Common words or phrases you dont understand!!!

abetarrush

Theres loads of things I always hear people sayin, but still dunno wha they mean!

Still not sure wha PC means [As in, X is very PC]


Anyone else got some???

The_B_Man

PC - Politically Correct

means someone might say "vertically challenged" instead of "shrimpy little bollix"!

or "obese" instead of "fat bastard"

or "african american" instead of "black"...notice i said "black", it woulda been defo too un-PC to have said "******".

also, theres a few words i dont know. i see them around here but then jsut forget them rather than dictionary.com'ing them.

Pigman II

The_B_Man wrote:

or "obese" instead of "fat bastard"

Can you even call them obese? I thought it had to be 'calorifically challenged' or somesuch?

NoDayBut2Day

Pigman II wrote:

Can you even call them obese? I thought it had to be 'calorifically challenged' or somesuch?

Goodness, are people really being *that* particular?? :rolleyes: :eek:

Rockee

I hate the newer ones such as 'Meh' or something being 'so random'

NoDayBut2Day

I thought "meh" was kind of like an "oh, i don't care" type of attitude thing. i don't know... haha.

FlutterinBantam

GIMP . Not sure what that means

Like,if you met Bertie Ahearn coming down the street would you say to your mate"Jaysus! would you look at the gimp on that geezer "?

Or would you say when he had passed"Jasysus,Bertie has an awful gimp on him today"

Or if some tumbleshack was annoying you for money on the street ,would you say"Shag off you gimpy b*****x and get a job like the rest of us"


I find it rather confusing

petes

FlutterinBantam wrote:

GIMP . Not sure what that means

Like,if you met Bertie Ahearn coming down the street would you say to your mate"Jaysus! would you look at the gimp on that geezer "?

Or would you say when he had passed"Jasysus,Bertie has an awful gimp on him today"

Or if some tumbleshack was annoying you for money on the street ,would you say"Shag off you gimpy b*****x and get a job like the rest of us"


I find it rather confusing

Ever watched Pulp Fiction?

Sam Vimes

FlutterinBantam wrote:

GIMP . Not sure what that means

Like,if you met Bertie Ahearn coming down the street would you say to your mate"Jaysus! would you look at the gimp on that geezer "?

Or would you say when he had passed"Jasysus,Bertie has an awful gimp on him today"

Or if some tumbleshack was annoying you for money on the street ,would you say"Shag off you gimpy b*****x and get a job like the rest of us"


I find it rather confusing

a gimp is someone with a limp. someone's "gimp" is how they're walking

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gimp


i think



its also the GNU image manipulation program but i don't think they're talking about that

ferdi

gimp: http://www.wartenbergwheel.com/Total-Control_Hood2a.jpg

bobbyjoe

Why do people say Janey Mackeral?

flanzer

Or "anal"??.......as in 'That was a very anal thing to do

petes

flanzer wrote:

Or "anal"??.......as in 'That was a very anal thing to do

Anally retentive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive

manonthemoon

bobbyjoe wrote:

Why do people say Janey Mackeral?

I thought it was janey mack??

kmick

'cheap at half the price' - should it not be cheap at twice the price?

Siogfinsceal

blame david dickinson for that one! and 'cheap as chips'.
Politcal Correctness has gone totally mad lately

fatboypee

The word "Large", when applied to me is somewhat confusing...

say it how is.... "Large..."... so condescending.. :mad:

Feral Mutant

kmick wrote:

'cheap at half the price' - should it not be cheap at twice the price?

Never heard that one but if something is twice the normal price it's definitely not cheap (unless it was super cheap to begin with), if it's twice the price, it's gotten more expensive. Could be wrong, like I said, never heard it before.

Baby4

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Collie D

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Postal is a stereotype that postal workers in the US go on killing sprees when pissed off. Not sure if there's any element of truth to it or not

lazygit

On August 20, 1986, 14 employees were shot dead and six wounded at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office by a postman, Patrick Sherrill, who then committed suicide with a shot to the forehead.

Fanny Cradock

bobbyjoe wrote:

Why do people say Janey Mackeral?

I don't think they do

As i understand it, "Janey mack" is an inner city Dublin thing. I remember it was used in a little rhyme (which I'll spare you all from having to read) I used to hear when i was a kid.

Eoin

kmick wrote:

'cheap at half the price' - should it not be cheap at twice the price?

Yeah, I always thought the same, but it must mean "cheap, because it's half the price" rather than "this would be cheap at half the price"

snb

Sometimes an unusual / or long word just better expresses what your trying to say.

Some words are just more expressive , obviously only when your audience knows the meaning too.

We should all have word a day calendars & there would be far more interesting repartee floating about to amuse us!

manonthemoon

snb wrote:

Sometimes an unusual / or long word just better expresses what your trying to say.

Some words are just more expressive , obviously only when your audience knows the meaning too.

We should all have word a day calendars & there would be far more interesting repartee floating about to amuse us!

Wha?

dr.bollocko

I didnt get that there was a double meaning implied in that sentence of the song: "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me" until last year when it finally dawned on me.
I had always just assumed that they were ****ty lyrics, and now realise that it is in fact my stupidity that made them so.
Other phrases that I dont seem to understand include:
Shut up.
Shut the hell up.
Shut your stupid fat mouth.
shut the mother**** up.
Shut up or die.
If anyone has any explanation of these please mail it to my ass, care of Katie Holmes.

ekevosu

Fanny Cradock wrote:

I don't think they do

As i understand it, "Janey mack" is an inner city Dublin thing. I remember it was used in a little rhyme (which I'll spare you all from having to read) I used to hear when i was a kid.

I remember using it as a kid in cork a good while back and janey mackerel as well which i suppose was a spin off from it.

As for cheap at half the price, this is a p**stake of the expression cheap at twice the price, a kind of sarcastic comment about something being too expensive.

abetarrush

yeah, people defo usta say Janey Mackerel, jus to be cooler than the Jane Mack gang

What's Contemporary? Jus, modern or somethin???

Oh, and "Jesus christ on a bicycle!"

"divil"

GerryRyan

Worked on the buildings for 2 summers - and was always confused by the phrase 'How's your father?'

Not the phrase itself, but the context it was used in.
e.g. "Throw us that 'how's your father' " when referring to a hammer or shovel.

Can't think of another example right now, but confusing all the same.

Wertz

I know "how's your father" is an English euphenism for sex...so I can only guess it's been put to use as an alterntaive to saying "f*cking thing"

Creamy Goodness

abetarrush wrote:

What's Contemporary? Jus, modern or somethin???

Oh, and "Jesus christ on a bicycle!"

contemporary is just something/someone from the same time as you eg. michael jackson is a contemporary of you.

the jesus christ on a bicycle probably stemed from the rhyming phrase "christ on a bike".

The_B_Man

back in the day when it was still a sin to say the lords name in vain, ie jesus christ, people musta tried to find an alternative, in the same way as people would say "sugar" instead of "sh*t". thats wat i tihnk anyway.

Will Scarlett

When a bloke says he scored with a girl what exactly has happened?

Robbo

Will Scarlett wrote:

When a bloke says he scored with a girl what exactly has happened?

She played a threaded through ball and he slipped one low and hard past the keeper. Next please.

Trinity

what does atari jaguar mean?

GerryRyan

ThatGuy wrote:

Worked on the buildings for 2 summers - and was always confused by the phrase 'How's your father?'

Not the phrase itself, but the context it was used in.
e.g. "Throw us that 'how's your father' " when referring to a hammer or shovel.

Can't think of another example right now, but confusing all the same.

Just found me an explanation of the phrase: http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/qfather.htm

abetarrush

its an old console

Karoma

Moved to Linguistics & Etymology.
Enjoy!!!1!

Scraggs

Trinity1 wrote:

what does atari jaguar mean?

clickeh

Wertz

Karoma wrote:

Moved to Linguistics & Etymology.
Enjoy!!!1!

What the hell do languages and insects have to do with each other???

oscarBravo

NoDayBut2Day wrote:

I thought "meh" was kind of like an "oh, i don't care" type of attitude thing. i don't know... haha.

Immortalised by Lisa Simpson.

Lisa: But Dad, we're the MTV generation. We experience neither highs nor lows.

Homer: Really? What's that like?

Lisa: Meh.

_Whimsical_

What does the expression " Cheap at half the price mean"? Surely everything is cheap at half the price... or am I missing something ?

hullaballoo

A house, say, would be rather pricey at half the price. Or, so I'd think.

One that used to bug the hell out of me was, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

I worked that one out, so now the one I don't get is, "same difference". It sounds so stupid, but makes sense at the same time.

Faith

Where does "the whole nine yards" come from? Or "a can of worms"? I mean, are worms particularly agile and likely to go jumping all over the place?

Scraggs

Faith wrote:

Where does "the whole nine yards" come from? Or "a can of worms"? I mean, are worms particularly agile and likely to go jumping all over the place?

The whole nine yards??


Well my interpretation of 'can of worms' is that when you open a can of worms its like a big solid [icky] mass of worms all knotted up in each other and like a situation where you'd use that phrase its complex and hard to unravel/solve. No idea how accurate that is. Now I've to go erase all fishing trip memories *shudders*

tbh

chilly wrote:

What does the expression " Cheap at half the price mean"? Surely everything is cheap at half the price... or am I missing something ?

it's a piss-take of "cheap at twice the price" i.e. you are ripping me off

FlutterinBantam

hullaballoo wrote:

A house, say, would be rather pricey at half the price. Or, so I'd think.

One that used to bug the hell out of me was, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth".

I worked that one out, so now the one I don't get is, "same difference". It sounds so stupid, but makes sense at the same time.

"Same difference" was discussed on earlier threads.
It would appear to be a derivation of "same but different",which would imply a similar result from different methods.

Wertz

Okay here's one I never got and I hear it used a fair bit.

"He was sold a pup"

I know what it means, I just don't know why it means what it does.
Anyone?

tbh

Wertz wrote:

Okay here's one I never got and I hear it used a fair bit.

"He was sold a pup"

I know what it means, I just don't know why it means what it does.
Anyone?

It comes from the days when farmers would bring their produce to market in a sack. Dodgy market dealers would replace a piglet in a sack with a cat or a puppy - and hope the customers wouldn't spot it until it was too late. Incidentally, the phrase "to let the cat out of the bag" comes from the same practice.

Wertz

That's always annoyed me, thanks for clearing it up. Interesting one on the cat out of the bag, too.