british words

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  1. Raskalization

    Raskalization Making plans for Nigel

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    Hmmm interesting. What did you mean by,"what about a mad scientist?"
     
  2. Raskalization

    Raskalization Making plans for Nigel

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    bloody

    adj 1: having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight" [ant: bloodless] 2: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)] adv : extremely; "you are bloody right".
     
  3. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    there are two words 'bloody'. One means covered in blood. The one that is used to not literally mean bloody is a contraction of 'by the lady'. There are lots of words like it. Good bye - God be with you, Struth - God's Truth, Zounds - By his wounds, etc.

    As for the mad scientist - well would he be an angry scientist or just someone who's lost it?
     
  4. Power_13

    Power_13 insult ninja

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    "The guy next door just blew his own house up."
    "He must be mad!"
    "Well, he's probably not very happy about it."
     
  5. Raskalization

    Raskalization Making plans for Nigel

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    Bloody can be used as an informal intensifier, The mad scientist was bloody angry after blowing his house up! Or as a descriptive word. The mad scientists clothes were bloody after blowing his house up. You could even use them together, the mad scientists clothes were bloody bloody after blowing his bloody rabbit up. This made him made him madder than ever. And bloody angry. Anyway, i just like the word bloody as an intensifier, it's a classic.
     
  6. jonathan_s

    jonathan_s Member

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    Wahey! Good old Newcastle brown ale, shame they brew it in Gateshead though :confused: well i supposed thats kind of newcaslte
     
  7. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    I was disapponted with Newquay Brown as they call it. I went to try some on my birthday once - advised by the resident geordie in my department that it was an aquired taste and i should have four or five instead of one or two or I just won't appreciate it. Rubbish - I had one pint of it and it tasted just like any other beer. It's ok but I think I'll stick to Pride in future.
     
  8. Raskalization

    Raskalization Making plans for Nigel

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    Rubbish! Another classic.
     
  9. Wolf_Bloodfang

    Wolf_Bloodfang Member

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    In the words of Beast Boy from the Teen Titans cartoon, "Why can't english people speak english?!?!" :confused:
     
  10. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    Beast Boy? I though it was Henry Higgins?

    Henry Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
    Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered.
    By law she should be taken out and hung,
    For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
    Eliza Aaoooww! Henry imitating her Aaoooww!
    Heaven's! What a noise!
    This is what the British population,
    Calls an elementary education. Pickering Oh,
    Counsel, I think you picked a poor example. Henry Did I?
    Hear them down in Soho square,
    Dropping "h's" everywhere.
    Speaking English anyway they like.
    You sir, did you go to school?
    Man Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
    Henry No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike!
    Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
    This verbal class distinction, by now,
    Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
    Instead of the way you do,
    Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
    Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
    Hear a Cornishman converse,
    I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
    Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one!
    Eliza Garn! Henry I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
    It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place.
    Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.
    Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
    This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
    If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
    Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
    An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
    The moment he talks he makes some other
    Englishman despise him.
    One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
    Oh, why can't the English learn to set
    A good example to people whose
    English is painful to your ears?
    The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
    There even are places where English completely
    disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!
    Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
    Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
    Greek. In France every Frenchman knows
    his language fro "A" to "Zed"
    The French never care what they do, actually,
    as long as they pronounce in properly.
    Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
    And Hebrews learn it backwards,
    which is absolutely frightening.
    But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
    Why can't the English,
    Why can't the English learn to speak?
     
  11. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    my favourite is CUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNT!
    There are hundreds of differences in words and spelling of words. The one that gets me everytime is....

    Faucet ----> tap
     
  12. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    That always makes me wince. Its always been verbal violence against the female to me, especially when my daughters are in earshot, can't imagine they recieve any positivity from it.

    I've always found the american use of the word Candy a bit twee.
     
  13. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    I never understood why women get so upset about the word ****. Ok, maybe they don't like the idea of their precious genitalia being an insulting term, but then we men are quite happy to call each other penises, knob-heads, etc. Maybe women aren't as sexually mature as men.
     
  14. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    It's not about maturity.

    The sexual act, whereby the female is used by the male, and female genitalia are usually used in a harsh if not violent context, thereby dominating the female.

    Male genitalia is just laughable !
     
  15. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    used? That's a bit strong isn't it? I don't think that defines the role of the female genitalia most of the time.
     
  16. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    In this modern age of the enlightened I dare say you are right, most men would consider the sexes as equal in the sexual act, but c'mon it weren't that long ago when it definitely was not the case.

    The use of abusive (not foul) language still carries those conotations.
     
  17. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    So you're saying a **** is someone who is submissive and willing to be used?

    Because I always use it to mean a complete bastard who'll walk all over everyone else.
     
  18. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    Nope.

    The use of the word, amongst many females, would indicates the users prevalance to thinking of the female as submissive and useable.

    Not that I want to get heavy about it Sax. :) I'm starting to feel like an old fart.
     
  19. Sax_Machine

    Sax_Machine saxbend

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    well you ARE an old fart from my point of view ;)
     
  20. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    What comes around goes around.
     
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