Have u ever had one of those instances where u have been in another country, or someone from another country has said something to u that made u go or

For instance....here in AUstralia "Fanny" means "Vagina" so when AMericans were calling what we refer to as Bum BAgs ...."fanny packs" Australians were all

Then when I was 14 I was talking to a visiting American and I told him I collected RUBBERS.... he did this Here rubber being another word for " Eraser"

My face was like this when he told me

Do u have a funny incident to do with words?

thongs have a different meaning here

The other day I was surfing the net and I saw an American add for a Fanny Firmer.

lawl.

purplesweat said:

On an episode of The Powerpuff Girls..a character was going to bed and as he was going he scratched his butt.

The voiceover guy said "He got ready for bed/And scratched his fanny"

I was like cuz I was like 8 at the time.

There was also a Simpsons episode where Marge showed Lisa a bathing suit with a starfish on the back.

She says "LOOK! There's a starfish on the fanny!"

Chichi is how small children in Spain refer to meat.

But in some regions its slang for fanny

So imagine this visiting friends when we told the kids to eat their chichis

PANDURITO said:

bum or vagina?

I have a friend who has lived in Australia all her life, so her spanish is a bit more like spanglish, and 4 years ago went back to Chile to visit all her family. She spent a lot of time over there looking for juice that didn't have sugar and preservatives in it. She went from shop to shop asking if their juice had "preservativos" in it, and the shop keepers were like "NO! of course not!!! " and she was like "OK cool it!"
She brought it up over dinner how she kept getting such weird reactions to what she thought was a reasonable question. Her auntie and uncle were like - preservativos means a whole other thing altogether. http://images.google.com....ages&gbv=2
She then said oh my god I am so "ebarazada" thinking that meant embarassed. Not quite!! http://images.google.com....da&spell=1


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ZombieKitten said:

Vagina! Children, eat your vaginas!

@ your poor friend. Are there any condoms in this juice? I'm so pregnant!!!

PANDURITO said:

she really shouldn't have drank that juice eh!

ZombieKitten said:

No!

"Doctor, can you get pregnant by swallowing it?"

PANDURITO said:

entirely preventable by drinking only juice WITH condoms in it/ those foreigners don't know ANYTHING!
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I once told my English boss I had to run home to take a 'douche'.

A 'douche' in Dutch means 'shower'.

My boss went and said "I know you Dutchies are upfront, but this is too upfront for me". It took me a minute to figure the miss-communication out.

It's all about vaginas I see

PANDURITO said:

And you are being one.



In Holland Fanny and Dick are perfectly legal first names.

And De Cock is a perfectly legal last name.

I want to see that couple book a room in the UK.

I remember as a kid watching australian soaps and hearing the term " a real SPUNK!" or "Spunky"


Well in England, I've only known Spunk as slang for sperm!!!! Not a word you'll ever find in a British soap I'm sure!

HamsterHuey said:

in Spanish, you can have lots of fun with the verb 'coger'.

It means 'to take' in Spain but in South America it means 'to f**k'. So much room for misinterpretation.

mentalist said:

ooh mentalist - showing yer age there! havent heard that term in years! i always thought those old famous five type books were funny as they were 'all full of spunk' or 'gay'. Plus fanny is used as in 'a right fanny' like in fanny adams (music hall star) so means ''a right pussy oops back to fanny again.

plus to say pissed over here is 'legless' but in the states is 'mad'.

so saying youre 'pissed with that spunky fanny' could mean anything depending where you are and what company you are in?

sloshed with a frightfully plucky young gal

or

sloshed with a frightfully plucky butthead

or

angry with a plucky eejit

or...

you get my drift

In Holland our previous Prime Minister was called Wim Kok. The coalition consisted of three parties. The coalition was named purple, because of the different colors of each party (green, yellow and red).

You could say that the dutch were lead by Kok, the purple head.

An English friend of mine was in the shops here in Holland and really wondered about this item:

Slagroom:


She wondered what went on in that room...

Sander said:

In France it is a name originally from Provence, it is tragic

Can I buy you a drink? usually means can I take you home and fuck your brains out..

good gawd these stories

syble said:

that would mean
"drunk with an attractive vulva"

Didn't Ben/Spooky start a thread once about how much he loved pasties and the American orgers were like WTF?

UK pasties:


US pasties (NSFW):
http://www.thereddoorstor...3974_P.jpg

PANDURITO said:

Someone once told me that small boobies are referred to as chi chi's in spanish. We had a restaurant in the states called "ChiChi's" and it's slogan was "ChiChi's, a celebration of food".



Whenever the commercial came on I would sing "ChiChi's, a celebration of boobs".

I remember in Spanish class my teacher was shocked to find out that The Lone Ranger's sidekick was called "Tonto" in the states. Obviously the name was changed when the TV show was aired in his native Colombia.