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Proper names for everyday stuff

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    McBobbin said:

    Sounds like what a German might call it. Half that language is just vaguely describing it. Hence why the word for hovercraft translates as "air cushion boat"

    And a glove is a "handshoe".
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780

    Near Beer

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    The one is the right is "near beer". The other is "a bit further away beer". Shades of Father Ted, Dougal and the cow.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,897
    the farsi for moth translates as ugly butterfly
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Hammer = universal adapter
    Portaloo = thunder box
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    I thought a hammer was either a Yankee Screwdriver or a Brummie Screwdriver depending on who you wanted to insult.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    What's the word for people who block up several seats on a rush hour train with their suitcases and then look annoyed when someone asks to get past? I'll start the bidding with "fuckleberry", or "cuntingfuckleberry" if they are eating either a pastie or a wasabi curry.

    The person who asks them to get past, then scrapes past their shins and treads on their bags, punches them whilst removing their jacket and then deafens them with tinny music is called a "mcbobbin"
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited August 2017
    Stig said:

    I thought a hammer was either a Yankee Screwdriver or a Brummie Screwdriver depending on who you wanted to insult.

    A Yankee Screwdriver is an actual thing:

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  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,733
    Stig said:

    I thought a hammer was either a Yankee Screwdriver or a Brummie Screwdriver depending on who you wanted to insult.

    My dad always called a hammer an Egyptian Screwdriver. He did his National Service out there after the Suez Crisis and the place obviously left an impression on him!

    Knives and forks were Yaffling Spanners - another one he picked up from the army.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018

    Stig said:

    I thought a hammer was either a Yankee Screwdriver or a Brummie Screwdriver depending on who you wanted to insult.

    A Yankee Screwdriver is an actual thing:

    image
    Cheers exiled, I never knew that. :-)