27 May 2019, 8:29 am
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27 May 2019, 8:37 am
naturalplastic wrote:
Lost_dragon wrote:
Personally, I think of the dessert when the word cobbler appears. The UK version, not the US type.
Either that or someone who fixes shoes. I haven't heard anyone use it in the slang sense though. There's also slang that is mainly only used by the older generations as well, so that's a factor.
Greetings vary so much. Where I used to live, it wasn't too uncommon to call someone a "cocker" which sounds bad, but it's just short for cockerel. That was used more by the older people there (particularly between older men or in reference to them) though. The greeting where I live now is "duck" instead. Why all the bird related greetings, England?
Also, interestingly I have heard the term "Chuck" less here. Not as in throw, but a friendly greeting. Apparently deriving from "Chick" according to Google. I still hear "Love" though. Personally, my least favourite greetings are "Pet" "Hon" and "Babe".
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Cobbler is a dish consisting of a fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or dumpling (in the United Kingdom) before being baked. Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American south, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both a top and bottom crust. Cobbler is part of the cuisine of the United Kingdom and United States, and should not be confused with a crumble.
Either that or someone who fixes shoes. I haven't heard anyone use it in the slang sense though. There's also slang that is mainly only used by the older generations as well, so that's a factor.
Greetings vary so much. Where I used to live, it wasn't too uncommon to call someone a "cocker" which sounds bad, but it's just short for cockerel. That was used more by the older people there (particularly between older men or in reference to them) though. The greeting where I live now is "duck" instead. Why all the bird related greetings, England?
Also, interestingly I have heard the term "Chuck" less here. Not as in throw, but a friendly greeting. Apparently deriving from "Chick" according to Google. I still hear "Love" though. Personally, my least favourite greetings are "Pet" "Hon" and "Babe".
Well..thats what I was talking about.
Decades ago when I was a kid in 1969, I read an anecdote in Reader's Digest about an American couple who were living in England. And were entertaining one night. And the American wife announced that "we are having peach cobbler for dessert". And that's caused a shock among the British guests because "cobbler is British slang for the male organ" according the article.
Not that I think about peach cobbler very often, but I figured that "cobbler" must have the original meaning of "shoemaker" in both the UK and US, but that they must call the dessert something else in England, and further- that they DO have that sexual slang associated with the word, that we Americans don't have.
But apparently that aint so. And the dessert is also called "peach cobbler" there in the UK as well. So I dunno if that story was accurate, or not. Maybe announcing that "we are having peach cobbler" wouldn't be shocking to Brits after all.
In Yorkshire we would say "what a load of old cobblers" to that. Meaning a load of rubbish.
I always thought "cobblers" were testicles, the word being derived from cobble stones.
27 May 2019, 10:39 am
auntblabby wrote:
in my neck o' the woods we'd say "slummin'" 
i still have a phone message pad that reads, "while you were fking off, mr/mrs. _____ called."
i still have a phone message pad that reads, "while you were fking off, mr/mrs. _____ called."
"Slummin'"??????????????
That cant be right.
"Slumming" has a more specific meaning than just bumming around the house. Actually TWO related meanings. One naughtier than the other.
A "slum" is of course the bad part of town. So to go "slumming" was a jazz age term for White folks hitting the nightclubs in Harlem (taking the A train to see Duke Ellington, or Cab Calloway, at the Cotton Club).
Later it could also mean having a sexual fling with someone "from across the tracks". You might recall the scene from Dirty Dancing when that nerdy guy at the retreat says to Jennifer Gray "everyone likes to go slumming" just before he gets decked by Patrick Swayze. Definitely a more hot button thing than just "puttering around the house". Lol!
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27 May 2019, 10:46 am
auntblabby wrote:
but they have a noble purpose which IMHO overrides any stoooopid [uniquely] amuuuurican concerns.
But not on men. Why do men even have nipples?
28 May 2019, 7:41 am
28 May 2019, 11:48 am
Trogluddite wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Anybody else heard the term “gomming”?
That's a new one to me. I rather like it; I think it has a fitting "lazy" feel to the pronunciation.
There are a lot of variations on the "X-ing about" form here - messing, bumming, piddling, pissing, arseing, fannying, faffing, f**king, f**k-arseing, ... (I would guess that the more polite f-words are alliterative euphemisms for "f**king".)
It really does.We pronounce everything without the g on the end,so it would sound like “gommin.”
It totally describes the activities of Compo,Foggy and Clegg.
28 May 2019, 11:55 am
lostonearth35 wrote:
Why do men even have nipples?
So they can freak out when they start lactating due to side effects from certain meds
28 May 2019, 12:04 pm
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28 May 2019, 2:55 pm
Trogluddite wrote:
^ I feel old now - I'd never heard of that one before.
Don't feel old dude , after I posted that I searched for the slang definition of faffing I mentioned and I can't find it. Maybe it's a South Wales thing ? , it was definitely around as early as 1991 as I heard it being used to refer to Buffalo Bills antics in Silence Of The Lambs
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30 May 2019, 10:51 pm
30 May 2019, 11:20 pm
Reminds me of a moment when I turned on the tube late at night, and got into the middle of a History Channel show about modern big guns used by the U.S. Army.
Tuned into it just as the announcer was describing the 200mm gun on the screen as a "piece of toad artillery".
And they continued showing us examples of "toad artillery". Im thinking "WTF is toad artillery? Do they mean 'toad' artillery as opposed to 'frog' artillery, or what?".
Took a second, but I realized that they were saying "towed" artillery, as opposed to "self propelled" artillery.
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