Oh. And this is why I have no respect for british english:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orionid/3352036855/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orionid/3347530671/
*narrows eyes*
Yeah, well your “fanny packs” are pretty weird to us Brits.
Damn. You beat me to it.
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I really want tou knouw now what a faggot with gravy is… Leica? I always thouught it was a cigarette, though why you’d waunt meat-flavourued sauce on oune escapse me.
First, let me say “Good work” with all the pointless “U”s. In next to no time you’ll be walking into a fish ‘n chip shop and ordering a battered sausage with mushy peas before going to the footy match. Cripes, we might even get you into cricket at this rate!
Second, I have actually never had faggots in gravy. They are basically just meatballs, made IIRC with pork and pig’s innards. Wiki tells me they are Midlands thing, which would explain a lot. However, Wiki also tells me that in Yorkshire, where I’m from, we apparently call faggots “ducks”, which I have never heard of. In South Yorkshire, though, “duck” is commonly used in a friendly address (especially by older women to younger people), rather like “dude” is in the States. For example, at a fish ‘n chip shop: “Would you like some mushy peas with your battered sausage, duck?”.
So maybe they are subtly calling everyone a faggot. Hmm….
The term for a cigarette is “fag”. I am not sure of the origin of the derogatory epithet “fag”, other than that is not used so much in Britain.
I wonder if it has anything to do with “fags” at British public schools (think posh private schools in the US). A fag was a younger pupil who did unpaid chores for senior pupils, such as cleaning shoes, ironing clothes, using his own arse-cheeks as a toast rack, and so on. You know, everyday stuff.[/quote]
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