I was told a prat was a pregnant fish.
Twerp definitely much gentler* than twat, and essentially floats free of any meaning beyond 'a bit of a wally' (see also 'numpty').
*certainly when deployed by my mum.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 July 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
tubular (Also, do you live in a country other than France that uses a comma as a decimal point? Do you know how this difference came to be?)
― youn, Sunday, 17 July 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Does anyone say full stop anymore or was that just from the age of telegrams?
― youn, Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
I used "full stop" at the end of an article last week!
https://www.stereogum.com/2191562/baroness-yellow-and-green-turns-10/reviews/the-anniversary/
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
Always assumed”twunt” was an ilx portmaneau, but now words don’t “mean” anything
― Warning: Choking Hazard (Hunt3r), Sunday, 17 July 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
i think twunt might come from b3ta or possibly before that. it's not from ilx though, just general UK internet
full stop is just British for period so yes it's used all the time
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Sunday, 17 July 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
maiden/maid (the latter for anything other than a housecleaner, and even for that becoming less common).
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 18 July 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
You still hear maiden all the time if you're a cricket fan!
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 07:01 (one year ago) link
don't forget about twit
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 18 July 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
twit was roughly equivalent to dipshit afaik
There were plenty of slang words for pudenda that I would've used as a teenager. Fanny, minge, radge, snatch, axe wound...anything but twat.
― fetter, Monday, 18 July 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
^^^ revived by the first Avengers movie in 2012!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 July 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=facepalm
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:32 (one year ago) link
what happened to smdh. bring it back.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
not come across a 429 error before. JUst got one there. So think I might need to start using an alternative to google.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 11 August 2022 10:33 (one year ago) link
lmao still hanging on but rofl is in really bad shape these days, sad to see. when was the last time someone even roflmaoed?
I miss pmsl which I thought had real potential but afaict it never spread much beyond UK teens on bebo and myspace
I am very glad the cutesy internet speak of late 00s / early 10s (interwebs etc) seems to be almost extinct though because that shit got unbearable for a while
― Left, Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
I was struck by this article a couple of days in the newspaper about a feud between George Best and Bobby Charlton:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/aug/10/the-feud-between-best-and-charlton-that-shattered-manchester-united
Quoth Bobby, "so many young people on the ‘scene’ have the attitude that nearly everything and ordinary people are ‘sick’. They behave as if the peak of senility is reached at the age of 25 and they must wring every drop out of life by then whether they offend other people or not.” (Bobby) goes on to attack those who insist on being “cool”, “gas” and “with it”."
It's interesting how "sick" has come full circle.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
Did people use "vouchsafe"? Shakespeare loves it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Reminds me of a Proust translation where the literal "He did not respond" became "He vouchsafed no answer" in English.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 August 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
“beetling” to mean looming, jutting up etc most commonly used with eyebrows but have also read it in conjunction with hills, cliffs
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
Jordan Peterson seems to be the only person in the world who still says "up yours"
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 6 March 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
Not really the right thread but I couldn’t find a better one:
“Invincible” is pretty common word but in all my 43 years, despite being a big reader, I’ve never heard or seen the word “vincible” until today.
― just1n3, Saturday, 9 September 2023 11:55 (seven months ago) link