The world is screwed. It's Over. It's done!!! The Future is No More!

[UsuallyPresent]

Now I'm truly being a wanker.
My last reply was for ElectricBlue, who I was attempting to enlighten with my Aussie knowledge, then discovered he/she is an Aussie.
I didn't click the correct 'reply' button.
Like a wanker.

Ooooor, maybe like a human?

 

[Writer61]

Thanks, all. You have encouraged me to use a bit more 'strine in my current WIP.

 

[NoTalentHack]

The proof?


Phrases like this have creeped into our languages.

"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "​

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?


Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

Tell me you don't know anything about linguistics without saying you don't know anything about linguistics.

Language communicates ideas, and it has to evolve as a result. Asking it to stand still because it's uncomfortable to you is the height of arrogance.

Or, for example, do you think this is the ideal version of Running Up That Hill?

 

[alohadave]

"Queer" had lost its original meaning by 1969, but I remember one kid in our year who was a little less socialized than us, still using it to mean "odd".

When I was a kid in the 80s growing up in military base housing, a fag was a male crossdresser. We had no concept of gay or straight at the time, or of sexuality, as we were all under 10.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now I'm truly being a wanker.
My last reply was for ElectricBlue, who I was attempting to enlighten with my Aussie knowledge, then discovered he/she is an Aussie.
I didn't click the correct 'reply' button.
Like a wanker.

Excellent understanding of the idiom, well done! This is why Americans were put on the planet, to provide material for Aussies.

May I introduce you to drop bears? Haven't had mileage from them, for a while .

 

[Off_base]

Excellent understanding of the idiom, well done! This is why Americans were put on the planet, to provide material for Aussies.

May I introduce you to drop bears? Haven't had mileage from them, for a while .

We have Bigfoot, chupacabra, and snipes.
Although, I think Bigfoot a snipes are vegetarians, though, so not as terrifying as a man eating koala.

 

[OddLove]

Yo, that new piece is goated.

Bet, bae said I be bussin it.

For real, your drip game been gas lately.

Nah, bro, I always been gucci.

Thats cap bro, you got that guap swag.

I aint cappin bro. I been rizzin bitches way before I got my paper up.

Bro... you had no aura before dat.

Low key, you bein a hater right now.

Bruh, I'm just keepin it one hundy wit you.

Whatever bro, imma bounce.

 

[stickygirl]

Yo, that new piece is goated.

Bet, bae said I be bussin it.

For real, your drip game been gas lately.

Nah, bro, I always been gucci.

Thats cap bro, you got that guap swag.

I aint cappin bro. I been rizzin bitches way before I got my paper up.

Bro... you had no aura before dat.

Low key, you bein a hater right now.

Bruh, I'm just keepin it one hundy wit you.

Whatever bro, imma bounce.

Now be honest - was this all your own homework or did you get an eleven-year-old girl to help you?

 

[cw5523729]

Yo, that new piece is goated.

Bet, bae said I be bussin it.

For real, your drip game been gas lately.

Nah, bro, I always been gucci.

Thats cap bro, you got that guap swag.

I aint cappin bro. I been rizzin bitches way before I got my paper up.

Bro... you had no aura before dat.

Low key, you bein a hater right now.

Bruh, I'm just keepin it one hundy wit you.

Whatever bro, imma bounce.

That post just caused a facial tick I can't control.

So thanks for that.

 

[Writer61]

When I was a kid in the 80s growing up in military base housing, a fag was a male crossdresser. We had no concept of gay or straight at the time, or of sexuality, as we were all under 10.

A fag is something you smoke, unless you went to public school.

 

[stickygirl]

A fag is something you smoke, unless you went to public school.

You put them both to your lips and blew them though

 

[Writer61]

You put them both to your lips and blew them though

I think it was the other way around in public schools.

 

[stickygirl]

I think it was the other way around in public schools.

Probs but we’ve wandered into ban territory so …
Oh look, what a cute dog

 

[DeMont]

Oh, look.
I've just discovered you're an Aussie and I'm lecturing you on yourself.
Now, I'm the wanker

@Off_base,
How do you know? You might be a tosser!
Respectfully of course,
D.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

I'm not sure about the first one (and haven't heard it) but the second often seems like an attempt to look hip without adding the implied "fuck" (or, among the older crowd, "hell" or maybe "shit") at the end. Maybe they're sparing the ears of younger kids who don't understand the implication, but most adults do.

The similar one that I'll throw out is "sweet AF" or "sexy AF" or "cute AF," often proclaimed on a t-shirt. Talking about one's date with friends with one of those terms might be one thing, but someone proclaiming one of them about oneself on a t-shirt would make me question how snobbish the person was and have doubts about the wearer's veracity.

If you're Southern, it's interesting that you picked up that. I made the same assumption. Where I'm from, a common witticism is "don't know from" something with "shit" left out. Classically, "Don't know from shinola," or "Don't know from shingles," but in context speakers can supply anything they want, e.g., "If you like that t-shirt, you don't know from sexy."

 

[big_cane_sugar]

I like to tell my students that I may be fifty but I'm still oozing cold dank rizz.

Saying that usually has the effect I desire.

 

[DeMont]

Yo, that new piece is goated.

Bet, bae said I be bussin it.

For real, your drip game been gas lately.

Nah, bro, I always been gucci.

Thats cap bro, you got that guap swag.

I aint cappin bro. I been rizzin bitches way before I got my paper up.

Bro... you had no aura before dat.

Low key, you bein a hater right now.

Bruh, I'm just keepin it one hundy wit you.

Whatever bro, imma bounce.

@OddLove, et al,
I found the military experience to be quite useful for odd phrases, such as:
"Swag man" - Swinging wild arse guess
"Snafu hombre" - Situation normal all f----d up
"Relm" Rear echelon loser mother-----r
"Fubar hombre" - F-----d up beyond all recognition

Needless to say they found their way onto civvy street with the demobbed.
Deepest respects, esp. to all who have, do, and will serve/served,
D.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Bro... you had no aura before dat.

I'm very partial to the phrase 'aura farming.'

 

[TheRedChamber]

@OddLove, et al,
I found the military experience to be quite useful for odd phrases, such as:
"Swag man" - Swinging wild arse guess
"Snafu hombre" - Situation normal all f----d up
"Relm" Rear echelon loser mother-----r
"Fubar hombre" - F-----d up beyond all recognition

Needless to say they found their way onto civvy street with the demobbed.
Deepest respects, esp. to all who have, do, and will serve/served,
D.

A relative used to work in hospital administration

'Pratfo' was a common abbreviation - Patient reassured and told to ... off.

Of course, it wasnt so great if there was reason for that case to come under scrutiny again.

 

[nice90sguy]

A fag is something you smoke, unless you went to public school.

I learned the US usage of the word on day one of my move from London to San Francisco. I didn't go to public school. We had "gingers" in London.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Tech support has a bunch of fun acronyms like fubar...

I-D-ten-T , which is derived from id10t and used to talk about the users In front of their faces

Similar is PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

User was warped into Lusr/Luser, which in turn became part of LART - Lusr Attitude Readjustment Tool(s), anything used to beat lusrs into compliance. Examples of LARTs include a couple feet of 2x4 (a Bord ov Eddikashun) or a flogger constructed from cast-off networking (eg, Category Five/Cat5 wiring) cables - a Cat5 of Nine Tails, among other such implements.

 

[Zootonius]

I learned the US usage of the word on day one of my move from London to San Francisco. I didn't go to public school. We had "gingers" in London.

I believe it was Shaw who said the US and Briton were separated by a common language. I recently learned that a "fanny pack" would be an odd thing in Briton.

 

[yowser]

A relative used to work in hospital administration

'Pratfo' was a common abbreviation - Patient reassured and told to ... off.

Of course, it wasnt so great if there was reason for that case to come under scrutiny again.

This is recycling a post from long ago (7 years) by a fellow in the medical field, ER I believe. Beachbum1958. Some of these are priceless and need to feature in a story somewhere.

Blamestorming - Apportionment of blame after the wrong leg or kidney is removed or some other particularly egregious foul-up.

Boomerang Child - patient who returns with the same complaint so often they have a favourite chair in the Day-Room

Bounceback - a patient who returns to the emergency department with the same complaints shortly after being released

Bury the Hatchet - accidentally leaving a surgical instrument inside a patient

CNS-QNS - Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient.

Code Brown - a faecal incontinence emergency. Often used by nurses and medical technicians requesting help cleaning up an unexpected bowel movement.

Code Yellow - a patient who has lost control of his or her bladder

CTD - "Circling The Drain"

DBI - "Dirt Bag Index", arrived at by multiplying the number of tattoos by the number of missing teeth to give an estimate of the number of days since the patient last bathed.

Departure lounge - geriatric ward

DIC - Death Is Coming

Donorcycle - nursing slang for a motorcycle, so named due to the amount of head trauma associated with motorcycle accidents, but less so with the body, making the perfect candidate for organ donation

FLK - Funny Looking Kid - Self-explanatory, check parents' medical histories...

Freud Squad - the psychiatry department

FTD - Fixin' to Die

GOMER - "get out of my emergency room" - slacker looking for sign-off on a medical certificate to avoid work

GLM - good looking mum

GLM/SATK - Good looking mum, shame about the kids...

GPO - "Good for Parts Only

Handbag positive - confused patient (usually elderly lady) lying on hospital bed clutching handbag

Hasselhoff - a term for any patient who shows up in the emergency room with an injury for which there is a bizarre explanation.

LOBNH - "Lights On But Nobody Home"

MOB/GC - Minding own business, got clobbered

NAD - Not Actually Done

O-sign - A patient is "giving the O-sign" who is is very sick, lying with his mouth open. This is followed by the Q-sign - when the tongue hangs out of the mouth - when the patient becomes terminal.

Oligoneuronal meaning someone who is thick (not smart).

PAFO - "Pissed And Fell Over"

PFO - see PAFO

PHD - Pakistani Healing Dance; a meaningless procedure carried out at the insistence of patient's relatives in the hope it will effect a cure

Pumpkin Positive - Refers to the idea that a person's brain is so tiny that a penlight shone into their mouth will make their empty head gleam like a Halloween pumpkin.

Q-sign - see O-Sign

Rear Admiral - a proctologist

Rheumaholiday - rheumatology (considered by hard-pressed juniors to be a less busy department)

Rule of Five - means that if more than five of the patient's orifices are obscured by tubing, he has no chance of survival.

Slasher - surgeon

Shotgunning - ordering a wide variety of tests in the hope that one will show what's wrong with a patient

TEETH - tried everything else, try homeopathy.

TTFO - Told To Fuck Off.

TTR - Tea Time Review

UBI - "Unexplained Beer Injury"

 

[Writer61]

I believe it was Shaw who said the US and Briton were separated by a common language. I recently learned that a "fanny pack" would be an odd thing in Briton.

I am pretty sure that Shaw could spell Britain correctly.

 

[Zootonius]

I am pretty sure that Shaw could spell Britain correctly.

No escaping the long arm of the grammar police.