amusements...
Jan. 16th, 2007 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanFrom Elsewhere in the Ether: new words entering the British lexicon (some of which will already be familiar to North Americans, some of which are totally new and brilliant)
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SWAMP-DONKEY-A deeply unattractive person.
TESTICULATING-Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING-Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER-A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then leaves.
SALMON DAY- The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM- An office filled with cubicles.
SINBAD-Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
AEROPLANE BLONDE- One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE- The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
GOING FOR A McSHIT- Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the toilet. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you will buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
AUSSIE KISS- Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
OH-NO SECOND- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
GREYHOUND- A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
MONKEY BATH- A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS- The bus that arrives at the bar on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
BEER COAT-The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am.
PICASSO BUM- A woman whose underpants are too small for her, so she looks like she has got 4 buttocks.
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SWAMP-DONKEY-A deeply unattractive person.
TESTICULATING-Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING-Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER-A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything and then leaves.
SALMON DAY- The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM- An office filled with cubicles.
SINBAD-Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
AEROPLANE BLONDE- One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE- The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
GOING FOR A McSHIT- Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the toilet. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you will buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
AUSSIE KISS- Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
OH-NO SECOND- That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
GREYHOUND- A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
MONKEY BATH- A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS- The bus that arrives at the bar on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
BEER COAT-The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3:00am.
PICASSO BUM- A woman whose underpants are too small for her, so she looks like she has got 4 buttocks.
