Dumbass question

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: very funny thread

Just wanted to show my appreciation for a very funny read.

Also, show some solidarity with the Brits, who I think were out numbered here. I'll never forget the time I asked for a rubber in an american classroom...

Okay, I want an explanation.

 

[Guest]

Señor Lewd: ¡Cogida apagado!

(and please don't abbreviate it to "taking the P.")

the P.

 

[cloudy]

Re: Re: very funny thread

Okay, I want an explanation.

Brits - rubber
Americans - eraser (I think)

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: very funny thread

Okay, I want an explanation.

What you call "erasers" we call "rubbers".

Work the rest out.

Lou

P.S. Cloudy beat me to it!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

Brits - rubber
Americans - eraser (I think)

oooh. *snort*

 

[Guest]

Yank girlfriend worked in London and freaked when her boss asked her to give him a rubber from her desk's top drawer. P.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Señor Lewd: ¡Cogida apagado!

(and please don't abbreviate it to "taking the P.")

the P.

I knew you'd get that!!


Does iCogida apagado! mean what I think it does???

 

[Guest]

Does iCogida apagado! mean what I think it does???

Yep. Did it turn you on? P.

 

[Liar]

PMSL!!!

No the damned table on wheels!

You mean a trolley?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Cheers to the Brits for talking so funny.

Mindy apply the appropriate emoticon here, I am drinking afterall.

 

[comp|icity]

Re: Re: very funny thread

Originally posted by ABSTRUSE
Okay, I want an explanation.

I'm a brit, on exchange to America, need to 'erase' something, and like any normal English speaker asked to borrow a rubber to do the job.... stunned silence before someone tosses me a 'condom', saying 'keep it'

 

[Boxlicker101]

Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

What you call "erasers" we call "rubbers".

Work the rest out.

Lou

P.S. Cloudy beat me to it!

In the US, a rubber is, among other things, what a child might call a comdom, although with all the hoopla for safe sex, this is changing.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Yep. Did it turn you on? P.

Hahaha!!

FUCK YEAH!!!!

 

[Marsipanne]

When I speak with Americans I'm very careful about 'rubbers'. See, here I would very casually say 'I've got smelly rubbers--marzipan flavoured ones, strawberry flavoured and bubblegum flavoured' and also 'I use rubbers more than anybody else--I actually wear them out until they're too small to be used'

In fact, insert erasers into the sentences and it's totally innocuous. From an American's point of view, it just sounds...dodgy

 

[Guest]

Ladies, if only.

You'll have to get in line behind someone else!!!!

Who might that be then???

Go on, tell me her name, and I'll scratch her feckin' eyes out!

Lou

P.S.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

I'm a brit, on exchange to America, need to 'erase' something, and like any normal English speaker asked to borrow a rubber to do the job.... stunned silence before someone tosses me a 'condom', saying 'keep it'

What the hell do you call a condom?? Willy wear?

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

In the US, a rubber is, among other things, what a child might call a comdom, although with all the hoopla for safe sex, this is changing.

REALLY???????????????

 

[comp|icity]

ok -- obviously I'm the newbie, finding it hard to keep up (no pun intended - don't want to start any rumours ) how do you people post replies so fast ???!

 

[Marsipanne]

What the hell do you call a condom?? Willy wear?

Condom

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

What the hell do you call a condom?? Willy wear?

Funnily enough, a condom!

Or, a johnny.

Lou

 

[Liar]

Re: Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

What the hell do you call a condom?? Willy wear?

Starts with 'c' ends witn 'ondom'.

 

[Guest]

ok -- obviously I'm the newbie, finding it hard to keep up (no pun intended - don't want to start any rumours ) how do you people post replies so fast ???!

I have 15 windows open at once.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Condom

technically it could be an eraser.......

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: very funny thread

Funnily enough, a condom!

Or, a johnny.

Lou

Yeah, remember the good old "rubber johnny???"

 

[Liar]

ok -- obviously I'm the newbie, finding it hard to keep up (no pun intended - don't want to start any rumours ) how do you people post replies so fast ???!

Beats the hell outta me too. I'm constantly ten posts behind, it seems. This thread has gone into Warp 5