'Pants' also means rubbish
i.e.

All French cars are pants = All French cars are rubbish

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AnDy_PaNdY
[B]'Pants' also means rubbish

 

Some truths are hard to accept

 

What happened to my cousin was this: Some dude in his dorm got a new haircut and asked him what he thought of it. My cousin said that it looked pretty good except it was kind of poofy/puffy. That guy was not to happy about that comment. After he came back from studying abroad, he had this cool English accent and became a huge beer drinker from all the pubs he was hanging out in.

 

Lol...Pub culture is very popular in England.
The problem over here is that the pubs close early for the night so people drink lots of beer to make up for the short drinking times.
On a Sunday large shops can only open for 6 hours maximum...DOH...not much good when you work all week

 

I stayed in Essex for a few weeks. My conclusion was everyone was a smoking alcoholic. Seems like all the stores closed early so everyone could be at the pubs. Also saw more chocolate there than anywhere. So many vending machines. It was crazy.

 

We have a neighbor in back that has a rather noisy bird. I was talking with another neighbor couple, who are English, and I said "boy I'd like to get a gun and kill than damn bird!". The guy knew what I meant, but his wife looked at me in horror. It was then discovered that "bird" is a slang for females in England (perhaps elsewhere?). Anyway, we all had a good laugh about it.

 

Lol, you naughty man you

 

Yeah, the "fanny" thing still makes me laugh. I was in London watching sat TV which happened to be an episode of the Simpsons. Marge, usually the wholesome representative of the family, told Bart to "go sit on your fanny". I can only image what all everyone was thinking.

My other favorite is "bugger" which is very much not the same as the American "bug". I've heard some Americans say "go bugger off" when they really meant to use the American "go bug off" - definitely not interchangeable.

How does that saying go? "Two people separated by a common language"

 

Ha! I notice you forgot to mention the lockins. Just your little secret? Pubs in the smaller villages will lock the doors and close the shutters at 11PM "locking in" the customers to drink until the barkeep decides he wants to go to bed.