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fstopper89
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Oh my god I’m so confused now! LOL!

Khaki pants are like tan denim-like material. However, khaki green, the color, is like that pea-soup/baby poop/army fatigue green color.

From my understanding, Brits say “pissed” to mean really drunk. Here it’s trashed, hammered, lit, etc. I use to be so confused when in the song Tub Thumping by Chumbawumba they said “Pissing the night away.” Here that means peeing. Aka “He pissed his pants.”

Suck and blow are opposites, yet when used derogatorily, they are synonyms. “That sucks!” or “That blows!”

A lot of TV shows allow the word “damn” or “damnit” but will bleep out “god” if it’s in front of it.

A fanny pack is a really out-of-style zip-top bag usually buckled around one’s waist. Old ladies still wear them. I think hipster teenagers are trying to bring it back though.

TV and pop culture has come up with every word beginning with “F” to signify, well, the F-word. Flippin,’ freakin’, etc.

I say “bubbler” in WI. The origination of that term was a product trademarked by the Kohler Plumbing Company (which is still in existence, in Kohler, WI) and it was a drinking fountain that sprayed directly upward and appeared to bubble out of the spout. I guess the name stuck, similar to how many people call facial tissue “Kleenex.”