zargof

About ten years ago I used to go into chat rooms on the net and convince Americans that wanker was British slang for American. I had a pretty good sucess rate as well. These days most of them know what it means so it doesn't work any more.

Sally Redux

My son goes to an art class and the teacher drew cartoons of everyone, he got a good likeness of my son holding a British flag and captioned 'The Wanker' which son thought was great

lansbury

must do they keep electing them.

meauxna

You're not voting?
This will be your first one, eh?! I hope you got registered in time; I didn't even nag you.
(Just vote 'yes' on both. )

lansbury

I did and I have.

Now I know why they teach coloring between the lines in my grandsons kindergarten, they are being taught how to vote in Oregon.

mikelincs

reminds me of the story about the British Rugby Union team who were havein problems with the line-out, so the decided that the person throwing in would signal with a word beginning with a P for a long throw, and one beginning with an S for a short throw. The first line out came, the person throwing the ball in shouted... psychiatrist, everyone looked at everyone else, the opposing team stole the ball and scored.

frrussre

Police still use it. Its how you spell out a word on the 2 way radio or phone.


Bit like 24 hour clock, saves dropping the bomb in the morning, instead of night.
Reg. Frank R.