Obscure British References on ILM: Classic or Dud ?

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tracey look at moy!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

Used to be, "bare" meant 'none' in North london and 'loads' in the Saarf. Cue hilarious misunderstandings.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

so Barenaked Ladies are in fact from Sydenham I figure

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

wait, i mean....oh never mind, hmph

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

we had a classic one on the bus the other week. two rather loud-mouthed young "ladies" were abusing other passengers by saying they were "brock". the abusee said "what on earth does that mean?" and apparently it means ugly, but no derivation was offered. she also said the guy had "a cauliflower dick" which is entirely un-comeback-able despite being gibberish...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

Brock - a reference to the Pokemon character? He doesn't look particularly ugly to me though (although poss. nerdy..would that fit you and your friends?). The other obvious thing would be a badger (and badgers are ugly, arguably) but that seems far too old fashioned.

― David (David), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

'brock' means 'broken' or 'to break out' - possibly 'spread out' or 'wide' - i'm guessing here

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

To brock or bruck someone up is to beat them up, so I'd go for it possibly meaning 'horrifically disfigured' as well.

― cis (cis), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, we thought it was fairly unlikely to be bager-related. shame, really. i'm assuming brock/bruck comes from break/broke, show your workings steve/cis ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 24 November 2003 12:59 (twenty years ago) link

Slightly related (to being broken): 'busted' ('cuz, those vocals sound busted'..the word busted said with feeling, explosively) lame, feeble (makes Busted's choice of name a bit unfortunate).

― David (David), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

show you my workings? how dare you sir

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

havent heard squashed for 3 yrs or so, i really like that one!

these kids i used to work with were alwyas going "work? squash that, man" with the most awesome scorn ever. no one else seems to have heard it tho.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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