EXCELLENT thread. I rated it 5 stars... do these forums have rep? I want to rep+ :-D .
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EXCELLENT thread. I rated it 5 stars... do these forums have rep? I want to rep+ :-D .
Actually, the Irish Rangers are volunteers from the Republic, not from the North... just being pickyi'm differentiating between the very different accents of NI and the republic.
plenty of the former to be heard in the British (UK) armed forces of course.
I've been wondering, what do they mean when they say
"Putin' the wood in the 'ole gov'na"?
I've been wondering, what do they mean when they say
"Putin' the wood in the 'ole gov'na"?
I think it's a way of killing mice, you put a bit of wood in the crevice the emerge from and they go away...or something like that.
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To 'put the wood in the hole' means to shut the door, makes sense when you think about it.
I'm British and I'm still learning from this thread Didn't know about the origin of Scarper.
i swear your post appeared from nowhere - otherwise i wouldn't have repeated the explaination.
Smeg IS also a brand of electrical goods from Sweden (I think), which lead to much tittering from the English when they started selling in the UK with lines like "keep your food fresh with smeg"!
Same here. Anywho, I added that phrase to the original list.
Just like when they changed Marathon bars to Snickers, we all laughed cos it sounded like knickers!
i won't ever eat a snickers.
it represented the start of the dark days of euro-branding.
The most hilarious for me was when they rebranded "Jif" (a cleaning product) to the Euro "Cif"... pronounced "syph". Yes, British shorthand for syphilis. Ah well, you have to love iti won't ever eat a snickers.
it represented the start of the dark days of euro-branding.
The most hilarious for me was when they rebranded "Jif" (a cleaning product) to the Euro "Cif"... pronounced "syph". Yes, British shorthand for syphilis. Ah well, you have to love it
They're damn tasty though.
phaps unilever felt the rebranding was necessary cos some idiots were putting bathroom cleaner on their pancakes.
marathons were. I'm afraid I'll have to take your word for it that snickers are.