US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
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US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
Who talks the most bullshit/bollocks?
Should I exclude Yorkshire from the UK option to make it a more even contest?
Should I exclude Yorkshire from the UK option to make it a more even contest?
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
US doesn't have "bollocks". We have "bullshit".
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
VRZ Robotz wrote:US doesn't have "bollocks". We have "bullshit".
A technicality. You say Tomato etc.
and I changed the OP to reflect our linguistic differences
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
Anyone who even says the word "bollocks" is clearly more full of shit than everyone else in the world. What kind of pretentious asslicking bed-wetter uses a word like that?
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
VRZ Robotz wrote:Anyone who even says the word "bollocks" is clearly more full of shit than everyone else in the world. What kind of pretentious asslicking bed-wetter uses a word like that?
That's a vote for US then.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
Never mind the bullshit
here's BCB!
here's BCB!
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
VRZ Robotz wrote:Anyone who even says the word "bollocks" is clearly more full of shit than everyone else in the world.
whodathunkit wrote: Somewhere it's always 1972.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
trans-chigley express wrote:VRZ Robotz wrote:Anyone who even says the word "bollocks" is clearly more full of shit than everyone else in the world. What kind of pretentious asslicking bed-wetter uses a word like that?
That's a vote for US then.
FWIW - That post is best read in a full-on Yosemite Sam impression with guns a-blazin'.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
VRZ Robotz wrote:FWIW - That post is best read in a full-on Yosemite Sam impression with guns a-blazin'.
That's how I read ALL your posts.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
Bollocks ≠ bullshit, at least semantically. Talking bollocks and bullshitting can both be one-word defined as talking nonsense, but 'talking bollocks' is a term often used with a degree of admiration for the quality of the nonsense spouted, it's weight, weave and humorous intent. If you don't like it, you tend to say 'talking shit(e)' or 'rubbish'. I've heard 'bullshitter' used affectionately this way, but 'bullshit!' always tends to be dismissive or adversarial. IMNVHO.
I voted for yeUK bollocks precisely because talking bollocks is an artform, and the great majority of USA! USA! USA! posters here don't really do it with any conviction or brio, while one or two of the UK posters have it as a first language.
I voted for yeUK bollocks precisely because talking bollocks is an artform, and the great majority of USA! USA! USA! posters here don't really do it with any conviction or brio, while one or two of the UK posters have it as a first language.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
Bollocks has the whiff of anatomical homo-eroticism while bullshit just stinks.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
The first time I heard the word "Bullshit" was in the movie "Grizzly". Life would never be the same.
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Re: US Bollocks vs UK Bollocks
I readily concede that the Britishers got us by the, err ... BALLS on this one.
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