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 🤣🤣🤣
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 there’s still differences 😄 2:38 “Legally drunk” nope, we don’t 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 “drink driving” not “drunk driving”. The threshold is much lower! 2:58 “you know you can stick it” An Americanism, stick it (where the sun don’t shine) a euphemism of a euphemism 😀 (April 15 - still haven’t a clue about the date!) 3:39 Well you can’t listen to the quiet ones, they ain’t making no noise. So whatcha gonna do eh Mr Carlin? Ya gotta watch em, that’s what 😆 You won’t get squat using the four other senses. 4:27 “lock em up and throw away the key” sounds American, even if I can’t prove it 🧐 4:55 “down the tubes” - definitely an Americanism, recognisable but we don’t refer to plumbing as tubes, pipes like you said. A British equivalent would be its “gone down the pan” or “gone down the drain”. 6:05 “takes the cake” In the uk, we’d rather say “takes the biscuit” 😁 7:55 “Toilets” Well, if you mean “the modern sewer system” then yeah, I gotchu. But if you ain’t thinking bout where that shit goes, you’re missing the bigger picture 😆 There’s little point in a toilet if all you do is throw the waste out on the street 🤣 Ye oldie cities used to stink rotten, “Gardy Lou”! 8:38 “out walking the streets”, sounds like they’re soliciting, in the American sense. 9:10 “Fine and dandy” so American. That’s way too optimistic and upbeat to come out of a true Brit’s mouth. 🤣 10:32 “walking papers” never heard of that phrase. What-about “he got sacked” or in cockney rhyming slang: “he got tin tacked” 11:16 “The Riot Act” 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 didn’t disperse they’d 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 🤪
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
