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Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:57 pm
by Peter
I believe wanker is quite a mild word in "American", and knocking someone up has a totally different meaning over there.
Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:51 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
The 1980s
Blame it on Rio was an interesting effort
Michael Caine in a comedy and upstaged by a Canadian
cheers
B....OZ
Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:15 pm
by Peter
......and fanny.....
Oh, Rio....
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:24 pm
by The Last Word
You're surely taking the piss. Blame it on Rio could suck the moon out of its orbit, although I did like Caine in Sleuth.
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"Let's do it..."
Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:32 pm
by jj
Another confusion is 'I'm pissed and I've got a gun'- which here would mean one was intoxicated in possession of a firearm, rather than irate and armed.
'Two nations separated by a common language'.............
Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:34 pm
by jj
I blame you for this: you encouraged him, just when the megadoses of mogadon and largactil were beginning to take effect............
Nurse, break out the Emergency Mallet.........
Re: Oh, Rio....
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:35 pm
by jj
I thought the girl who stripped nekkid stole the film.........
Re: what does "take the piss" mean?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:36 pm
by jj
......that'll teach me to Flatview.......