The word is "Sh*tstorm"
There was a prize.
If Michael Lewis was not totally off base, I'm surprised this concept was not already firmly embedded in the German consciousness.
Nod to frequent commenter Tom.
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Tosser v. Wanker
Okay, so the above sounds like a legal case, perhaps where a sociologist is suing an English prof.
But it is a serious question of "dicktion." (Apologies; couldn't help meself)
Both names are insults, clearly, and both refer to Onanism. (I assume that women are never called tossers / wankers, yes?* I mean, they can technically do the analogous thing, but it's just not the same. Brits, or Tommy the Brit, feel free to join in here...)
My impression is that calling someone a wanker implies total dismissal, not just an insult but saying the person wanking is beneath contempt.
Tosser is in relative terms more jovial, less insulting. The tosser is perhaps a pompous and useless idiot, but a wanker is not serious, someone who is just fooling around. In short, then, Andrew Lansley is arguably a tosser, but Justin Bieber is clearly a wanker.
Of course, I probably have this wrong. Since I am going to London soon to visit Tommy the Brit, I need advice.
Wanker, or Tosser, for the well informed visitor looking for just that right holiday insult? Some other possibilities...
*I found some references that would claim that a female tosser is a "strummer." But that misses the point. The goal is not to find a word for a woman pleasing herself (as the '80s Franklin-Lennox anthem said, "Sisters are doing it for themselves!"). Rather, the question is what is the analogous INSULT. I also found "bean flicker." I wish I hadn't found that, but I did.
But it is a serious question of "dicktion." (Apologies; couldn't help meself)
Both names are insults, clearly, and both refer to Onanism. (I assume that women are never called tossers / wankers, yes?* I mean, they can technically do the analogous thing, but it's just not the same. Brits, or Tommy the Brit, feel free to join in here...)
My impression is that calling someone a wanker implies total dismissal, not just an insult but saying the person wanking is beneath contempt.
Tosser is in relative terms more jovial, less insulting. The tosser is perhaps a pompous and useless idiot, but a wanker is not serious, someone who is just fooling around. In short, then, Andrew Lansley is arguably a tosser, but Justin Bieber is clearly a wanker.
Of course, I probably have this wrong. Since I am going to London soon to visit Tommy the Brit, I need advice.
Wanker, or Tosser, for the well informed visitor looking for just that right holiday insult? Some other possibilities...
*I found some references that would claim that a female tosser is a "strummer." But that misses the point. The goal is not to find a word for a woman pleasing herself (as the '80s Franklin-Lennox anthem said, "Sisters are doing it for themselves!"). Rather, the question is what is the analogous INSULT. I also found "bean flicker." I wish I hadn't found that, but I did.
Monday, October 17, 2011
G'accuse!
Where seldom is heard, a missing G word, and judges do strip searches all day!
At the World Scrabble Finals in Warsaw, one competitor accused another having hidden the "G" tile. He demanded that the miscreant be strip searched to find the missing tile.
In the US this would have been done, as long as the guy spoke Spanish and had committed a traffic offense. But not in Poland.
(Yes, the title is intentionally misspelled)
Nod to the Blonde
At the World Scrabble Finals in Warsaw, one competitor accused another having hidden the "G" tile. He demanded that the miscreant be strip searched to find the missing tile.
In the US this would have been done, as long as the guy spoke Spanish and had committed a traffic offense. But not in Poland.
(Yes, the title is intentionally misspelled)
Nod to the Blonde
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