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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Actually, seeing that I like playing around with words IRL, British slang that turns into offensive American words are fun to play around with. Especially words with multiple meanings. Am I the only one who sees the humour in playing around with all those words?
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Eeeehhhh, what's a neighbourhood association when it's at home?
Me, I don't see anything offensive or strong about that statement; and I think most Britishers wouldn't care either. Then again, we're all cynical people who freely use words (outside out parental/child hearing) that are seen as offensive to Americans and possibly Canadians.
Our slang term for cigarette, bar 'ciggie' over your side of the ocean is an offensive term for a homosexual, but most Britishers who smoke use it rather than any other word.
So, nothing strong in that phrase for us anyway. Might be different for others though.
My dad has a great Air Force story involving cigarettes and an Englishman...
I probably can't post it here, but will gladly PM the tale. Its quite comical. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
TwoBitWriter
My dad has a great Air Force story involving cigarettes and an Englishman...
I probably can't post it here, but will gladly PM the tale. Its quite comical. :smallbiggrin:
I await your PM with great anticipation.
@B-Man: I know what you mean. When I was in Y5 (that's about ten years old) a Canadian girl came to my Guides for a year before she had to move back to Canadia.
Suprisingly, we met again in Y9 and well, weren't friends due to drifting apart, but we still enjoyed the British slang/offensive American/Canadian words thing.
She moved back after secondary school (16 years old) and she was put up a year, so she's in Canadian college (?) because of the education over here. She still comes back for holidays because her boyfriend's here.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Eeeehhhh, what's a neighbourhood association when it's at home?
A quasi-socialist group dedicated to ensuring that residents do nothing to lower the property values of the area. They're basically prod-noses, NIMBYs and wannabe blockwarts, but with a folksy, all-American flavour and tort law on their side. :smallwink:
(/Egglishman's home is his castle grousing)
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Me, I don't see anything offensive or strong about that statement; and I think most Britishers wouldn't care either. Then again, we're all cynical people who freely use words (outside out parental/child hearing) that are seen as offensive to Americans and possibly Canadians.
Apart from the Aussies we Brits are probably the past masters of virulent and inventive invective. It's generally deemed a failure of imagination to resort to using the "7 words that scare TV execs" without adding your own colourful variation.
Just click around the El Reg comments section for a bit, it'll expand your use of the language no end. :smallamused:
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Originally Posted by
TwoBitWriter
My dad has a great Air Force story involving cigarettes and an Englishman...
I probably can't post it here, but will gladly PM the tale. Its quite comical. :smallbiggrin:
/r/ PM plox. :smallbiggrin:
edit: :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
@ Curly, Bosssmiley: PM's sent.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Oooh, can i hear the fun story as well?
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
TwoBitWriter
My dad has a great Air Force story involving cigarettes and an Englishman...
I probably can't post it here, but will gladly PM the tale. Its quite comical. :smallbiggrin:
I usually enjoy these stories.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
@TwoBit: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: Classic! I think you'll be PMing people that story for a few more pages yet.
Love of My Life - repeated twenty five times now. Why?
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
@ Curly: You can see why I probably shouldn't just post it though. I really don't want to risk offending any of my fellow Playgrounders.
Edit: @ Thanatos: Sent. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Oooh! Oooh! Tell me too! :smallwink:
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
In the category of totally weird e-mails, I just got an e-mail send to a non-existent e-mail address under my domain name, therefore being redirected to my main e-mail address under that domain name.
The email, send to info <at> mydomain asked me if the square dinnertable article number 1437 was available in a very dark colour.
Now, what I have at mydomain is, in fact, a weblog. There is not a single thing sold there, I don't even take donations.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Ooo, hit me up with that story, TwoBit.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
Gezina
In the category of totally weird e-mails, I just got an e-mail send to a non-existent e-mail address under my domain name, therefore being redirected to my main e-mail address under that domain name.
The email, send to info <at> mydomain asked me if the square dinnertable article number 1437 was available in a very dark colour.
Now, what I have at mydomain is, in fact, a weblog. There is not a single thing sold there, I don't even take donations.
I'd hazard a guess and say that there might be a site with a similar url to your own, they may have mistyped it and off it went to you. That or there's an invisible gremlin that wants the number 1437 in a very dark colour.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Eldpollard
I'd hazard a guess and say that there might be a site with a similar url to your own, they may have mistyped it and off it went to you. That or there's an invisible gremlin that wants the number 1437 in a very dark colour.
Yes, I found it.
My domain is gvegt.nl
Their domain is vgevt.nl
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
So I've been drinking a glass of orange juice that was sitting in the fridge. My housemate just saw me drinking it, and asked me if I knew it was actually a screwdriver. Oops.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
morbidwombat
So I've been drinking a glass of orange juice that was sitting in the fridge. My housemate just saw me drinking it, and asked me if I knew it was actually a screwdriver. Oops.
Wheee.
Just don't, yaknow, drive, work, or make important financial decisions. The pink weasels do -not- give you good financial advice. Neither do the purple elephants. Don't trust them.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
morbidwombat
So I've been drinking a glass of orange juice that was sitting in the fridge. My housemate just saw me drinking it, and asked me if I knew it was actually a screwdriver. Oops.
:smallconfused:
...
Oh! The drink! I thought you meant the tool...
:smalltongue:
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
Phase
:smallconfused:
...
Oh! The drink! I thought you meant the tool...
:smalltongue:
And how, praytell, would one make that mistake? I certainly don't come across as so...deficient.
And no, no decision making/working for me today. I have to bathe the dog, and write 2000 more words. Can't mess that up too bad (I hope.)
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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morbidwombat
And how, praytell, would one make that mistake? I certainly don't come across as so...deficient.
Sorry if it came off as a slight against you intelligence. I don't drink, never have drinked, and never will drink, and thus I am surprised I'm this alchohol savvy to begin with. My first thought was "Was it a MELTED screwdriv- oh! I get it."
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Why was there a screwdriver in the fridge? Does your roommate make them in bulk and then just pull one out every now and then?
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@ Phase
I suppose I should have included this earlier: [/sarcasm]
No offense taken.
@ Jack Squat
There wasn't enough orange juice left to balance the vodka she had put in the glass, so she set it in the fridge til she could buy more OJ. She's a bit of a spaz.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
bosssmiley
*jawdrop*
Ok, that is more awesome then I can put into words.
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Originally Posted by
Phase
:smallconfused:
...
Oh! The drink! I thought you meant the tool...
:smalltongue:
Ya know, I was about to ask…
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Originally Posted by
Phase
I don't drink, never have drinked, and never will drink,
… which certainly shows, considering you just said that you "never have drinked".
:smalltongue:
[/grammarnazi]
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Love of My Life - repeated twenty five times now. Why?
*Hugs*
I can't listen to that song many times because it tends to depress me a bit...
Well, no. It depresses the hell out of me. But I hope you're not listening to it for the same reasons I listen to it.
On another news, the moon is looking gorgeous tonight.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
morbidwombat
There wasn't enough orange juice left to balance the vodka she had put in the glass, so she set it in the fridge til she could buy more OJ. She's a bit of a spaz.
That's awesome that she thought it had too much vodka and you didn't even realise there was any in it.
Sometime I need to make myself a Mulder screwdriver.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
Raien
Mulder screwdriver.
*is interested*
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
morbidwombat
*is interested*
I don't remember which episode it is, I think Syzygy, Mulder's in his hotel room making a screwdriver by spooning orange juice concentrate into a bottle of vodka. Sounds like it'd be pretty decent.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
TwoBitWriter
@ Curly: You can see why I probably shouldn't just post it though. I really don't want to risk offending any of my fellow Playgrounders.
See, now I have to hear it too. I'll trade you. You tell me that one, and I'll tell you the one about the bowling ball and the physics experiment.
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
Raien
a Mulder screwdriver.
I read that as a 'mudslide'. Which I'm now off to make myself, since I have all the ingredients to hand. (Kaluha instead of Tia Maria, but that should be ok?)
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
dish
I read that as a 'mudslide'. Which I'm now off to make myself, since I have all the ingredients to hand. (Kaluha instead of Tia Maria, but that should be ok?)
I thought that was how it was made...
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Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
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Originally Posted by
Phase
Sorry if it came off as a slight against you intelligence. I don't drink, never have drinked, and never will drink, and thus I am surprised I'm this alcohol savvy to begin with. My first thought was "Was it a MELTED screwdriv- oh! I get it."
*Hisses and recoils from the vile teetotaller while making signs against evil*
I heard what your kind put Volstead up to. Why do you hate happiness? :smalltongue: