Oh yeah, right, a pack of fags. I heard a story about this American who was traveling and passing through GB. He went to a restaurant, and ordered three pancakes for lunch, the waiter said “Three pancakes!? Allright.”. So the waiter brings him three of what we call “poundcakes”, after a few words the waiter says “Oh you mean griddle cakes!”.
If you borrow a cigarette from someone, you could be said to be ‘bumming a fag’, this could lead to confusion. Also faggots are a meat based delicacy enjoyed by many in the North of this fair isle. And for pudendal euphemisms, there is no better education than this charming song: http://youtu.be/thFjTo6r4gg
Not to forget, on these islands we also wank and shag, which our friends across the pond also do, but not properly.
Not to forget a bit of how’s your father.
That song. It just goes on and on…
Yes funny but classy! Those rathergood guys did a funny iphone/ipod app too. Sometimes we use “snatch”, we also say “bush”(I guess it likely means the same thing). You seem to have more names for it, and also for the “boobs”, the “hooters”, the “girls”, the “twins”, the “knockers”, the “sweater yams”, the “puppies”. And you’ve never seen me shag, so… well, I don’t think that’ll ever happen anyways…
Has anybody else eaten super-spicy food and chased it with a super-strong menthol? Sublime:)
Hedges is fantastic with English bitter ale.
Which ales for example? I don’t think the US has many bitters, but we have loads of good IPA’s.
Any of them - IPA is really just bottled bitter.
@Mr.O , I usually chase spicy food (spicier the better) with mint or wintergreen dip. To answer your likely question, yes, I am a masochist, lol.
Capsaicin and menthol have the very opposite effect in the mouth. Ones gives a heat sensation and the other gives a freeze, so I guess they kind of cancel each other?
Snuffster- I always thought bitters were more of a bitter-hoppy mild. And usually think of IPA’s as a higher alc more aromatically-hoppy ales. I don’t know my British brews that well- but I like the Meantime IPA.
KebAMP- burning mouth, freezing nose?
@snuffster they’re diffrent. Not much. I prefer IPA. they are slightly more aromatic and slightly more crisp in general. Or to put it another way Americans know how to make one of them and not as much so the other one.
I still remember the first time I was at a party in the States and I said “I really fancy a fag”. A terrible shame as the girl I was talking to at the time was stunning. She shot across the room and I never spoke to her again.
Well Roderick American hotties hate smokers (even if they smoke). See if you would have been snuffing at the time and said I really need a sniff… She’d have well use your imagination… o.k. bought you some scented candles. American chicks are weird which is fine with me.
@bob I may be mistaken (as that girl was), but I think she was thinking “fag” as another term…
nah girls don’t mind that. Trust me they don’t mind I’ve seen enough try to prove they don’t have any problem with that. Including one that told me I must be a cigarette cause of my nail polish. She didn’t mind at all.
I think you are generalizing women a bit too much. Some can be just as scared of gays as any guy can.