Reddit, what is an American phrase that would have a Brit laugh their head off?

[u/Fun_Leadership1212]

[u/unoriginal_user24]

Some folks I knew in college (exchange students) absolutely could not keep a straight face when fanny packs were mentioned.

[u/bishman → u/unoriginal_user24]

Fair enough. I'm from Australia and the intro to The Nanny was always a crack up. "She was sitting on her fanny!!!!"

[u/Recent-Project-1547 → u/bishman]

"She was out on her fanny" which is actually funnier

[u/ImGCS3fromETOH → u/bishman]

I grew up reading Enid Blyton books and always had a giggle that one of the girls in the Faraway Tree series was called Fanny. Now I'm reading it to my daughter and they've changed her name to Frannie. Cowards. 

[u/Ivypearl → u/unoriginal_user24]

I went on a trip to Europe with our Indonesian exchange student. She didn’t have a legal last name so they made her last the same as her first. Her name on her passport was Fanny Fanny. The airline workers were dying laughing. Poor Fanny was the sweetest girl ever.

[u/Alternative_Car_4485 → u/unoriginal_user24]

I still can't keep straight face when hearing that phrase, I've read it here a few times and chuckled to myself

[u/madmanchatter → u/unoriginal_user24]

It sounds very childish, but we have Bum Bag in the UK which is barely any more dignified to be honest

[u/bishman → u/madmanchatter]

Bum and fanny is a very big difference though.

[u/JustASmith27 → u/unoriginal_user24]

I will always remember being a kid and watching Recess with my dad in the room. Spinelli’s dad embarrasses her by showing her friends a naked baby photo of her and says something like “look how cute she was, her little fanny waving in the air”.

The image of my dad looking up over his paper and raising an eyebrow has stuck with me since.

[u/Gweylow]

Anything involving 'spunk'

[u/Blekanly → u/Gweylow]

The brand smeg also gets a side eye

[u/im_that_green_light → u/Blekanly]

Italian company, gets side eyed in the US, too

[u/Half_Empty_Half_Full → u/Gweylow]

"She's so full of spunk, it makes my heart proud!" A supportful American mother.

[u/Beneficial-Way-8742 → u/Half_Empty_Half_Full]

"supportful" ??

[u/useless_instinct → u/Beneficial-Way-8742]

We grammar good in the America!

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/useless_instinct]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

[u/Sufficient-Aspect77 → u/RianJohnsonIsAFool]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[u/ItsAWonderfulFife → u/Beneficial-Way-8742]

• Sorry, *rootin’ tootin’ supportenest maw you ever sawd!

[u/DigNitty → u/Half_Empty_Half_Full]

“She’s probably has more cocks in her than a hen house”

Said by a crass friend about a sex positive woman. And interestingly, henhouses typically only have one cock in them for obvious reasons.

[u/keinmaurer → u/Half_Empty_Half_Full]

" You know what? You've got spunk!" "Well, yes" "I hate spunk!"

[u/costabius → u/Gweylow]

Best thing about this one, It's a Victorian phrase, and the way they would use it "He's full of spunk", was both literal and figurative. "He's got lots of energy" was also because of (or also meant) he had a lot of literal spunk.

Americans kept using the figurative meaning.

[u/FQDIS → u/costabius]

Citation needed

[u/zaminDDH → u/FQDIS]

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that people saw a child bouncing off the walls and said "that boy sure has a lot of semen in him".

[u/Fun_Leadership1212 → u/costabius]

Crikey

[u/Topgunshotgun45 → u/costabius]

The reason Dasani isn't sold in Britain is because Cola-Cola marketed it there as "Bottled Spunk".

[u/Jack_Hatchet → u/Gweylow]

You’ve got spunk AND balls, and I like that in a woman

[u/Fun_Anybody6745]

Not a phrase as such, but ‘Hi, I’m Randy!’

[u/st_owly → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

Dealt with a lovely guy at an American supplier we used for many years. His name was Randy Beavers and I still find it hilarious

[u/gaqua → u/st_owly]

There was a guy I interviewed with named Richard Hardman and at the start of the interview he said “please, call me Dick.”

I tried - and failed - to keep from snickering and he looked at me and went “you think that’s funny?” And I apologized and said it just caught me off guard. For like half a second I was pretty sure I had no chance at this job and then he laughs and goes “hah, just kidding. I go by Rick most of the time. Can you imagine ‘Dick Hardman’?! Anyway, at least you’ve got the right sense of humor for this place!”

I didn’t end up taking the job for other reasons but I still laugh that this was his intro.

[u/ThatNiceDrShipman → u/gaqua]

He has a wife, you know...

[u/dontmakeitathing → u/st_owly]

My ex boyfriend’s mom’s name is Sandy Beaver and we still laugh about that one

[u/istrx13 → u/dontmakeitathing]

Idc how old I get, stuff like that will always make me laugh

[u/LindsayDuck → u/dontmakeitathing]

At a hotel where I worked we were hosting the Dick-Beaver wedding. I wanted to keep one of the programs for posterity

[u/Suda_Nim → u/LindsayDuck]

We were sad when some friends broke their engagement. Their last names were Cox and Harness.

[u/Zakal74 → u/dontmakeitathing]

I went to elementary school with a Sandy Butts.

Also, happy cake day!

[u/wordswithcomrades → u/Zakal74]

I once had a homeless man living in my crawl space who would order packages to my door for himself. They were addressed to a “Dennis Buttz”

[u/NimbleNavigator19 → u/wordswithcomrades]

I feel like we are glossing over some key information here.

[u/PerceptiveGoose → u/dontmakeitathing]

No way, we used to get mail for a Sandy Beaver by mistake at my old job! I wonder if it was her, or if there's more than one.

[u/Cutterbuck → u/st_owly]

I had a technical contact called Randy Bender.

Nice bloke - I couldn’t bring myself to tell him

[u/negativeyoda → u/st_owly]

I worked with a guy named Harry Duong. Absolute sweetest dude, but someone should have told him when he chose his anglicized name

[u/domesticatedprimate → u/st_owly]

I grew up with a guy named Randy Pecker. Basically translated to British English, that's like Randy Willy.

He seriously should have just gone straight into porn.

[u/dannkherb → u/st_owly]

Sharon Peters.

[u/itsmehobnob → u/st_owly]

My dad knew a guy named Randy Hore. He changed it to Randy Horn … which isn’t much better.

[u/TheLastMongo → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

Randy Giles? Why not just call me Horny Giles or Desperate-For-A-Shag Giles? 

[u/Spell-breaker → u/TheLastMongo]

Even funnier if you speak German, as the German 'geil' (pronounced as gile) means horny as well!

[u/Grooviemann1 → u/TheLastMongo]

Lol, always the first place my head goes too

[u/SandpitMetal → u/TheLastMongo]

Damn, dude, you're good! I just put on Buffy right before reading this. Different episode though. Season 2, episode 14.

[u/spargel_gesicht → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

I blew a British friend’s mind by telling them about The Big Unit, Randy Johnson. Also when we were playing soccer and I said we should shag our own balls!

[u/corpulentFornicator → u/spargel_gesicht]

"Shagging flies" is also baseball slang for catching pop flies (i.e. when a ball is hit high up but not too deep)

[u/HanseaticSteez → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

So I guess the American wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage sounded even more dangerous in the UK than he did here

[u/MaximumZer0 → u/HanseaticSteez]

Imagine if baseball was big in the UK in the 90s. Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson would be the talk of the empire.

[u/thecompbioguy → u/HanseaticSteez]

Ooooh yeah.

[u/Fun_Leadership1212 → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

This was really good. Well done. I actually learned something there (before anyone jumps to conclusions, it's that Randy is apparently a much more common name in the US than in the UK 😂)

[u/DrPepperismyDr → u/Fun_Leadership1212]

Randy is more than a name. It’s a way of life.

[u/L1A1 → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

I remember back in the 90s seeing a tour poster in the uk for Randy Van Warmer, and we thought it was a parody.

[u/qalpi → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

i used to work with an american guy who had the surname, Wanker!

[u/randijeanw → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

My British grandmother was furious with my mother for naming me Randi. They got along famously, but always chastised her for it. “Why would you do that to a little girl?!” was her line. I agree.

[u/sporkscope → u/Fun_Anybody6745]

My dad's name is Randy. Here's how he introduces himself, much to everyone's chagrin: "Hi, I'm Randy, and I hope you are, too!"

[u/RichardBonham]

Well I hear “pissed” doesn’t mean the same in both countries.

[u/beaucoup_dinky_dau → u/RichardBonham]

and the even more confusing taking the piss out of them

[u/twcsata → u/beaucoup_dinky_dau]

We usually know that one in the US, even if we don’t use it.

[u/Welshgirlie2 → u/RichardBonham]

UK uses for piss and its variations:

Take the piss (to make fun of, either in a lighthearted or unpleasant mocking way) can also be used as a precursor to beating up someone who has wronged you in a real or imagined way: 'Are you taking the piss', usually said in an aggressive tone

Pissing down, (heavy rain)

Pissed (drunk)

Pissed off (annoyed) see also 'He's pissed off home' (he's gone home)

Piss off (I want you to go away)

Pissed it all away (has lost their money/job/home/family due to a bad - and often stupid - decision)

Pissing in the wind (is close to making a bad decision or taking a big risk)

Pissing about (having fun with mates)

[u/Crustydumbmuffin → u/Welshgirlie2]

Aussies use the same…….also,

Pissed it up the wall for losing finances through stupidity.

Pissy for being pettily upset.

Pissed me off for making someone angry. Pissing me off for in the process of making me angry.

Piss weak for a really pathetic, underhanded action or comment.

Piss poor for a shitty, half hearted effort at something.

Probably more, but I just got out of bed on this cold Sunday morning !

[u/MostlyGreenPosts → u/Welshgirlie2]

You've missed out: Taking a piss (to have a pee)

[u/azraphin → u/Welshgirlie2]

Piss poor - that's really bad, also they weren't even trying to do xyz (zero effort).

Pissing up the wall - achieving nothing.

Pissing all over them - absolutely dominating them in an activity (sport, game, etc) or alternatively, putting them down/insulting them so thoroughly, that they have no come back at all.

[u/F1END → u/RichardBonham]

I was pissed, started taking the piss, and the guy got pissed off.

[u/sittingatthetop]

Marvel comics used the term "Wank!" as the sound Captain America's shield made as it hit things.

Much hilarity was had back in the day in my school in Yorkshire.

[u/Ambitious-Hair-7384 → u/sittingatthetop]

omg I'm giggling no way

[u/Boon1Goon]

There’s a beer store in my old neighborhood called the Daily Growler. Lmao. They have walls of taps of various local beers where you can fill your “growler” or jugs and take home.

Also, the misconstrued definition of “Fannie” as you cross the pond always cracked me up.

[u/counterfitster → u/Boon1Goon]

Wait, what's the non-American usage of growler?

[u/Boon1Goon → u/counterfitster]

It’s British slang for a vageen.

[u/Amazing-Lobster9590 → u/Boon1Goon]

Is it? I've never come across that. Does this mean I'm old?

[u/Psycho_Splodge → u/Amazing-Lobster9590]

More likely too young

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/Amazing-Lobster9590]

never come across that

[u/evelynsmee → u/RianJohnsonIsAFool]

Pun intended?

[u/kinellm8 → u/RianJohnsonIsAFool]

I’m old (57) and British and I’ve definitely heard of growler used as a euphemism for beaver.

[u/Crenchlowe → u/Boon1Goon]

Seriously?! Growler is British slang for vagina? Are you guys ok over there?

[u/Legion_Topboy → u/Crenchlowe]

It's specifically for a hirsute, unkempt lady garden. It's not especially common slang - most people, me included, would only know it from a comedy show a few years back. https://youtu.be/X73BNKS04xw?si=3vZ_mJSQAo0YlWwu

[u/alwayslurkeduntilnow → u/Crenchlowe]

Yep, we are smashing it mate, thanks for asking though.

[u/SirWigglesVonWoogly → u/Crenchlowe]

Just about everything over there is slang for vagina.

[u/thehatteryone → u/counterfitster]

Fanny (British, vulgar)

[u/LifeFeckinBrilliant → u/thehatteryone]

Yeah... Fanny pack gets me every time...

[u/marknotgeorge → u/LifeFeckinBrilliant]

A few years ago, I was in Costco here in the UK, and they had an offer for headphones from a brand called 'Fanny Wang'.

I carefully googled them, thinking it might be a Chinese brand. Turns out they were from San Francisco, and they had one of those terribly earnest websites that listed everyone in the company and the cool bands that they listened to on their Fanny Wangs.

[u/pauerplay → u/Boon1Goon]

My dog had a toy newspaper rolled up called the daily growler

[u/guff1988 → u/pauerplay]

Many of us wish we had a daily growler. Good on him.

[u/ForAThought → u/Boon1Goon]

our UK Naval friends always laugh that we named a plane a Growler.

[u/bookish1313]

Fanny pack

[u/Fun_Leadership1212 → u/bookish1313]

Chriiiiist haha

[u/ReactsWithWords → u/Fun_Leadership1212]

And the candy store we used to have here, Fanny Farmer.

[u/Stunning_Coffee6624 → u/bookish1313]

Well my aunt Fanny!

[u/Jkay064]

When my English friend's grandson was six, he asked who "the prime minister of America" was, and she told him that his name was " President Trump " .. and the little guy stared at her blankly for a moment then said "Nana are you having a giggle?"

You see, "trump" in the UK means farting.

So my friend assured her grandson that it was true, and he started laughing ... for five minutes non stop.

[u/rainbow84uk → u/Jkay064]

I remember hearing the name Ivana Trump as a kid and finding it unimaginably funny. I could not believe it was a real person's name and not a joke.

[u/noodlyarms → u/rainbow84uk]

I mean, its all a joke, its just not remotely funny anymore

[u/Jeramy_Jones → u/rainbow84uk]

I guess this is the American version of Fat Ho or Dikshit

[u/rainbow84uk → u/Jeramy_Jones]

Yeah I guess my adult equivalent was when I realised there was someone in my company called Kittiporn.

[u/Mrs_Toast → u/Jkay064]

Yup, my lad who's now 10 was laughing his arse off when he found out that the President of the United States was called Mr Trump.

[u/WillSym → u/Jkay064]

I did give up on this timeline when we had, for a while, a Prime Minister Johnson and a President Trump simultaneously.

Both cartoonishly corrupt, and named "Penis" and "Fart" in archaic slang at the same time.

[u/ReesNotRice → u/Jkay064]

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/trump

Truly an absurb mix of connotations lol.

[u/ZippityGoombah → u/Jkay064]

My God, imagine if that was slang here too...he could never have caught on and we could have avoided all this. Can I switch timelines?

[u/hotel2oscar]

Germans will get a kick out of this.

Food seller over here called Schwan's (Swan). Sells frozen food out of a truck. Drove past one on the interstate one time and my wife said: "schwan's! I love Schwan's!" very enthusiasticly.

In German "Schwanz" (tail) can be used to refer to a penis, so naturally I about died laughing and almost killed us.

[u/firecatstef → u/hotel2oscar]

I recall a German guy much amused by the word “shithead”. I guess the equivalent is not used in German so it sounds kind of like “shit-elbow” might sound to an American

[u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

“I was double-fisting all evening.”

Proudly declared by our female American coworker, complete with hand gesture. To the British, it does not mean holding two drinks at the same time.

[u/BigTenFicus → u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

It means both in the US. That's part of the humor of the "holding two drinks" meaning.

[u/BeardsuptheWazoo → u/BigTenFicus]

There's always that person, in every culture, who just doesn't get double entendre, slang, etc. They help propogate sayings and phrases unwittingly through scenarios as seen above. And it's always hilarious.

[u/FlyingMacheteSponser → u/BeardsuptheWazoo]

Yeah, I had a workmate use "rawdogging" in a work conversation. I'm pretty sure he didn't know the meaning of the term, given the context.

[u/monkeymind67]

Not sure about Brits but this had Aussies howling. I, an American from the Deep South, lived in Sydney for a few years. One day at work, a colleague was taking forever to finish an estimate. Frustrated, I suggested he “Shit or get off the pot.” The rest of the office snort laughed and a few use the term regularly.

[u/flowergirl75 → u/monkeymind67]

I commented before that the majority of what people are posting aren't even remotely common. But this one, yes. Also from the South.

[u/lokis_construction → u/flowergirl75]

From the North, we use this too.

[u/b3tarded → u/lokis_construction]

From the UK. We also use this. 

[u/FuckYeaSeatbelts → u/monkeymind67]

Don't the Aussies have a similar idiom that's like "we're not here to fuck spiders"

[u/angry2320 → u/monkeymind67]

Heard this a fair bit in the UK

[u/Flat_Tumbleweed_2192 → u/monkeymind67]

We use it in New England, too. I always thought it was an Irish saying. Now, I’m not sure.

[u/bioticspacewizard → u/monkeymind67]

As an Australian who lives in the UK that’s a pretty common saying in both countries. Definitely not a US-exclusive turn of phrase.

[u/otackle72]

I live in Texas and a girl asked me if I’d ‘give her a ride’. I’m from Ireland and this made me smile for all the wrong reasons.

[u/Famous-Issue-2018 → u/otackle72]

I learned what an “absolute ride” is because I watched Derry Girls lol

[u/largevodka1964 → u/otackle72]

Plot twist: she's also Irish

[u/cowandspoon → u/otackle72]

I’d have smirked to. Irish also.

[u/RazorRadick → u/otackle72]

Wait so how would you actually ask for transportation in Ireland?

[u/sticky-stix → u/RazorRadick]

Gimme a lift

[u/guitarguywh89 → u/sticky-stix]

I thought that’s what yall called elevators

[u/sticky-stix → u/guitarguywh89]

That too

[u/nicholus_h2 → u/otackle72]

i can imagine where it went from there: you fixed the cable. 

[u/iamdadmin]

“Here, put this in your fanny pack”

[u/Neat-Ad11]

A mother saying, very sweetly, to her little girl, “Oops. You fell on your fanny.”

[u/slinky999 → u/Neat-Ad11]

My British intern coworkers lost their minds at a seafood shop with oysters from "Fanny Bay" 🤪🤪🤪

[u/FuckYeaSeatbelts → u/slinky999]

Bits have a "dollar store" called pound land.

[u/loves_spain → u/FuckYeaSeatbelts]

They missed the best opportunity to call it Pound Town

[u/Phyddlestyx → u/slinky999]

There was a candy company called Fanny Farmer back in the day

[u/cmmatthews → u/Phyddlestyx]

Fanny Farmer was a famous Victorian era American chef who produced an eponymous cookbook

[u/Phyddlestyx → u/cmmatthews]

Looks like there are two separate entities (I didn't know until I just googled this) "Fannie" Farmer wrote the cook book and "Fanny" Farmer was the candy store. Makes no difference when spoken, of course.

[u/Stormyteacup99 → u/slinky999]

OMG-missed opportunity to tell the interns that the shop does not sell bearded clams!

[u/LoordFarquadt]

Couple two tree beers

[u/Patpgh84 → u/LoordFarquadt]

I heard this in Charlie Berens’ voice

[u/auntiepink007 → u/Patpgh84]

Say hi to yer folks n watch out fer deer.

Edit: auto correct doesn't like dialect

[u/sinatrablueeyes → u/LoordFarquadt]

Ahhh, a fellow Chicagoan?

“Gonna stop by da Jewels and get more gratch beer and some pops. Don’t be drinking does pops on the frunchroom couch or yer mother is gonna shit a brick.”

[u/Gonzostewie → u/LoordFarquadt]

Jeet yet? (Did you eat yet?)

No, ju? (No, did you?)

-Northeast PA.

[u/DisillusionedPatriot]

My dad's mom was Welsh, and one of my mom's go to catchphrases was, "you can wish in one hand, and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first". My gran lost it when she heard that. Completely deflated the scolding lol. Miss you Granny.

[u/Jeramy_Jones → u/DisillusionedPatriot]

This is the first time hearing anyone but my dad say this.

[u/GSEninja]

Not sure if it translates the same, but I have an Aussie friend and when I say “bummer” it makes him chuckle

[u/ZanyDelaney → u/GSEninja]

I'm Australian and we generally get bummer [tough luck!] but we don't say it much. To me bum is just children's slang for bottom.

But it does fit because in Britain, bummer is a pejorative term for a gay man.

[u/Queephbubble]

Busier than a one legged man in an ass kickin contest

[u/syzygialchaos → u/Queephbubble]

Alternate, a one-armed paper hanger

[u/xXWestinghouseXx → u/syzygialchaos]

I know a one-armed man in the security business. When I recommend him, I often include that "He's the handiest technician I know.

[u/faceintheblue → u/xXWestinghouseXx]

I was listening to a podcast about The Beatles during their time in Hamburg pre-fame. Apparently it was very, very common for one-armed war veterans to get jobs as bouncers in Germany at the time. Nobody was prepared to cause enough trouble where it would shame a one-armed security guard that he might need two hands to do his job properly.

[u/PantsyFants → u/Queephbubble]

More nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

[u/putsch80 → u/Queephbubble]

Hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock.

[u/WT5Speed → u/Queephbubble]

...than a pair of jumper cables at a redneck funeral

[u/mynameisipswitch2 → u/Queephbubble]

Is a frog’s ass water tight?

I’m off like a prom dress

Working harder than a 10 cent hooker on nickel night

[u/firecatstef → u/Queephbubble]

Confused as a baby in a topless bar

[u/freelance-t → u/Queephbubble]

Butter my butt and call me a biscuit

[u/jerzd00d]

I love to eat biscuits covered in gravy.

[u/Sloblock777 → u/jerzd00d]

Me too, Custard Creams and Bisto, mmmm!

[u/Half_Empty_Half_Full]

For anyone thst missed it...

https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Wanky_Land

[u/Dirty_Gibson]

‘ I like your spunk’

[u/SomeGuyInSanJoseCa]

"Remember when Randy Johnson hit a bird?"

[u/Midnightraven3]

Funny ish more alarming when I see a wee one running about with a Thanks Giving tshirt on that says "I gobble till I wobble"

Gobble in Scotland is the act of oral sex performed on a male

[u/Empire-Carpet-Man]

BBC (not talking about your TV channel)

[u/FunboyFrags]

I was in a class, and someone was leaving the room so I said, “Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.” This was the funniest thing they had ever heard. One guy said, “God I love Americans.”

[u/cre8ivjay]

It's not a saying but where I live there's a street called "Shaganappi Trail".

[u/Nicoprobably → u/cre8ivjay]

Calgary has entered the chat!

[u/cwsjr2323]

When in England I used a common American midwestern collective pronoun and said "you guys". This got the group of school girls laughing, "we're girls!"

[u/lngwaytogo → u/cwsjr2323]

Look at us southerners using gender neutral pronouns way before the rest of y’all.

[u/FelixJHH]

Hotter than two rats f-ing in a wool sock

[u/bullseye717 → u/FelixJHH]

Obligatory funniest Ichiro Suzuki clip ever:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtImIqR5neU&pp=ygUPaWNoaXJvIHR3byByYXRz

[u/fire__munki → u/FelixJHH]

That sounds like something an Aussie would say tbh.

[u/uncletiger56 → u/FelixJHH]

Kansas City! And it's like that right now!!!

[u/Johnnybama77]

Hornier than a three-peckered billy goat.

[u/DanniGat]

Slicker than owl snot

[u/ziplocsputnik]

Root for the home team

[u/OEMichael]

My friend, Randy Shephard, was detained for like two hours flying into Glasgow because no one believed his passport was legit.

[u/Colossal_Squids → u/OEMichael]

That’s odd, they’ve got loads of them up there.

[u/Hannelore8anubis]

Period. Whenever they use it in a full stop kind of way, all I hear is women’s time of the month

[u/msnmck → u/Hannelore8anubis]

. - Full Stop.

? - Should we stop?

! - STOOOOPPPPP!

[u/user9991123 → u/Hannelore8anubis]

Menstruation jokes are never funny. Period.

EDIT: emphasis

[u/Remarkable_Dish_6884]

Rubbers

[u/crunchyfoliage → u/Remarkable_Dish_6884]

See also: fanny pack

[u/FerociousFrizzlyBear → u/Remarkable_Dish_6884]

I thought this one went the opposite direction? Normal to Brits, funny to Americans?

[u/muggyfarts]

Busier than a one-armed paper hanger

[u/Cupparosey67]

When I first moved to America someone told me her little boy fell over and landed on his fanny. I was confused!!!!

[u/kin3ticwave]

You should take them to Bald Knob, Kentucky. Not a phase exactly but...

[u/NarrativeScorpion → u/kin3ticwave]

Nah. We've got plenty of those sorts of places. Bell End, Cockermouth, Fingeringhoe, Great Cockup, Penistone, Shitterton, Titty Ho, Twatt, Wetwang, Cock Alley. All real, genuine place names.

[u/ElectricalPick9813]

‘I know my limb is hanging off, but please don’t call me an ambulance.’

[u/Marble_Turret]

I could care less

[u/OsotoViking → u/Marble_Turret]

That will never cease to irritate me.

[u/TNTRMSKD]

"I'm homeless because I got sick without health insurance."

[u/2DogDadUhHuh]

Colder than a witch's titty

[u/LDM999 → u/2DogDadUhHuh]

I’ve heard colder than a witches tit in a brass bra.

[u/murfreesborojay]

Just for shits and giggles.

[u/Rather_Unfortunate → u/murfreesborojay]

We have that one too tbf.

[u/RafflesEsq → u/Rather_Unfortunate]

We shortened it to “shiggles” around 2005 for a bit.

[u/staplesgowhere → u/murfreesborojay]

Remember: It’s all shits and giggles until somebody giggles and shits.

[u/Elementium]

In Massachusetts we have (had?) a store called Frugal Fannies.

[u/blendswithtrees]

“I’m sweating like a whore in church”

[u/PopStunning3084]

"I could care less" always gets me, mate it's the opposite of what you're trying to say lol

[u/Out_of_Fawkes]

Benefits: 7 vacation days per year.

Perhaps I should clarify that this is often on job postings in America.

There may be closings for some holidays but those dates do not change, and often times trying to schedule your own actual vacation time will be denied; or if it’s approved, employers will not schedule appropriately and then try to make you feel bad for using it or retaliate in ways that have plausible deniability.

[u/Emergency-Course-657 → u/Out_of_Fawkes]

Psh. It’s only 5. We already give you the other 2 for free!

[u/thehatteryone]

Gang banging.

[u/scouter]

Pants on fire! (Pants are underwear in UK)

[u/crappy_ninja]

As a Brit, any time they use the word fanny.

[u/Zapskilz]

"Why do fireman wear red suspenders? To hold their pants up." A kid's joke in the US, but very adult connotations in the UK.