Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

i think i hulk would smash as a SN at one point.

see also:
- ihop
- that stripey gum with the horses

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:06 AM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i just realized thats probably a zebra

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:06 AM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But sort of back on topic, one of my colleagues (who is black) told me last week that her son's school requires him to keep his hair at least two inches long???!!! Like, there's a school rule about it. And of course her son HATES this with a burning white-hot hate because hair that long is..... not exactly in among the London yoot

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg, is that an anti-skinhead rule?

lololololololololol

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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id guess its a prep school pleb-phobe thing?

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or can state schools make inane rules too idk

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He doesn't go to prep school, so it's not that

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if yr childs hair is less than 2" long then it means u are currently glassing a suspected nonce in an estate pub

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

state schools live to make inane rules dude

oh god I mean yeah, cmon.

http://mymdna.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dna_strand_sm.gif

― Eric H., Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I don't even want to know what's happening back there

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like opening the Necromonicon.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if yr childs hair is less than 2" long then it means u are currently glassing a suspected nonce in an estate pub

I can't begin to decipher this. Glassing a nonce? Estate pub?

"glassing" = to hit somebody in the face with a beer glass, often broken
"nonce" = a suspected paedophile, or possibly somebody with a secondary education
"estate pub" = rough-house bar found in the midst of the UK's project housing

should've known that translating all the words wouldn't explain anything. why does having a kid with longer hair mean that you're 'glassing' a 'nonce' in an 'estate pub?'

I thought it was a skinhead joke

very short hair being a signifier of proletarian/underclass upbringing

The Tyranny of (British) Humour

Wow! Very different from what I imagined, which was doing something (glassing?) with or to a dandy in private or fancy pub.

"estate" = council estate = what you guys call projects

but yeah confusingly "estate" also connotes some rich dudes country house and 10,000 acres

no britisher outside of a 19th century novel really thinks of "estate" in the latter sense tho

why does having a kid with longer hair mean that you're 'glassing' a 'nonce' in an 'estate pub?'

Shorter.

why does having a kid w

fwiw i thought that whole thing was pretty funny

what nakh was hilariously suggesting was that if your child has hair less the 2"s long (as banned by tracer's friend's school) the suggestion is that said child is likely to be found in a low-class drinking establishment pulverising someone who has the temerity to be a child-molester/university graduate/softlad (delete as appropriate). that's the explanation though i doubt that'll make it funnier for you. it made me laff a tonne though, QED.

xp max gets it

what nakh was hilariously suggesting was that if your child has hair less the 2"s long (as banned by tracer's friend's school) the suggestion is that said child is likely to be found in a low-class drinking establishment

Not the child, you.

it's actually the parent that's doing the glassing to be completely accurate and remove the last trace of humour from the post

what Tuomas said

yo guys, this has been enlightening. do ilx american posters ever/often post sentences/jokes that are incomprehensible to britishers, or is this strictly a phenomenon going in the other direction?

not quite the same but
http://www.youtube.com/embed/eVFavnzXK9Q

http://www.youtube.com/eVFavnzXK9Q

what nakh was hilariously suggesting was that if your child has hair less the 2"s long (as banned by tracer's friend's school) the suggestion is that said child is likely to be found in a low-class drinking establishment

Not the child, you.

wtf that's not funny

And the circle is complete

yo guys, this has been enlightening. do ilx american posters ever/often post sentences/jokes that are incomprehensible to britishers, or is this strictly a phenomenon going in the other direction?

I wondered that too.

In the USA, "estate" only connotes money and aristocracy. Though I did know what "council estate" meant (sound exactly the opposite of what it means IMO).

Also didn't realize short hair = rude boy (did I use that right?) or chav or wote'er.

Pretty much assume anything referencing housing or schooling in the UK is probably the opposite of what it sounds like, except for the times when it's exactly as you assume.

otoh "project" in the uk just means .. i dunno? outlandish fantasies that are doomed to failure?

something 100 people are employed to not do anything in the name of?

it's ok, project housing was mostly outlandish fantasies doomed to failure, too

i would say there's less chance of a UK poster not understanding a US reference considering the prevalence of american tv and pop culture in general

skip to 7 minutes in on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oEaYnm9Fk

otoh "project" in the uk just means .. i dunno? outlandish fantasies that are doomed to failure?

^^ haha UK can't-do attitude!

i would say there's less chance of a UK poster not understanding a US reference considering the prevalence of american tv and pop culture in general

yeah also google

which only works in us contents

To be fair, "council estate" got shortened to "estate" and if you google "british estate" you sure don't get the right thing.

let's not even start on "public schools"

To be fair, "council estate" got shortened to "estate" and if you google "british estate" you sure don't get the right thing.

... or do you?

I have always assumed that nonce was just a variant on ponce.

results may vary
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=british+estate&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=901&bih=278&sei=lXRXT4n-G6qx0AWm9OzVDQ#q=british+estate&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=a41f185f5fb03db8&biw=901&bih=440

link includes google.co.uk, refuse to acknowledge

"ponce" originally meant a pimp, then came to mean "a gay or camp man", "nonce" comes from "nonsense" and originally referred to sexual offenders in general, is still often used that way but generally connotes "a chester" in 2012

"glassing a suspected nonce in an estate pub" gives altogether a much clearer result

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=glassing+a+suspected+nonce+in+an+estate+pub

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzl14MUyp3qShKPuoMIyOJ-4Mb5-50tDr7FTzJwTwelSoeaKoK2H9NKtdFPA

this just SCREAMS "british estate"

"ponce" and "nonce" still used interchangeably but the former is losing currency in general i think

http://septicscompanion.com/

this is actually pretty accurate