This is Awful

[scheherazade_79]

So I'm covering a maths lesson. It's a class with only about six students in it, who are all very limited in terms of ability, and then this conversation breaks out:

(I've changed the names of the people involved, for obvious reasons.)




(A girl walks past the classroom door)
Kylie: Oy! Sam Gonorrhea Griffiths!
Me: That's not a very nice thing to call someone, Kylie.
Kylie: I don't care. It's fuckin' true!
Me: I don't want to know.
Kylie: It is true, though, Miss. And she's a bitch, too - she decked me behind the tennis courts last week.
Me: I'm not surprised if you're calling her things like that. Sounds like you were asking for it.

(A little while later, the same girl walks past the door a second time)
Kylie: Fuckin' frothy knickers!
Me: Kylie, ENOUGH!
Kylie: Why aren't I allowed to say the truth? If she stripped after being on a trampoline, it would look like someone's shaken up a bottle of limeade and poured it in her knickers.
Me: (with my head in my hands) Oh my god...

(And it's at this point that a sweet little boy called Peter, who wears jam-jar glasses and comes from a nice respectable home, jumps into the conversation)

Peter: What's gonorrhea?
Me: I think we should let it drop now, Peter.
Kylie: Fanny germs.
(A deathly silence descends over the classroom)


The male learning support assistant in the room turned white, and then beet red. I know I should have been busy reprimanding, or at least correcting, but I ended up with my head on the desk, almost crying with laughter.

It is fucking awful, though

 

[mjl2010]

I don't envy your position but you've got to admit, it's a laugh no matter how you look at it. We tell kids to be honest and then when they are we're horrified. They can be brutal can't they.

I do hope you closed the door after the second time.

MJL

 

[Vermilion]

I don't envy your position but you've got to admit, it's a laugh no matter how you look at it. We tell kids to be honest and then when they are we're horrified. They can be brutal can't they.

I do hope you closed the door after the second time.

MJL

I hope you told them how you got 'fanny germs.' Condoms are used nearly often enough amongst teens.
I'm assuming you're in the UK, Zade??? English usage of 'fanny,' yes?
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[scheherazade_79]

I don't envy your position but you've got to admit, it's a laugh no matter how you look at it. We tell kids to be honest and then when they are we're horrified. They can be brutal can't they.

I do hope you closed the door after the second time.

MJL

Hell, no! I was waiting for the kid to walk past a third time to see what Kylie would say next!

 

[scheherazade_79]

I hope you told them how you got 'fanny germs.' Condoms are used nearly often enough amongst teens.
I'm assuming you're in the UK, Zade??? English usage of 'fanny,' yes?
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I couldn't get the words out, because I was laughing too much

And yes, I'm in the UK... and yes, it is the unmentionable English usage...

 

[Elsie Grey]

ROFL!

Kids, you gotta love 'em!

Elsie

xxx

 

[Vermilion]

I couldn't get the words out, because I was laughing too much

And yes, I'm in the UK... and yes, it is the unmentionable English usage...

oops- I meant to say condoms *aren't* used enough

And omg - such an awful word in itself. I snigger every time the americans say fanny-pack! I wonder if we have any words that go the other way? reasonably innocent over here, but really puerile and rude across the ocean?
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[scheherazade_79]

oops- I meant to say condoms *aren't* used enough

And omg - such an awful word in itself. I snigger every time the americans say fanny-pack! I wonder if we have any words that go the other way? reasonably innocent over here, but really puerile and rude across the ocean?
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I don't know what it is about that word, but it always seems to make Brits go very quiet...

I dated an American for four years and didn't come across any words that go the other way. I live in hope, though

 

[TheeGoatPig]

oops- I meant to say condoms *aren't* used enough

And omg - such an awful word in itself. I snigger every time the americans say fanny-pack! I wonder if we have any words that go the other way? reasonably innocent over here, but really puerile and rude across the ocean?
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Fags. They use it for ciggarettes, and we use it for gay people.

 

[Vermilion]

Fags. They use it for ciggarettes, and we use it for gay people.

True... but we know what it means in the US and sometimes use it that way... Still normally used for ciggies though
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[Guest]

True... but we know what it means in the US and sometimes use it that way... Still normally used for ciggies though
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Knocked Up

As in "You looked knocked up."

Tired or pregnant depending on where you are.

 

[glynndah]

I work in a small grade school. I gave a third grade boy a balloon as a reward.. Later on he was found in the boys' bathroom with the balloon partially inflated and sticking out of his zipper, showing off to the other boys (3 or 4). Another boy said that he knew an even better trick. He proceeded to unzip and show himself to the other boys. He then began gyrating his hips and waving his arms and said he was a "hula dancer". Unfortunately for our budding dancer, he was caught, had to call his parents and explain what he'd done, and spend the rest of the recesses for the day with the principal. Boy number one also spent the day with the principal, mainly because he had also shown the fourth grade girls his trick.

 

[Vermilion]

I work in a small grade school. I gave a third grade boy a balloon as a reward.. Later on he was found in the boys' bathroom with the balloon partially inflated and sticking out of his zipper, showing off to the other boys (3 or 4). Another boy said that he knew an even better trick. He proceeded to unzip and show himself to the other boys. He then began gyrating his hips and waving his arms and said he was a "hula dancer". Unfortunately for our budding dancer, he was caught, had to call his parents and explain what he'd done, and spend the rest of the recesses for the day with the principal. Boy number one also spent the day with the principal, mainly because he had also shown the fourth grade girls his trick.

For goodness' sake. How old are these boys? 8 ish? It's hardly deviant behaviour, is it? Just boys exploring their bodies and themselves. It's the adult interpretation of such behaviour that is deviant. </rant>

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ps- sorry Glynda if it sounded like I was aiming that at you, I wasn't. it's just a subject that aereates me xx

 

[fieryjen]

This doesn't really have a sexual connotation, but I've noticed that "pissed" means either drunk, or angry, depending where you're at. I used the wrong term once, which turned into quite the amusing misunderstanding.

 

[CeriseNoire]

I teach middle-schoolers (ages 12-16), and by then it gets a bit out of control. I was called to the principal's office to identify the handwriting on a note once during my first year. So I was already nervous from being in the office with the boss, and when I opened the note, I just wanted to run out of there. It described in graphic detail everything she wanted some boy in the class to do to her. I couldn't look the girl in the eyes for the rest of the year.

 

[scottmcc]

What does Fanny mean in this context?

 

[Vermilion]

What does Fanny mean in this context?

Pussy. But in the very juvenile, playground way. Like front-bottom. It makes you cringe.
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[scottmcc]

Ok.

Thanks. I was thinking fanny like butt.

 

[Vermilion]

Ok.

Thanks. I was thinking fanny like butt.

which is why fanny pack is so funny over here.

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[scheherazade_79]

Pussy. But in the very juvenile, playground way. Like front-bottom. It makes you cringe.
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It's the "F" Word. Somehow it just isn't acceptable in polite company, or any company as a matter of fact.

I don't know why, but somehow it has a cringe factor that's almost worse than "cunt". Guaranteed to make a room full of people go quiet and stare at the floor. I can't talk - I'm one of them

It's just one of those words you don't say - at least not where I come from.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I wonder if we have any words that go the other way? reasonably innocent over here, but really puerile and rude across the ocean?
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To a Brit, the boot is the storage area in the back of a car. But in the US if you say, "I stuck it in her boot." it can be taken a slightly different way.

 

[lipsofanangel]

Ok.

Thanks. I was thinking fanny like butt.

Good, I wasn't the only one!

 

[starrkers]

Aussies use "fanny" in the UK sense too.
One of my favourite movie titles is "Free Willy". I still want to meet the bloke that came up with that one

 

[TE999]

Out of the mouths of babes oft comes porn. (LOL)

I've read some UK authors stories on this site where 'fanny' was used instead of 'pussy'.

Talk about a speed bump in your reading. I knew what they meant, but it still seemed the focus had shifted to anal play.

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who remarked that the U.S. and England were two countries separated by a common language.

 

[mjl2010]

And now I know why a couple of stories I read didn't make sense.

MJL