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Post by ARENA on Jan 30, 2014 10:58:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 12:11:41 GMT
I have visions of Mary Whitehouse exhaling her cup of tea watching that.
I don't think the 'Whitehouse' effect is very far under the surface in the UK, and I am sure the screams of protest if that one was aired here would be heard as far away as - well, maybe Condom in France
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Post by jimshoo on Jan 30, 2014 15:35:20 GMT
Funny, my mate sent me this one today.
There's a couple; the guy is 87 and she's 86 years old. They just got married and are on their honeymoon. In the hotel room, she slips into something sexy and crawls into bed and waits for her new groom. He's in the bathroom sprucing himself up.
She waits and waits until she can't wait any longer. She gets up and goes to the bathroom and opens the door. Peering in she sees him bent over on the toilet trying to put on a condom.
She giggles, "Honey, what are you doing? I'm 86 years old and can't get pregnant anymore."
He looks up at her and says, "I know, but honey, you know how the dampness effects my arthritis."
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Post by scorp on Jan 31, 2014 9:05:31 GMT
We never called them 'condoms', did we? French letters, sheaths, johnnies - 'a packet of three' or just plain Durex... leading to amusing misunderstandings with Australians... |
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Post by goldelox on Jan 31, 2014 11:06:39 GMT
We never called them 'condoms', did we? French letters, sheaths, johnnies - 'a packet of three' or just plain Durex... leading to amusing misunderstandings with Australians... Why , what does it mean in Australia? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 11:20:07 GMT
I think it is something you spread on your bread.........
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Post by ARENA on Jan 31, 2014 14:15:33 GMT
Not unless you enjoy sellotape on your toast,JJ..........
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Post by scorp on Jan 31, 2014 15:56:04 GMT
ARENA is right - it's the brand name for Scotch tape down under. Just remembering that you can freak out Americans by asking for a pencil with a rubber on it...
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Post by ARENA on Jan 31, 2014 16:37:00 GMT
I had 'the luxury' of a real Oz girlfriend way back. She had a forceful personality and was phased by nothing.
Her boobs included asking for Durex in a Boots store and calling a fellow motorist some unrepeatable (on this board) names , because the guy gave her a thumbs up. Apparently in her part of the world, that was a bloody rude sign.........over to you Prue
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Post by Prue on Feb 1, 2014 5:22:21 GMT
As the resident Oz: 1. Never seen that ad, but then I never watch commercial TV except for cricket and football, when I have the sound off and listen to the radio commentary, and I didn't see it between overs during the recent Ashes. Sorry to re-awaken traumatic memories, jimshoo  2. Yep, I remember when Durex was either a brand name or generic name for sticky tape, and have heard similar tales of embarrassing mix-ups. 3. Also vague memories of thumbs-up meaning "up yours", but I don't think that's been the case for some years - I guess we've all watched so much UK and US TV that we've adopted the two-finger and middle-finger signs. We still use "bastard" as an affectionate term though, as well as a term of abuse. It's quite clear to both speaker and hearer which is meant! "Right! Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?" is one I heard somewhere and enjoyed. |
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Post by scorp on Feb 1, 2014 9:05:57 GMT
But surely the affectionate use of 'bastard', 'bugger' and the like is restricted to males? I've always been amused by the contrast between women greeting one another and the insulting way men do it.
Never heard of the thumbs up gesture meaning anything other than approbation.
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Post by Prue on Feb 1, 2014 9:27:10 GMT
Yeah, mainly used by men, Scorp, though it'd be quite common for a woman to call someone a silly bugger or a poor bastard in an affectionate, or at least neutral, way. As far as I know such terms wouldn't be applied to women.
There's something buzzing in the back of my memory about men insulting each other but not really meaning it; and women complimenting each other but not really meaning it. Can't recall it any more accurately than that, but it certainly rang my bell when I first heard/read it.
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Post by cobden28 on Feb 16, 2014 18:06:58 GMT
Re condoms, my Mum (82) refers to them as 'French letters' and tells me that when she was a young woman immediately after the war and in the early 1950's, only prostitutes used them. Men who bought condoms back then did so as protection against venereal disease.
When I was the same sort of age, in the early 1970's, we referred to them as 'Durex' which is a generic brand name but they were then sold very much under the counter at your local chemist and it wasn't a product a decent woman wanted to be seen buying.
I still find it surprising that condoms, Durex - call them what you will - are sold openly on the shelves at supermarkets.
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Post by scorp on Feb 16, 2014 20:14:01 GMT
The most common source of French Letters was the barber shop - 'Anything for the weekend, Sir?'. When Wife #2 asked 'Have you had a haircut?' I knew I was on a promise...
The idea that only the filles de joie used them is not really true... Durex Fetherlite came in a little flat tin - which meant that you didn't finish up with a greasy ring-shaped mark in the leather of your wallet...
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Post by jimshoo on Feb 17, 2014 9:33:32 GMT
Featherlite were sold in machines in pub toilets too.
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