I'm being somewhat-serious. How many kids are we expecting the franchise to pick up these days since it only airs sporadically on SyFy and BBC America (in the US, check local listings)?
TBBS and treatment of women
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Oh I understand that completely, and actually, I'm sure most who use that term on this side of the pond are in the same boat. It's for me saying those words, even understanding the context, does not feel right.
What do you call them? Not that they come up in conversation a lot im sure.....
- true that. I use the term "A-shirt".
wah. I don't understand it. I even had to google the beer.
ETA: Neroon: "A shirt". Come to think of it, that's what the packaging says for those shirts, isn't it?
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You crazy kids and your subversive culture.
Maybe I'm just old but my friends and I just refer to them as tank tops, muscle shirts or sleeveless undershirts.
They're called 'ribbed tanks' here.
Hey, here we go:
"I Joined TrekBBS and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt"
"I Joined TrekBBS and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt"
Sorry for skipping a few hundred posts. I'm just reading through this post and wanted to add that a while ago I notified on someone calling some one else a spastic. Now I found this truly offence given it was from a High School teacher as well. The person I notified on wasn't given an infraction for what ever because, and this shows the double standards of some posters about using the word tits is because: The poster in question is American and it means something else over here.
So yeah, I'm with Deckerd on this. If Americans can "get away" with calling someone a spastic, I'm sure saying tits up should be perfectly fine as well.
To be fair, it is completely unfair to start handing out infractions for words that, to the poster in question, are innocuous. I, in fact, nearly handed out an infraction for the 'spastic' remark as I found it as vile and unacceptable as, say, 'faggot', but before I did I was told that to Americans the word is perfectly acceptable and doesn't carry the same meaning as here. I actually think that on that score, this board does a good job of being fair and taking national differences into account. We had a similar discussion over the word 'twat', which had the opposite problem.
I've never heard that one before.
Moose you use that kind of language, MLB?
Really? It's common here, maybe it's regional. I hate to use the source, but http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-494149/Where-did-wrong-beer-wife-beater.html
So that's why we can't all be adults here? Because somebody actually is thinking of the children? Damm kids always riding their bikes across my message board.
A møøse once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush.
Well, if you skipped a "few hundred posts," then it should come as no surprise to anyone that you've gone and missed the point. There was nothing in the original remark which implied an opinion that the word "tits" ought never to be used.
Far from it, in fact. Here, read it yourself and you'll see that it was quite clearly a comment concerning the use of the word in one particular context; that is all it was, and the OP agreed with the commenter. Exchange complete. Done. Finito.
Now, do we really need to take a misread of that post which has already gotten far more mileage than it ever merited and flog it around the block all over again? That tangent went tits up several pages back and I think it would have been well to leave it lie where it was (never mind the attempt to re-hash an old warning outside of the forum prescribed for such matters.
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I suspect it's just the translation of the German term, Arschgeweih, which I find a lot more fitting for this kind of tattoo.
It also sounds better in German. The English just doesn't convey much feeling as antlers don't really feel associated with a butt in English.
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