Statten Island ferry...
New York in 1999, taking the Statten Island ferry cos it was free and meant you could go past the Statue of Liberty. Sat outside, two blokes come out, spark up next to a "No Smoking" sign and strike up a hushed conversation.

I'm sat there like a proper grockle, camera out, snapping away, they chat about the weather, sports and other usual stuff, then one says; "Yeah, so apparently the victims wife called the DA and said that I should never a'got out for what I did. Still, don't worry, we'll deal wit dat".

At that point I got up and casually strolled off down the deck. Whether they'd worked out I was a grockle and done it for a laugh I dunno, but they really did both look hard.
(repooc, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 11:44, 11 replies)

the fuck is a grockle?

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 15:17, closed)

Same as an emmet

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 16:06, closed)

Nope, not the same. :-)

(repooc, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 18:06, closed)

They're both meaningless gibberish?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 20:15, closed)

I could understand Soapies not getting grockle....
But I'd expect Brits to....
(repooc, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 23:22, closed)

Not outside whichever small corner of our fair isles you inhabit.
Frankly, I'm struggling with "soapies", too, but I'm quite happy in my ignorance.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 19:54, closed)

As defined by urban dictionary it's....
Grockle!
(repooc, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 18:05, closed)

Grockle is a West Country word
for a tourist.
The kind you get who stand in your front garden and peer through your windows because you live in a thatched cottage and they just don't understand that someone actually lives there.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 27 Aug 2011, 20:27, closed)

also used in wales

( 4Q just lurking, Sun 28 Aug 2011, 4:50, closed)

god...
.my parents get that - people actually having picnics in the garden even.
(inflateable, Sun 28 Aug 2011, 10:57, closed)

hard you say .......
(Cov Boy, Wed 31 Aug 2011, 15:28, closed)