twassocks - spreading to the Middle east

[dylanwinter]

I am not sure if this is a good thing...

but this morning I got this email from one of my website subscribers who runs an excellent website for you traditional navigators - take a look at it.... but this is what he said


Dylan

I was showing some of your videos to my Tunisian colleagues during a lull in the rioting. As a result "Twazzock" has now entered the local lexicon when referring to the former regime. I can just picture the mob in Sfax centre, only this weekend, waving banners and chanting "Twa-Zock! Twa-Zock! Twa-Zock!"

Not only do you live dangerously by heating unopened cans in a saucepan, you help bring down dictators.

Keep living dangerously

Andy

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http://www.backbearing.com

 

[Twister_Ken]

Is a twassock the same as a lummock?

 

[Alfie168]

Its an excellent all round useful word. I imagine it will soon go global and we will be hearing the 70 million Chinese currently learning English chorusing "Twazzock" in Lesson 953, Useful Insults, some time soon.

Dylan, its on your conscience now.

Tim

 

[dylanwinter]

twassocks v lummocks

for me a lummock is almost a term of endearment - a well meaning eejit - a duffer

but Twassock implies the concept that the person is knowingly inconsiderate

apparently it is derived from the words **** and pillock

of course pinning down language is not easy and meanings drift around with geography

yours

Mr H Higgins of Wells

 

[OGITD]

The best one this week!

Dylan
I was showing some of your videos to my Tunisian colleagues during a lull in the rioting. As a result "Twazzock" has now entered the local lexicon when referring to the former regime. I can just picture the mob in Sfax centre, only this weekend, waving banners and chanting "Twa-Zock! Twa-Zock! Twa-Zock!"
Not only do you live dangerously by heating unopened cans in a saucepan, you help bring down dictators.
Keep living dangerously.
http://www.backbearing.com

Thanks for the chuckle!.... best one this week.

I think we need a thread / forum / programme… something on the lines of:

Tales of the Slug…. with stories, comments, anecdotes and profanities from the Pulpit.

Yes!... I know we have KTL… but for all the above which us Net-Users / Forumites find amusing .

Unfortunately our world is starting to implode ….. but at least we can have a laugh together from our collective aquatic viewpoint.

 

[snowleopard]

Not only do you live dangerously by heating unopened cans in a saucepan, you help bring down dictators.

Sounds like the occasion when the staff of our motel in Saudi came to watch an expat's film show in the hope of seeing bare boobs and were presented with Monty Python & the Holy Grail. They thought we were really weird.

On the subject of heating cans. I worked briefly in the QA dept of a canning factory. That was the recommended way of heating canned food. You do need to put water in the pan though What is really dangerous is lighting the wick of self-heating soup without puncturing the can.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Not only do you live dangerously by heating unopened cans in a saucepan, you help bring down dictators.

I and soldiers all over the world have boiled tins in water and I have never had or seen one explode.

Most of the lads would put a dent in the tin to allow for expansion, but the dent was unchanged after heating.

If the tin is 'blown' and it has air/gas in it, then there is something to expand.

Amateurs would pierce a tin first, but soon learned that the contents would seep out and make an unappetising soup out of the water.

 

[snowleopard]

I and soldiers all over the world have boiled tins in water and I have never had or seen one explode.

They certainly shouldn't explode as part of the sterilisation process heats them to well over 100°C

 

[dylanwinter]

PBO doubters

They certainly shouldn't explode as part of the sterilisation process heats them to well over 100°C

I did kick of a most impressive thread on PBO

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=256908&highlight=boiling+tin+cans


some quite illustrious posters told me I was dangerous to know and shuld not go promulgating such nonsense

but a life without risk is no life at all

Dylan

 

[Sailfree]

Twassocks is a good word but for February 2011 Wankpieces, mentioned on the Lounge forum by webcraft, has got to take the prize and beats the swear filter - so far!!

 

[Searush]

Twassocks is a good word but for February 2011 Wankpieces, mentioned on the Lounge forum by webcraft, has got to take the prize and beats the swear filter - so far!!

What shitty swear filter is that then?

 

[Porthandbuoy]

The wee lassie who sits an office down the corridor has just come to me and asked "Mr Andy. This Twazzok, is it a rude word?"

What do I tell her

I solved one problem though. I had IT add it to the global dictionary so we can use it in emails without spellchecker flagging it up.

What a brilliant start to the week!

 

[Searush]

The wee lassie who sits an office down the corridor has just come to me and asked "Mr Andy. This Twazzok, is it a rude word?"

What do I tell her

I solved one problem though. I had IT add it to the global dictionary so we can use it in emails without spellchecker flagging it up.

What a brilliant start to the week!

It may not have an obscene meaning, but it is certainly a word you would choose to insult someone, so yes it IS "rude" in that you are wishing to be rude to them. Seems easy enough to explain to me. [shrug]

 

[Lady Campanula]

I've been using the Wiltshire version - 'Wazzock' - for a number of years, and am delighted to recognise that the original ( wherever from ) is spreading abroad.

Yinglish is truly a language for all seasons, and I look forward to noting the 'new entry' in the OED....

Yours, etc.

 

[Twister_Ken]

for me a lummock is almost a term of endearment - a well meaning eejit - a duffer

but Twassock implies the concept that the person is knowingly inconsiderate

apparently it is derived from the words **** and pillock

of course pinning down language is not easy and meanings drift around with geography

yours

Mr H Higgins of Wells

You're right. The usual adjective applied to a lummock is the slightly familiar 'dozy', whereas the normal adjective for a twassock is 'expletive deleted'.