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Post by DSR on Feb 5, 2013 17:01:50 GMT -5
Blast, they're onto us! Now how will we subtly insult them? Use our vast intelligence and use big words. Above 6 letters and it goes over their heads Cockney rhyming slang works to confound the Americans, too. <_< >_>
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Post by mrmulluk on Feb 5, 2013 17:19:32 GMT -5
Use our vast intelligence and use big words. Above 6 letters and it goes over their heads Cockney rhyming slang works to confound the Americans, too. <_< >_> This. They'll never cotton on. Up the apples and pairs off for a ruby etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 21:24:58 GMT -5
He was letting the French know that he still had his fingers. That was something made up by select badly informed historians (you probably already know this but for any readers) and actually is something which just seemed to exist in UK culture for whatever reason from the late 1800s onwards. Also, me and a pal did the same gesture at John Cena at WM28, and a lovely couple behind us asked what it meant, we explained and they went "oh, so you don't upset any parents or kids!" and joined in! It was grand. A cultural exchange.
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Post by Glitch on Feb 7, 2013 0:23:33 GMT -5
Cockney rhyming slang works to confound the Americans, too. <_< >_> This. They'll never cotton on. Up the apples and pairs off for a ruby etc etc. Oh yeah? We'll use our American jive talk! Pitch a ball with these cats. All uh ya' are cornfed.
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Post by The Sam on Feb 7, 2013 1:09:29 GMT -5
This. They'll never cotton on. Up the apples and pairs off for a ruby etc etc. Oh yeah? We'll use our American jive talk! Pitch a ball with these cats. All uh ya' are cornfed. Us Australians can join in too. Stone the crows and tie your kangaroo down sport, these bloody bogans have buggered the tinny shrimp on the barbie Harold Holt. *didgeridoo solo*
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 7, 2013 1:37:00 GMT -5
I seen enough Britcoms to know that Nigel wasn't giving the peace sign. That's why I knew what it meant too
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Post by azrael502 on Feb 7, 2013 8:33:19 GMT -5
He'd do this all the time: And the first time I saw it I thought nothing of it because I'm a Canuck. So I thought it was just something he made up to be unique. Years later I found this. When I read that, before I even got to the examples, I thought "Oh yeah, I remember when I read Mostly Harmless, Ford Prefect flicked V-signs at some people he hated. I thought it was some alien thing, but I guess it's a UK thing." And then I thought "Hey wait a second, Nigel..." followed by the question in the thread's title. If that was his intent, it's kind of weird if he was doing that even while he was a face, isn't it? over here i the uk it pretty much means F~~k off
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Post by The Lach is very tired on Feb 7, 2013 23:41:27 GMT -5
Us Australians can join in too. Stone the crows and tie your kangaroo down sport, these bloody bogans have buggered the tinny shrimp on the barbie Harold Holt. *didgeridoo solo* Strewth! I better get on the blower! These drongos can't come the raw prawn like that!
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