. Mostly I think up the good ones the next day. :o

I have to say the other two versions are far more graceful LOL

Oh now isn't that an interesting migration because the first I ever heard of it, some bratty woman was going off on me for having just laid down some law with her at work and she said, "don't get your panties in a wad!" :mad:

Next time someone tells you that, reply that, "If you'd kindly get of my a$$, there'd be no risk of my panties getting caught in a wad!" Then they'll be the one left asking, "A wad of what...?" Just tell them something about the situation stinks. :)

Say Ben,know I'l get (banned?) for this,but on an episode of Heroes (not shown here in the UK,but shhh,had a (cough cough),episode shipped over from my mate in Chicago,the dad of one of the characters said:"come down now,or I'l smack your fanny!!" me,and Sally burst into laughter.Oh sick humour (spelt correctly) of the English,Scots,Welsh,Irish,etc... :D :D

Say Ben,know I'l get (banned?) for this,but on an episode of Heroes (not shown here in the UK,but shhh,had a (cough cough),episode shipped over from my mate in Chicago,the dad of one of the characters said:"come down now,or I'l smack your fanny!!" me,and Sally burst into laughter.Oh sick humour (spelt correctly) of the English,Scots,Welsh,Irish,etc...
Hmmm now I am beginning to wonder if our (US) fanny is on the wrong side of the FEMALE torso... :eek: :o :o :o :o :p

I have always favoured the colouring of certain wourds with an extra u and it was a habit I have that I soumetime still resourt to... too much even! LOL Some of your spelling is just so much better than ours... like theatre and cheques!

Val you are heading in the right direction ;)

Say Ben,know I'l get (banned?) for this,but on an episode of Heroes (not shown here in the UK,but shhh,had a (cough cough),episode shipped over from my mate in Chicago,the dad of one of the characters said:"come down now,or I'l smack your fanny!!" me,and Sally burst into laughter.Oh sick humour (spelt correctly) of the English,Scots,Welsh,Irish,etc... :D :D

LoL when I was visiting friends in New York last year my friends wife told me that if I'm using the underground and walking about in the City, its much safer to keep my stuff in a Fanny Pack :D took me some time to work out what see was on about :) :eek:

Okay, here is one for our Australian friends: Dookie! :D

Compare your fine establishment of higher learning... :

http://www.dookie.unimelb.edu.au/

... with how we use the name here in America:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dookie+booty

And you wonder why the world hates us! :rolleyes: :D

Thomas you make a great point, a dookie also means a couple of other things. Or at least I have heard them used differently a few times, dookie in concern to children is usually a turd, and then rarely, but I have heard it, a dookie might refer to a joint of marijuana. Maybe it's just a west coast vs. east coast thing. It's funny how we talk about the differences in different countries, but the cool thing about America is that we differ a lot on what we say INSIDE our country...

Chemistry suffers a lot from americanisation

Sulfur and aluminum make me want to kick babies.

Thomas you make a great point, a dookie also means a couple of other things. Or at least I have heard them used differently a few times, dookie in concern to children is usually a turd, and then rarely, but I have heard it, a dookie might refer to a joint of marijuana. Maybe it's just a west coast vs. east coast thing. It's funny how we talk about the differences in different countries, but the cool thing about America is that we differ alot on what we say INSIDE our country...

On the East Coast here, dookie is pretty much a turd. :) I have heard a joint referred to as a "doobie" here, but it seems a pretty outdated term. I haven't heard it in a very long time.

Here is some mention of the term doobie:

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

Here is some mention of the term doobie:

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

Doobie, that's the word... lol dookie... Dookie also refers to the famous Green Day Album that was out in the early 90's.

Green Day.Now your talking.What a band.Completly "gaa-gaa",but I think they are great. :cool:

Doobie, that's the word.......lol dookie......Dookie also refers to the famous Green Day Album that was out in the early 90's.
Well, I am a-telling you dude..
Iffen you don't know the difference between a dookie and a doobie, I won't be, like, a-partying wit'ch YOU any time soooooooooon :eek: :eek: :eek:
THAT... was too funny!! You made my day, gawd ROFLMAO

(sorry Wizz, I just had to give you a posted version of a noogy (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=noogy) here just because I loves you so much! LOL)

... puts down head in shame...

It was a typo? Lol

Okay, here when we get pissed we are mad, but when y'all get pissed you are drunk! What's up with that!!

It probably has something to do with being "piss drunk"... I would assume anyway, but don't take my advice... I thought a dookie was a doobie... lol

Oh, Gawd, I would hate the smell of you smoking a DOOKIE!!

BTW, Which Doobie You Be?

Only the die hards will get that one.

I have heard that line somewhere, I know it's from a movie, but I just can't put my finger on it...

Ummm, The Doobie Brothers... music...

LMAO!!

Wait a minute, was it a t.v. show...

Damn... wrong again... I should stear clear of anything rhyming with or having a "oobie"

Doo-bie? Naughty naughty :D

Okay, here when we get pissed we are mad, but when y'all get pissed you are drunk!! What's up with that!!!!!!!!!

Pissed off = Mad

Pissed = Drunk
Bladdered = Drunk

I still like;
Brahms And Lizst - Pissed - Drunk

Okay, here when we get pissed we are mad, but when y'all get pissed you are drunk!! What's up with that!!!!!!!!!

We also say lets go on the piss, lets get pissed up and also some parts are known to say going on the lash as well which also means getting very, very drunk! We do also in some parts use the same term as you, like you can get pissed off which means your mad at them our your pissed with them.

We also say lets go on the piss, lets get pissed up and also some parts are known to say going on the lash as well which also means getting very, very drunk !! We do also in some parts use the same term as you, like you can get pissed off which means your mad at them our your pissed with them.
Man that is an awful lot of pissing.
Pissing about means messing around or carrying on too.

Man that is an awful lot of pissing.
Pissing about means messing around or carrying on too.

Or in some parts they may say your " your pulling my pisser " :)

Val yea it also means messing or fooling about what you wrote lol

Lol Val, yep us Brits are full of Piss and wind.
Must have something to do with the post Pub kebabs ;)

Say hello to the Donner Kebab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_kebab), the only food that deserves a Government Health Warning.
It is only possible to eat one after a skinful of various alcohol beverages.
Normally not consumed, but scattered artfully around the pavements as we tread our weary way home to bed, preferably before the beer googles wear off and we realise that the bird we've picked up is a complete minger, or a lock in at the boozer round the corner.

Lol Val, yep us Brits are full of Piss and wind.
Must have something to do with the post Pub kebabs ;)

I hear that's where the saying on the piss come's from, because English pubs where really only a place that guys went to up until a few years ago, because guys do go to the toilet a lot when drinking a lot ! That's where the saying came from lol.

I've been pissed, pissed off and pissed myself all in the same evening... when I was younger.

Mag, that sounds almosted as bad as being pissed up, pissed on and pissed off in a few short hours ;)

Lol Val, yep us Brits are full of Piss and wind.
Must have something to do with the post Pub kebabs ;).

Speaking of piss and wind... How about "pissing into the wind." In this coutry it generally refers to doing something really futile, or perhaps a bit stupid. :)


Say hello to the Donner Kebab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_kebab), the only food that deserves a Government Health Warning.
It is only possible to eat one after a skinful of various alcohol beverages.
Normally not consumed, but scattered artfully around the pavements as we tread our weary way home to bed, preferably before the beer googles wear off and we realise that the bird we've picked up is a complete minger, or a lock in at the boozer round the corner.

Never heard the term "minger" before. Sounds like what I once heard referred to in a movie as a "coyote date." In other words, upon awakening sober with her lying on your arm, you'd rather chew your own arm off to get away, than have to wake her up. That's just plain wrong. :( :)

Speaking of piss and wind... How about "pissing into the wind." In this coutry it generally refers to doing something really futile, or perhaps a bit stupid. :)



Never heard the term "minger" before. Sounds like what I once heard referred to in a movie as a "coyote date." In other words, upon awakening sober with her lying on your arm, you'd rather chew your own arm off to get away, than have to wake her up. That's just plain wrong. :( :)

LoL that's a good old British term a " Minger " ;) but Thomas you made me lol when reading your version of it!

:)