|
0 Legionnaires (),
21
Murran Spies, and
3
Spider Guild Agents. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
 Previous Thread |
|
Next Thread 
|
|
Print Thread  |
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
I'm chuffed that we don't say 'chuffed' around here...even if I don't know precisely what it means!
Why do the British have all the cool metaphors and made-up verbs and crap? What do we (meaning most of us here happen to be) Americans have no art to our speech? It's always "eff you", "eff that", "let's eff" and the list goes on and on and on....
NOTHING as cool as being 'chuffed', 'snogging', 'shagging', going to the 'loo' and upteen other cool words you'll find in a Garth Ennis comic or a J.K. Rowling book!
WHY?!?!?!?!?!
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 703
And then there was steak!
|
|
And then there was steak!
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 703 |
If I'm not mistaken, chuffed is a positive. My brit pals say they're chuffed about something when they're happy. I've learned the hard way to not use British slang at home. Gets you odd looks. Lol.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,873
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,873 |
Well, shagging in South Carolina means a kind of dance. They even made a crappy movie about it.
And we are a younger country. More to the point. I myself prefer inventive cussin like "May your nether regions be visited by syphilitic deceased elephant dung, you soulless spawn of a fleet street hooker" or things like that. But you are right, roun' here, its a baldly stated Ef Ewe!
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,873
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,873 |
You furmpin borllywog, you. 
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Something pithy!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
If I'm not mistaken, chuffed is a positive. My brit pals say they're chuffed about something when they're happy. I've learned the hard way to not use British slang at home. Gets you odd looks. Lol. See? Them Brits is so kewl they can make a happy word that sounds like a mad word! In America mad-sounding word = mad word! 
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
Well, shagging in South Carolina means a kind of dance. They even made a crappy movie about it. As a fellow South Carolingian, I knows about that'n! How-EV-ah, wouldn't you rather shag than shag? And we are a younger country. More to the point. I myself prefer inventive cussin like "May your nether regions be visited by syphilitic deceased elephant dung, you soulless spawn of a fleet street hooker" or things like that. But you are right, roun' here, its a baldly stated Ef Ewe! I often use "butt" and "poop" instead of "ass" and "shit" because they sound funnier in their various permutations. Plus, as a bonus, people look at you like you're crazy when you do it! 
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 22,670
Fabulous and Sparkly!
|
|
Fabulous and Sparkly!
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 22,670 |
We don't say "Nosferatu" or discuss flying lemurs much any more either.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
This ain't no "anymore" thread, Rocks! 
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
Bloody!
Wanker!
Bugger!
Brit: "Bugger off, ya bloody wanker!"
American: "Get the eff outta her, you effing effer!"
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 24,141
Not much between despair and ecstacy
|
|
Not much between despair and ecstacy
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 24,141 |
Would it be okay to say Nosferatu is chuffed?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307
Deputy
|
|
Deputy
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307 |
You think we Americans don't have cool metaphors and made up verbs? (I'm ignoring the "crap" because I know you know we have that.)
We are practically swimming in them. You just don't think about them because they're ours. Or you suffer from a grass-is-greener syndrome.
But hey, for you...
chuffed!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 584
Active
|
|
Active
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 584 |
If I'm not mistaken, chuffed is a positive. My brit pals say they're chuffed about something when they're happy. It is not exclusively a positive as it is not uncommon to be told to 'chuff off' (for me anyway) and the phrase 'that's chuffing marvellous' is often used sarcastically.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307
Deputy
|
|
Deputy
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307 |
Ah, well sarcastic usage changes the meaning of the phrase in context, but the word itself is still positive.
And I'm terribly chuffed to bring this all up again just to use "chuffed" for Paladin.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 9,086
Long live the Legion!
|
|
Long live the Legion!
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 9,086 |
Tigers make a 'chuff' sound when they are (it seems, although this may be anthropomorphizing them) amused and content.
And yeah, I've always heard 'chuffed' as similar to 'stoked' in meaning. (As in 'fired up' or 'happy for you' or even 'proud' and not 'stoned out of my gourd,' which is the other meaning I've heard of 'stoked.')
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
Well, I'm chuffed to meet a certain someone for dinner later tonight! Guess I'd better go to bed soon, so I can be well-rested for said occasion.... (I wonder if there are Britishisms for going to sleep and being well-rested?  )
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307
Deputy
|
|
Deputy
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307 |
Well I believe the opposite of well-rested is knackered. Though that rather sounds like something you might hope to be after that dinner you're looking forward to.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307
Deputy
|
|
Deputy
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,307 |
Oops, left it out...
Chuffed!
(You know, you didn't really say you needed it properly used in a sentence, so I hope that brings you the joy you were expecting. Considering it may very well be annoying the Brits here.)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
Well, I'm chuffed (read: 'proud', according to Set to be one of the possible definitions) to say that the dinner went extremely well!
Got some steak between my teeth, though. Now, where's a toothpick....
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 173
Eager Young Space Cadet
|
|
Eager Young Space Cadet
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 173 |
You want strange looks? Try cussing with made-up sci-fi cuss words.
Frak, Feldercarb, Grife, Sprock, Smeghead, and my personal favorite, You Rotten Stinking Son-of-a-Bosphur!
Although I recall hearing somewhere that the phrase 'Bloody' was one of the worst epithets a Brit could hurl or call someone. Like their version of the Eff word. Could be wrong about that though.
"I have a ticket to the moon....but I'd rather see the sunrise...in your eyes"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
Although I recall hearing somewhere that the phrase 'Bloody' was one of the worst epithets a Brit could hurl or call someone. Like their version of the Eff word. Could be wrong about that though.
I've heard that, too! I wish Faraway Lad was here to bloody confirm or debunk that!  I also heard that the second Austin Powers film had to be renamed in GB because 'shagged' is csidered so bloody dirty there! 
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 5,885
Wanderer
|
|
Wanderer
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 5,885 |
(Brit humour alert, so dont expect to understand this) Is it true that the man who was run over by a steam train was chuffed to bits?
Legion Worlds Ten - the final chapter is here. Find out the ultimate fate of our fantastic future friends.Only found in the Bits o' Legionnaire Business Forum.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 10,929
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 10,929 |
chuff this chuffin thread. so chuffed right now. what the chuff. ![[Linked Image]](http://imageshack.us/a/img199/7027/woodchucktrapping1.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 25,675
Gen X > Space X
|
|
Gen X > Space X
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 25,675 |
I have a couple of questions:
Does the above photo depict a regular "chuff" or a "w00t!chuff"?
Also, will this thread ultimately empower me to separate the "Wot" from the "chuff"?
Last edited by cleome46; 05/26/13 07:50 PM.
Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on ipernity! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2013
Posts: 21
Applicant
|
|
Applicant
Joined: May 2013
Posts: 21 |
Im going to enjoy introducing you guys to Welsh....If you thought England English was bad wait till you hear Welsh.... dew, dew, mun. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256
Time Trapper
|
|
Time Trapper
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 29,256 |
We're all ears, MBB!
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
|
|
|
|
Forums14
Topics21,113
Posts1,053,351
Legionnaires1,732
| |
Most Online53,886
Jan 7th, 2024
|
|
|
Posts: 166
Joined: July 2003
|
|
|
|
