American Reacts to Things NOT to Say in England (if you're American)
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As an American I have no Idea what kinds of things are inappropriate to say in England that are perfectly acceptable here in the US. Today I am very interested in learning about 7 things not to say in England if you're American. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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No one in England is going to get confused about what you mean if you ask to pet their dog 😂 in fact if you ask to pet the dog and then proceed to snog it they will be as shocked as any American.
That said we'd probably say pat over pet
I would say pet, pat or stroke. I'm from Devon and I too had no idea.
Everyone I know will say 'can I pet your dog', I'm from the midlands
@@muuphoenix That's strange, because I'm from the midlands, and never hear anyone say 'pet'. It would be 'pat'!
@@thegrinderman1090 It's so weird how much it changes in a small area. People in my town will also say 'stroke' but I don't think I've heard people say 'pat' apart from when I was at school and we sang 'the farmers in his den', but I was in a different town at first school
I've always thought it was a cutesy nickname for one's partner... Like in the Andy Capp comics, when he calls his wife Pet, instead of by her name, Flo'.
That said, here in Canada, we pet our animals' fur and pat a child on the head as a token of loving reassurance.
I think more Brits understand American English more than Americans understand British English.
Lawrence's definition of "to pet" is different from the definition I've always known, and doesn't just mean to snog someone! I've checked the dictionary, and they concur with my understanding of the verb, which means "to touch someone in a s*xual way"! 😄
As in 'heavy petting'...
It’s both. Your pet you talk your pet, your cat. The other is called Heavy Petting.
Lawrence has been away far too long. Of course, we say to pet the dog in a way that we mean to stroke and Pat.
I didn't think about it until I thought back to being a lifeguard.
Yes because there is petting and heavy petting
Do not watch lost in the pond. He has no idea what he is talking about. He has spent his whole adult life in the States. He has never paid household bills in the UK. He grew up in the UK but that is all.
It makes me laugh when Tyler keeps saying how gigantic USA is as an explanation of him not knowing what others might say or knowing about the world. Australia is the same size as USA and we understand each other perfectly and manage to travel from the lower part of the southern hemisphere to every corner of the world. 🌏
Yeah but population-wise Australia is much smaller than even the UK - while the US is the 3rd most populous nation in the world. There are far more cities and towns, and a greater variety of dialects in the US. If you look at the even higher population countries, like China and India you'll find even greater variety, with several different languages spoken. So it's not just about geographical size, but population size as well.
Australia is part of the Commonwealth just like Canada is, so we know things that the Americans don't because we're taught that stuff.
I think it has more to do with the belief that they are not just a first world superpower, but moreso that they are... FIRST. Period. They are terribly educated about anything that may extend beyond their own borders, and the vast majority of the US population couldn't tell you much about what's INSIDE their borders, either... Their schoolroom maps often display Canada as a vague black silhouette that's above the States, and that's it. I've met maaany Americans who think Alaska and Hawaii are within a rock's throw from each other, yet they all think they are FIRST at everything... They are awful for rewriting history, and even worse at doing it!
I just watched a video of a lad getting detained in the USA by the police. He said 'Do you want to blow me?' to the cop, meaning use the breathalyser... :D Fits of giggles from me, but I'm only 49. Can't expect me to be mature.
I made this comment on one of Ryan's videos where he announced that he was wearing "khaki pants". Two things here; the way Americans pronounce "Khaki" sounds to my London ear like "cacky", which basically means "sh*tty". Add that to "pants", which to me (and many other, but not all Brits) means underwear, and suddenly you're telling us that you're wearing "sh*tty underwear", which is never a good thing to do if you can help it! 😁
😊 I'm still waiting to hear an American say "khaki" as 'karkey' !! I guess I'll be waiting a very long time!!
"Petting"... No Tyler...!! No...!! It's _pat_ the dog, or _patting_/ _stroking_ the dog/ cat etc... Petting is "first base (as I understand it?!)
Another silly term is the swapping of titbit to tidbit ...do you not have small wild garden birds called 'Blue Tits' or
'Coal Tits' or 'Great Tits' ?!😊😊😊🤔🏴🖖
I've never heard patting, it's petting here.@@brigidsingleton1596
They call them chickadees over there. Hi Brigid, we meet again! Our native great tits do say chickadee chickadee chicka dee dee dee. @brigidsingleton1596
Here's the thing... There's no "r" in khaki.
@@brigidsingleton1596I beleive they're called chickadees in North America. If someone is talking about tits, they're referring to a woman's chest.
The phrase “to pet the dog” or “petting the dog” are completely normal phrases here in the UK. With regards to “no petting in the pool”, yes “petting” was/is a way to describe kissing/making out, but typically it’s said as “heavy petting”. At least that’s what I grew up knowing. Although I haven’t heard it said in decades so I’m not sure how much it’s used anymore. Not a single person would think you’re asking to passionately kiss their dog if you ask to pet their dog.
The V sign made popular by Winston Churchill means Victory
um no.. im a brit and ive never asked somone if i can PET their dog. but i have STROKED a dog, or any other animal for that matter.
I'd know what you meant, but I've personally never heard anyone in England say 'pet' the dog. My grandparents would probably be confused if they heard that.
Really?? It’s something I’ve grown up on, saying “pet the dog”
@@TheJaxxT I think it depends on your age. Many of these american phrases have been adopted by younger people and they see nothing odd about them. However us oldies feel differently and I had to think very carefully when I first heard an american person talking about a "petting zoo." It still sounds very weird to me.
"Heavy petting" means touching somebody sexually and was on signs at swimming pools up to the late 70's.
Basically they don't want certain fluids contaminating the water.
I wasn't born till 1983, and the signs still said this in the 80s and 90s.
I think "patting" the dog is more common in England than "petting" which does sound like making out.
Never heard patting. Stroking the dog. Why would you just tap a dog
Petting the dog is a normal saying in the UK.
Well yes it can be taken two ways in uk like kissing an ugly girlfriend or just to showing the dog attention
Patting.
@@neilgayleard3842yes we pat the dog in the UK, petting is an Americanism that some people have adopted
it's only fairly recently we've imported that
@@CW1971we have always said petting the dog in Scotland. So it's a good chance the Americans got it from us.
Back when I was at uni in the late 60s, one year I had a summer job in the US, working as an hotel receptionist in the Adirondacks. A family checked-in one Friday and the father asked that we wake up each of their three rooms at 7.00 each day. I didn't realise that I was saying anything untoward when I responded something like, "Yes, certainly sir. I'll make sure to knock up your daughters too."
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🤣😂🤣
If your up Newcastle way you will often hear people in a Geordie accent say the word "Pet" to refer a female.
Like 'Vera' 😅
In Glasgow, you will be called 'hen' - if female.
It's not called the 'peace sign' here, as it came to prominence during WW2 and was used to signify victory, hence V-sign. There are various stories for why the reverse of the sign is offensive, a well known one being as a taunt in ancient times against captured enemy archers whom had their string-drawing fingers cut off.
Yes, I hear it came from the battle of Agincourt, where English archers would taunt the French with 'look we've got our bow fingers, you're in for it mate'...there's a great display outside the Royal Armoury in Leeds as you approach the entrance from the carpark demonstrating exactly how far our lads could fire. My Dad is an archer and he was impressed.
Absolutely, though there's no record of the offensive gesture before the 20th century. It's provavly from WW1.
There's a lot of people here who don't recognise how Americanised they are.
I agree! All the comments from people saying they use the American versions are probably all under a certain age.
When Churchill first used the V sign in the UK it was during the Second World War. It signified V for Victory. This is also the way it was used in the US when I first visited, as a child, in the late 50s. In the US it transformed into the peace sign only during the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in the late 60s.
The first time Churchill used it he did do it the wrong way around but he may have been directing it at the Germans, a photo and a short clip from a Pathé Newsreel exist.
We'd certainly understand Pet the Dog, but PAT the dog or stroke the dog is more common.
Where I live now you can say CLAP the dog, which also means pat
@@tonybennett9964 Huh, interesting! Where abouts is that?
@@SongBillongScotland we say "clap"😊
The reverse peace sign is a medieval throwback- archers would do it to show their enemy that they could still fire arrows.
The V sign thing is something to do with medieval archers. When they were captured they had a finger chopped off so they couldn't fire anymore so the V sign is like "look at me, I still have 2 fingers"
Longbow salute.
That's a myth
TBH & FYI: This has been debunked as an urban myth several times (with NO historical evidence whatsoever), on history documentaries and QI etc... I too believed it and would tell people the same thing but no longer spread that story!
The V sign ( back of hand closer to face, palm outwards ) is actually V for Victory for WW2, colloquially if reversed it means "up yours" - I had occasion to mention this to an American family on the station platform not so long ago on on 11th November - Remembrance Day - kids happily making what they presumably thought was a peace sign to anyone wearing a poppy and parents looking a bit anxious as they realised several people were scowling and tutting - having several American friends I knew that they likely did not understand why they might be giving offence, so I quietly mentioned to the parents the nuances of the hand signs - and that the version they were using was especially liable to cause misunderstandings on the UK equivalent of Memorial/Veterans day. The parents were mortified, thanked me, for letting them know, and got the kids to just wave rather than flipping everyone off, then hurried to apologise to approaching station staff and explain how it was an innocent misunderstanding. Re Petting - in the UK it is used in humans to describing touching less accessible parts of the body - and heavy petting is as close you can get to penetrating without penetrating. To be fair, I think most people in the UK would understand that someone asking to pet a dog meant to make friends with the animal rather than having any sexual intent - in the UK we'd sat pat or stroke. NB Never touch someone else's pet/working animal without first seeking permission, failure to do so can be dangerous and is, in any case, a severe breach of etiquette.
Re Pet the dog, in England I think Pat the dog, is more common.
Or is that the Postman?
I was watching another youtuber who hails from Kentucky. His dogs were doing what dogs do and he apologised and said "she is a terrible fanny sniffer". I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
A few decades ago whilst visiting family in Albuquerque, there was a cartoon character used in advertising called Randy Rabbit. To me, the name of this rabbit was hilarious and it was absolutely everywhere on TV, posters (billboards), and even people in costumes. I tried on multiple occasions to explain that in Britain a rabbit was by its very nature and proclivity to frequent reproduction, frequently randy, think humping and the phrase “randy as a rabbit”. Imagine your average RUclips American visiting Britain make the statement that he has a Randy Rabbit at home and asking if we had them here UK.
Also, I remember asking one night whilst having drinks with family and people I had only just met, if anyone wanted knocked up as we were leaving early the next morning. I meant woken up and they thought something totally different.
Americans are strange 😊
It would cause me no end of mirth too 😂
I only heard the phrase " hump day "in the UK last year, when my workmate said it !! She has always used the term for years apparently.
I've heard of "rim shot" before. It's a drumming stroke where you hit the rim of the drum rather than the skin.
" To pet the dog " means just that these days !! PET or STROKE a dog !!
The V sign originally meant V for VICTORY ! (Churchill)
American tourists need to be VERY careful when posing for photos in the UK and giving , what they think is the " peace sign" , when it actually means FUCK OFF !!
Some people say that the " 2 fingered salute" originated from the English archers showing the French that they still had their fingers , because the French would cut off the two fingers of captured English archers so they could no longer use a bow and arrow.
That old wives tale about the V sign being derived from the French chopping off English archer's fingers is just that , an old wives tale that's been debunked many times over the years.
@@shaunw9270prob but its always good to blame the french 😂
@@DMGamanda True ! 😅
theres a term in england "i need to see a man about a dog" which means your leaving without wanting to say why
The petting definition isn't really a thing anymore in the UK - it's an archaic term more common in the 1950s and 60s. You probably wouldn't say 'stroke the dog', either; a more generally used phrase would be to 'pat the dog'. His description of sticking up two fingers is a bit bungled. We do the Peace Sign in the UK and turning your fingers round means F Off, but I've seen Americans regularly hold up those two fingers to indicate '2' to somebody when asked how many of something they need. Two fingers in the UK is more common and just as offensive as giving someone the middle finger.
Thank u for the clarification... I'd never had known that, to be honest!
In fact, the middle finger gesture inported from the USA was unknown in the UK until after the 1960s: the two-finger gesture was universal for this purpose before that time.
I'm pretty sure rim shot is used here in the UK to mean when a drummer strikes the rim of the drum with their stick. I've not heard other meanings being hinted at here though.
Thought it was a euphemism for the likely result of withdrawal (Catholic contraception method…)
@@bridgetgiles4578Likewise! 🤣😂🤣😂
Yup as a drummer that’s the only thing I thought of.
I honestly thought a rim shot was a basketball term. Like, when the ball hits the rim, bounces and then falls thru the net to score a point. Which greatly differs from a 'rim job', which I will leave to the Catholic church or episodes of South Park to define..
We use the Peace sign too so you won't offend anyone with that, it's only offensive if you turn your hand around. This history of this goes back to the battle of agincourt in 1415 when the French cut the fingers off English bowmen if they caught them, so the English would taunt them by raising their fingers used to pull the bow back to show they still had them. Lots of the phrases like hump day are used in the UK and we also say petting the dog, I'm familiar with the other use of petting but have never heard anyone actually use it, snogging was more commonly used.
Sadly, there is zero evidence for the Agincourt story, fantastic as it is.
@@julianbarber4708 many things have zero evidence, but thats life.
The V sign is supposedly from the hundred Years War. The English dominated most of the early battles because their Longbowmen. Rumour had it that captured English archers had their fingers cut off, so they could no longer draw a bow. So, the English would taunt the French by waving their bow fingers at them. I've seen some disclaim the story but it's a good one.
I've read this too but apparently there's no evidence to support it. And Churchill used it to sign victory so context is important.
@@TheCount66not really context, it’s more positioning; It‘s never interpreted as an insult if the palm is facing is outwards in my experience
Yawn.
Yes, there's a lot to unpack here. There's also a lot that's wrong. Let me give you two examples:
RIMSHOT
I've never heard the "punchline drum figure" being refered to as a "rim shot". There's not a rim involved! What a "rimshot" usually means is a drumming technique, where the drummer hits the rim and the skin of (usually) the snare drum simultaneously. Here's a video that, briefly, describes three kinds of rim shots (elegily):
ruclips.net/video/mwjIdD0gbQ4/видео.html
I don't see why you shouldn't use this in Brittain. It means the same thing on both sides of the pond.
THE V-SIGN
The guy never explains why it's called the "V-Sign". In Brittain it's NOT a peace sign. It's the sign of "Victory". Hence the "V" sign. It was made popular during and after WW2. Very much so by Churchill. However the gestures origins stretches much further back in time. At least to the middle ages.
Legend has it, that when archers were captured, they had their index and middle fingers cut off, as not to be able to shoot a bow. Therefore, archers held up their two fingers in order to taunt the enemy. Saying "See, we can still shoot".
BONUS
Leaving Brittain. If you ever come to Sweden, NEVER ask to pet the dog! The word "petting", in Sweden, excusively refers to having sex whithout genital penetration. In Sweden you ask if you can "klappa hunden". On the other hand, "klappa" is also swedish for "slap", so.... Poor dogs, they just can get a break. Can they?
Britain one t.
Is/was Briton ever used as a spelling for Britain? I've seen that spelling used before but I don't recall the context...
I think this refers to the indigenous inhabitants of Britain rather than the country itself but is commonly used to describe the current inhabitants too.@@leonessity
@@leonessityafaik, a Briton is someone from Britain
@@moogoatcluck7544 Aaahhh... Now I'm feeling a bit daft, because as I read your reply, I realized I had been taught that at one time, back in school. Thanks for your reply, eh!
The V sign never meant Peace. It's either Victory or F Off.
A RIMSHOT is where a drummer hits the drum head and the metal rim of the drum simultaneously. What Lawrence was talking about is called a STING (in percussion)
Nope. Look up rim job
""America is so big."
Tyler's brain is so small.
Facts.
So, in resumé - when you're in England, watch your P's and Q's, and watch also what you do with your fingers !!
Other than that, have a great time.!
i heard churchill did it the wrong way around a couple of times and had to be told it was rude that way
You can say 'pet the dog' in the UK - he was stretching a bit with this one.
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RULE 8: NO HEAVY PETTING
Posters everywhere in EVERY swimming pool. All through my childhood. With a little cartoon of a snogging couple.
Maybe it's because I'm a millenial/gen z cusper and Americanisms have made their way over, but I ALWAYS say "can I pet your dog?" Any other way of saying that would be weird to me.
I've never heard of "the V sign". That's the peace sign to me (turned around is swearing though).
In general, I don't like the man you're reacting to here. His info always seems to be outdated. He's better than the pair of toffs though.
Oh, I knew these. When I was a kid, if a couple of teenagers were necking in the corner, it would sometimes be called petting instead. Now, I don;t hear either of those terms. It's usually called making out. (Canadian here) I haven't heard many of my English friends saying stroke the dog though... yes, I do realize it's a euphemism, but the Brits aren't daft... mostly... this was fun wat ching because I am subscribed to both your Tyler Bucket channel and Lost in the Pond.
We would understand the pet the dog thing but it’s funny because because petting in my part of England means foreplay
Petting is a very old fashioned word, in that context. I’m 50 and it’s not been used in the way he intended, your version of ‘making out’ for many years. Nowadays it’s perfectly normal to say pet the dog and we have petting zoo’s here which means holding and stroking a small animal in a farmyard setting for children. So that’s very backdated !
'Pet the dog' is a very dodgy and obscure example. To most English and British people it will simply mean exactly the same as the American meaning.
Tyler. You have a dirty mind.
Damn! I was looking forward to watching this and then I saw Lawrence in the thumbnail. I'll give it a miss as he drives me mad with his out dated " facts".
One of the main things not to say in the UK, is asking for a free refill at a Starbucks
Well you can ask, but you won't get
You don't get free refills at Starbucks in the US either. That's generally reserved for coffee in diners or fountain sodas in all kinds of restaurants including fast food.
I can't help but smirk every time former President Trump is mentioned because trump is yet another euphemism for fart in the UK.
I wouldn’t say double fisting or rim shot are rude. Brits might just look at you and say “huuu what does that mean”?
Please stop reacting to this guy, he hasn't lived in Britain in decades and most of what he says is usually wrong and very out of date
Lawrence gets so much wrong its hilarious 😂, plus hes painfully annoying
Petting the dog is perfectly alright... You're more likely to get weird looks for suggesting it means what he suggested than for asking if you can pet someone's dog. I equally find stroking the dog weird too... But I haven't found myself needing to ask such a question... If the dogs runs to me... I'm giving it a pet... Without calling it that... 🤔🤣
Iv never seen a swimming pool with a sign saying no petting in the pool. I’m in my 30’s and have never heard petting to mean snogging.
This is quite funny. I never really thought about it, but in Germany, we use the word “petting“ (which is NOT a German word, historically, but, I assumed, an English borrowing, for more than just French kissing. It means more of fooling around, like French kissing and trying to get to base 2. Essentially “parking activities“ as shown in so many teenage movies. “Heavy Petting“ implies REALLY getting into it, like oral activities going on in OTHER areas, not involving the mouth of the other person even… I could have been more blunt but who knows who and what age groups read this… LOL
The history of the two finger salute in the UK goes all the way back to the times of battles such as Agincourt.
Back then the English army mainly consisted of peasants trained as archers armed with the famous English longbow that caused enemies such as the French such high numbers of casualties that if the French ever caught an English archer alive then they would cut off the two middle fingers so that man was now useless an an archer because he could no longer draw a bow.
When the English beat the French at the battle of Agincourt, as the defeated French forces trudged away from the battlefield, the victorious English archers all stuck their two middle fingers in the air at the French to show that by winning, they had retained their fingers.
This is why in the UK showing the two middle fingers a certain way around has become to mean "F**k off".
Instead of 'blow someone off' use the phrase 'stood up'. Likewise 'double fisting' sounds like something that would happen on 'the hub' so use 'duel wielding' instead. Rim shot sounds very much like 'rimming' which is another activity you might see carried out on 'the hub'. The back handed 'v' sign is indeed like 'flipping the bird' or raising the middle finger to Americans (which also happens in the UK). To us its roots come from (however mythical it is in actual history) our battles with France. Namely the battle of Agincourt. This was a hard won English victory from the 'hundred years war' which legend has it that captured English men would have their first two fingers on their right hand amputated before release by the French so that they could no longer draw a longbow (the primary English weapon of choice at the time) so to stick two fingers up at someone became a symbol of defiance in British society as in 'I still have my fingers and I am going to kill you with them'.
One extra example of things not to say in the UK - i'm going dogging. To us dogging is the activity of having sex in a car for the viewing pleasure of others.
The ‘V’ sign means V for Victory. Sir Winston Churchill used it when we gained Victory in WW II
No it was used before the war was won as an encouragement to morale.
In New Zealand and Australia, we pat the dog. Flipping the bird is the middle finger, and giving the fingers, is as explained... the peace sign turned around.
Older Aussie here..we used to call it giving someone the forks.
Bum bags are thankfully a little out of fashion, certainly where I live (London), which is just as well because when I hear it I now think of a colostomy bag. 🤢 I don't think anyone would think that by asking to pet their dog you intended to put your tongue in its mouth, but in any case, we tend to say 'pat' instead, or sometimes 'stroke', which now I think of it, can sound like an even worse double entendre. 😬
The V sign means F.O.
You shouldn't say anything .. to anyone ... ever.
3 main pool rules.
No petting
No diving
No running
Anyone who wants a giggle, look up Haribo's "Creamy Dreams". As far as I know they're not sold in England so I'm unsure why the rest of Europe has them with English writing on. Even the design of the packet has some fairly unsubtle innuendo lol.
Pet the dog I think is a southern thing, I've never heard of it in Newcastle. The peace sign is fine, like he said, only if you reverse it, it becomes offensive. To blow someone off I would understand the American way but if an English person said it I would think of the English meaning, same with rum shot...in the UK to rim someone is to lick their A-hole so yeah, a lot of stuff Americans innocently say sounds crude over this way 😂😅
It's not a southern thing. We say pat just like everyone else in Britain.
I'm from the south, and I've never heard anyone say "pet the dog" either. "Stroke the dog", or even "pat the dog", but never pet!
I’m a Southerner & the pet the dog thing isn’t used here in Hampshire. Maybe it’s used in other southern counties (never come across it myself) but it’s certainly not used in my neck of the woods. As has been said, it’s usually stroke or pat the dog.
You're spot on about pet the dog. Fine to say here in the USA, but don't say stroke the dog. Just don't . LOL! This was a fun one. TFS.
Hump day is a lot more common now. I hear that a lot in my work place although it was only introduced last year 😂 I’ve never heard of ‘pet the dog’ although heavy petting I have heard which does mean lots of contact between two people.
This is the blind leading the blind here..
How can someone get so much stuff wrong.
"Petting" means more groping than kissing. Sexual activity short of intercourse. It's an American usage as well as a UK usage, though. It would be quite normal in England to talk about petting a dog, though. Would not be misunderstood.
And for reference, we NEVER have an opera singer to perform the National Anthem.
To blow off is another way to say to fart 😊
Ive never heard of hump day and I'm born and bread from UK.
Oh dear, Tyler, the more you keep saying the words, (most noticeably the FP one- see, I can't even write it!), the funnier it gets 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Best laugh I've had in ages 🙋♀️🇬🇧🙄
Tbh bum bag is funny to me as a brit too.
The V sign goes back to Winston Churchill. It means V for victory over the Germans in WW2.
The 2 finger version of raising your middle finger apparently comes from the English archers directed at the French. The French used to cut those fingers off any English archers they captured as they are the ones you use to pull the bowstring back. The English would show the French they still had those fingers and could fire at them.
No it don't, pure myth
I was about to comment this exact thing regarding the archers. To be fair tho, I haven’t noticed the 2 fingers being used much, or at all in recent years. I’m not sure how much it’s still used. I’ve only seen the middle finger.
TBH & FYI: This has been debunked as an urban myth several times (with NO historical evidence whatsoever), on history documentaries and QI etc... I too believed it and would tell people the same thing but no longer spread that story!
The first one, in the UK, we, or at least where I am from, it is called Ghosting someone instead.
Really !? Never heard of that term before.
Ghosting is more to ignore someone completely, blowing someone off is more a one time ignorance
I’d use ‘stood up’
Ghosting is a relatively new term, an older phrase in the UK would be ‘blanking’ someone or simply ‘letting you down’
Ghosting is also an adopted Americanism. The common English term is to stand someone up, or to be stood up.
Normally the verb
to pet (to do with animals) is replaced by "stroke" in British English.
the urban myth about the 'v-sign' is something to do with one of the England vs France conflicts - I don't think it's as old as Agincourt, but it might be - where apparently British bowmen that were captured by the French had those two fingers cut off, so were unable to use their bows. So it was a kind of " ha! i've still got my fingers, and i'm going to shoot you" kinda gesture. But, like a lot of things that stem from England / France relations, it's turned into an insult.
We call it a "bum bag"
You blew him off!
HOW DARE YOU! I did NO SUCH THING! I didn’t even MEET them! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 HOURS of fun 🤣🤣🤣
I have never heard of can I pet your dog meaning snog a dog. I've heard of heavy petting meaning touching someone in an erotic way. But petting a dog here in England, people do say and it means can I touch your dog. Some people do say stroke aswell. I have 2 dogs and I get both pet and stroke from the public.
I have never heard of hump day, that's weird that you refer is as a Wednesday 😂 As for the peace ✌️ sign, we do understand that here I England and some do do it, I do if I'm referencing something. But yes turning your hand around means Up yours 😂 it gets used alot, aswell as the middle finger 🖕
i thought petting ment keep your hands out of her 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈in the swimming pool and i don't no what A RIM SHOT IS I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT.... YOU CAN SAY IS YOUR DOG FRIENDLY CAN I PET IT THAT'S FINE.......
In Scotland, for petting the dog we would ask 'can I clap your dog?' Which to my little understanding of American vernacular, I think would sound like we're asking to shoot it.
The whole of the UK says this. Not just England
Heavy petting! TOUCH A TOUCH A TOUCH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( RHPS). Says it all
Isn't a "rim shot" also a Basketball term...?
"Petting" here can mean something similar to your "making out".
"Heavy petting" can be kissing and/or light touching/groping.
Here, you might "fuss" a dog/cat.
The V to us means peace too. The backwards V is essentially "fuck off".
He said "pissed" too. That usually means drunk here.
As a brit, I would totally understand if someone asked, "Can I pet your dog?" However, I have never heard a brit ask that. In my area of the UK, it's usually, "Can I stroke your dog?" Or, "Can I fuss your dog?"
Pet the dog...New to me...The rest was so entertaining.
Well it really means heavy petting and not petting is fine.😊
Have a look at this.Flashing the V | Victory or Medieval Insult? By the
thehistorysquad. He is a great bloke.
"Oi! Garson, " he yelled, sticking two fingers up, "you're next!"
Very old gesture, goes back as far as 1415, when British prisoners of the French would lose those fingers, stopping them from ever firing a long bow again.
Now it just means get stuffed.
Presumably if someone in the US tried to work out "bum bag" without any further knowledge, they'd have to assume it was a bag carried by a wandering homeless person (UK: tramp; possibly US: hobo).
We're largely desensitised to certain words and phrases now, to be honest. Many of us have heard "hump day" and "fanny pack" so often through American media that most of us can understand them right away. In fact, I know of many fellow Brits who post "happy hump day" online
Yeah it's not a peace sign outside of America, it's Winston Churchill's V for Victory sign. Way before it became the peace sign in woke America.
The 'V' sign was made synonymous with Winston Churchill during the war. 'V' is for victory. Not peace. The peace sign symbol of a circle with an upside down trident inside was created in 1958 by a British artist. The sign is now used around the world.
You have to be a certain age to remember the signs that were displayed in public swimming pools in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, “petting” or “No Petting” literally meant no kissing hugging or touching your boyfriend/girlfriend, it was a moral standards rule that nobody took any notice off.
The reversed “V” for victory sign (✌️ peace in the USA) means “go forth and multiply” in polite terms, but most people in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 would be thinking “how dare you gesture for me to f..k off” but only the reversed “V” is considered rude.
The 'V' sign actually predates the Peace sign by about 500 or 600 years. During the Hundred Years War the English and Welsh archers, with their longbows, pretty much wiped out the French mounted knights at Agincourt and Crecy. They would draw the bowstring back with their index and 2nd fingers above the arrow shaft and the 3rd and pinky finger below. The bowmen, supposedly, would do the 2 finger salute to show the French they still had their fingers, as the French would cut them off if they caught them.
The 'V' sign showing the back of the hand to someone goes back centuries, yes seriously. Goes back to a time after Agincourt when the French were dementated by British archers. The French started taking off fingers of any British prisoners. Hence the 'two-finger' salute is a signal to the French or any other enemy - 'see I've still got two fingers to pull a bow'! A gesture of defiance or Anglo-Saxon for 'fuck you'.
'blow someone off' - I've heard it said, I wouldn't say it's usual over here but I don't think people would mind it.
'double fisting' - okay, he's right on this one.
'fanny pack' - but we now know what a fanny pack is, people would know what you mean
'hump day' - okay, we don't use that. But you'll see road signs everywhere saying 'humps ahead' and as far as I know no one takes it literally
'rim shot' - is a boom-tish on a drum kit after a joke. The rude thing would be suffixed with 'job'
'pet the dog' - nothing wrong with that at all. It's what I would say. Of course there are warnings against heavy petting in swimming pools but it's 'heavy' that differentiates them. And heavy petting isn't about kissing.
Yes, the reverse V-sign is like the middle-finger, which we don't really use.
He fails to mention the worst one. The other day I was watching Rob Squad reactions and Amber was gushing over one particular song: "It's so spunky. She's got so much spunk. I really like this spunky sound' - it was like she was trying to use the word as often as she could in as short a space of time possible. Just don't say that in England. Could get you in some sticky situations. And Amber, wash your mouth out.
Rim shot ... isn't that a basketball reference? Meaning either you miss the shot because the ball hits the rim of the basket and bounces off who knows where -- or alternatively, you make the basket/the points DESPITE hitting the rim first, maybe causing the ball to circle around the rim (like on a roulette wheel) before dropping into the center? I don't play basketball myself, but I always thought a rim shot meant either of these ...
Strangely enough, petting the dog is used in Scotland. When I first moved to Scotland from England, I was stunned when somebody said this to me. Can I pet your dog? Thinking they were going to do something obscene. to my dog.. And i said, no, you can't. And The adult. who's accompanying the child, that said it explained. The word stroke. means to pass one's hand across something. in a dictionary. So to me, that's the obvious word to use. The explanation of the two fingers was not entirely correct. The V. showing the back of your hand. with the fingers in a V form. means F off or f you. I won't use the full word. the hand turned in the opposite direction was Winston's Churchill. sign for V for victory. So I can understand you using it as a piece sign.