wankers and such

[Gene Gabel]

Just finished watching "Keen Eddie" on Bravo network...Started thinking how much English,Oz, American and such have local words that are funny to the other side..

The whole "wanker" word just cracks me up. Every time someone on a Brit show calls someone that I start busting up..Then there is "ponce" What the heck is that???

Anyone have Americanisms that crack them up?

[Paul Kerr]

Gene,

Check out here (http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profanis.htm) for some classics.

"Ponce" is a derogatory term for a homosexual.

[Maro]

ponce - a word with many meanings in the UK. It's original meaning was similar to that of the US 'pimp' but it is used more as a term of general abuse now. If you call someone a ponce you could be indicating that they are very flashy or even a bit camp. The term 'ponce about' ("stop poncing about !") is directed at someone who is aimless or slow especially when the person using the term is impatiently waiting for them. i.e. "Stop poncing about, we've got to be there in 5 minutes !". Another term is 'ponce off' meaning 'to scrounge' and comes from the original usage where a ponce is a pimp earning money from prostitutes. An example would be "Are you gonna ponce off me all night or are you gonna get your own fags ?".


Check this out - a wealth of info:

http://www.londonslang.com/

[JAnstey]

hehehe,

Being an Australian, I crack up when Americans say "what team do you root for?" Root in Australian means sexual intercourse!!!

Fanny in Australian means - the lower sexual part of a females anatomy - boy is it hard trying to phrase things politely.

Use of profanity such as bugger, wanker and bastard are often terms of endearment in Australia.

Nice one!

Cheers

Jason

[Maro]

Originally posted by Paul Kerr
Gene,

Check out here (http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profanis.htm) for some classics.

"Ponce" is a derogatory term for a homosexual.

The Profanisaurus is my Saviour - I read it to cheer myself up at work

Search for Clarts

[John Lindsey]

I always thought "mate" was a funny word to call a friend.

Some of my Brit friends like how we Yanks use the word "sucks" a lot...

[JAnstey]

Hi John,

must admit that I use the term mate all too often, but I imagine if I pointed to a bloke and said "that's my mate" it would seem a bit sus?

The term mate is especially helpful when you forget someones name, you then just say the totally acceptable " Howzit goin mate?"

Cheers mate

Jason

[Maro]

It is the same in the UK

Now Manchester cracks me up (only Australians will get the relevance)

[JAnstey]

Ahh sheet!

Cheers

Jason

[Maro]

Whenever I see the ads for Manchester I crack up

[Bill Gallant]

Guys, guys, guys....

If it helps we Canadians think that you all are all strange. I guess living close to the US and having 90% of my family in the UK, nothing surprises me!!

It's the everyday stuff that gets to me. Americans calling pop, soda, Brits calling potato chips, crisps etc.

Bill Gallant

[Gene Gabel]

Originally posted by John Lindsey
I always thought "mate" was a funny word to call a friend.

Some of my Brit friends like how we Yanks use the word "sucks" a lot...
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Don't know if they are still in use but the term "knock you up" used to have a couple of meanings....and fag for cigarette also
GEne Gabel

[Tripitaka of AA]

My sister was surprised while being shown around Miami, "this is where the fags hang out"... she didn't see a single person with a cigarette!

Mind you, if you read the old book "Tom Brown's schooldays" you'll find that "fag" has yet another meaning, equally confusing at first.



Is it true that in Australia "Kylie" is a brand of condom and that "Durex" is a type of adhesive tape? Or have I mixed up somewhere?

On the tender subject of profanity and vulgarisms, it always worries me by the Americans' liberal use of the term "Mother***ker". One can only assume that it is a more prevalent social phenomena across the Atlantic. Oedipal yearnings of an incestuous nature seldom make for normal day-to-day insults for us Brits. We have all the Anglo-Saxon taboo words at our disposal and feel no need to involve third parties in our insults ("Yo mama is so fat...").

[Gene Gabel]

Originally posted by Tripitaka of AA
My sister was surprised while being shown around Miami, "this is where the fags hang out"... she didn't see a single person with a cigarette!

Mind you, if you read the old book "Tom Brown's schooldays" you'll find that "fag" has yet another meaning, equally confusing at first.



Is it true that in Australia "Kylie" is a brand of condom and that "Durex" is a type of adhesive tape? Or have I mixed up somewhere?

On the tender subject of profanity and vulgarisms, it always worries me by the Americans' liberal use of the term "Mother***ker". One can only assume that it is a more prevalent social phenomena across the Atlantic. Oedipal yearnings of an incestuous nature seldom make for normal day-to-day insults for us Brits. We have all the Anglo-Saxon taboo words at our disposal and feel no need to involve third parties in our insults ("Yo mama is so fat...").
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I'm thinking that fag was like a lighted piece of wood "faggot" at some time in the past.

For Brit slang I remember.....lorry=truck,ALuminium=aluminum,petrol=gas,car park=parking lot,caraven=trailer.....

The word bitch is still on the upswing (as in bitchslap) in the Us and is found in tv (telly) commercials(advertisments)all the time.

Gene Gabel

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Latest words you will hear in England.

Chav = Someone who is a bit scabby and is a bit tight.

Bummer = Male Homosexual

Proper Bo = Very good

Load a Bollocks = Rubbish

Tit Head = Policeman (Their helmets loot like a female breast)

Nelson = Nelson Mandella/ Stella (strong beer)

Brew = Cup of tea or coffee

Chin strap = Someone a bit simple

And there are loads more but I just can't think of any!

Cheers

[MikeWilliams]

Originally posted by Gene Gabel
For Brit slang I remember.....lorry=truck,ALuminium=aluminum,petrol=gas,car park=parking lot,caraven=trailer.....


Ummm... they're not slang, they're the correct words.

[kage110]

Originally posted by monkeyboy_ssj
Latest words you will hear in England.

Chav = Someone who is a bit scabby and is a bit tight.

Bummer = Male Homosexual

Proper Bo = Very good

Load a Bollocks = Rubbish

Tit Head = Policeman (Their helmets loot like a female breast)

Nelson = Nelson Mandella/ Stella (strong beer)

Brew = Cup of tea or coffee

Chin strap = Someone a bit simple

And there are loads more but I just can't think of any!

Cheers

And to fuel the cross-Atlantic flames, don't forget the word 'septics'.:eek: :D

[Gene Gabel]

Originally posted by monkeyboy_ssj
Latest words you will hear in England.

Chav = Someone who is a bit scabby and is a bit tight.

Cheers

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Whaaa?? scabby and tight?? In the US scabby would be with scabs and tight is drunk???

tight is also "cool looking or awesome"as in his "ride is tight"=good looking car
Speaking of drunk is it "pissed" to mean drunk? In the US it means angry.
Then there is a "pisser", someone who is urinating or something that is hard to do like "that job is a pisser"

I'm learning a lot in this thread now we can all fit in.......

Gene Gabel

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Originally posted by Gene Gabel
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Whaaa?? scabby and tight?? In the US scabby would be with scabs and tight is drunk???

tight is also "cool looking or awesome"as in his "ride is tight"=good looking car
Speaking of drunk is it "pissed" to mean drunk? In the US it means angry.
Then there is a "pisser", someone who is urinating or something that is hard to do like "that job is a pisser"

I'm learning a lot in this thread now we can all fit in.......

Gene Gabel

It's started already!

Right, scabby is someone who is not dressed well generally has an aura or dirt, tight is someone who doesn't like to spend money.

Yup, pissed is drunk, we don't really say I'm pissed off per say.

When you are pissed off, we'd say something like, "He was flipping with wig" or "Chucking a hissy fit" or "He was going mental"

My sister in law is American and she just cracks up when I'm talking as I use every single colloquialism under the sun!

Cheers

[larsen_huw]

hmmm...

I think Brit English has the most amount of euphamisms for sex (either on your own or with a partner!) of any language! :D

I bet if we tried we could fill whole pages with them!

[kage110]

Originally posted by monkeyboy_ssj
It's started already!

Right, scabby is someone who is not dressed well generally has an aura or dirt, tight is someone who doesn't like to spend money.

Yup, pissed is drunk, we don't really say I'm pissed off per say.

When you are pissed off, we'd say something like, "He was flipping with wig" or "Chucking a hissy fit" or "He was going mental"

My sister in law is American and she just cracks up when I'm talking as I use every single colloquialism under the sun!

Cheers

Matt you numpty, don't be a right pillock! We do say 'I feel pissed off' up here, but occasionally we would say we felt scunnered too.:D

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Originally posted by kage110
Matt you numpty, don't be a right pillock! We do say 'I feel pissed off' up here, but occasionally we would say we felt scunnered too.:D

Well maybe you do in Sweaty Land but I don't! Don't be a bloody hatstand and take your hands out of the pants of that willy woofter...

[Bod]

Tight = tight fisted = Scroogy
You yanks would probably say 'Tight-wad', but I may have that wrong.

I got into a misunderstanding on this board over the term 'Taking the Mick' once, (Mocking).

My favourite slang du jour is 'Window licker'. Definitely not PC.

The best thing about wanker is that in a Saaaflunden accent it comes out 'Wang-aa!'.

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Originally posted by Bod
Tight = tight fisted = Scroogy
You yanks would probably say 'Tight-wad', but I may have that wrong.

I got into a misunderstanding on this board over the term 'Taking the Mick' once, (Mocking).

My favourite slang du jour is 'Window licker'. Definitely not PC.

The best thing about wanker is that in a Saaaflunden accent it comes out 'Wang-aa!'.

Heh, I like window licker! Un-PC but still a good cuss.

Also I say that they like to ride on the sunshine bus too!

Cheers

[Tripitaka of AA]

Originally posted by Bod
in a Saaaflunden accent

Don't worry, it isn't Afrikaans, he means "South London", but he's done it phonetically (frenetically too, probably).


When I was a lad, it became popular at my school to indulge in Jamaican slang... yes, even skinny middle-class white kids like me... so all the little scrotes would be hanging around the chip shop saying things like "blurd clart, y'barl 'ead. Rarse batty-licks, guy!" And to this day, many of them are a complete mystery to me (something to do with sanitary towels, bald-headed men, hits upon your bottom and possibly Ras Tafari - Haile Selassi of Ethiopia).


Don't mind Matt though, he's so young that half his slang is probably American anyway... :D

[MikeWilliams]

aaahyaaaafuggginwangg-aaaaahhhhz.

Window-licker is a good one. In case any of our colonial chums are wondering, it means "spacker" or "joey". :D

[larsen_huw]

Who remembers the Fast Show/Harry Enfield (can never remember which ... i think it's Fast Show) character "Julio Geordieo"

A brillient parrody of what can happen when you introduce foreigners to the finer points of British (in this case Geordie) slang! :D

[monkeyboy_ssj]

Originally posted by Tripitaka of AA

Don't mind Matt though, he's so young that half his slang is probably American anyway... :D

Pift!

I speak my own language half of the time, so no one's got a clue...

My slang is sooooooo not American!

You're just jealous because I don't feel the need to buy Tartan slippers and watch Time Team yet :p

Mike, do you surf B3ta for the 'Joey' one?

Cheers

[MikeWilliams]

Originally posted by monkeyboy_ssj
Mike, do you surf B3ta for the 'Joey' one?


Nah, I knew it already. Although I had forgotten about it until I bought my Aunt a copy of "the Dictionary of Playground Slang" for Xmas.

(She's an EFL teacher in Switzerland, I thought it would help her keep up-to-date. Unfortunately, I didn't look at it before I gave it to her, and didn't realise quite how filthy most of the entries were. So that went down well. :eek: :D )

[Bambi]

Originally posted by monkeyboy_ssj
Heh, I like window licker! Un-PC but still a good cuss.

Also I say that they like to ride on the sunshine bus too!

Cheers

yeah my favourite in this category is 'capper and the french term "mong". However the OGs use of 'tard and 'tardlet was higly innovative for its time

I will burn in hell for the use of these words

We havent even got into rhyming slang yet, im sure the use of terms like "front wheel skid" could cause uproar in certain threads at the moment :eek:

[PwarYuex]

Originally posted by Tripitaka of AA
My sister was surprised while being shown around Miami, "this is where the fags hang out"... she didn't see a single person with a cigarette!

Is the word "fag" as bad in America and Britain as it is here? Fag and faggot have to be in the top ten worst things you could say to someone, especially a gay person.

And what does window licker mean?

Newest words I've heard...
pov/povo (poverty)= poor person, or just cheap,
nahmate/nomate (no-mate)= dork,
pleb (plebian)= no idea why people are using this again,
pillow biter = gay person...

Now that I think about it, I have about 1000 euphemisms for gay people, better not start.

[larsen_huw]

Originally posted by PwarYuex
Is the word "fag" as bad in America and Britain as it is here? Fag and faggot have to be in the top ten worst things you could say to someone, especially a gay person.

And what does window licker mean?

Newest words I've heard...
pov/povo (poverty)= poor person, or just cheap,
nahmate/nomate (no-mate)= dork,
pleb (plebian)= no idea why people are using this again,
pillow biter = gay person...

Now that I think about it, I have about 1000 euphemisms for gay people, better not start.

A fag/faggot is a term for a gay man ... as to how bad it is, probably depends on how it's said. I've been called a faggot before in jest, but I'm not gay ... so just laughed ... would be diferent if it was said maliciously.

A window licker is a retard/mong/someone with their marbles very seriously adrift.

pillow biter ... I've heard the 'reciever' be referred to as a pillow muncher.

I could probably fill the rest of this page with assorted terms for gays/lesbians, so won't bother! :)

[Bod]

Window Licker is a pretty cruel term when you think about it, but some of us (e.g. me) are pretty cruel people.

It refers to the practice of children with downs syndrome and cerebral palsy of sticking their head against the window of the Sunshine Bus, with their tongue hanging out and drooling.

Thus 'window licker' :p. Since 'Spaz' is now un-PC we have to use new derogatives to insult people.

[monkeyboy_ssj]

I think alot of insults have to get more un-pc and outragious these days due to swear words are now used in modern conversation as joining words and no longer shock when heard, as they are on TV programs all the time.

Modern language is getting decensorsised to it, so therefore we have to push the boat out and get more crew to insult people.

It's just part of evolution of language, I dare say if you travelled back to 100 years ago to the same town you wouldn't be able to understand anyone, the same goes for if you travel 100 years into the future.

Cheers

[Bod]

Aren't faggots eaten with peas and chips?

[Gene Williams]

Originally posted by Bod
Window Licker is a pretty cruel term when you think about it, but some of us (e.g. me) are pretty cruel people.

It refers to the practice of children with downs syndrome and cerebral palsy of sticking their head against the window of the Sunshine Bus, with their tongue hanging out and drooling.

Thus 'window licker' :p. Since 'Spaz' is now un-PC we have to use new derogatives to insult people.

Also, toe walkers, head rollers, water heads, droolers, and head bangers.

[larsen_huw]

Originally posted by Gene Williams
Also, toe walkers, head rollers, water heads, droolers, and head bangers.

Toe walker???

Don't get that one at all! :)

Also, Head bangers are those into rock and heavy metal, not sunshine coach riders (although some would say people who listen to heavy metal are probably in need of a good window lick! :D ). :)

[Bod]

I guess toe walkers are people with Asperger's or autism. They bounce on their toes.

But I agree with Huw on Head-Bangers applying only to us heavy metal retards.