When we see a Wallflowers car, we hit each other in the upper arm and yell "COCK-EYE".
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
Padiddle may be regional? In any case it is decently widespread but there are some families & communities that simply don't have that tradition and it just missed them in its distribution. I am not familiar with the variant where you get to punch someone, but I have heard of "punch buggy" where you punch someone's arm if you spot a VW Beetle. I think you have to say the color: "punch buggy blue!" To indicate that you actually did see a specific car.
I think I was a teenager before I heard of either of these. They all sound pretty stupid to me - even pointlessly cruel. But apparently in some circles it's a beloved type of juvenile fun, like yelling "shotgun" or "dibs" or "bags I..."
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
if you saw a lada you could stab someone
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Fog lights do not count as a padiddle even if used as primary lights. There is no such thing as a double padiddle.See also: Punch buggy
See also: Punch buggy
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
i remember learning about padiddles in high school -- i had never heard of it before, presumably because i was an only child? idk
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
i thought it was suuuuuuper weird that hitting/punching/socking someone in the car with you was a thing people did for laughs
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
name of your college with the year you graduated/will graduate in your twitter bio
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
just generally having a hard on for your alma mater - referring to the college you attended as your alma mater
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
still conflating nationality-american for nationality
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
i call my high school my alma mater, but i do it in a bullwinkle voice
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
- having a Bullwinkle voice
― S-, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
calling a toilet a “half-bath”
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
claiming to be middle class, no matter what you do for a living, or what your net worth is
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
ritualistic vehicular human sacrifice in the name of economic growth
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
This year 2,295 breweries submitted 9,497 beers to be judged in the competition. Only 283 of those breweries walked away with medals, 37 of those for the first time.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
macaroni & cheese on bar menus
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 November 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
It was a thing for a while elsewhere, especially lobster mac and cheese now we’re all about the katsu sando. Maybe the next global hipster food trend can be non-shit buffalo wings. How hard is it not to bread the wings, bake or fry them very hot and drown in Franks red hot.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 2 November 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
When watching sports on television I am exposed to advertisements featuring "buffalo wings", as conceived by several different corporate franchises. Such ads try desperately to make them look appetizing, using every trick of lighting, slow motion, action shots of wings spilling in profusion or floating through the air to majestic music. You name it.
Gawd, those breaded, glossy, candy-colored monstrosities look disgusting.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 November 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
they are hella tasty tho
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
― nathom, Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
American things
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Omg the most am thing in my eurotrash opinion: cheese cans. The fuck
― nathom, Sunday, 3 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
If it makes you feel any better, the section of my supermarket that sells genuine cheese is approximately 100 times larger than the square footage where canned 'cheese' is displayed for sale.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGH55fjBvI
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
different cheese sections for proles and bourgies, with the latter over by the salami: an american thing?
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
(i'm a tillamook man and they have the right idea working both sides of the street: motorcycle battery of cheddar over here, "we stuck some peppercorns into an ounce of also-cheddar and left out the food coloring, give us $9.50" over there)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sometimes mac and cheese is the only good thing on a bar menu.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Hives and hickeys.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
do non-americans use the baseball base system to delineate sex acts?
― I am Holger Czukay (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
1st wicket, 2nd wicket etc iirc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
take the points and the goals will come iirc
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Whip the bails off.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
Cricket is much better for ridiculous double entendres.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Tell it to Meatloaf!Really though is there a Brit equivalent to president progressive sexual “scoring” i.e. first base, second base etc.?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
disregard “president” damn thumb
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
No, rounders isn't that popular.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
You can actually bowl a maiden over in cricket!
yes that’s p good
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
people don't get hives outside the USA?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
nah there are beekeepers all around the world
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:34 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think in british english they just call that a rash?
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Ha, that's right!
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)
― insecurity bear (sic), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link