timzup

Ey ups Fizz,

you're gunna need that fire to thaw out after this afternoon aren't ya?

FizzyWater

Too right Timz, the footie was a tad cold.

timzup

Bummer about the equaliser, huh? Wibb's lot had a good game by the looks of it. Nowt doin for us lot today.

wibble

Yeah a massive win for us, although I didn't go as i still can't deal with my former drinking buddies

Yes i'm a *****

But yes i'm still sober

I'll take that

wibble

Apparently Puss E

Is a swear word

But Bollocks isn't

How curious

stone

I wuz confoosed cuz I saw it on Monday you see.

Talk about going to any lengths....I left the meeting tonight and it was freezing fog, had to walk a mile to the train station, get the train, get off the train, get a bus, walk home. Sheesh.

colagirl

Really, Oregon huh? It is quite beautiful here (and in Seattle) but the weather is rainy and gray a lot of the time. Portland and Seattle have a lot of drug addiction because the cops go easy on the homeless kids that come here for the moderate winters and end up staying for the drugs.

lostbutterfly

No, no, the people in Stephen Fry's visit to Seattle think there is a general air of melancholy over Seattle (contributing to the suicide rate) coz of the weather.

We have shite weather and we're the life and soul, aren't we??

Lets see what happens with fanny (it means bottom in the US doesn't it). And they don't know what bollocks is over there - I saw a discussion on another thread.

lostbutterfly

That would make a brilliant tourist advert, lol!!

lostbutterfly

Well, not me, no!! But people do pronounce "bottle" like "bowl". It's the inability to say the letter T. If we combined your english with our english, we wouldn't have the word "the" at all.

Let's go down the chippy = Let's go down t'chippy = Let's go down chippy.

colagirl

For sure... come for the weather, stay for the drugs! I can see it on the side of a city bus.

And what is bollocks??

lostbutterfly

See, told you!! Literally, it means balls - the sort you find on men. But you can use it in a variety of colourful ways:

I'm bollocksed (I'm loaded/trashed/drunk/stoned)
I'm the dogs bollocks (I'm pretty damn fantastic)

So endeth the lesson.

Good night peeps, see you in the morn.

Lea xx

RK2007

Or my favourite - "it's a load of bollocks", meaning a load of old rubbish.

The English language must seem pretty confusing to some people, one word can mean so many things.

timzup

Guys, don't stess over the bollocks thing. I've tried explaining before, it's futile.

Best bit of advice is never to mention nipping out to pull on a fag. That's an absolute no,-no.

timzup

And definately never ask if you can bum a fag. That's suicide in some states.

RK2007

Or indeed smoke one. Perish the thought!

RK2007

The worst of it is, loads of people won't believe that people actually say that but they do - "Excuse me mate, could a bum a fag aff ye?"

timzup

Yeah, just ask some big-arse redneck if he's been outside sucking on a fag?

RK2007

Recipe for disaster.

stone

Sitting on your fanny all day.