Imperial decree no. 302

[Hesam Jayatar]

To appear serious, but actually meaning the opposite - most of the time. Usually followed up by the 'piss taker' (the one who joked) revealing he/she was only joking.
'Hey did I ever tell you you're fucking pug ugly?'

'No you didn't and that hurt'

'I'm only taking the piss. You fucking filthy mongoloid.'

[Jess]

Ok then. Stupid British Idioms...

[Erik Mortis]

Yeah.. taking A piss in the US is urinating.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

We've got that too. But wow, you guys don't use "taking the piss"? It's a great little phrase.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

I feel sorry for foreign folk coming over here and not realising that "this is bollocks" and "this is the bollocks" have exact opposite meanings...

[b3n|<3r|\|]

Forget about it!

[Malliki]

We have an expression, "skitgott", which means that something is really tasty. It literally means "shit good".

[Hesam Jayatar]

Canadian and American English lack subtlety. Everything you can say means exactly what it sounds like it means. We have no lingual sarcasm.

This stems from the fact that Britons are notoriously untrustworthy whereas it took honest workers to forge a continent.

[Erik Mortis]

HA!

Nick told me about Skitgott the other week...He was amused by it.

[Jess]

What about "you piece of shit"?

[Erik Mortis]

No.. that's pretty literal... As you are calling someone a piece of fecal matter.

[Jess]

Clever, I like "you piece of fecal matter!"

[Erik Mortis]

Bicentennial Man.

[Jess]

huh?

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Well, in the Philadelphia area we do have "That is the shit" being a good thing...

[Jess]

Thats da shizz.

[hypatias mom]

Pardon, but may I ask why this would be considered a compliment?

[Jess]

I do not know.

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Pardon, but may I ask why this would be considered a compliment?

I have absolutely no idea. It's just used around here.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

It's just slang. Since when did slang have to make any sense?

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

Tru dat!

*flashes gang sign*

[Jess]

The East part of my town is the Ghettos and Gang ridden, its nasty because it always get flooded and you can buy a house for $5,000. The man who killed President Garfield is from our town BTW.

[Erik Mortis]

That was over 100 years ago...

[Jess]

WAS from our town...

[Jonas]

I don't like those names, I want the old ones back. But we could create department in the ministries. That's an idea I like.

[Kaiser Loki III]

With all due respect to the Departed, i'm of a mind to repeal this and save a lot of paperwork.

Thoughts?

[Hesam Jayatar]

Pardon, but may I ask why this would be considered a compliment?

Carol,

There is an etemology to this:

1. "That is good"
2. "That is what I mean"
3. "That's the proper way"
4. "That's Proper" (approval)
5. "Thats what I'm talking about"
6. "That's the shit I'm talking about"
7. "That's the shit, right there." (reference)
8. "That stuff is the shit"
9. "That's the shit"
10. "The Shit"
11. "He's/She's/It's/ The Shit"
12. "Da Shit"
13. "Datz da shit"
14. "You da shit son"

[Kaiser Loki III]

Egad, a live Babkhan!

Thanks for all the erbs.

[Hesam Jayatar]

No problem. I figured it might disuade you from dismantling the economic system. Also, consider it payment for us trying to thwart your evil rise to power with our own evil rise to power.

[Kaiser Loki III]

I'm a sort of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of guy. A number of people are having fun with it, so?

I'm still giving it away, but it fits with the Maundy money ideal.