General / Off-Topic Sayings and phrases.

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Black Country best country, cocker!

Long time ago I did a photography course at the University of Wolverhampton and the sign above the technicians hut/room where we had to ask for additional equipment (lights etc)

"A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part"

Classic.

 

[Chris Simon]

Men are sometimes accused they treat women like objects.

..but nobody seems to mind that we tend to treat objects like women.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I find I'm using 'Not at launch' a lot more these days.

"You going to fix that broken thing you have been promising to do for ages?"

"Not at launch."

"Big day tomorrow, Laurence (for that is my real name) I need you to man the inbox and make some calls, can you do that?"

"Yes, but not at launch"

"Do you have a Nectar card?"

"Not at launch".

It's really working for me.

 

[Chris Simon]

You have two ears and one mouth, use them in that proportion.

Excellent !

I see, all the problems on the internet stem from the fact that we've got one brain and ten fingers and using them in that proportion...

 

[Pixelated Sparkster]

Pass by a person and see a stranger.
Bump into that person, and you might have gained a friend.

 

[Para Handy]

Pass by a person and see a stranger.
Bump into that person, and you might have gained a friend.

Or an entertaining new facial scar courtesy of the aggrieved bumpee.

 

[metatheurgist]

Or an entertaining new facial scar courtesy of the aggrieved bumpee.

Chance to meet a nurse then?

 

[Pixelated Sparkster]

Chance to meet a nurse then?

This is becoming quite the story

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking.

One of my dad's favourites that one.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I’m not as stupid as you look.

 

[FrogsFriend]

"I may not be good at what I do but at least I'm slow"

 

[Chris Simon]

"I may not be good at what I do but at least I'm slow"

Similarly (I think it's from some movie)

"We should take the shortcut. It's a bit longer trip, but at least the road is much worse."

 

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJh4KGynOI

 

[Jens Erik]

So what are some of the nice sayings or phrases you know?

Norway has a ton of really funny ones:

• "Being left with your beard in the mailbox" - This means that you've failed to accomplish what you were trying to do and you may have made the situation worse.
• "Buying a cat in a sack" - You've been tricked or been grifted
• "Things are going in the direction of a hen's kick" - Usually said when someone feels like things are going poorly for them.
• "There are owls in the moss" - Something is suspicious or not how they should be.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

Norway has a ton of really funny ones:

• "Being left with your beard in the mailbox" - This means that you've failed to accomplish what you were trying to do and you may have made the situation worse.
• "Buying a cat in a sack" - You've been tricked or been grifted
• "Things are going in the direction of a hen's kick" - Usually said when someone feels like things are going poorly for them.
• "There are owls in the moss" - Something is suspicious or not how they should be.

These are great.

 

[Ian Phillips]

A dutch saying that puzzled me until it was explained.

"Hij heeft het onder de knie" which literally translates as " He has it under the (his) knee".

Obviously what that actually means is "He is a master at it"

 

[Rubbernuke]

My favorite French one I was told when I was in hospital. There was a massive massive thunderstorm going on, and one of the male nurses said "its peeing like a cow outside". I laughed too much at that

 

[Revenant69]

My favorite French one I was told when I was in hospital. There was a massive massive thunderstorm going on, and one of the male nurses said "its peeing like a cow outside". I laughed too much at that

We have one that goes "it's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock"

 

[Wimmer]

"All mushrooms are edible, but some only once"

 

[Rubbernuke]

We have one that goes "it's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock"

Nice! I found it funny because a lot of British sayings are quite restrained in comparison.

The doctors told the nurse off because I laughed so hard my drip fell out