MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Two cultures split by a shared languageYesterday, in a supermarket ni Upstate New York I (a Brit) saw that the cigarettes were kept in these little cupboards with white shelves and thick, white trimmed doors. So I said to my girlfriend (a Canadian living in the US) 'Weird, they keep the fags in the fridge'.
Yes, it's a derogatory term for homosexuals in Britain as well, but over here, it doesn't really mean anything else... I mean, people will quite gladly ask to bum a fag with no innuendo whatsoever in London. Apparently several people were aghast, and probably quite confused at how you'd go about herding the gay community into a fridge anyway. I guess if I'd have been in the South, the idea would have been applauded.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2005, 16:48, Reply)
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