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Grandma:  "Look at that precious little babe!  What a sweet little cunt you are!  Yes you are!"

Daltons chin dimple wrote:

I am trying to think of any other sweary differences this side of the pond.Faggot is a meat dish served with gravy.Fag is a cigarette.Fanny is ladies parts.Bum is arse (ass), not a homeless person.Therefore what you call a fannypack, we call a bumbag.

So, based on your definitions, is a fannypack in the UK a thong?

It's a dildo.

So I'm reading Branson's autobiography, and during the part where he talks about taking Virgin public he mentions "The City" a few times.  Is "The City" sort of a nickname for London's financial district, like "Wall Street?"

This is very important, thousands of people's lives are at stake.

You are correct, sir. I feel confident in answering this despite thousands of people's lives at stake, because I did live in London for four years and heard a lot of BBC broadcasts in which said term was used in said fashion.

Daltons chin dimple wrote:

I occasionally use the word "Fuck" in front of my mother, only when relating a tale of anger and annoyance.  She still dissapproves.  I have only ever heard her say that word once in my 36 years.I can never conceive a circumstance where I would use the C-word in front of my mother.

The other story ... I have a very good reading voice, and my family enjoys it. At one family get-together, my uncle kept insisting I read this piece by Mark Twain for the whole family, as it was written in mock-Elizabethan English and with my time in England I could bring the right sound to it. He was quite persistent about it, and finally I sat down with him, several aunts and uncles, my husband, and my 92-year-old grandmother to read the pages he gave me of Mark Twain's 1601 (www.gutenberg.org/files/3190/3190-h/3190-h.htm#2H_4_0002). It was quite amusing at first, "Ye Duchess of Bilgewater," yadda yadda, but then as I was reading I noticed a particularly naughty turn. By the time I got to the phrase, "Before I had gained my fourteenth year I had learnt that them that would explore a cunt stop'd not to consider the spelling o't.'" It was too late to stop reading.

So I not only said "cunt," three times, in front of my mother, I also said it in front of my grandmother. And my uncle, who insisted I read this clever piece. My uncle. The minister.

This actually explains a lot about me.

kah wrote:

My ex's sister married a Brit when I was around 17.  In his family, at least, the c-word seems to be on par or less offensive than fuck.  (His grandma uses it as a term of endearment.)  They might be just a bunch of crass inbred twats, though.

Twat! Another great word. I also like adapting it to "Twunt".

Sounds like they were trash. Could this family be described as a little bit "Council" ?

The City is the financial district, where the London Stock Exchange, Lloyd's of London and the Bank of England are (and my office, I can see the Bank, Lloyd's and the Exchange from here, well, if I turn round and walk to the window I can).

It runs along the Thames from St Pauls Cathedral Eastwards to the Tower of London and North about as far as Moorgate and London Wall. Sometimes called "The Square Mile" because it used to be 1 mile sq (clue is in the title!) but it is quite a bit bigger than that these days.

Then there is the West End (West of the City, imaginatively named) - Entertainment area where all the theatres are and those cinemas where they have the premieres. Places like Picadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden etc.

Along the Strand and South from the West End is Whitehall and Westminster, the Government area where all the Ministries are, plus Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament. Buckingham Palace is on the edge of this area.

Go further West from Westminster and you get into Kensington and Chelsea, plus Fulham etc. where all the properly rich people live.

There is the East End, to the East of the City (we are good at this naming shit over here!) which was mostly workers housing and big with the immigrant populations but in the last decade or so is a bit of an up and coming area.

Further out East is Docklands, all the regenerated ex-Royal Docks, where the 02 Arena is.

South of the River is basically shit once you get out any further than Battersea. See "Harry Brown" for more information.

Not that you wanted to know any of this, but thought I would give you a whistlestop tour of London Town.

We didn't want to give Negs back but she insisted. We also don't have Fannypacks.

I also enjoy "Slunt".

I want you right now.

Okay.

That sound you hear is Jakester's mind screaming as he buys his trans-Atlantic airline tickets, his eyes fighting through tears, his heart dark with revenge.

But first, he checks out the Doctor Who Experience.

Quasar wrote:

That sound you hear is Jakester's mind screaming as he buys his trans-Atlantic airline tickets, his eyes fighting through tears, his heart dark with revenge.

For once, Dalty's love affair actually will end in death. Yay for delayed gratification!

Nothing ever ends.  Not really.

And all deaths are faked.

Even Mr. Hooper's?

Yes, that was staged to teach children about death.

Or, rather, the illusion of it.

kah wrote:

I also enjoy "Slunt".

I have never seen that word before today and now I've seen it twice. Once here and once in a Fark thread talking about Snookie from Jersey Shore.

Weird.

I used the word earlier this evening. Vacant stares. I knew though, I knew.

For coined words I still like "fucktard," especially since "retard" is apparentally now "the R-word."

I've hijacked the 'Being Human' (UK version) description to cover that. Table colours! They used it in S2, but allow me to explain.

At infant school - teeny, tiny kiddiwinks from about 4 to 7 yes old - it is fairly common for the kids to be sat on certain tables which are colour coded. Looking back now, you don.t have to be a genius to realise that all the kiddiwinks who were, let me say, challenged, were all sat together on one coloured table.

So now, at work, instead of saying that somebody is a retard, I just point out that if they went to my infant school with me, they would have been on the yellow table.

 The censorship of that word is pointless. The word means slow. For instance, I call many of my past love interests emotionally retarded.

 Meanwhile, I consider my fear of commitment & monogomy to be emotionally advanced.

I can understand not using "retard" to refer to someone who's developmentally disabled, and I wouldn't use it in such a way. But sometimes supposedly "normal" people do something that's so stupid you can't help but call them a retard. Moron and idiot do not have the same satisfying sound.