Yeah I use pants to mean trousers! It get a little confusing for some i guess!
hahaha here I called a 'bum bag' a 'fanny pack' and my teacher was going to give me detention for swearing! I cried and didn't understand why lol I was only 10... and we'd just moved back to aus from the usa... :P
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
fanny is one that gets mixed up between US an UK; bottom or 'ladies front bottom'.
~yanna~
^ hahaha! No one says fanny here anymore except really old people. I did have a P.E. teacher once named Fanny Bush, and her name was the butt of many, many jokes.
The only USA-specific slang I can think of are really stupid words that are usually born from rap songs and have made their way into everyday language, such as:
Hella (a lot, very)
C-Note ($100 bill)
Bank (money)
Dank (cool, awesome)
As well as others, but I feel stupid for knowing them so I won't go on, lol.
when i moved to coventry i was a bit stuck about the batch idea too cos i was used to calling them by different names (i am from newcastle upon tyne) and i either used stottie or butty and i think i got some funny stares the first few weeks after i was let loose on the town lol
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"i'd rather hate you for everything you are, than ever love you for something you are not, i'd rather you hate me for everything i am than have you love me love me for something i can't BE!"
A few facts about the people of Cov. Rule 34 is most accurate.
1,You try to pronounce words with the letter ‘T’ in them and find you can’t (letter, mitigating).
2,Your Dad, Granddad, Uncle have been made redundant by a car manufacturing company.
3,Your school involved a small farm in the grounds, a castle ruin or mosque.
4,You had fights with your neighbouring schools, involving bricks, concrete slabs/anything stolen from a building site.
5,The cinema you went to as a child became a university.
6,The Colly is not a round building of ancient wonder in Rome (although you swear it has been there forever.)
7,You passed your driving test mainly because you didn’t go on the ringroad.
8,You support Coventry City Football Club because "they’re the team you can see from your bedroom window"’.
9,A big night out on the town means a choice between just 3 nightclubs.
10,You consider Shakespeare, Clive Owen, Philip Larkin to be near relatives.
11,You know your responsible for the best watch making this country has ever seen despite their being no museum to prove this.
12,You grew up thinking an apprenticeship into a car company would have you made for life!
13,You’ve visited Coventry cathedral and sketched the windows on about 5 school trips.
14,You used to go the Round Café in the centre of town with your Nan, quite possibly whilst wearing a shell suit and looking forward to a trip to the Transport Museum.
15,You know that fashion statements are divided between the Chaved (found hanging around bus shelters in the evening),
the Gothic (found hanging around statues of naked ladies),
the Camp (found mostly in the only gay bar in the city) and the Colly Indie look ( found loitering nervously with satchels inside the Coliseum).
16,You think words like "’barn cake" and "cob" make people sound mentally ill.
18,You get into fights- end of.
19,You’ve had to replace the horn in your car at least once.
20,You know not to travel on the number 13 bus to Willenhall at night without company, weaponry or a desire not to passively inhale cannabis.
21,If you were travelling abroad and explaining where you lived to a stranger you’d say “near London”.
22,Fishy Moore’s make the best fish and chips you’re ever tasted.
23,Chinese people like your universities (plural, cus you have two), Kosovans like your fountains and mostly Polish people like working in your hospitals.
24,You don’t like one of anything- you need three spires, two universities and 5 parks without safe lighting, however one blitz is quite enough.
25,Brummies consider you “unfriendly” just because you cringe at their accent.
26,You know a good night out by the level of smoke left to inhale off your head next morning.
27,Your Dad would not accept your lover/fiancée if they were a) a villa fan. b) were t-total, c) could not talk football/ top gear/ father ted in the garden at family parties.
28,Your frontdoor, car window, house window has been in need of a temporary card board replacement at one time.
29,The police have phoned you at 3am telling you your car is smashed up and abandoned in Stoke Aldermoor and not outside your house where you left it.
30,Your parents believe any major storyline will be covered best in the Evening Telegraph.
31,You’ve had at least one attempted mugging by a person younger than you, and laughed in their face.
32,You’ve invited cousins, partners, uni friends down for a weekend and used the phrases, “its crap”, and “there’s not much to see”.
33, You've heard there's a Coventry Castle but have no idea where it is, how it went and why Mary Queen of Scotts was there.
34, You can see the 60's did more damage to the city centre than the Germans.
35, You think the bridge outside Millenium Point looks like a giant slinky.
36, You were born at Walsgrave hospital, quite possibly in the corridor.
Fizzy drinks for Soda Pop. Anything else I write with a slash one side my word, the other the Uk or Australian word. I'm trying to not sound like a semi-literate surfer chick from California, honest.
My husband is my best friend.
In forgiving others, we are not exonerating them. They may not deserve exoneration. Rather, in forgiving others we are giving up our anger over the fact that what happened is not what "should" have happened or that our life is not the way it "should" have been.
