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Here's one that cropped up in a news report:

PDQ

I know what it means, how many others do, without looking it up?

I read on MSN News that Jeff Beck died from the rare disease bacterial menengitis.

Another three celebrities passed away in quick succession.

Jeff Beck, formerly of the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group, died on Jan 10, 2023

Robbie Bachman, the drummer and co-founder of ’70s rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died, Jan 12 2023

and

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, died Jan 13, 2023.

There was a big dark skinned comedian on "Live at the Apollo" in London on TV last night talking about the new slang. He said he had previously worked as a doorman/bouncer. He said the younger generation referred to "going to the gym" as "banging gym". He said he was taken aback when one young dude asked if he had been banging gym. (Banging Jim?)

Another expression was "I will wet you", meaning "I will stab you".  He said he got all wrong one night when a punk stood up to him. He drew himself up to his 6 ft 3 in, took a deep breath, glared at him showing the whites of his eyes, and said "If you come back to this club I'll make you all wet."

"London fog" - Never lifts.

Wouldn't work in an iron lung. 

On 07/01/2023 at 9:06 PM, octave said:

Got no serious gripes?

I've mentioned this one before.

Why, when you turn on the tele, do you always strike the first of a string of 10 or twelve commercials. It used to be five or six, but now they go on and on and on.....

If you try to check out another channel, you strike the same thing. Commercial breaks are co-ordinated. Only OK if you need to make a quick trip to the loo. And it doesn't have to be that quick.

The old argument over what we call food has resurfaced.

McDonalds has a new item on the menu for summer - Potato scallops. In NSW maybe.

But in Victoria, they are potato cakes (potato cooked in batter). Scallops (as per the dictionary definition) are bivalve shellfish such as mussels.

In SA, they are fritters.

I caught part of a story on Foxtel History channel in a program called Abandoned Engineering. It is the story of Fortress Furgells in the Swiss mountains.

This looks like a typical Swiss mountain shed, but is in fact one entrance to the fortress, and contains a large cannon.

Here are just a couple of photos from within the underground fortress, with miles of tunnel, and quarters large enough to house a battalion of troops for 6 months.

See the story and amazing photos here.

Lower than shark shit. (That's on the bottom of the ocean.)

Couldn't get a shag in a brothel.

Went over like a lead zeppelin (or cast iron hang glider).

One of the things I hate about soshul meja is the absolute rubbish that so many dumb Americans post. I am only on Facebook so I can communicate with friends and relatives around the country. Like this forum, one post reaches many. But these stupid Yanks get on there (FB, Twitter, Tik Tok, et al, which get shared on FB), and rubbish everything not American. They criticise the things we eat, the things we do, the names we call things, etc., and they criticise the way we spell words when it differs from the way America has butchered the English language. (Theatre/theater, centre/center, colour/color, maths/math, and so on), not realising that they are the ONLY ones who spell things THEIR way.

I mentioned in another thread about the headmaster at my high school whose first name was Bert, and he had a bald head. We all called him Bertie Barrentop, but that was back in the 50's.

The guy who is in charge of the Men's Shed we share with is known to all as Ozzie. In fact he was litigated against by Ernie Carroll, creator of Ozzie Ostrich, because he had patented the name Ozzie. "Ozzie's" name is actually Daryl. However, a Scottish member of the shed had difficulty saying Daryl, and said "I'll call you Aussie", which became Ozzy. Now if you ask for Daryl, everyone looks at you quizzically.

I can't quite see anyone milking a kangaroo. (Now someone will come on here and say we already do.)

Fair enough. But Joe Owner goes to work, goes to an interview, goes shopping or whatever. He doesn't want to pay parking fees or be fined for overstaying a timed parking spot. He arrives in the residential street an hour or so before the road crew and returns four hours later. The car is not "abandoned", just parked.

One has to assume it was someone parking in an unrestricted street. I guess we've all done it at sometime.

Is it just coincidence that YANK and JERK can have similar meanings?

Supposedly, the council had notified residents a couple of days prior, but like your son's car, this may have belonged to a non-resident. Now residents are complaining how stupid the road looks.

Intelligent road contractors in Melbourne suburb.

The 'food chain' is why these crreatures were put on this Earth. Man is (almost) the odd one out. There are still others further up the food chain, given opportunity, sharks, lions, bears, et al. Take that away, and what else do they contribute?