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Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 3:35 pm
by Anders-MZ
....lesson for you -> LINK!
With sound, turn upp the volume :P

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:58 am
by jbthumper
A very enlightening clip :smt044

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:45 am
by Scheffi
If I travel to England or USA next time, I will use the word all the time! Image

use of

PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:01 pm
by DAVID THOMPSON
this word is used a lot here
but is not very proper
if you want to be liked very well
when i was a kid you could get your nose
broke and 2 black eyes with its use

now the kids on the bus use it more than any other
i think

this happen in any langauge i guess

PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:12 pm
by SeattlePaul
It's only a f---in' string of 3 sounds....get over it ;-)

Linguistically, this is called a taboo word. When they become so mainstream, they lose their power. Then I guess we make up new ones.

Now I even hear it on the f---in' TV. I would prefer to constrict its use so it would feel stronger. It's almost meaningless now.

At one time, "pregnant" was even taboo. My Grandma had two kids before she knew what it meant. There were taboos attached to anything to do with the female gender and reproduction. It was indelicate to say, "that woman is pregnant". "That lady is in a family way" was more accepted.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:34 pm
by RiverDrive
Ya, When I was a kid my mother once draged me across the yard and into the house by my ear becaouse I said "You suck" to my cousin. In some ways we where much more sivilized back then, in others not.

what it means

PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:05 am
by DAVID THOMPSON
If you hear some thing in english that you do not understand or have never
heard check it out on this site
so you do not say some thing you do not want to say
it defines just about every thing

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:03 am
by Wonky
LMFAO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Bravo.....superb clip, most amused....fuckin excellent!!!! :-D

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:23 pm
by Linegeist
Don't forget that it's the Brits who gave the world "Victorianism" ... named after Queen Victoria, an allegedly puritanical figure with upright morals and a stern countenance - but who bonked like an alleycat (according to eminent historians)

Only the British could make little frocks for their furniture's 'limbs' (they wouldn't call them 'legs' - horrors!! Far too direct :roll: ), go to church on Sundays ...... and then make whoopie with the maidservant(s). :-D :-D :-D

Probably why they hate the 'f'-word so much........ :wink:

Re: what it means

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:39 am
by TS2Fifty
DAVID THOMPSON wrote:If you hear some thing in english that you do not understand or have never
heard check it out on this site
so you do not say some thing you do not want to say


Reminds me of the last sketch in Jasper Carrott's "A Little Zit On The Side", where an American woman ponders the meaning of a car registration reading 'BOLLOX' until Jasper kindly informs her that it is an English slang word for Zits.

Of course said woman later visits the UK, gets a couple of unsightly zits while here, goes into the chemist for a remedy...... All together now..... (points to face)

"You got anything for these Bollocks?"

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:37 am
by SportRiderrr
this is old but I love it!

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:04 pm
by den
i got to the noun and switched it off,,fucking boaring

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:41 pm
by therealche
Dont know why SportRiderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr has decided to revive so many long dead threads, maybe he was very bored

However this does bring to mind me of working in a warehouse in Peterhead over 30 years ago. We had a little electric fork lift truck for shifting stuff to the door of the shed, where the big trucks would take over. So one morning I'm having a tea before starting work and in storms Jock who shouts "Ah to fuck, the fuckin' fucker's fuckin' fucked" . Which ended up appearing in a PhD thesis on the use of swear words in the English language

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:28 am
by Linegeist
therealche wrote:......................... Jock who shouts "Ah to fuck, the fuckin' fucker's fuckin' fucked" . Which ended up appearing in a PhD thesis on the use of swear words in the English language


Having lived for some years in Aberdeen, and in the interests of this thread's linguistic accuracy, natch' ............ would wee Jock not have said "Ah TAE fuck ...?" :smt023 :smt110

Re: Proper use of English...........

PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:16 pm
by therealche
He would indeed!