My wife's old dutch grandma once had a sip of beer and said "it's like an angel pissing on my tongue"
Talking about how many children she had "your grandfather would throw his dirty undies at me and I'd get pregnant"
Grandma sounds like she could make a pirate blush :) I wanna be just like her when I grandma
"How're we gonna fuck this pig" is my favorite. Means "how are we going to start this unpleasant task".
Fun fact: Saying it at work can net you several funny looks and more!
David Cameron is a redneck?
One I learned in the fleet was “…more fucked than a ten cent whore on a day raining dimes.”
My favourite is the (apparently) Australian saying "I'm so hungry a could eat the ass off a low flying duck"
Aussie slang is weapons grade language. They're not here to fuck spiders
I have always enjoyed "I could eat the north end of a south bound skunk"
One of my favorites:
"It's hotter out here than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire"
My dad has a lot from growing up in a small farming community in Kansas:
“Shakin like a dog shittin prune seeds.”
“I gotta piss like a race horse.”
“So dumb you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.”
"Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" is the opening of an alkaline trio song. They're out of Chicago, so I don't think this is local to small town Kansas. Also I'm from Texas and piss like a racehorse was fairly common.
"like a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" in reference to watching your ass.
"Like a blind man at an orgy, I had to feel my way through"
And I thought my language had something unique. Turns out, saying "even from a sack full of pussies he would pull out a dick" to an unlucky person isn't that unique to us.
But, equally as revelatory, perhaps.
I have a pretty mild one that I've used all my life: "Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise." I said it once to the owner of the company I work for and he thought I meant I wouldn't do what he'd asked of me, and he got a little upset. I had to explain it meant the opposite. That I had to explain it to him didn't really ease the angst of the situation...
this is Lemmy's finest thread to date
My wife's granny in West Virginia: "I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers"
I grew up 5 mins from West Virginia. The hillbillies were always saying wild shit like this lmao
"you look like 5 pounds of shit in a whore's lunchbox"
But... They don't carry lunchbo— Oh.
Went back home after like a decade and ran into my dad's old boss from when I was a kid. His southern drawl was pronounced and nasal like a side character in an old western, "Well I ain't seen you in a coon's age!
I was bewildered regarding shitshow at work and said, "it's like going around your butthole to get to your elbow" -- the californian and the Canadian had apparently never heard this phrase before. I realized then it was a southernism 😂
I like the Newfie sayings: "She's tighter than a squall of shit through a tin whistle"
Y'all gotta check out this artist "lilbubbychild". He creates these incredible animations of southernisms. As a lifelong southerner, I can attest that most of these have been said by someone in my life.
Here's a link to the normal player and with the site tracking removed: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z9lv4UunN2k
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My favorite is when it's raining "...like a cow pissing on a flat rock."
"The Man on The Moon couldn't see that!" (Still not sure what this means) "Tighter than a fish's pussy" (Self-explanatory) "I was no more good" (I was shocked and surprised/amused) "Hand me that 'little chicken' over there, would you?" (Little Chicken replaces any and all nouns)
I once heard someone say that something was scattered "all over hell and half of Georgia". I use that all the time now.
I also very recommend southern Italian for this. It is comical.
I remember a phrase someone taught me in college, it basically translates to telling someone to go fuck a donkey
My southern friend says "It's hotter than the hammered down hinges of hell", which I just love.
They are descended from Scots-Irish immigrants, many of whom came over as indentured servants. Of course they have poetic souls.
I do like "that could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon" in reference to a bad smell.
I'm from the south and I've only ever heard it as "that could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at twenty paces" in case you were missing the end of it.
I had a guy tell me once that his boss was so mad that was, "gonna shit down one leg and kick it off with the other." He was perplexed at my laughter.
"Flatter than piss on a plate."
Sex is like Chinese dinner: it ain't over 'til ya both got yer cookies.
What exactly is wrong with those sayings? Are they racist or something?
Nah nothing wrong, just highlighting the poetry of an apt simile that's rare in common parlance
Thank you!
Yes. Everything poor people do is racist, sometimes you just have to get creative and assume bad faith to figure out exactly how.
Lights are on, but nobody's home, huh?
Hey now with all the saying I know and find out have racist origins and shouldn’t say that shit anymore, I dunno why you’d dunk on someone trying to be better
The part where you assumed something southern also had to be racist was where you accidentally revealed your own prejudice. People may be noting the irony approaching hypocrisy.
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