LizzieMaine
Bartender
- Messages
- 33,757
- Location
- Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
It's like they say -- The USA and the UK: two nations separated by a common language.
lol touché! Wasn't trying to offendThe common expression when someone is offended is :" Don't take the piss!" (or alternatively "Are you taking the micky?") but not "a". Although, confusingly, there is the English/London use of the 'glottal stop' which can make "the" sound like " a".
Again iIcannot understand why your taking 7 pages to work it out.
Nah, those are underpants, because they go under pants. See? Our way is so logical.
Of course you weren't mate. I knows it.lol touché! Wasn't trying to offend
Funny thing. My friend tried to get me to appreciate cricket fr years. Hated it, sans the beer and darts and chips and girls in the pub after. Last year when we were in Durham, I spent four days straight watching the Tst Cricket games and became amazingly fascinated. Then it was off for curry and ale and I had the best time ever. All jokes aside, I do love the Brits. Sans Simon Cowell. lolOf course you weren't mate. I knows it.
You mean a spot of tea, right?:rofl:Geesh, three pages ago I had gone out for lunch.
It's bruva. Bro.That was dinner, not tea, bruv.
raw prawn
From the traditional Australian expression: "Don't come the raw prawn!" or "Don't come the raw prawn with me!", meaning: "Don't try to put one over me!" or "Don't treat me like a fool!".
Particularly used to indicate that the listener is aware of the speaker's ingenuousness, for example where the person to whom it's directed feigns innocence or naivety.
Etymology:
Some sources say it is a WWII Australian Army expression. As to why it arose: one suggestion is that the reason lies in cooked prawn being more palatable than raw prawn.
As a Scandinavian, I can say a great many people here are reddish-blonde rather than ash-y blonde and most blondes get freckles from the sun. Lots of Swedes and Norwegians are strawberry blonde and Danes especially tend to be reddish-haired and freckled, IME. But try being short and dark and then convincing people you're Swedish... Anyway, The people who assumed I was Irish did give my colouring as part of the reason (pale, dark hair, green eyes) - one of them even said: "You have Irish eyes!" I sucked that comment up because 1) it sounds poetic and 2) being Swedish is the most boring origin imaginable so anything else is a step up.
All jokes aside, I do love the Brits. Sans Simon Cowell. lol