I need help I am just learning and

its not good learning when your pants! I tried ringing Microsoft they told me to go to the online forum. They haven't helped. I have what I think is a HUGE email issue and no one can help me. So if anyone can direct me to where I go on this site for email help that would be fantastic x

 

lol it means being useless at something, English slang.

 

LoL, yeah "pants" is like "Load of rubbish", or useless, like Ned said.

* GASP! * - I just noticed they have the same avatar!!...:eekLOL

 

I am SO going to have to start using this phrase! :-D

 

Do Brits know about pants on fire and who wears the pants?

 

Ha ha!! lol

Lol... Enjoy using it lol

Pants means Pants lol, Rubbish, sh*te or if you don't believe someone you say what a lot of pants! lol

 

Yes and yes, but pants on fire refers to "under"pants and who wears the Trousers.

 

What really entertains me about the use of the word, pants, in this context is that I imagine someone looking like a giant pair of pants. :-D :-D

 

Hmmm...wonder if this is how David Letterman came up with the name "Wordwide Pants" for his production company? :-D

 

pants: online slang dictionary

• smarty pants
• fancy pants
• kick in the pants
• ants in his pants
• beat the pants off
• charm the pants off
• sue the pants off
• caught with pants down
• keep your pants on
• wear the pants

:-D

 

I was thinking about dogs panting... :-D

 

One that was missed from the list:

Bore the pants off

which is what American use of English does to me!

 

Maybe das why we left jolly olde England. :-D You talk funny.

 

and they also like to throw in extra (useless) letters into words.

 

Soooo . . . if you teach someone not to be useless at learning, are you then depantsing them? :-D

You can't beat the British at pedantry display . . .

 

...The definitive pants:- .


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As I was reading through this thread, I had come to the realization that this thread has helped me prove that one of my theories are indeed true;

That pants are overrated.

Because if the (slang) definition of pants is to be useless then pants (the kind you wear) are most definitely overrated.

Thank you for helping me in this matter. :-D

 

We Scotsmen don't wear pants!!!...puke

.roflmao

 

Just because I'm against pants doesn't mean I think other people should cease to wear them. roflmao

 

Well NOW you tell us . . . and I was feeling so free! I think the Scots are onto something!

 

Ok, let me clarify a bit then. You MUST wear pants in my presence. If you want to opt for pantslessness on your own time, that choice is yours. :-D

 

LOL Fair enough!

 

Woots, posting commando style right now.

:-D

 

Way TTMI :-D

 

You just wish I would post pichers. But I am not. :-D

Have we gotten off topic yet?

 

The topic was answered (twice) so we are OK.

Nope, that must be an Americanism as I have never heard it before.

Or you take out perfectly good structural word supports leaving the words to collapse into guttural vowel sounds!:-D I mean, aluminum, really? You dropped a perfectly usable i for no reason!:cry

Actually, you talk funny. When "you" Left Britain (not necessarily England, they are different) "we" in Britain were using old words like Fall for the third season, faucet ("tap"), diaper ("nappy"), candy ("sweets"), skillet, eyeglasses and obligate. We dropped the words at a later time and you carried on using them.

You also introduced words to us that are now regarded as Britishisms, like "Stuff upper lip".

 

Okay - Just for you!!!...roflmao!


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You figured me out. oh darns..... (not) :-D

In response to your question.

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You also you silly words like torch for flashlight..

http://mail.wecdsb.on.ca/~tina_grusasorgan/S0444AB82.0/imagesCAN0PQUX.jpg

Torch


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Flashlight.

See the difference? :-D

 

We call a device designed primarily for light emittance a torch. Why have two words for the same device?

http://mail.wecdsb.on.ca/~tina_grusasorgan/S0444AB82.0/imagesCAN0PQUX.jpgTorch

http://static.yousaytoo.com/post_images/c5/a9/98/5990199/remote_image_1338238919.jpgTorch

See the resemblance of the function?

Plus, a torch is not a device that flashes, is it?

[hijack-even-further-block]This reminds me of the time my family and I were returning from a holiday in Arizona. At the security checkpoint in the airport my bag was scanned and a model train that I was gifted showed up on the scanner. I had forgotten what was in there and when the TSA officer asked me what it was I said "I don't know, I think it might be a torch." Of course he asked me "Propane or Butane?" :-D[/hijack-even-further-block]

 

So that people actually know what you are talking about?

Saying torch and flashlight are interchangeable because both provide the same function (light) is akin to saying the sun and a blanket share the same function because both provide warmth, with just one tiny exception.. one of them can burn you. :-D :-D

and no, a torch (that thing with fire on it) doesn't flash. That's why we call it a torch and a flashlight a flashlight.

If I were that TSA agent, I'd ask if you were entering the Olympics :-D

 

I am with Dyamond on this, torch implies flame of some sort. Now, back a few centuries ago, a torch was a torch. Hey, maybe we stole the word 'flashlight' when we left. :-D

 

I think it is safe to say that our two languages have divided so far that they cannot easily be reunited. :-D

 

Might be a good thing. :-D

 

What if we still had to speak in Shakespearean language? :-D

 

I don't think our schools are up to that. :-D

 

I thought we still did. You Yanks use words like hillside, besmirch, assassination, hint, mountaineer, right moonbeam? (another one of his).

 

I meant more along the lines something like this;

From Romeo & Juliet;

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.


Admittedly I actually do talk like this sometimes. I often find myself saying when I've lost something.. "where art thou, o (object)" and when I find it "I have foundith thee" :-D

 

The moonbeams are generally on the left side, right next to the unicorns that fart skittles and rainbows. Yeah, we use words. Is that wrong somehow?

"You Yanks." Hmm sounds offensive to me. :-D

 

Fair enough, but don't forget foundith is not a word

The last thing I want to do is to offend a bunch of septics, seeing as how you have a large military and black helliboppers that could steal me away to a camp somewhere in a small country.

 

Actually the black helicopters are going out of favor. We got the drones now. :-D

 

True but I also tend make up my own words all the time.

I am not a drainage system incorporating a septic tank. :mad

I can't answer for Fred about your statement but if he feels the same way then watch out.. we might just send them SEALs after you.

 

Current CIC has done so before... :-D:-D

 

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/my-face-when-americans-call.png

 

Septic = short for septic tank = yank = American. Cockney rhyming slang, see?

 

I don't see how that's not calling me a septic tank, no matter how you dress in fancy "British slang" :-D

 

Well we are not daft lol or maybe just a little lol

 

Ha ha ha Oh how I larrrfed at this. I did too lotsies! lol So funi :-D