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Would you like to go to the Pants party

I was thinking the other day in the shower about my favorite pair of pants. I don't know why but two pairs came to mind. Both pairs I had owned in highschool. One was a really awesome pair of olive green thin strip cords that were incredibly baggy and had like cargo pockets everywhere. I freakin loved them and I wore them everywhere. I was devastated when I was riding my bike and the leg ripped on them tho.. The other pair were from my Dad and I got them at Aeropostale on my 14th birthday. They were light blue jeans, again totally baggy... and I owned them up until a few years agowhen I decided to wear them during some home renovation.

But I will not bore you with my favorite pants anymore although, I am still going to talk about pants because in England pants means something else.

I still cannot grasp the fact that PANTS means you underpants here. It is the only word I know that sounds appropriate except jeans... but I still call my jeans pants. So when I say, I got shit all over my pants or something, yeah I get some weird looks. I can't say omg I like your pants and once I was buying jeans for Alex and asked the store clerk where he got his pants because I liked them. He looked at me like I was crazy and was like... do you mean my jeans? No idiot I have xray vision and like your boxer shorts.

So anyway, I have to be careful saying pants and am learning new words.. well not new but utilizing words such as trousers, slacks, chinos.. anything other than pants. Weak.

So another thing I can't say in England or actually these go for most places besides America... is fanny. In the US saying fanny is a nice and less vulgar way of saying your butt. We wear fanny packs... we name people fanny... we say fanny all the time so we WON"T offend people. Well don't... not outside the US. What does it mean here? It is your vagina. So you can't say oww my fanny hurts from sitting on that bench... or sit your fanny down. Or... I have a fanny pack because they may think you got it at a novelty sex store. They call it a bum bag.. which to me sounds like a medical bag that you get attached for incontenance.

So pants and fanny's. Words that I need to eliminate from my vocabulary over here. It is really hard though. To me it is like if you walked up to someone and said I like your shoes and they slapped you in the face for being vulgar. "What?! Shoes are what we call penises here.. how dare you say that word in front of me and my children." You would just be completely surprised and then when you had to talk about shoes you would never be able to think of other words for them... because they are freaking shoes and that is what you know. It would make the pick up like "nice shoes, wanna fuck?" a lot more relevant though.

And.... while we are on the subject of taboo words. I use twitter.com and so do a lot of people. It is basically just a page where you can post in short sentences what you ar doing, how you are feeling and you can send quick messages to people. People who use Twitter are Twitterers, not twats, and messages you send are call tweets. So the word tweeter is not used here really but somtimes it is. A tweeter is a type of speaker by the way. But, in my family, your tweeter was your vagina. So the words are similar it makes me cringe all the time. It would be like if the word cock made you cringe and everyone kept talking about cacks. You would be like... scuuuse me? Oh. sorry. I have friends who also did audio stuf in cars etc and everytime I heard tweeter I admit I thought about vaginas and I laughed.

Posted by deanne at March 10, 2009 05:16 AM