Fair point about interesting, I will say the variety of different American slangs and vernaculars are bordering on being classed as distinct dialects which is fascinating. Not to mention niche culture terms like “based” becoming mainstream amongst the Anglosphere.

Which is one of the things, biased as I am about my native language, I like about English: it will accept any commonly spoken enough words into the dictionary.

So in that respect, I propose an exchange of terms that I think Americans might enjoy using:

“Naff” - lacking in style or good taste: vulgar and unfashionable. I think this would be great due to the distinct difference in the ‘AA’ vowl that would be delightful in a southern drawl. It originally came from Polari and Carnival Speak and has fallen out of fashion (ironically) but I think could see a new lease of life on your continent.

“Mithering” - To make an unnecessary fuss or moan. Since I’ve seen a lot of clips from Game Of Thrones around Americans liking the use of “Whinging” over “Whining” I think y’all would like an alternative to “Bothering”.

“Bodge / Bodged” - to do something clumsily or quickly as a temporary measure. I think this one would be excellent as an alternative to “Jerry-rig / Jerry-rigged”. Especially as an enjoyer of high-quality “Redneck-engineering” which I occasionally come across on my feeds. Because there’s an art to throwing something together with what you have around you based on experience and guesswork that somehow just works beautifully right when you need it to.

Especially with America’s history of large and successful inventions spawning from garages much like in the UK coming from small garden sheds all starting from barely-working prototypes.

*butchered it

Your Honour I was not, as you so derisively put it, “assaulting people with a weapon” and “administering medication without consent”.

I was merely “providing an expediant public health service” and frankly for making those three booster shots at 20mph from 15 meters away I deserve a fucking medal!

Great, I’ll go get my tranquilizer gun and load up some Pfizer, and inoculate the morons as I drive past them standing on the roundabout.

Speaking as an Englishman: fuck 'em.

I’m so done with dealing with these antivax idiots that I hope they catch the new variants and suffer.

I do feel sorry for those with compromised immune systems and the kids of antivaxers who also have to suffer because these morons believe the wild conspiracies that it’s a weapon for population control that is activated by 5G.

It almost makes me wish the conspiracy was true and these morons were the target leaving the rest of the population alone.

But I guess these loons won’t see reason until their grandma or child is gargling on fluids in an understaffed, overcrowded, and collapsing NHS hospital.

This quote has got to be up there with

“The secret ingredient is crime.”

And

“That crack is very moreish.”

I’d also like an explanation.

MATLAB: And I took that personally.

So here’s a question: how much body fat would a person need to have to achieve the same level of protection as a standard plate for a carrier?

Bro, do you need a hug?

Correct, we’re all dying and we’ll all continue to die. Now, why don’t you start living, and enjoy the neon sign?

1 v 1 me on Rust m8

Same reason here, my 3rd party app was BaconReader and now using Connect. I didn’t know Connect had an auto hide feature, I’ll have to check that out.

And this is why in the age of search engines and LLMs we need to be teaching, both young and old, how to perform lateral reading.

It’s not a full research skill set but it’s better than nothing.

How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices?! You can get a good few for 5 at Lidl or Aldi.

Also, having been someone that poor, people in that position should understand spices and at least have a few of them because it was one of the few things that kept me going that at least my toast and tinned veg & hotdog pasta both had some flavour.

If he doesn’t turn up I really hope at the end of the ‘debate’ she looks straight down the lens of the camera, points and says “Convict Trump… Pussy!”

You know what, fuck it I’ll say it, the bullet missed because it knew it was too good for him.

I saw the font and was immediately hit with flashbacks to my Universal Credit days when I was counting pennies when buying tins at Lidl, keeping bread in the freezer for toast and seasoning it with salt, pepper and paprika so it had some flavour, or occasionally having to eat sleep because my part-time job (the only one I could get) was late paying me for the week.

OP, if you’re a Universal Credit signee: stay strong, just be polite and cordial with the in person sessions and they’ll do their best to work the system as much as they can.

Trust me, being polite and positive with the person in the Job Centre brightens their day as it’s a break from them having to deal with the dregs of society.

It’s a shitty system but having been there before at my lowest time in life, it can get better.

Oh ducking hell, not again!