Shitey new learning (internet passive-aggressive voice edition) / Annual Whoviana post

[hirez]

'Triggering', right? Terrible passive-voice internet buzzword. A thing done to someone by someone else invented by someone else again who'd written one too many lab reports or who liked phrases akin to 'lessons were learned'. I'm sure you can do your own reading-between-the-lines there

Comments

[bogwitch64]

Bell-end???

[bogwitch64]

Glans?

[valkyriekaren]

Glans. *nods sagely*

Sorry, is that not what we're doing?

[bogwitch64]

I'm always very confuzzled in here...

[sammason]

The glans is the tip of the penis.

[bogwitch64]

Oh! Hahahaha! Thanks! My head wasn't going in that direction! (Pun intended.) This is a "d'oh!" moment...

[girfan]

This is probably due to the fact that J H-R uses English slang that Americans (other than ones like me who live in the UK) have no clue of what it means.

Two other things that can confuse Americans: the Mornington Crescent game and the television show Shooting Stars.

[bogwitch64]

It's kind of like when I used to watch Absolutely Fabulous. Rarely understood all they said, but damn, it was funny!

[cybermule]

Sheesh - I'm English and *I'm* confused by Mornington Crescent.

[quercus]

You're meant to be. If you think you understand Mornington Crescent, you haven't got it at all.

[hirez]

Ha. Tuffner's reverse gantry, eh? Down Street.

[quercus]

Everyone's doing the Tuffner's gantry stance.