Re: Some Funny Pics.

Stinkie

Why ... thank you!

mitcorb

Stunning. Was it a gift? The rakish angle makes it look very smart.

Frederik

And since this is a multi cultural forum...

Gaieus

Well, I recognise Mike from this latter chart. He was brought up in the UK as far as I remember.
Rich would rather say "F***ck off, idiot". Much more straightforward - and one can understand completely.

TIG

In the UK we have lots of 'coded phrases' that don't mean what a non-native speaker might think they do...
When politicians have had 'full and frank discussions' we know that they 'fell out'.
When a minister has the 'full backing of the prime-minister' we know that he'll be fired/forced-to-resign within a few days!
There's a newish trend for politicians to use a strange passive/it-wasn't-me form of speech - so a politician can say 'I apologize if I allowed my personal life and professional life to become blurred...', or 'The blurring of my private and professional life, is something for which I can only apologize...', but he can't say 'What I did was wrong...' - as if his lives are somehow separate from himself, and that they did these misdeeds, not him, and the worst thing he did was he did not try sufficiently hard to stop these pesky 'lives' from doing the wrong !

Rich O Brien

Gaieus

I guess each language has this - and most probably this is the hardest to grasp for a foreigner - unless he's been actually living in that culture for long.

thomthom

@tig said:

When a minister has the 'full backing of the prime-minister' we know that he'll be fired/forced-to-resign within a few days!
There's a newish trend for politicians to use a strange passive/it-wasn't-me form of speech - so a politician can say 'I apologize if I allowed my personal life and professional life to become blurred...', or 'The blurring of my private and professional life, is something for which I can only apologize...', but he can't say 'What I did was wrong...' - as if his lives are somehow separate from himself, and that they did these misdeeds, not him, and the worst thing he did was he did not try sufficiently hard to stop these pesky 'lives' from doing the wrong !

Grey-speak - everything muddled and ambiguous. Drives me mad.

john.warburton

As an architectural student, I always knew I was in trouble when a tutor used the phrase "that's interesting" ...

dale

Canadian real estate sales mud speak.
Ocean glimpse - True if you neighbour falls every tree within 1000 m and demolishes his house.
Charming - Old, moldy, nearly un-fixable
Needs a little TLC - Actually, TLC stands for "Two Little Caterpillar" tractors to push it over.
Fixer Upper - Faller Downer
Must be seen - Before it collapses.
Cozy - Usually warmer outside than in