This question is for the ones living on the east side of the pond.

What in the world is a panel beater? I heard the term used in one of the BBC TV shows that crop up periodically.

I'm not from over there, but I believe it is basically a car body shop repairman.

My original thought was a cricket player, but that almost makes sense.

bob's right

panel beater - panel of metal usually (almost always) cars

Here is an American to English (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2284/) dictionary ;)
And in case you feel like taking a business trip to The States - here is a Business Phrase Guide (http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/american/) so you can hold up your end of the conversation.

Not bad!
This is the most interesting link I have ever seen.
Let's just say, Some phrases are better than others.
Thanks, my friend!
:D:D:D

awesome .......

seems to be the new buzz word .

pretty much like massive was here a couple of years ago ;)

Here, the word «Full» meaning «Very» is used more than I can handle.
«It's full empty.»:rolleyes:

Here, the word «Full» meaning «Very» is used more than I can handle.
«It's full empty.»:rolleyes:

full empty :confused:

that is as nonsensical as clicking on a start button to shut something down :eek:

Full = completely
which makes perverse sense, but it's B*llocks.. a bit like Bad meaning Good (micheal J) ...

may be I am getting old - turning into a TOG (?) that will throw the North Americans a curve ball - nobody tell them what it means - they will have to google this oen ..:rolleyes:

Here is an American to English (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2284/) dictionary ;)
And in case you feel like taking a business trip to The States - here is a Business Phrase Guide (http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/american/) so you can hold up your end of the conversation.

Has anyone found a Canadian-American or Canadian-English translator?

Some words that are specifically Canadian:

Chesterfield (Sofa)
Back bacon (Canadian Bacon/similar to Wiltshire cut)
Eaves troughs (gutters in American and English)
Pencil crayon (coloured pencil)
Pickerel (Americans know this fish as walleye)
Washroom/Bathroom (lavatory in English, rest room in American)

Anyone know any others?

Has anyone found a Canadian-American or Canadian-English translator?

Some words that are specifically Canadian:

Chesterfield (Sofa)
Back bacon (Canadian Bacon/similar to Wiltshire cut)
Eaves troughs (gutters in American and English)
Pencil crayon (coloured pencil)
Pickerel (Americans know this fish as walleye)
Washroom/Bathroom (lavatory in English, rest room in American)

Anyone know any others?

How about the Canadian phrase
You're welcome (Uh huh in American, You're welcome in English)

Adj. you're welcome - conventional response to thanks meaning `freely granted'

This is not a random shot, I have yet to conduct business with someone from the USA and have them say "You're welcome"... but I do get a number of "Uh huh"s which I do understand as the courtesy...

I have yet to conduct business with someone from the USA and have them say "You're welcome"... but I do get a number of "Uh huh"s which I do understand as the courtesy...

You must just keep getting those of us who aren't raised right. If you did something for me, to warrant it, I guarantee you would get one from me. :)

«Open|close the light» is sometime used instead of «Turn on|off the light».

Sometime we use the UK version of a word, sometime we use the US version. We usualy can use both easily.

The only ones that are harder to understand, with the exceptions of non-english as myself, are those from northern Ontario who speaks kind of like pirates. (Idjit would surely like to visit.;)) It must come from scottish or Irish origins. I don't know. But they sure are hard to follow.

...but it's B*llocks..

why the censorship? Is that a dirrrrttttyyyy word?

Back bacon (Canadian Bacon/similar to Wiltshire cut)

Could we be talking about different cut? Canadian bacon, or at least the ones I've made, is basically pork tenderloin cured in same fashion as pork bellies (bacon).

Could we be talking about different cut? Canadian bacon, or at least the ones I've made, is basically pork tenderloin cured in same fashion as pork bellies (bacon).

Maybe this is one for Newman (was he the butcher?)

What we in Canada call side bacon the British call streaky bacon (descriptive isn't it?) We use back bacon to make peameal bacon (rolled in cornmeal) if that helps. I don't know where on the animal it actually comes from.

The only thing I know for sure is that Europeans (including British) cut meats quite differently than North Americans, so anything is possible.

The only thing I know for sure is that Europeans (including British) cut meats quite differently than North Americans, so anything is possible.

You mean with a knife??? :p :p :D :D

It is pork loin, not tenderloin.

You mean with a knife??? :p :p :D :D

I was thinking light saber from Star Wars!

Eh. Interesting! The company where I've worked uses pork tenderloin and calls it Canadian bacon, though I'll have to admit their Canadian bacon aren't anywhere close to what we traditionally see/taste in Canadian bacon. However, I prefer that company's version; it's much more tasty.

Here's a nice Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork) detailing the cuts...

I was thinking light saber from Star Wars!

I thought that we had kept that secret. :p

brian

Is that a dirrrrttttyyyy word?

Yes, and we British being so polite, well mannered and reserved wouldn't post it in full:cool:

Yes, and we British being so polite, well mannered and reserved wouldn't post it in full:cool:

thanks to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks) i now understand.... doesnt seem like that bad of a word

Eh. Interesting! The company where I've worked uses pork tenderloin and calls it Canadian bacon, though I'll have to admit their Canadian bacon aren't anywhere close to what we traditionally see/taste in Canadian bacon. However, I prefer that company's version; it's much more tasty.

Here's a nice Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork) detailing the cuts...

And it does show what I meant about differences between English/European cuts and American/Canadian

why the censorship? Is that a dirrrrttttyyyy word?

Kinda of .. but someone has told you on this one..

You must just keep getting those of us who aren't raised right. If you did something for me, to warrant it, I guarantee you would get one from me. :)

Bob I don't mean American people are discourteous, most I have met are no worst than anyone else.
I do get a "Uh huh"... I am just referring to the actual words "Thank you" rather than the words "Uh huh".

thanks to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks) i now understand.... doesnt seem like that bad of a word

Has anyone wonder why the best swear words begin with a B
B*llocks
B*rstards

Gary, you're almost right.

"B" sounds, being plosives, are much easier to utter with great emphasis. For exactly the same reason, "P" sounds are strong, too. Pecker (slang for male sex organ), Prick (ditto), Puke (regurgitate).

"K" sounds are also plosives, though they are back-palatal rather than labial. Still, Crap and C*nt (slang for a woman of whom the speaker has a low opinion - and a word that is too vulgar even for me to spell out. I DO have my limits, you know.

When we get to sibilants and fricatives, there are fewer - but not zero - nasty words. Sh|t * F*ck come to mind.

Then again, one finds nearly 130 relatively common euphemisms for that good old term "flatulence." (This according to the journal Maledicta, which you should be able to Google-search to verify I'm not making it up. Many of them are gutsy Anglo-Saxon rather than intestinal Latin. So I guess bad words are where you find them - or where you drop them.

Pecker (slang for male sex organ).


Thats another one that has different meanings depending on which side of the pond you are on.

"Keep your pecker up" in UK is an injunction not to let your head drop e Not to give up.

also north /south on this one

keep your pecker up - - used to mean spirts up - an old (black and white old) phrase , however i think modern usage is as we guesssed

P as a swear word letter yeah..
remind's me of
point percy at the porclean *(?) ie don't piss on the floor( keep it in the pan, bowl or whatever its called stateside)

also north /south on this one

keep your pecker up - - used to mean spirts up - an old (black and white old) phrase , however i think modern usage is as we guesssed

P as a swear word letter yeah..
remind's me of
point percy at the porclean *(?) ie don't piss on the floor( keep it in the pan, bowl or whatever its called stateside)

One job I had was working at a fishing camp on an island. Besides working at the store the owners had us cleaning cottages they rented out. There was also a gas station for boats, and public washrooms. The best bit of graffiti I ever saw was in the public washroom, and was obviously from another cleaner: "We aim to please. Will you aim too, please?"

seen that one myself somewhere - laughed so much - my aims got out of hand...:D

"Keep your pecker up" in UK is an injunction not to let your head drop e Not to give up.Isn't that the new Viagra slogan?:confused:

:D Isn't that the new Viagra slogan?:confused:

LOL:D

Crap and C*nt (slang for a woman of whom the speaker has a low opinion
I didn't know 'crap' meant that in the USA:confused:

So you wouldn't say "my job is crap" or "you're talking absolute crap" then?

In the UK it's a harmless word used extensively to mean 'horrible' or 'terrible' - it's used all the time on TV, even pre watershed (9pm).

Col

I didn't know 'crap' meant that in the USA:confused:

So you wouldn't say "my job is crap" or "you're talking absolute crap" then?

In the UK it's a harmless word used extensively to mean 'horrible' or 'terrible' - it's used all the time on TV, even pre watershed (9pm).

Col

Crap doesnt mean the thing about women. the other word does. crap means what u think it does. Feces.. yum
you can use crap for anything. just like... sh!t

Swearing definately depends on where you are geographically - around this part of Canada there is a huge concentration of francaphones - Quebecois and Franco-Ontarians... perfectly all right to use sh!t or fuque in a conversation... even in mixed company... :confused:
...just NEVER blaspheme :eek: anglophones are encouraged to stay off the subject of religion just in case someone mistakes the rambling for swearing and cussing...:o

Crap doesnt mean the thing about women. the other word does. crap means what u think it does. Feces.. yum
you can use crap for anything. just like... sh!t

Must be different in New Orleans then.:confused: Odd that Doc linked those two together.

Col

Must be different in New Orleans then.:confused: Odd that Doc linked those two together.

Col

Think he just mistyped in there. They can say crap on tv, and definately not C*nt.

Then there is the horrid joke about the difference between crap and c*nt being which way she's facing when you do it.

I was originally linking them because though they begin with C, it is the hard C that is a K, or back-palatal plosive. And they are both short words of vulgarity. My point being that the more ex"plosive" the word itself, the more satisfying it can be to say it.

The best bit of graffiti I ever saw was in the public washroom, and was obviously from another cleaner: "We aim to please. Will you aim too, please?"


One of the best I've ever seen was on the bottom edge of the inner face of a restroom door stall at a restaurant I was working at during college:

"Beware of limbo dancers!"

One of the best I've ever seen was on the bottom edge of the inner face of a restroom door stall at a restaurant I was working at duringe college:

"Beware of limbo dancers!"

Written on the floor right in front of the toilet at one of the offices I had a job at...

"Your tie is in the bowl"


...it was written so small you almost had to bend in half to read it... :eek:

Interesting use of word crap. use it as a 4 letter acronyn.

Committee Recommends Alternative Procedure.

You can then work this into your report on something your boss proposes as the thought that the Committee Recommends Alternative Procedure.

Thus clearly expressing your feelings to those that know.

Be sure Boss is kept in dark.

Done it a couple of times and people that "know" thought it a very subtle manner of expressing an opinion

L

Interesting use of word crap. use it as a 4 letter acronyn.

Committee Recommends Alternative Procedure.

You can then work this into your report on something your boss proposes as the thought that the Committee Recommends Alternative Procedure.

Thus clearly expressing your feelings to those that know.

Be sure Boss is kept in dark.

Done it a couple of times and people that "know" thought it a very subtle manner of expressing an opinion

L

Keep in mind that boss spelled backwards is DOUBLE S O B ;)

I'm not from over there, but I believe it is basically a car body shop repairman.

sort of, it's basically using metalword techniques to get metal panels back into shape instead of just filling them with bondo.
Literally beating the panel back into shape with various shaped and sized hammers and other methods like weld and pull etc. Quite an art form really.

Saves having an inch of filler / bondo under your paint!

One job I had was working at a fishing camp on an island. Besides working at the store the owners had us cleaning cottages they rented out. There was also a gas station for boats, and public washrooms. The best bit of graffiti I ever saw was in the public washroom, and was obviously from another cleaner: "We aim to please. Will you aim too, please?"

I saw a sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS IN THE URINAL" Someone had scribbled in texta underneath... It makes them soggy and hard to light :D

I saw a sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS IN THE URINAL" Someone had scribbled in texta underneath... It makes them soggy and hard to light :D

Years ago I travelled by train from Manchester direction Birmingham and noticed an inscription in the toilet saying :
If you wanna big surprise
pull the chain before you rise :D

I saw a sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS IN THE URINAL" Someone had scribbled in texta underneath... It makes them soggy and hard to light :D

The best piece of grafitti I saw in a public convenience(rest room) was as follows

"The bloody toilet is no good at all
The seat is too high and the hole is too small"

Someone had added below

"To this I must add the obvious retort
your A** is too fat and your legs are too short"

I saw a sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT THROW CIGARETTE BUTTS IN THE URINAL" Someone had scribbled in texta underneath... It makes them soggy and hard to light :D

The best piece of grafitti I saw in a public convenience(rest room) was as follows

"The bloody toilet is no good at all
The seat is too high and the hole is too small"

Someone had added below

"To this I must add the obvious retort
your A** is too fat and your legs are too short"