Yank word translation thread

[edotero]

In the US we say Router ( a network devices) I think it means something else in the UK??

 

[guppy]

In the US we say Router ( a network devices) I think it means something else in the UK??

I thought it was a device for shaping wood

 

[guppy]

In the US we say Router ( a network devices) I think it means something else in the UK??

Which are the chips, lol

 

[dizlal]

The big fat greasy ones served with RED SAUCE(ketchup)SCRAPS(bits of batter) and a deep fried MARS BAR. ummmm

 

[guppy]

I came across this sentence in an 1940s thriller, "That poncey rozzer got nutted down and his jacobs knocked for six!"

 

[Micky_Fahaka]

I came across this sentence in an 1940s thriller, "That poncey rozzer got nutted down and his jacobs knocked for six!"

Sounds like a typical friday night out, minus police dogs!

 

[guppy]

Now if I have got the slang right then the Americanised version would be "That fairy cop got head butted and his nuts kicked in!"?

 

[DiXoN]

Now if I have got the slang right then the Americanised version would be "That fairy cop got head butted and his nuts kicked in!"?

that would be pretty much correct

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

Brits also say that American beer is like sex in a canoe--it's f--king close to water!

Yeah it's the Irish stuff ya gotta chew.

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

Now if I have got the slang right then the Americanised version would be "That fairy cop got head butted and his nuts kicked in!"?

Yeah Jacobs are nutts.