Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: I think I'll buy that car, it seems to be in pretty good nick.
Me: Did someone say my name?
More Adventures in English Translation
English Woman: Did you see him? He looks like a hard man.
American Woman: Checking out his package?
Adventures in English Translation
American Woman: I had my interview today for the new job.
Englishman: I'm guessing by the look on your face that you cocked it up with the interviewer?
American Woman: *slap* What kind of woman do you think I am?!
Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: Oh bollocks. Do you have a plaster?
American: Need to repair a wall?
Englishman: With a plaster? Are you bloody nuts?
Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: So then, Andy fell down the stairs on the way into the pub last night, and everyone spent the entire night taking the piss out of him.
American: You catheterized him at a bar? What kind of weirdos are you?
Adventures In English Translation
American: Would you care for some biscuits and gravy?
Englishman: You put gravy on your biscuits? That doesn't sound very appetizing.
Adventures In English Translation
American: Dinner was delicious. Thank you.
Englishman: Would you like some afters?
American: After what?
Englishman: Afters after what?
American: Are you stuttering?
Adventures in English Translation
American: So where do your kids go to school?
Englishman: I send them to a public school.
American: Government funded education is awful, I'm sorry to hear that.
Englishman: Public school isn't government funded.
American: It isn't?
Scotsman: Are you sure?
More Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: Do you have a rubber that I can borrow?
American: Here you go, but you can keep it. I don't want it back after you've used it.
Englishman: Why did you give me a Durex?
Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: Do you know that geezer over there?
American: Oh come on, he's not that old.
Adventures in English Translation - Down Under Edition
Australian: Do you have any Durex?
Englishman: Going to have a shag tonight?
American: Huh?
Australian: What? I just want to hang up a drawing.
Even More Adventures in English Translation
American: How is your project going?
Englishman: It's going off like a bomb!
American: It's bombing? I'm sorry to hear that.
Englishman: What are you talking about?
American: What are you talking about?
Another Adventure in English Translation
American: I just went to the dentist and got some candy floss. It tastes like cinnamon.
Englishman: A dentist gave that to you? Isn't it bad for your teeth?
More Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: I'm going to go ride the tube.
American: Are you going to do that before or after you blow a fag?
Further Adventures in English Translation
Englishman: I hate sleeping policemen*. I just ran over one, and I think it ruined my suspension.
American: Oh my God! Was he hurt?
* As a small aside, in California we called them Mexican Stop Signs.
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