My Sim went to her final exam in her nighty!
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, we call them bum-bags! But I rather think that would be politically incorrect on your side of the pond!
vecki:
Bumbag is definitely a better word. BTW, it's not the word 'pack' that causes me any hilarity :D
ZephyrZodiac:
No, it's the area of anatomy!
Bane~Child:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 07, 04:24:13
No, it's the area of anatomy!
Oops - well, you Brits have a strange sense of humor anyway. Now 'fanny' is funny, but a pack definitely is not.
My mother, and again I must remind and defend the fact that she is also a Brit, always had a problem with the word Corny Dogs. She tried so many times not to refer to them as Hot Corny Dogs, that eventually she lost all grasp of the concept and the 'H' replaced the 'C'. That habit was even harder to break.
So what do you do about your Aunt Fanny? or your Nanny Fanny? Surely you only snicker behind their back.
witch:
Quote from: Bane~Child on 2005 September 07, 03:52:25
To our friends in the UK - Please help us out here, we want to be politically correct about these things, like not referring to the dykes in the Netherlands. Any other suggestions? What does the military call them? HELP!
Actually in New Zealand, dykes call themselves dykes - it is probably THE most politically correct name for lesbians. Or queers would do.
Fanny is funny here too, we also call them bumbags.
Never met an Aunt Fanny or Nanny Fanny, people probably avoid contracting names to Fanny because of the negative connotations. The last Aunt Fanny I think I read about was in Enid Blyton's Famous Five books.
Oh and... my German mother had terrible trouble with the fruit 'Feijoa'* and the religion 'Jehovah's Witnesses'. She announced to my father one day that there were some feijoas on the doorstep wishing to speak with him. :)
*pronounced fee-joe-ah
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