Our BetterMost Community > BetterMost People
Different strokes for different folks - or: Why can't I move the shower head?
optom3:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on September 11, 2008, 09:02:16 am ---
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I don't mean to laugh, but I've never heard that expression before. I love it!
--- End quote ---
Glad to have cheered up your day.I keep forgetting and using English expressions.My kids go nuts with me about it.
Here are a few more you may not have come across.
Don't get your knickers in a twist. stop worrying
Falling arse over tit. falling over
shut your gob/cake hole /pie hole. shut up.
Pissed as a newt/fart.
drunk.
Manky, hanging, minging, implies something someone is less than lovely. They are very north England sayings.
Nice buns, is nice cakes not behinds as it is here.
Going out for a few jars tonight. off to have a few alcoholic beverages.
Heres one you may take offence at, but it is not meant to upset anyone. If you call some one a cowboy in England, it means they are a very poor workman.
I eneded up in deep do dahs here when the A/C man arrived to fix our units. I told him the person who had fitted it must have been a right cowboy!!!
That conversation went off into the realms of the ridiculous, but was along the lines of, they let horses in here!!! well no.
So do you all ride? wel only if he is good looking !!!
The rest is not printable in public but was decidely surreal.I am not sure the poor guy will ever recover.Talk about a mix up.
You made a right cock up of that. You made areal mess. Again that has landed me in some trouble in the early days.
At the store to one of our meat cutters, pass me a rubber will you. Poor guy nearly passed out,it is eraser here.
SOD off . go away, ditto piss off.
I could go on ad infinitum but I will leave you with just a few more.
I am feeling rough as a bears arse this morning. I have felt better.
You toffee nosed git. You stuck up ididot.
Finally and these are not for the delicate, she's had more men in her than the Mersey tunnel(a large tunnel in Liverpool) self explanatory I think.
He/she would shag a sheep. would have sex with anyone .
Hope I have raised a few more smiles and not offended anyone.
Kerry:
"The Bill" is one of my favourite TV programs, Fiona, so I'm familiar with a lot of those English expressions. And many are also used here in Oz. Speaking of "The Bill," I'm presently reading "Too Many Mothers," the autobiography of Roberta Taylor, the actress who plays the part of Gina Gold in "The Bill." The dust jacket blurb advises it's, "A memoir of an East End childhood." It's had me in stitches. Strongly recommended. :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: optom3 on September 11, 2008, 09:39:30 am ---I could go on ad infinitum but I will leave you with just a few more.
--- End quote ---
Thanks! Some of those were familiar, thanks to television. :)
May I ask about one I heard on one of the Britcoms? "Knackered"? I'm not sure of the spelling, of course, but are you familiar with that one?
McNell:
--- Quote from: optom3 on September 11, 2008, 09:39:30 am ---Glad to have cheered up your day.I keep forgetting and using English expressions.My kids go nuts with me about it.
Here are a few more you may not have come across.
Don't get your knickers in a twist. stop worrying
Falling arse over tit. falling over
shut your gob/cake hole /pie hole. shut up.
Pissed as a newt/fart.
drunk.
Manky, hanging, minging, implies something someone is less than lovely. They are very north England sayings.
Nice buns, is nice cakes not behinds as it is here.
Going out for a few jars tonight. off to have a few alcoholic beverages.
Heres one you may take offence at, but it is not meant to upset anyone. If you call some one a cowboy in England, it means they are a very poor workman.
I eneded up in deep do dahs here when the A/C man arrived to fix our units. I told him the person who had fitted it must have been a right cowboy!!!
That conversation went off into the realms of the ridiculous, but was along the lines of, they let horses in here!!! well no.
So do you all ride? wel only if he is good looking !!!
The rest is not printable in public but was decidely surreal.I am not sure the poor guy will ever recover.Talk about a mix up.
You made a right cock up of that. You made areal mess. Again that has landed me in some trouble in the early days.
At the store to one of our meat cutters, pass me a rubber will you. Poor guy nearly passed out,it is eraser here.
SOD off . go away, ditto piss off.
I could go on ad infinitum but I will leave you with just a few more.
I am feeling rough as a bears arse this morning. I have felt better.
You toffee nosed git. You stuck up ididot.
Finally and these are not for the delicate, she's had more men in her than the Mersey tunnel(a large tunnel in Liverpool) self explanatory I think.
He/she would shag a sheep. would have sex with anyone .
Hope I have raised a few more smiles and not offended anyone.
--- End quote ---
bwahahaha...:D
Kelda:
aye those once are good ones all right - so many scottish sayings i could put here too but not in the right frame of mind at the mo!!
Have a look at this - http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,20509.0.html
Gavin and Stacey is new and is also definitely on on BBC America... you can video it if its on odd time.. or should I say tivo it!?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version