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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 15:31:41 JST Adrianna Tan

   Just realized that here in London, I can say ‘I took the lift up to my flat after removing the items from the boot’ and people are going to understand me

   I also look forward to standing in a queue, and throwing away my rubbish

   In the afternoon, I shall have some biscuits

   #English #Languages

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     Paco Hope (paco@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 17:35:57 JST Paco Hope

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     @skinnylatte You will master British English when you can use “piss” in all its many forms.

     “Taking a piss” means the same to US and UK speakers. “Taking the piss” is something else entirely. And that’s the sense involved in a “piss take.”

     But if someone in the US is “pissed” they are angry. In the UK, they’re drunk. A party with a lot of alcohol is a “piss up,” from which we get the fantastic insult “he’s so dumb he couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery”

     Two countries separated by a common language. 😜

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 17:35:57 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Paco Hope

     @paco I grew up in a British colony and did most of my schoolin in British English. :)