SKANK(adj) trashy, low class, football hooligan. In America, we say white trash.Usage:Friendly Brit: “No matter what, don’t travel to Brownsover. They’re all a bunch of Skanks."Me: “A bunch of what?"Brit: “Skanks. You know…how do you say it in America? Oh. White trash. Football hooligans, the whole lot of them."Me: “Ah yes of course, silly me."Glenn: “Brownsover? Isn’t that where you took us yesterday?...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Word of the Day:Faggot (I kid you not)(n) a British meatball made from pig’s heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs. The mixture is shaped in the hand into balls, wrapped round with caul fat (the membrane from the pig’s abdomen),...
Visiting Stereotypes
Here’s a funny excerpt from an email that Glenn set me the other day. It’s always funny to see the perceptions that people have of Americans. Some of them are true, of course, but they always seem to think that the stereotype will apply to all Americans, and not just some. I think the next time someone asks me why I’m not fat I’ll ask them why they don’t have bad teeth and a crooked nose. Give ‘em...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Cheers! We've arrived!
After a month and a half of rushing to be prepared to leave the States we have finally made it! We are, for now, living in Rugby, a town in the center of England. It is very close to Stratford-Upon-Avon (Shakespeare’s birthplace) and Nottingham (where a certain man named Robin enjoyed terrorizing...
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