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| Aristronica |
| quote: | Originally posted by tolgar
Are you British? |
are you gay? |
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| iclone |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
wow burridge the night before? i didnt know.. . gawdamn.... ANOTHER mad weekend... :crazy: |
lee burridge & droog @ spybar :gsmile:
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| delobbo |
| burridge and prydz back-to-back nights... I dont know if I can handle it. :crazy: |
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| iclone |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
burridge and prydz back-to-back nights... I dont know if I can handle it. :crazy: |
do eeet. :disbelief |
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| tolgar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
are you gay? |
I'm about as gay as you are clever with witty rebuttals.
Just in case you're not sure where the level of sarcasm in my comment lies, please consult the homeland security color ratings and look at orange. |
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| Aristronica |
| quote: | Originally posted by tolgar
I'm about as gay as you are clever with witty rebuttals.
Just in case you're not sure where the level of sarcasm in my comment lies, please consult the homeland security color ratings and look at orange. |
well what does anything have to do with me being british? |
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| tolgar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
well what does anything have to do with me being british? |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
taking the piss |
Taking the piss - One of the things Americans find hardest about the Brits is our sense of humour. It is obviously different and is mainly based on irony, sarcasm and an in-built desire to "take the piss". This has nothing to do with urine, but simply means making fun of someone.
[Q] From Stephen Balkam: “Could you throw some light on to the origin of taking the piss? My (English) wife seemed to think it meant actually being made to drink someone else’s urine.”
[A] Nothing literal about this one, you will be pleased to hear. It’s usually said that the phrase derives from an older one, piss-proud, which refers to having an erection when waking up in the morning, which is usually attributed to a full bladder (proud here being an obvious pun on its senses of something raised or projecting and of something in which one may take satisfaction).
It’s first recorded, as so many such indecorous expressions are, in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue; in the second edition of 1788 he wrote: “Piss-proud, having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife”.
This developed into a figurative sense of somebody who had an exaggerated idea of his own importance. So to take the piss is to deflate somebody, to disabuse them of their mistaken belief that they are special. It’s not recorded before the beginning of the twentieth century. |
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| delobbo |
| you tell im tolgar.. punk ass needs a few lessons. :clown: |
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| tolgar |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
you tell im tolgar.. punk ass needs a few lessons. :clown: |
It's funny hearing people use slang that they either don't know the meaning of or where it came from. Ignorance is bliss. Fo' Shizzle.:p |
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| delobbo |
| quote: | Originally posted by tolgar
It's funny hearing people use slang that they either don't know the meaning of or where it came from. Ignorance is bliss. Fo' Shizzle.:p |
very |
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| Aristronica |
| quote: | Originally posted by tolgar
Taking the piss - One of the things Americans find hardest about the Brits is our sense of humour. It is obviously different and is mainly based on irony, sarcasm and an in-built desire to "take the piss". This has nothing to do with urine, but simply means making fun of someone.
[Q] From Stephen Balkam: “Could you throw some light on to the origin of taking the piss? My (English) wife seemed to think it meant actually being made to drink someone else’s urine.”
[A] Nothing literal about this one, you will be pleased to hear. It’s usually said that the phrase derives from an older one, piss-proud, which refers to having an erection when waking up in the morning, which is usually attributed to a full bladder (proud here being an obvious pun on its senses of something raised or projecting and of something in which one may take satisfaction).
It’s first recorded, as so many such indecorous expressions are, in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue; in the second edition of 1788 he wrote: “Piss-proud, having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife”.
This developed into a figurative sense of somebody who had an exaggerated idea of his own importance. So to take the piss is to deflate somebody, to disabuse them of their mistaken belief that they are special. It’s not recorded before the beginning of the twentieth century. |
i don't see how i used it inappropriately is all. |
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| RJT |
It just seems appropriate. |
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