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

thanks to wikipedia 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 detailing the cuts...

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

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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
 

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