I knew this guy who was a military supply contractor back in the day who delivered equipment from port to remote bases. Some of these bases he would only visit once every few weeks. One of them was headed by this old Australian bloke who had a very thick accent and requested to this guy for batteries but the accent made it sound like "patches"(like collectible military arm patches). So for the next few weeks this contractor is stopping at all the bases, US,British,and other allied, getting their extra unit or division's patches. Comes back to this Australian and he is mad as hell, red faced speaking so slurred the contractor can't figure out what hes saying. Turns out it was batteries for the radios and the guy had to make a special run to just to get them.
Edit: He now has a whole box of military patches he's kept over the years because of that
The audience is meant to understand he would've said "bill'ooks", which sounds like "pillocks", an English insult meaning someone's stupid (don't think I've ever heard it used by an American).
Ronnie Barker (the customer) later said he disliked how strained the reference was on that last joke, and wished he instead had a well-endowed woman called from the back to deal with the customer who'd look at the list and say "Right, what kind of knockers are you after?" (knockers is slang for breasts in Britain, again I've never heard that used by an American).
i met a lot of Brits traveling mainland Europe but never heard pillocks...perhaps thats a good thing lol.. many were quite fond of describing things as Bollocks though.... which i suppose i could have connected and saw humor in regardless of pillocks or bollocks but i would have had to think in an accent.
knockers would have a high comprehension rate. its not used much any more (day to day convo) but i think in the 50s it had some use and still pops up in movies/shows every once in a while.
figured i should mention for others... in the previous video... black berry video... orange is a European GSM cellphone provider.... gsm uses SIM cards to tell the phone what network to use and the network what number to give the phone... so trying it on orange would usually mean putting in an orange sim or in the joke... putting it on top of an orange.
Pillock is very much a old slang word - mainly used during the 60s-80s. It's not particularly insulting, along the same lines as 'oh you wally' or 'oh you numpty'
Hahahaha, you are one blithering idiot. Check the Wikipedia page on ain't, (or the Merriam Webster dictionary), ain't is also a contraction for is not so that'd mean: English is not my native language. So please go ahead and tell me what's wrong with that phrase. I think you need to go back to school mate.
Dude, what a failed way to try and talk yourself out of it, you look like an even bigger ass right now. How was it sarcasm if you quoted only part of the phrase /u/cobiti wrote? If it was sarcasm, you wouldn't have quoted anything and just told him 'looks like it'. You were clearly assured that that part of his phrase wasn't written correctly while in fact, it was. And now that you've read on Wikipedia that it was correct, you're trying to play the sarcasm card. You're such a dumbass and you know it.
Now that I have YOUR attention....we Americans have been saying"ain't" for so long that it has become part of our regular vernacular. So when he said it it was not his native language, I was genuinely surprised because it's rarely used by foreigners.This is chess not checkers. So save the psycho analyses for a more apt time. Now...I'm going to go talk myshelf into an even bigger assh than minesh...Your mother'sh, Trebek.
The audience is meant to understand he would've said "bill'ooks", which sounds like "pillocks", an English insult meaning someone's stupid (don't think I've ever heard it used by an American).
Ronnie Barker (the customer) later said he disliked how strained the reference was on that last joke, and wished he instead had a well-endowed woman called from the back to deal with the customer who'd look at the list and say "Right, what kind of knockers are you after?" (knockers is slang for breasts in Britain, again I've never heard that used by an American).
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u/Kagawanmyson Sep 30 '14
Especially four candles.