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@canthidium@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

@canthidium@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years ago
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    27•2 years ago

    Genuinely curious what does fanny mean in Australia

    • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      42•2 years ago

      It’s slang for ‘pussy’. It’s the same in the UK.

      • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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        14•2 years ago

        So question for any language experts: why is it different?

        • themeatbridge
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          4•2 years ago

          Because Australia is upside down.

          • @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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            5•2 years ago

            And England, where we got it from?

            • themeatbridge
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              3•2 years ago

              Who knows why those limey bastards do anything.

        • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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          4•2 years ago

          Americans are obsessed with being different from England. See: Football / Soccer

          There’s a Christmas song that became a classic in the US largely because it was hated in England.

          • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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            7•2 years ago

            So one American circa 1776 decided “know what, mate? I think ‘fanny’ should refer to ass, not pussy”

            Why?

            “Coz fuck da bri’ish!!”

            🍻 🍻 👏🥂

            • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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              5•2 years ago

              Sounds like the most American thing I’ve ever heard.

              • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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                3•2 years ago

                Same guy also had a hatred for useless letter "u"s.

                • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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                  3•2 years ago

                  Nah, that’s just Americans being illiterate and obstinate about being corrected.

                  • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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                    Naw we’re just efficient 😁

          • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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            3•2 years ago

            …which one?

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        8•2 years ago

        Well at least saying shove it up your fanny is indicating a similar location in both amarica and Australia

    • @kraftpudding@lemmy.world
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      19•2 years ago

      Wait, what does fanny mean in America?

      • @OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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        29•2 years ago

        It’s a word for butt. It sort of has a childish connotation, like a pre-school teacher might direct their class to “keep your fannys on the ground.”

        • @torvusbogpod@lemmy.world
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          8•2 years ago

          Only in the US. In Commonwealth countries it’s a slang for vulva

          • @fubo@lemmy.world
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            6•2 years ago

            Fanny was a nickname for Frances or Francesca.

            Both the “buttocks” and “vulva” meanings may have originated from the scandalous 1748 novel Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

          • @orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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            Why did you get downvoted?

            • @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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              1•2 years ago

              Yanks get tetchy.

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            deleted by creator

        • @xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world
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          3•2 years ago

          I worked for a UK based fashion retail business and they always found it blushingly charming when I referred to what they called a 'bum bag ’ a ‘Fanny pack’.

          Also, ‘Pardon me!’ Doesn’t mean excuse me in UK English. It’s more an excuse for if you do something disgusting that you are ashamed of, like if you fart or burp.

          Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was my take away the couple years I worked with British people.

    • @DannyMac@lemmy.world
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      14•2 years ago

      Vulva

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