"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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Sleep, not shag!In French, you say 'dormir' to sleep and 'se coucher' to sleep with someone when you politely mean doing the nasty. On a camping site in France, I was asking for clean sheets at reception and i must have been pronouncing 'sheets' or 'pillows' wrong so I tried to explain it was for the place where 'moi et ma copine se couche ensemble' when I should have said 'dormir ensemble'. It took me a while to twig the look on the receptionists face and couldn't even bring myself to apologise. I just laughed awkwardly and toddled off with my shagging equipment.
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LanguageI was the first generation of my family to have English as a first language instead of Gaelic. In our household there was a constant ebb and flow between the two with direct translations leading to unusual usage. One that always stays with me is my Seanair (Grandad) refusing to use the word “overall”, preferring “trouser with arms”.
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:38,
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I shall be adopting this into my vocabulary(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:52, closed)
Hahahahahaha!What would he call a kilt? Apart from 'a kilt', of course.
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Thank you, SirFor my first office lol in a long while. I shall also be adding this to my vocab.
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