Brits confirm please

[Loppfessor]

Do you really call a girl's vagina a "fanny"??? If so that is hilarious. I met some UK ladies on the beach in Ibiza last weekend and they were telling me all sorts of crap but I want to make sure they aren't pulling my leg. Also how come you guys think Americans saying "dude" a lot is so funny?

[Ace42X]

Do you really call a girl's vagina a "fanny"???

Yes, it is also a name that was popular a century ago. Fanny is crude, but also quite juvenile / old slang. "Weiner" would probably be roughly analogus.

Also how come you guys think Americans saying "dude" a lot is so funny?

Probably because it is associated with "gnarly" Bill and Ted-esque skater patois, and thus affectation. "Dude" used sparingly would not necessarily get too many odd looks in conversation here.

[Tzar]

aussies refer to a vagina as a fanny as well.

[mikizee]

id more often refer to a vagina as a badly packed kebab.

[Lyman Zerga]

you arse, cunt you just shut up
tea time!
monty pythons!

[Loppfessor]

That's awesome....I bet they found the fanny pack craze of the late 80s/early 90s hilarious!

[Ace42X]

That's awesome....I bet they found the fanny pack craze of the late 80s/early 90s hilarious!

They were called "Bum-bags".

[ms.peachy]

That's awesome....I bet they found the fanny pack craze of the late 80s/early 90s hilarious!
A friend of mine here told me how he went to NY several years ago, walked into a shop that had a big display with a giant sign that said "Fanny Packs Now Half Off" and nearly fell on the floor laughing.

[Loppfessor]

All I know is I love that damn accent those ladies speak with.

[na§tee]

haha. how cute.

fanny. don't american's say "fanny" for the buttock area?

i call my friends fanny a lot. i'm not calling them a cunt. it's more like "you fool!"

[Pres Zount]

I saw oprah say that her husband liked a big fanny. Yuk.

[faz]

I was confused alot, growing up, hearing "fanny" used so much on american tv. It was sometime before I learned that fanny means ass in american.

I said "dude" to a customer once and someone over heard me and said "dude? I didnt know we lived in america". I gave him an wtf look.

[TurdBerglar]

what about yo? do brits say yo? or do they use oi instead?

[Qdrop]

do Brits get as annoyed by the false stereotype that they ALL have bad teeth...as Americans do about the false stereoype that we all own guns?

[abcdefz]

That's awesome....I bet they found the fanny pack craze of the late 80s/early 90s hilarious!


The Office (BBC) got a joke off of this when Dawn was headed to Florida.

[faz]

The Office (BBC) got a joke off of this when Dawn was headed to Florida.

Word of warning, then: out there they call them fanny packs. 'Cause fanny means your arse over there...not your ming

[abcdefz]

Word of warning, then: out there they call them fanny packs. 'Cause fanny means your arse over there...not your ming


That guy. Always so helpful. Especially with employee evaluations.

[icy manipulator]

one pom term i never understood was Mingers? where does that come from?

[abcdefz]

one pom term i never understood was Mingers? where does that come from?



Flash Gordon, I think.

[Ally Al]

one pom term i never understood was Mingers? where does that come from?


he/ she/ it's minging (various things really usually smelly dirty etc etc)
he/ she is a minger (ugly and possibly smelly)
minge (fanny)

hope that clears it up

[Bob]

do Brits get as annoyed by the false stereotype that they ALL have bad teeth...as Americans do about the false stereoype that we all own guns?

i'm kind of curious about this too

[Ace42X]

Annoyed in so much that is a really baseless stereotype. Until very recently dentistry was available on the NHS, which meant there was very little excuse for anything other than exemplary dental care. Privatisation has really fucked over dentistry in the NHS recently, which has made this area ironic, as chances are that our move towards a US style of dental care is more likely to cause gappy blackened teeth in our poorer populace.

I can only assume that the stereotype has come about due to the reluctance of UK NHS dentists to proscribe purely cosmetic treatments (tooth-whitening a la holywood, having teeth yanked out of crowded but comfortable mouths, to stick bits of wire into the mouths of everyone under the age of 16, having surgery to realign teeth, etc etc). Ironic, as if you look at Tom Cruise's gnashers before he had the surgery, yeesh!

[discopants]

Oi, bloody hell wankers. Who'll be watching the cricket? Geraint Jones'd better pull his finger outta his arse. See you down the pub. Remeber when footy was good?

I prefer the word skank to minger.

[ms.peachy]

Annoyed in so much that is a really baseless stereotype.
Not entirely. I've seen some stunningly bad chompers since I've been here. It's not like everbody has bad teeth, but the proportion of ordinary people walking around with grotty gnashers is definitely higher here.

[TonsOfFun]

I think the fact that we are used to free health care inc dental care we took what we had. Its only until superficial americans started coming over here and we noticed we had such bad teeth.

There is no real excuse for bad teeth but if you haven't been to the dentist ever (which is many cases is true) or just not for 30+ years and last time you went they pull out perfectly normal teeth as well as leaving bad ones in there and you was not sure how hygenic it was then you ain't gonna go back because its hard to change a habit. Now without going private its hard to get a dentist appointment in the UK so those who have bowed to american pressure and decided to get their teeth fixed can no longer take advantage of free health care without waiting 1+ years and driving 3 hours out of town.

I see the point of private health care but I think it should be free and probably wouldn't ever go private myself.

I'd compare it to fat people in america. I'm fat I know and thought that you don't really get that much fatter than me, but when I went to Florida I saw some astonishly fat people with great teeth. Although not all americans are fat cus I saw some very slim people to. Same way not all British have bad teeth and are ugly.

[ms.peachy]

I'd compare it to fat people in america. I'm fat I know and thought that you don't really get that much fatter than me, but when I went to Florida I saw some astonishly fat people with great teeth. Although not all americans are fat cus I saw some very slim people to. Same way not all British have bad teeth and are ugly.

I'd say that's a fair comparison.

[na§tee]

i haven't been to the dentist this century. :/ woops. i have good teeth tho, i keep em in check. have no fillings. well, didn't require any, uh.. 6 years ago.

i actually asked for a dentist appointment for my birthday, ha! want to have a check-up and a polish, like. and have someone else pay for it. i still have baby teeth (i'm 23).. i was very premature and the doctor said i would be "behind" in some things, but i was always really advanced in everything - apart from teeth. i was still running out of lectures with a mouthfull of blood at university, ha!

[roosta]

there was one time in the Simpsons where homer mentioned Marge's fanny and that caused uproar across schoolyards the length of Ireland and the UK....

[camo]

stereotyping is stupid.




I'm off for a nice cup of tea



bye

[DustSucker]

Fanny is a girlsname in holland :D

[Tone Capone]

That's not the ONLY thing they do... Don't get me started! ;)

[Yeti]

Fanny is a girlsname in holland :D

Fanny(ie) Flag the writer of Fried Green Tomatos and the star of Match Game.