Norri

Fixed it for you.

dunroving

My poem on righting write, for Ace Fooling Ski:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
-- Sauce unknown --

S Folinsky

Just a cultural difference. A Brit telling an American woman that "If you want, I will knock you up tonight" is a classic cultural difference.

BTW, the American equivalent of insulting another man would use the "p" word rather than the "c" word. I have no idea why.

When I was in the US Army, the "c" word was used as a description for the "garrison cap." The name is actually so descriptive I have to work hard not to use the vulgarity. [The other formal head covering at the time was the "bus driver hat." I understand that the beret is now commonly used.].

expatasia

I've not heard any Americans here use the 'p' word in that way.

Do you use (well, do men use?) the word 'dog' to describe women who are (ugly) hounds? (supply your own Chubby Brown joke...)

Caught a clip once from a Jerry Springer show where the vile women on stage kept insulting this bloke calling him a 'dog' at every opportunity.

Sorry if I'm boring the arse off those of you living in the States. Just curious. Only ever been to Hawaii.

Tom60

A man calling a woman a dog would be the equivalent of something like "slag". A woman calling a man a dog is derogatory, being the male equivalent of "slut". A man calling another man a dog is a compliment, implying sexual prowess.

Rumplestiltskin

I would use '70s with the apostrophe representing the missing 19.

SultanOfSwing

I hear it quite a bit, yes. All kinds of errors made in speech out here too. One of my least favourites is the "I am thinking . . ." style one. It may well be correct but there always seems to be some kind of built in redundancy in that expression that doesn't sit right with me. Like "I was wondering . . ." Not right to my ears!

That's probably just me, however.

Leslie

That is sofa king we Todd did.

cindyabs

it's just you,

SultanOfSwing

Thought so

S Folinsky

I tread on tender ground here as a husband with two grown daughters. But you happen to be wrong.

Calling a woman a "dog" has really nothing to do with sexuality -- it is a pejorative -- but more in the sense of "ugly."

"Bitch" is no longer considered all that vulgar. When used to describe a woman, it is a reference to personality -- and in some quarters is considered a compliment.

I happen to know a woman who is, not only a "dog," but is not a "bitch." If she was a "bitch," it would be an improvement. A female friend of mine mentioned to me the "girl talk" that this woman often complained that no man would go to bed with her more than once. My reaction was "that many?"

A friend of mine was a Navy carrier pilot in World War II -- he was trained to fly the Curtis Helldiver, which was heartily disliked by those who had to fly the thing. It designation was "SB2C" which the pilots joked meant "Son Of a Bitch, 2nd Class." He later went on to fly the Corsair, Mustang and Spitfire. He just loved the Spitfire -- calling a "girl's airplane" in the sense of it was so sweet to fly. He does admit that the younger folks take his reference to "girl's airplane" in a sense than what he means.

Last aside: the California State building in LA did not do well in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and was torn down. Eventually, a new building was erected and dedicated as the "Ronald Reagan State Office Building." Within a year, the word "office" was deleted from the name.

Bob

So not much call for "Cockthumpingthunderc#nt" then?

seems to get used when the Red Sox don't fair so well against the Yanks around my way

SultanOfSwing

I'd agree - even back home we'd use 'dog' to refer to the, shall we say less attractive ones, and 'bitch' for the ones who were, well bitches . It doesn't necessarily follow that a 'bitch' has to be a 'dog', or vice versa. And I also tread carefully as a married man with a daughter

- that was just funny! And kudos to the pilot friend of yours who complimented the Spitfire. Sadly I realised too late that I wanted to be a pilot, but as a Brit who loves aviation, the Spitfire is a thing of beauty to me. I'd love to be able to fly one, but I can't even afford to take lessons in a Cessna, never mind get certified to fly the old war birds!

The Corsair and Mustang were beautiful planes too though

S Folinsky

The worst airplane he flew as the Avia S-199 which he called a "Messerschmidt." He had flown off the USS Wasp (CV-18), which is not easy. This was especially true for the Corsair. He was kind of happy when he destroyed one of the S-199's on landing -- he hated the machine so much.

BTW, he was an original member of the "101 Squadron." I once asked him why he did that -- "adventure" or "being young and foolish." He said "both" with a smile but then explained that during the Second World War, they knew that things were extremely bad for Jews under the Nazis. "However, we had had a failure of imagination. A Jewish State just seemed to be a good idea." A funny thing is that he is not an ardent Zionist. He came back to the US in 1949.

SultanOfSwing

I've read a lot of stories from pilots who felt the same way after flying a plane they particularly disliked!

Flying any plane off a carrier can't be easy but those ones from the 40s must have been so much harder compared to the fighters of today. I'm more impressed at how they can land the bloody things on a boat