Umm, actually,, pantaloons were not undergarments. According to dictionary.com "Consequently, among the commedia dell'arte's stock characters the representative Venetian (a stereotypically wealthy but miserly merchant) was called Pantalone, or Pantalon in French. In the mid-17th century the French came to identify him with one particular style of trousers, a style which became known as pantaloons in English. Pantaloons was later applied to another style that came into fashion in the late 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches. After that pantaloons was used to refer to trousers in general" Basically, pantaloons are poofy pants. Tight at the waist and poofy all the way down . Pirate pants, I guess, they could be called, nowadays.
I'd never heard the pants as underwear thing. Oh, you wacky limeys.
Anyway, as Peter Griffin noted, its all okay as long as we're all the same religion: satansism. But none of you'd better be into that wacky Church of Set crap. Its ex-carny Anton LeVay or nothing!

yep

Is "limeys" still used in the US?
I haven't heard it for a while

Then what is it? I'm sure Ali-G uses that word for ass...?

Fanny

n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, ass] 2: external female sex organs; "in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals" [syn: female genitalia, female genitals, female genital organ]

http://www.dictionary.com

does it mean transvestite too? like Lord Fanny from "The Invisibles" comic book.

Limeys is not a common one. I just broke out the classics for you folks. Wow, that fanny thing is completely new to me.

Just don't ask an English girl if you can take her up the fanny

Still used since Terrance Stamp is The Limey

I find the french trying to find something to get back at the Brits hilarious, "roast beef" (which they can't say anyways ) I guess this is a failed attempt to counterbalance frogs, but keep it up.

Anyone still call canadians, cannuks?

I think the best one is the welsh though, nothing nice, just plain sheep shaggers

@chadman, first entry in the american Heritage dictionary:


The word does not mean trousers, underpants, or anything like that, he's a character from a play. However, since the american hetiage is based on the English, it does once again point to the discrepancies that don't make sense. The thing about this is that the word referred to underwear here before it was taken over to the states. Which, cottoned with everything else, makes me think the guys crossing the channel just plain forgot what they meant.

More likely the pioneers hated us that much (conservative bastards who in their right mind doesn't like sex? ) that they did it to confuse everyone down the line.

That pant thing though; I call both trousers pants, but you can tell what they are meaning (ie. Bottom style usage of pants). To say they exclusively refer to underpants here in the uk isn't true, but I suspect its the us influence that's changed things. However, since saying something is pants, means its bad/stinks, trousers doesn't make sense

Still the fanny thing is quite a discrepancy I don't know where it comes from, but its likely a literary or social reference to a prostitute that sparked it, and some anal sex obsessed (or gay) translated it back to front.

Well, I guess, that's why its pants instead of pantaloons. to avoid the confusion with poofy pants. But since the word (or the character in the play, anyways) comes from France I think we can all just hate the French in peace, like we always do.
Canucks is still used. Its actually the name of the (most) local pro hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks. I don't know any derogatory terms for Canadians. But I'd like to offer up "beaver-lovers". I think we can handle it.

to bad cry baby but thats how life is.....

Are you drunk? Your last few posts don't make a lot of sense.

I think he refers to the first post in this discussion

your correct mr... and the chadman is drunk i think

While we're lambasting the yanks for fucking up our language

Football is played with the feet - that's how it got its name. You call it 'Soccer', which is an abbreviation of Association Football.

What you call 'Football', we call 'Rugby' but the brits don't see the need to wear crash helmets, body armour and ballet dancer's tights (pantyhose, if you must) to play it. A small elastoplast across the nose is all the real men of Britain need to play the game. Also, we don't see the need to stop the game 0.75 seconds after someone gets hold of the ball.

Baseball - that'll be our 'Rounders' then.

Well, doc, after reading your response in the other thread or "suck", I can't be blamed for thinking you'd had some kind of problem. I was not drunk when I wrote that, unfortunately, and I'm not drunk, now, unfortunately.
DJbenz, you got us North Americans on the soccer thing. I didn't know that's what it came from. There's been a further evolution of the name, though, that those who were too afraid to cross the pond should know about. Now, its usually referred to as "That crappy sport I put my kid into because it was cheap and I ddin't have to buy any equipment, but those stupid shoes" or also "My Saturday afternoon nap".

Lets face it the only thing that doesn't involve puffs is ice hockey... padding is warranted their

Why us North Americans call it soccer doesn't make any sense. I always refer to it as football the way the Euro's do and how we all should. Our football should be called something else.

Seeing as we our on the sports topic...

I also personally hate the NFL. I think the CFL(Canadain Football League) is by far a better game. But i'm Canadian and will always prefer our sports over theirs. Seriously how do you guys enjoy the slow pace and low scores of the NFL or baseball for that matter? Any sport where you can chew Tobacco while doing it is NOT a sport. I also get a kick when somebody wins the Superbowl and everybody refers to them as World Champions. The U.S is the only country involved in the NFL but your the best in the world if you win it...ha ha.

But hockey will always reign king here. We eat, breath and shit hockey. Hockey and beer is what we like(although i prefer whiskey ).