"The Worry of Being British" Topic

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Amicalement
Armand

Unfortunately, many of those apply to me…and I am not even British!

I recognise one or two cringe-worthy moments there myself.

Yeah, me, too!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Suddenly remembering your tea and necking it like a massive, lukewarm shot

I usually manage to get by when I'm in the UK despite the language barrier, but this one has stumped me. In the US, necking is something you do with another person while somehow keeping your clothes on. It doesn't have anything to do with drinking (other than possibly occurring after drinking). Shot looks like it might have the same meaning in this sentence as in the US, a small alcoholic drink intended to be consumed in a single swallow. If that's the case, does necking mean something like swallowing?

So many cringeworthy recognitions of myself there – on balance though I'm not sure it's a bad thing, if everyone perhaps behaved a bit more like that?

Necking is indeed swallowing. Usually in a swift or rapid manner.

Example of usage….you are in the pub and your mate buys you a drink. He hands it to you saying "get that down your neck".

This may be the right thread. Can someone explain the difference between whining and whinging?

Cerdic, maybe I'm from a different era but in my day the term necking had a Totally different meaning.

For you youngsters out there necking was something you did with a member of the opposite sex in the back seat of your parents station wagon while parked in the back row of the drive-in, all the while praying that the two of you could avoid getting your braces locked together, like the last time.

Von Schwartz, over here we used to call that snogging.

Although the absence of drive-ins often caused the activity to be carried out in colder, damper locations…

Necking = gulping it down in Brit slang.
Whining is complaining in a rather high pitched tone, child like I suppose is the nearest I can think of. You'd tell a child to stop whining or you'll give 'em something to whine about, at least that would have been often heard in the olden days before PC ness arrived.
Whinging is more of a continuous monotonous grumble, the sort of thing Tommies would have done in the trenches I suppose abaht ther bloomin weather, ther bloomin orficers, ther weather,them ther Jerries, ther grub, ther weather again,etc etc.

Good show … Old Boy !

Of course I do like what the Brits said about the Yanks during WWII …

"Over paid, over sexed and over here …"

Ha! The other complaint from the British soldiery was that the American uniforms made them all look like officers. Whereas the British uniform, to quote the late, great Spike Milligan made the Tommies "look like sacks of s*** tied up in the middle".

Ah, my Cornwall ancestors really did a job on me.

Cerdic, colder and damper, you obviously never saw my parents station wagon?

Von Schwartz, but have you seen our climate?

I once knew a Canadian girl and she reckoned that British cold felt worse than Canadian cold. It's the damp….

Whereas the British uniform, to quote the late, great Spike Milligan made the Tommies "look like sacks of s*** tied up in the middle".

I liked the Brit uniforms of WWII better than the US. Save for the US Para uniforms. Of course I was not there… So …

Cerdic, circle gets the square for the win!