15 Jan 21
Cricket...I spent the wee (another word not commonly used here) hours very confused whilst (still, another word) receiving remedial explanations until someone told be it was a sport that involved the consumption of beer by spectators for its five day duration, starting at breakfast. Now, it doesn’t matter how confused I am.
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15 Jan 21
@hakima saidI had never heard this until a couple of months ago and I used to smoke a little, I think it's an American term.
We use this one. When I was looking for an apartment in the Pacific Northwest (where it’s legal), my nearly 80 year old mother was assisting my search looked it up because so many adverts mentioned “4:20 friendly”...
15 Jan 21
@hakima saidYa, cricket. Ask certain Englishmen, myself included, what is the finest (summer) sport in the world (Rugby Union in the winter) and they'll say cricket; non cricket playing countries will quite understandably not have a clue why we would say this. We're born to it, I guess. I have a theory (not shared by many, I confess) that 'Brexit' was nothing about economics, self - governance or any of the other oft quoted reasons, but rather that none of the other EU countries play cricket to any serious degree.
Cricket...I spent the wee (another word not commonly used here) hours very confused whilst (still, another word) receiving remedial explanations until someone told be it was a sport that involved the consumption of beer by spectators for its five day duration, starting at breakfast. Now, it doesn’t matter how confused I am.
15 Jan 21
@hakima saidIt started out with the knacker's yard where horses were taken to be castrated. So if you are knackered you are done in, but now in a less specific way!
knackered...I like this one a lot!
We can say “exhausted” but it doesn’t quite have the same meaning.
It amuses me that it started out having sexual connotations and now still sort of does but it’s acceptable for a child to say (at least, that is what I have been told.
Obviously I find it easier to announce that I am going out the back for a fag than my American equivalent. Mind you times are changing (I would now be judged for having the cigarette 😂).
