The sidewalk is the part that you would walk on. The curb is the raised edge of concrete...you know, where you would park you vehicle against or sometimes run up on if you cut a corner too closely while driving. Curb check!
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The sidewalk is the part that you would walk on. The curb is the raised edge of concrete...you know, where you would park you vehicle against or sometimes run up on if you cut a corner too closely while driving. Curb check!
Ah. We here in Manchester refer to the entire pavement as a curb.
Summat, Nought
i heard that for the first time while watching Trisha i had teletext on and i couldn't figure it out. when I finally did I couldn't stop laughing.
Ill give ye summat to cry about
i no longer live in the UK (was there for a year) I'm back in Aus now. Everything is great but why oh why did Australia have to be a Pal region?
why? why? why?
All bloody clouds and bloody rainsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rainecloud
No bloody curbs, no bloody drains
The council's got no bloody brains
In bloody Orkney
Thanks for that slice of "poetry".Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
I get enough of that sort of talk at work, thank you very much. ;)
people say nought here all the time! i do occasionally :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Angra Mainyu
"That thing where the road touches the pavement."Quote:
Originally Posted by MoonsEcho
:exdee:Quote:
That thing where the road touches the pavement."
Shame that I'll be moving there soon. :(
I don't know how, but "bugger it" and "puckernuts" have crept into my vocabulary. My mom and dad were stationed in Oxford during the sixties..she tells me of a bit of confusion with the definitions of the word fanny. Here in the USA, it means one's rear end, caboose, tail, butt. :bow: .Arse in other words. In Britain, it apparently means something exclusively feminine, and a bit more intimate. :cat: So telling someone that she'd been sitting on her fanny all day, and boy was it tired, made the Brits laugh, and the Americans wonder what the Brits were laughing about.
I didn't write it, Captain Hamish bloody Blair did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rainecloud
I didn't say you were the author, I simply thanked you for bringing it to my attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
*wins*
Oh, I was watched scary movie 2 (i think) and this guy was saying 'watch my fanny' it really confuddled me, because, well, he's a guy, and now I understand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by meowwl
She DOES sound like a right swinger!
me being an american, a big girls blouse rings no bells at all. unlike wanker which i find really fun to use, but anyways, no, i've never heard of someone being called a big girl's blouse before.
i heard that in america they don't say (SPOILER)wanker and that it dosn't mean anything....Quote:
Originally Posted by YukiKiro
in the UK its pretty rude. which is why i spoiler tagged it.
very rude! :eek: