Just Need to Wank

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  • Sommer43
    Sommer43 Member Posts: 600
    edited May 2012

    Kudos to you aelizabeth, for such a wonderful thread title.  I take my hat off to you, in your need to wank! 

     Just brilliant...  Despite your agony, you're able to come and laugh and bring so much laughter, purely beautiful! 

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  • nora_az
    nora_az Member Posts: 720
    edited May 2012

    I think my fav of ALL expressions my friends over there use is "Taking the piss"  (yes, sadly I do realize this is telling of the company I keep  LOL)    I have yet to find a comparable phrase here.  Love that one 

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  • IndigoMont11
    IndigoMont11 Member Posts: 1,095
    edited May 2012

    Sbelizabeth, thanks so much for not changing the thread. :-)

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited May 2012

    So how's that wanking working for ya! Feeling better now? HeeHee. Love it.

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited May 2012

    Indigo - apparently a spook is a derogatory term for a black person.

    Once when a friend was visiting from the south of England! We had such a laugh as she and the waitress tried to understand each talking about shrimp in butter which she heard as batter. Oh my!

    Apple - its nice to see you on a non stage IV thread. You caught my eye when I first came to the boards as you were stage IIIc then, as I am, and I just kind of connected to another IIIc.

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited May 2012

    I'm enjoying my G and T!

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  • IndigoMont11
    IndigoMont11 Member Posts: 1,095
    edited May 2012

    Got it - yikes.

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  • Celtic_Spirit
    Celtic_Spirit Member Posts: 748
    edited May 2012

    I remember the first time an Irish friend of mine told me that he and some friends went to the pub and got pissed. I asked him what they got mad about! "Pissed" is one of their terms for getting drunk!

    I was once riding an elevator in a building in Knoxville, TN, that housed a lot of arts and cultural organizations. When I noticed a flyer advertising the Smoky Mountain Shag Dancers, I nearly choked!

    Between spending time in British countries and watching "Blackadder," I've developed quite an array of colorful terms to use on irritating locals. When a "tosser" gets on my nerves, I tell him/her to "sod off" and stop talking a load of "bollocks." He he!

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  • Frapp
    Frapp Member Posts: 1,987
    edited May 2012

    Sbelizabeth, thank you so much for being such a good sport. I have just read all the past posts and haven't laughed this hard in a long long time.

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  • Trisha-Anne
    Trisha-Anne Member Posts: 2,112
    edited May 2012

    And for anyone coming to visit down under this site has a lot of Aussie slang: http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

    We also use a lot of the British words, and for some reason "wank" doesn't appear on the Aussie list.

    Enjoy

    Trish

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  • carberry
    carberry Member Posts: 1,153
    edited May 2012

    Gillyone  when I had my first Dr. appt  with the obstetrician for my first pregnancy, she was figuring out when my due date was and happily proclaimed that i was having a "spook"  I was a little confused at first thinking she was referring to race, then quickly realized she was telling me I was due on halloween.

    Love all the funny stories, certainly takes my mind off cancer.

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  • KiwiMum
    KiwiMum Member Posts: 704
    edited May 2012

    Too funny!! In NZ wank means to "pleasure yourself".  Great thread!

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  • cooka
    cooka Member Posts: 278
    edited May 2012

    So, my wank for the day was to buy myself a season pass to a wave pool that allows boogie boards. Now when I finish yoga, I can top it off hangin' ten in the lovely Arizona desert... no matter that I will be mowing down dozens of ten year olds who haven't figured out they would be safer giving me a wide berth...what a wanker;)

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  • poolas
    poolas Member Posts: 30
    edited May 2012

    Another Brit here. I do not post often but this one got my attention. Very funny word!

    Sorry about the inquisition though!

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  • sam52
    sam52 Member Posts: 950
    edited May 2012

    Yes...me too!

    I really thought when I saw the title that it was spam and was prepared to report it, lol!

    With reference to Sommer's comments about 'tossers' (Loved that one about Alex being a tosser!) - I am always careful not to refer to a sleepless night as 'tossing and turning', in case it is misconstrued......

    I have also had that dreadful grilling from so-called friends, and the weird looks when a mastectomy is mentioned - a work-colleague even told me she 'couldn't see any difference' - well, thanks for looking at my chest, you perv......

    Another friend phoned me and spoke for ages about her holiday, and then remembered my situation and asked 'and how's the cancer?' I was so lost for words ('gob-smacked') that I muttered 'gone, I hope'.

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  • SelenaWolf
    SelenaWolf Member Posts: 1,724
    edited May 2012

    I had a English friend (male) who - when we had made arrangements to car-pool to work because my car was in the garage for a tune-up - said breezily, "... okay!  I'll come knock you up around 7:00 a.m..."  My father's face was a picture, my friend was confused, and I howled until tears ran down my face.  When I explained to him what the expression meant in Canada, he looked like he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him.

    Three cheers for sbelizabeth for being so good-natured at how we highjacked her "wank"!!!!

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited May 2012

    It is really fun to be reminded of these common Brit sayings that I just don't think about after living in the US for 25+ years.

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited May 2012

    Was watching Craig Ferguson last night (maybe a recording from a recent show - can't remember) and laughed so hard and thought of this thread when he started talking about The Avengers and superheroes and then showed this comic:

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  • cooka
    cooka Member Posts: 278
    edited May 2012

    LOL chrisct!! Perfect:)

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  • raffomimi
    raffomimi Member Posts: 96
    edited May 2012

    LOL! Same meaning in Ireland!! Laughed when I saw the topic!!!

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  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 698
    edited May 2012

    Mortified....am on the internet at work ...at lunchtime so wasn't worried when the boss came to ask me something. He discussed a work matter and then I noticed he was looking at the screen and not me. When he walked off I noticed that the heading "JUST NEEDED TO WANK" was right up the top of the page and yes...it does mean "to pleasure yourself in Australia"!

    I'm going to put my head down and do some serious work for the rest of the day.........

     jezza

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited May 2012

    Jezza - that is so funny!! Congrats on 20 years - hoping for at least that for all of us.

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  • Sonata
    Sonata Member Posts: 221
    edited May 2012

    I am so glad I decided to open this thread! I read from the beginning all the way to the post before my own...and every word was priceless.

    Tears rolling down my face, belly hurting from laughing so hard. I really needed that as I haven't felt much like laughing lately. Thank you so much!

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  • nora_az
    nora_az Member Posts: 720
    edited July 2012

    bumping this one.....it's too good not too!  I hope all you girls are doing well today!

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  • Frapp
    Frapp Member Posts: 1,987
    edited July 2012

    I have it in my favs so I can re-read on those days when I need a pick me up!

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  • autism_mom
    autism_mom Member Posts: 184
    edited July 2012

    This thread has been hilarious.

    I know its not my place and I dont mean too make any insulting comparisons but...

    when my son was dx with autism everyone and their brother just had to tell me about their friend or relative or celebrity who had a kid with autism and what tx and diets and blah blah blah they were using. It ws very annoying. I found the trick was to inundate them with statistics and technical terms with lots of abbreviations they would have no idea of understanding. I could go on for ten minutes. Strangely enough they changed the subject as son as they could get word in and never asked about it again :)

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