Differing meanings of words..

8 Sep 2005

There have been quite a few posts on here recently about language, and the change of it through political correctness etc.
Anyway, I'd been reading these and then I just saw a dogging post entitled 'would you like to have a tranny?' This got me thinking to when I was a boy, as the radios in our house were always called tranny's.. (from transistor radio). A common phrase in our house on a sunday night when the charts were on would have been "someone turn the tranny on..." a phrase that today would have a whole new meaning.. biggrin

I just wondered how many more words and phrases like that have taken on a whole new meaning a generation later...

8 Sep 2005

comando........... i thought they where speeking about ..... you no army stuff!
Never in a million years did ithink it ment with out pants! redface

Anouther eye candy!....thought that was a users name!.dident i breezer surprised

ops: :oops:
Fit......... is what i have learned today.......thought that was as it sounds .looked at them most strangle when they called me that.............. as i am certanly not...but it means smart clean! :oops:

8 Sep 2005

ahhh happy memories of my mk 1 tranny smile

(ford transit) had some great times in that bus...mind you i was 20ish and did football matches too.....

8 Sep 2005

Quote by wolvie_dude
A common phrase in our house on a sunday night when the charts were on would have been "someone turn the tranny on..."

A common phrase in many houses hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.....
Where's Judy when people are talking about turned on trannies?
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
I suppose the most obvious one has to be "gay", but I bet someone has already said that while I have been typing this and having naughty thoughts about turning trannies on lol

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

8 Sep 2005

Quote by bluexxx
I suppose the most obvious one has to be "gay", but I bet someone has already said that while I have been typing this and having naughty thoughts about turning trannies on :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I was going to mention 'gay' in my original post but left it out as that is tooo obvious a word that has had its meaning changed..

8 Sep 2005

Quote by dargento
ahhh happy memories of my mk 1 tranny (ford transit) had some great times in that bus...mind you i was 20ish and did football matches too.....

Ahh.. the tranny van.. forgot about that lol

My first few holidays as a kid were travelling round the country in a converted tranny.. :lol:

8 Sep 2005

Anyone remember when (in the late sixties and seventies) "rap" was a hip term for talk, deep discussion, heart-to-heart. Recently I heard a line in a film set in the seventies where someone said "Hey, you've got a problem, like to rap about it?" lol

:lol:
Mike.

8 Sep 2005

What about words like "chill" and "cool".... ? They used to mean simply temperatures that weren't warm, now they have much more wide useage.... "I am chilled cos I am a cool guy", doesn't mean I need to wear a jumper any more :P

8 Sep 2005

And if someone was "fit", it just meant they worked out a lot

come to think of it, I still don't know exactly what it means when someone says it :undecided:
Or does it still just mean that and I'm reading more into the word when people say it :confused:

8 Sep 2005

Quote by MISSCHIEF
And if someone was "fit", it just meant they worked out a lot
come to think of it, I still don't know exactly what it means when someone says it :undecided:
Or does it still just mean that and I'm reading more into the word when people say it :confused:

I'm chilled cos I'm a fit cool gay guy who loves turning on the tranny :grin:

8 Sep 2005

Condoms.. that is what we call them now.. what happened to Jonny Bags smile

rubbers or French letters...

8 Sep 2005

Quote by Nat
Condoms.. that is what we call them now.. what happened to Jonny Bags rubbers or French letters...

And Mates!!!!!!!! what happened to mates, are they still around? confused

8 Sep 2005

Bunk Up! -It used to mean someone pushing you up and over something by putting their hand under your foot and lifting!
Shag - once only referred to carpets and tobacco!
Ho - a noise Santa made lol

8 Sep 2005

Oh and another one. A friend of mine was talking about a guy, said "he's a nice guy but smells a bit 'minty'"
Well I thought that was a good thing, 'minty' is fresh and sparkly isn't it?? dunno

......... soon found out - the poor bugger stank to high heaven, more stagnant pond than Aquafresh confused

8 Sep 2005

when I was younger if you "got off with someone" you had sex
now teenagers take it as meaning kissing only

8 Sep 2005

Quote by bluexxx
I'm chilled cos I'm a fit cool gay guy who loves turning on the tranny :grin:

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Ten Ten Rubber Duck Breaker Four, Roger Over and Out :smile2:
There's another word right there! "Roger", gone are the days when you could say Roger in all innocence!!

8 Sep 2005

Meaty, used to mean full of meat, now it's a person who talks a load of crap :grin:
Oh and munch, always meant to chew, now an excuse to get blathered and sit under tables giggling blink

8 Sep 2005

oh, and just spotted in another thread..............
spam...... now more associated with all that crap that's sent to your e-mail.....
used to be the tinned ham sung about famously by the Python team

8 Sep 2005

and a johnny was a disgusting piece of floor detritus full of unwanted sperm

9 Sep 2005

Quote by MikeNorth
Anyone remember when (in the late sixties and seventies) "rap" was a hip term for talk, deep discussion, heart-to-heart. Recently I heard a line in a film set in the seventies where someone said "Hey, you've got a problem, like to rap about it?" :lol:
Mike.

Indeed.
Douglas Adams alluded to the term (perhaps trying to ressurrect it) in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, by referring to a telephone as a "rap rod".
I confess to a mischievous tendency to deliberately use certain words in obsolete contexts just to make people think I've said something I haven't, for example I insist on referring to a cigarette as a fag when speaking to Americans... it confuses the shit out of them. :twisted:

9 Sep 2005

noddy in the 70s to the new version...
banned from saying i feel gay
noddie was no longer allowed to sleep with big ears
miss spank became miss prim
pc plod was no longer allowed to spank noddy
some episodes had to be scrubbed all together...such as noddy and the magic rubber

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Ice Pie
I confess to a mischievous tendency to deliberately use certain words in obsolete contexts just to make people think I've said something I haven't, for example I insist on referring to a cigarette as a fag when speaking to Americans... it confuses the shit out of them. :twisted:

I am guilty myself of using the phrase "Let me have a pull on your fag"... lol

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Ice Pie
Anyone remember when (in the late sixties and seventies) "rap" was a hip term for talk, deep discussion, heart-to-heart. Recently I heard a line in a film set in the seventies where someone said "Hey, you've got a problem, like to rap about it?" :lol:
Mike.

Indeed.
Douglas Adams alluded to the term (perhaps trying to ressurrect it) in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, by referring to a telephone as a "rap rod".
I confess to a mischievous tendency to deliberately use certain words in obsolete contexts just to make people think I've said something I haven't, for example I insist on referring to a cigarette as a fag when speaking to Americans... it confuses the shit out of them. :twisted:
I suppose in that context an American would find the thread on Fanny Farts a tad disconcerting :shock:

9 Sep 2005

While walking the dog, I was thinking about the 'fag' post, and remembered another term..
To 'bum'.. as in, "bum a tenner" = "give me a tenner.." Which inveriably leads to the term "Can I bum a fag?" which has a totally different meaning..
(This is just an example and should in no way be misconstrued as me being offensive or a bigot or anything other than totally PC lol

)

9 Sep 2005

I used to think a spit roast was one of the turny things that had meat on that went in the oven or over a BBQ.
And I know we dont talk about illegal substances on here but my mum still puts her joint in the oven

9 Sep 2005

Quote by Ice Pie
Indeed.
Douglas Adams alluded to the term (perhaps trying to ressurrect it) in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, by referring to a telephone as a "rap rod".

would that be the part were beedlebrox was talking to marvin (the paranoid robot) just before they stole the bands blacker than black ship which was set on autopilot to crash into the s.......................................ok i'll shut up now bolt

9 Sep 2005

Quote by SirLee
Indeed.
Douglas Adams alluded to the term (perhaps trying to ressurrect it) in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, by referring to a telephone as a "rap rod".

would that be the part were beedlebrox was talking to marvin (the paranoid robot) just before they stole the bands blacker than black ship which was set on autopilot to crash into the s.......................................ok i'll shut up now bolt

Aint culture a wunnerful thing? lol

By the way, hope you're mending well :thumbup:

9 Sep 2005

Hehehehehehehehehe
Well, I'm chilled cos I'm a fit cool gay guy who likes to bum a fag (with a rubber) and turn on the tranny, and I am particularly partial to a spit roast and a good joint*.... Roger me senseless all you tranny-hags and turn up that rap.... I'm lovin' it :lol2:
* of beef (shut up those who know I'm a veggie :gagged: )

11 Sep 2005

I asked an American if he'd like a fag once. smile

His reaction?.............................. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Did I do something wrong? dunno

:dunno:

11 Sep 2005

Quote by MISSCHIEF
And if someone was "fit", it just meant they worked out a lot
come to think of it, I still don't know exactly what it means when someone says it :undecided:
Or does it still just mean that and I'm reading more into the word when people say it :confused:

It's a legal term as in 'fit for purpose' as opposed to being 'of merchantable quality'.
E.g.
'Fit' - she/he'll do me specifically.
'Merchantable' - she/he'll do anybody :twisted: