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Chusday innit (hexbear.net)
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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I see your Tuppence Middleton and raise you Lawrence Eagleburger.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You’re discussing posh people. They aren’t real.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

It's especially weird considering that when I was young older British people used it as a polite euphemism for vagina.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep.

Edit: In fact, to verify this wasn't just some sort of slang specific to my older relatives I did a quick search for "tuppence slang" and was immediately confronted with numerous newspaper op-eds so awful I never want to read anything ever again. kiryu-pain

For verification only, major cognitohazard, NSFW discussion, unbearable cringe cognitohazard

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

if I hadn't clicked through I would have missed the illustration

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The vagina has a bow and eyelashes so you know it's a girl.

Never fails.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

And the penis has a quiff so you know it's Jimmy Neutron.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

So that's the big brain people were always referring to thinking-about-it

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Penis and Vagina sound like partners in an adversarial law firm

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They did? I thought it was “minge”

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Minge is more modern as far as I've ever heard and definitelya lot ruder.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There are many British slang words for genitalia.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Jim Sterling has used it that way on podcasts before.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm just imagining her being a Victorian sex worker with a heavy Cockney accent.

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