Cottaging
 

I asked the gobby neighbour what he had been up to recently and he told me he had been cottaging all weekend, to which I replied if he had taken his dog and been dogging too. He said "Yes, my wife and I also went dogging"








My son (19) nearly shat himself! Haha

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Creases me up every time as well
I told people at work whAt it meant in the UK
They looked at me like I'd just killed someone !

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I know they very touchy about things like that, especially when you keep bringing it up at a party after having drunk a bottle and a half of their zinfandel. :)

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I had that coversation at work too, my how we laughed! I laughedeven more when they asked me what British people said instead. Complete bafflement about the rareity of second homes. There was another thing about the UK not having any ferries, that made me laugh.

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It's a British thing and a Canadian wouldn't have a clue unless they're bent.

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I don't really find that fair...if some ghastly foreigner in the UK took the piss out of you because you don't understand some horrid Caribbean patois, you would, no doubt, complain? You came here...either speak their language or don't, but you don't get the chance to gain the higher ground IMHO?

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I'm lost here. Who. Is on the higher ground? It's a joke about different usage of a word.

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Don't you find it nasty? I do, and if I'm am wrong... Then this is a great big Sorry, but I don't feel that the fact that we use some different vocabulary as a tool for taking the piss?

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It is our language, they're the ones using it incorrectly. If they don't like it when we find their misuse of it funny, they can naff right off! ;)

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No I don't find it nasty but am open to persuasion. I find seeing a magasine called "Cottaging" funny in a basic British humour way. There is no mocking of Canadians involved in that any more than a Canadian laughing at Brits saying they are "going out for a fag", or my co workers gigghling when I say trolley instead of stretcher. It isn't taking the piss in any way but enjoying the differences.

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Why is 'trolley' funny?

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Someone with.a real computer should post up the dogging youtube from Fascinating Aida. Unlike the news this isn't life or death.
Oh Edit, 20 minutes late I get the bright idea to google cottaging - it means something different here.

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No idea, maybe my weird accent? Ot trying to imagine a patient curled up or in whatever 'trolley' means to a Canadian?

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Here you go bats

trolley

:p

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I know the lady who designed the coach for the Vancouver Trolley Company; she spent the money on a trip to Ireland.

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Here in Seattle (the equivalent) is called "South Lake Union Streetcar" known colloquialy as the SLUT.

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First year in Europe, Christmas morning after the night before, all hungover.
A Brit staying over in my flat notices food on the table, pipes up with
" Can I nibble your nuts ?"

I was not impressed.

Who's doing what with the language ?

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You've not seen the advert then?

Watch "Nobbys Nuts Advert" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DBh...e_gdata_player

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This is true, and even then they don't. But that's all part of the joke innit? Same as Canadians chortling when Brits say they need to borrow a rubber.

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Brits to Calgary still have a quiet snigger about a road here called the Shaganappi Trail, and a beautiful lake near Banff called Lake Minnewanka.

We just can't help ourselves.

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It's not very intelligent of us is it? :rofl::rofl:

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High brow, it ain't - but smile-worthy - absolutely! :lol:

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I have uneven brows

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What, like that Roger Moore one-eyebrow-raised-in-a-quizzical-kind-of-way expression that he does?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MOzVsiLbq6...oger-Moore.png

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I think I must have mutant eye brows.
everytime I go to get my legs waxed , they always end by asking " did you want your eyebrows done too?"
I haven't plucked up the courage to ask what is so obviously wrong with them that they feel the need to attack them everytime I go in

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Pretty close, but they don't move independently. I need to train them better, perhaps there is a Roger Moore eyebrow school?

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At least they didn't asked if you wanted your back done as well. ;)

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true :rofl:

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Not bad, there aren't too many eyebrow jokes out there.

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Definitely not enough eyebrow jokes. Most comedy is lowbrow.

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Or even worse would be asking Zoe if she wanted a B, S & C..... :getcoat:

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sure , as long as it isn't mine :)
If I can nominate someone for one then ok :thumbsup:

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I'd understood the term to be an "LA".

<lips and a$$>

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either way , not happening !

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:rofl:

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Eye brows the internet.

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Except it's not.

It's a sly dig implying British superiority over Johnny Foreigner who has had the temerity to indulge in a linguistic evolutionary path different from the slang of the UK over the last 200 years. :thumbdown:

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Is it? It is? Do you mean having a childish giggle at "cottaging" or the original post on here? I do giggle at the word but never intend any digs or superiority, it's just what the word means to me. How do we get to having a dig? I know Millie saw it that way and she's a sensible woman.

Oh heck, am I being a bigot?:o

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No - he's just being a dick :sneaky:

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I'm sorry but can you explain which meaning of the word dick you actually mean? :rofl: