Humphreys - It's the new swear word.

Cedric Bumblebonce is hilarious. Don't let Set intimidate you. He's Irish, you know.

One of the saddest names I've ever heard is Soda Popp. Sigh. Those parents should be shot.

Set doesn't intimidate me, Di. In actual fact, he is one of those people I look out for on A2K, 'cos there's never a dull moment when he's around.

When I first saw his thread title "The Lord's a Retard", I immediately leapt in, thinking it was something he'd started in the religeous section. I then thought of putting on my gloves and challenging him to fisticuffs, then I remembered the size of the bugger and thought that my nose wouldn't look good, flattened against my left cheek.

I just hope he starts a thread soon that will rival his Pirate one. Bloody good historian, and a fine fellow to boot, despite his Irish lineage.

Cedric Bumblebonce. It has a definite ring to it, doesn't it? Wonderful!

(Oh! just heard on the evening news. You've won David Hicks. Congratulations!)

Any news that raises the hope of another poor sod being released from Guantanamo is good, as far as I am concerned.

I'm not British!

Thank you though, I feel so refined.



Speaking of refined....I had this class once in dealing, in part with sexuality, and how differently people use words to express themselves. For instance, this REALLY stupid mother was missing cues her daughter was getting molested, when she would tell her mom "my pooter pie hurts"

Anyway, this woman was telling a counselor that she HATED it when her husband refered to her privates as her pussy. She said, "I wish he would call it my C*nt, it's so much more refined."

THAT is the worst word as far as sex I can think of, I can't even say it out loud.

I went to school with a lisa pratt, all I can remember is thinking of pratt fall.

OK - question.....what is so horrible about saying bloody? seriously, I always wondered.

Chai, yes, what is so bloody awful about bloody?

I'm driving to Denver today and won't get back until late Saturday. I hope the answer is here. Our Brits are finally introducing us to the proper usage of the English language.

Chai - there is NOTHING bad about the word 'bloody'. It is quite sanitised. Even in Australia. For real.




HOWEVER, a minor complaining about sexual abuse is very, very SERIOUS!! Even in Australia.

Nope....nothing wrong with bloody in the UK. Although an adult would probably wince just ever so slightly (more than likely, they'd smile though) if they heard a four year old utter the word.
It's about as outlandish as blimey, or bloomin', as in "Blimey, look at that dog, it's bloomin' massive." Bloody massive would measure about the same number on the profanity scale over here.

One word I HAVE noticed that people from the USA tend to use, is W*nker. Now THAT is pretty offensive over here, and I wouldn't dream of using it in everyday language, unless I was with a group of male construction workers in the pub, talking about a footballer, or some similar macho subject. Personally, I would never say this when women were present.

Yet it seems to be quite an acceptable word in the US. (and now, possibly Australia?)......strange, eh?

Maybe I'm just being a pratt.

hmmmm, I don't know anyone in the US who says w*nker.

When you used it recently, I thought it was funny (sort of) because it sounds so British.

See, that how I thought bloody was, like pretty bad.
Where did that come from anyway?




Mr. Stillwater, I hope you didn't take my story of the pooter pie to mean I was being funny.

It was the other woman who was refering to her husbands term for her privies as humourous.

With the child, I was getting at how stupid and unobservant the mother was.

There IS a chain of thought that says it originated from the phrase "by our lady" (Virgin Mary) so it is seen as blasphemous. "By'r Lady" is used in several Shakespeare plays, so was obviously a well used phrase, even back in the 1500's.

Others in this supposed category of blasphemy, include "Gor Blimey" (God blind me), "Gee" (Jesus), "darn" (damn).

Well, gor blimey, a bloke can't utter a bloody word nowadays, without getting into darn trouble.

"Winker"?

Blimey - I never knew that stood for Blind Me.

What about bloke? Where did that come from?


Oh yeah, we have gosh darn it, dag nabbit, jeez, jeez louise, fudge, shoot, cripes...

I particularly like this one I've picked up from the Napolean Dynamite movie.....

What the flip!?

The ONE American word I got into trouble with once was (and I will separate it into two words, just in case it gets pulled)......was....Chicken Hawk.

That word means absolutely nothing over here in the UK. I dropped it into a conversation with an American friend, after having seen a site that listed the US Politicians who dodged the draft for Vietnam. That was the name that the site gave to those guys.

Apparently, in the USA, it has a totally different and sinister meaning.

If anyone from the UK is reading this, we would use the term "nonce" as a fair equivalent.

I was soon put right. Just goes to show, how easily these mistakes can be made.

Huh, I had a feeling what chicken hawk meant, but I actually had to double check on urbandictionary.

I would think that's more the meaning if you live in a big city, or run with that crowd.

Now, in the prison population, calling someone short eyes is really bad, that's someone who is in there for child molestation.

Well Barrythemod, I like both Monty Python and Blackadder (one word) a lot, but I didnt know the meaning of the word "prat" - not that meaning, anyway.

Glad to see LE saying its also nowadays "come to mean someone who is an idiot", tho - at least I didnt make that one up. I was beginning to doubt myself.

bloke n. inf. fellow,chap
Really can't remember the last time I heard this in normal convo.It's more of a word my Dad would have used.I would normally use geezer,guy or fella.

As there seems to be a misunderstanding of English every-day words compared to the US,have a look here......
English2AmericanDictionary
Hope it helps :wink:

Bumblebonce is funny.

My ex'es classmate in med school was to become a urologist. His name was keith wiener. at least it wasn't dick weiner or something. he had his name changed before starting his practice though. took all the fun out.

Not winker, you wonker.

The only other choices are "a","e" and "u".
My monies on "a"
Look in the Dictionary I posted :wink: