What other words can you think of that are perfectly innocent where you are, mean something totally rude somewhere else?
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― hstencil, Friday, 21 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)
Speaking of... how about ‘fag?’
― No One (SiggyBaby), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)
in the UK/Australia fanny means vagina
that's what he means.
(one time when I saw Teenage Fanclub they had t-shirts that read "I'm a Teenage Fanny")
― hstencil, Friday, 21 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― C J (C J), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)
oh this was the biggest disappointment of them all: on the telly there used to be ads for 'coon' (worst name for a cheddar ever and i have another story about that*) in which an anonymous hand would descend on the virgin block of cheese and slice the end off to reveal the word coon embossed within the cheese! it was a frustating nightmare for me - every week we'd come home from the supermarket with the fresh untouched cheese block and every week i asked if i could be the first one to slice it... i was allowed of course, yet somehow my slicing only ever revealed a mocking blank face of cheddar. obviously someone else had quickly nipped in and stolen that glorious coon moment but nobody ever admitted it.
*when in sri lanka mum asked a black woman to take a photo of her next to some giant bamboo. when the woman said "say cheese!" mum without thinking said "coon!" - it was an awkward moment.
― minna (minna), Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)