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

"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

there is a theory that nonce is a prison-derived acronym - not on normal communal exercise

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

the de Leon family heaves a sigh of relief

xp that stuff always sounds like a retronym to me, altho "non-specific" rings truer

the first word particularly helpful??
http://septicscompanion.com/word.php?w=abseil

i ain't alf gonna abseil later with 'er indoors innit me old china.

yeah, it sounds a bit too clumsy to be right - the 'normal' is surely redundant xp

idk how useful this is when it seems ppl found it unclear even with the idiomatic terms explained

I dunno, they get to exercise communally with other inmates also not on normal etc.

I thought I was setting someone up for a tasteless "fountain of youth" joke, but I guess I was wrong.

nonce sense

http://www.brandalert.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/nonce-sense-social-media.jpg

the worst of the senses

Wait, what's a chester?

Which British television series currently available in the US do you recommend non-Brits watch to help us understand your jokes and foster stronger international relations?

Downton Abbey?