Regional Dialects/Odd Sayings - Page 55

snoopy · 09-29-2005, 09:10 PM

I used to work with a British woman (who I am still close with) and I will never forget the day we were making a list of supplies, and she said "Don't forget the bum scrub this time!"

In case any of you are as slow on the uptake as I was, that is toilet paper!
Hee Hee.

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snoopy · 09-29-2005, 09:17 PM

Oh yes, and I also remember the time that I came into work verrrrry hung over once(or twice) and she told me that my eyes looked like "two pissholes in the snow." ??? I think she meant that I had beady little squinty eyes, which somehow doesn't have the same poetic sound as pissholes in the snow. Is my buddy creating her own colloquialisms, or do people in England actually use those terms?!

joeguy · 09-30-2005, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by snoopy

she told me that my eyes looked like "two pissholes in the snow." ??? I

I have heard this one and even used it. another one is "close your eyes before you bleed to death" = really bad bloodshot eyes

queenb · 09-30-2005, 07:07 AM

We say "two piss holes in the snow" here too, and "pissant" as well for all the above listed reasons. Not only that, we refer to those real tiny, almost invisible sized ants as "pissants". Does anyone not in the south use "pissants" to describe real ants?

FinallyHere · 09-30-2005, 11:40 AM

I've heard the piss-holes in the snow one before. (yes, used by others to describe my peepers on many occasions

)

giz · 09-30-2005, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoopy

I used to work with a British woman (who I am still close with) and I will never forget the day we were making a list of supplies, and she said "Don't forget the bum scrub this time!"

In case any of you are as slow on the uptake as I was, that is toilet paper!
Hee Hee.

Ooh! I've never heard that one, thank goodness. The British can be rather blunt. I remember that before I moved there, a friend of ours came home for a visit (to Canada) after being in the UK for 2 years. We were all out at a restaurant, and she stood up and said "I'm just going to the toilet." We were just aghast. Too much information. Now, I wouldn't blink twice at someone saying that, but I'd never heard someone call a bathroom in a restaurant what it really is: a toilet. (In my part of Canada we never say restroom, we say bathroom, and never toilet, unless we absolutely have to refer to the piece of plumbing itself. Anyway restroom in a wierd term too, what are we doing resting in toilet?)

queenb · 09-30-2005, 06:46 PM

I don't know, giz, we're certainly not taking a bath in there either! Well, at least I hope not. Some of us around here (me, Stargazer, Libra1022, Lucy, Unkleskott for a few) don't call it any of the above. You know, we're from the South, where it's still cAlled "the outhouse"....

Lucy · 09-30-2005, 07:45 PM

Queen. I'm only 29, and I've BEEN in an outhouse before.

They're still around.

Everyone I know calls it a bathroom, unless we're out trying to be fancy and then we ask for the "ladies room."

Stargazer · 09-30-2005, 07:58 PM

I'm 29 (30 in days

) and I've been in an outhouse too.

They are just as gross as one might imagine.

I call it whatever comes to mind, I guess. Restroom, bathroom, even "toilet" on occasion. I only call it "ladies room" when I've been drinking. I have no idea why.

Newfherder · 09-30-2005, 08:47 PM

The sun don't shine on the dog's rear end all the time

When among apes, one must play the ape

These are mystery phases that I grew up with, but nobody outside of my family seems to recognize them--can anyone give me insight to their geographic origin?

09-29-2005, 09:10 PM	#541
snoopy FORT Fogey Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Charleston, SC Posts: 900	I used to work with a British woman (who I am still close with) and I will never forget the day we were making a list of supplies, and she said "Don't forget the bum scrub this time!" In case any of you are as slow on the uptake as I was, that is toilet paper! Hee Hee. __________________ Go Tigers!

09-29-2005, 09:17 PM	#542
snoopy FORT Fogey Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Charleston, SC Posts: 900	Oh yes, and I also remember the time that I came into work verrrrry hung over once(or twice) and she told me that my eyes looked like "two pissholes in the snow." ??? I think she meant that I had beady little squinty eyes, which somehow doesn't have the same poetic sound as pissholes in the snow. Is my buddy creating her own colloquialisms, or do people in England actually use those terms?! __________________ Go Tigers!

09-30-2005, 07:07 AM	#544
queenb Miz Smarty Britches Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: drinkin' muddy water, sleepin' in a hollow log Age: 49 Posts: 5,838	We say "two piss holes in the snow" here too, and "pissant" as well for all the above listed reasons. Not only that, we refer to those real tiny, almost invisible sized ants as "pissants". Does anyone not in the south use "pissants" to describe real ants? __________________ Tell your mind to stay cool brother man, seek the truth and don't be no fool

09-30-2005, 11:40 AM	#545
FinallyHere FORT Fogey Join Date: Oct 2003 Age: 38 Posts: 1,300	I've heard the piss-holes in the snow one before. (yes, used by others to describe my peepers on many occasions ) __________________ Some people are like slinkies, they're useless until you push them down the stairs.

09-30-2005, 06:46 PM	#547
queenb Miz Smarty Britches Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: drinkin' muddy water, sleepin' in a hollow log Age: 49 Posts: 5,838	I don't know, giz, we're certainly not taking a bath in there either! Well, at least I hope not. Some of us around here (me, Stargazer, Libra1022, Lucy, Unkleskott for a few) don't call it any of the above. You know, we're from the South, where it's still cAlled "the outhouse".... __________________ Tell your mind to stay cool brother man, seek the truth and don't be no fool

09-30-2005, 07:45 PM	#548
Lucy Wonky snarkmistress Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Playing kickball for the beer Age: 33 Posts: 8,862	Queen. I'm only 29, and I've BEEN in an outhouse before. They're still around. Everyone I know calls it a bathroom, unless we're out trying to be fancy and then we ask for the "ladies room." __________________ It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever. -- David St. Hubbins

09-30-2005, 07:58 PM	#549
Stargazer RESIDENT JEDI MASTER Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: On a Rocky Mountain High Age: 34 Posts: 11,852	I'm 29 (30 in days ) and I've been in an outhouse too. They are just as gross as one might imagine. I call it whatever comes to mind, I guess. Restroom, bathroom, even "toilet" on occasion. I only call it "ladies room" when I've been drinking. I have no idea why. __________________ "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."- Yoda "I'll just see where Providence takes me and try to look like I got there confidently." - Craig Ferguson

09-30-2005, 08:47 PM	#550
Newfherder Resident curmudgeon Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Enchanted by a beautiful Soprano Posts: 3,057	The sun don't shine on the dog's rear end all the time When among apes, one must play the ape These are mystery phases that I grew up with, but nobody outside of my family seems to recognize them--can anyone give me insight to their geographic origin? __________________ "The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." --Marion Zimmer Bradley