George Carlin - English Language
Added 2023-07-06 13:00:08 +0000 UTCThis was back when I was dying of heat! Lol, not sure how I never got around to uploading before, but here it is!
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"Takes the biscuit" sounds less important! Haha, some of my favorite's I have learned so far is "shut the front door", "bless your cotton socks" and "you never see an old man eating a twix" LOL đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Mandy Cane Lane
2023-07-16 22:57:26 +0000 UTCHey Mandy! Ok, so many American sayings have travelled across the pond, because of cultural influence, TV and film, but thereâs still differences đ 2:38 âLegally drunkâ nope, we donât say that here. The word drunk is reserved for those who are inebriated, on the wrong side of merry, and have either lost control of their faculties, or are behaving way too inappropriately, by definition well over the driving limit. The offence here is âdrink drivingâ not âdrunk drivingâ. The threshold is much lower! 2:58 âyou know you can stick itâ An Americanism, stick it (where the sun donât shine) a euphemism of a euphemism đ (April 15 - still havenât a clue about the date!) 3:39 Well you canât listen to the quiet ones, they ainât making no noise. So whatcha gonna do eh Mr Carlin? Ya gotta watch em, thatâs what đ You wonât get squat using the four other senses. 4:27 âlock em up and throw away the keyâ sounds American, even if I canât prove it đ§ 4:55 âdown the tubesâ - definitely an Americanism, recognisable but we donât refer to plumbing as tubes, pipes like you said. A British equivalent would be its âgone down the panâ or âgone down the drainâ. 6:05 âtakes the cakeâ In the uk, weâd rather say âtakes the biscuitâ đ 7:55 âToiletsâ Well, if you mean âthe modern sewer systemâ then yeah, I gotchu. But if you ainât thinking bout where that shit goes, youâre missing the bigger picture đ Thereâs little point in a toilet if all you do is throw the waste out on the street đ€Ł Ye oldie cities used to stink rotten, âGardy Louâ! 8:38 âout walking the streetsâ, sounds like theyâre soliciting, in the American sense. 9:10 âFine and dandyâ so American. Thatâs way too optimistic and upbeat to come out of a true Britâs mouth. đ€Ł 10:32 âwalking papersâ never heard of that phrase. What-about âhe got sackedâ or in cockney rhyming slang: âhe got tin tackedâ 11:16 âThe Riot Actâ well you learn something new every day: an Act of parliament in Great Britain in 1714, a group of 12 individuals in public could be read the Riot Act and if they didnât disperse theyâd be considered in a state of riot, and authorities could use force to disperse the crowd, and impose harsh penalties. G
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2023-07-16 00:18:06 +0000 UTCYes! He was also the Grandpa in "Jersey Girl" basically played himself đ€Ș
Mandy Cane Lane
2023-07-06 18:08:05 +0000 UTCGeorge Carlin was Thomas the Tank Engine's pal in America. In the UK, his pal was Ringo Starr, from The Beatles!
Jeffrey44
2023-07-06 17:36:44 +0000 UTC
