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01-04-2019, 04:25 PM | #1 |
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Thick as two short planks
sayings for being a bit stupid..... go
(copy list and add....) Thick as two short planks Sandwich short of a picnic Not the sharpest tool in the shed Dumber than a box of rocks Two bricks short of a full load I'm deliberately not adding the one about the bus of diminutive stature because I despise that.
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01-04-2019, 05:45 PM | #2 |
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01-05-2019, 03:16 AM | #3 |
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Thick as two short planks
Sandwich short of a picnic Not the sharpest tool in the shed Dumber than a box of rocks Two bricks short of a full load and... Tuppence short of a bob. Not the full shilling. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Too daft to come in out of the rain.
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01-05-2019, 10:48 AM | #4 |
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Thick as two short planks
Sandwich short of a picnic Not the sharpest tool in the shed Dumber than a box of rocks Two bricks short of a full load Tuppence short of a bob. Not the full shilling. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Too daft to come in out of the rain. ------adding------ Not Firing on all cylinders Lights are on but nobody's home I read somewhere that there is a British/American difference in slang in that Brits have more euphemisms for bodily functions and activities than Americans, and American have more terms for killing and money. From what I've seen, I can believe this. I wonder if stupidity is also a more British thing to call by another name? The short bus was really the only one I've learned since I moved here I could think of :/ But I didn't grown up here and I would imagine one must learn many of these from one's parents and peers because they are social devices and not used in professional publications or speech. Or perhaps I just hang with the wrong people?
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01-05-2019, 11:36 AM | #5 |
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Thick as two short planks
Sandwich short of a picnic Not the sharpest tool in the shed Dumber than a box of rocks Two bricks short of a full load Tuppence short of a bob. Not the full shilling. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Too daft to come in out of the rain. Not Firing on all cylinders Lights are on but nobody's home ---adding--- Not playing with a full deck Not the brightest bulb on the porch** **I think this one is American, I came across it while googling for the origin of the previous one, but I think I have heard it used a few times since I've been here and here's some more musing on the possibility of a Brit/Yank difference that I came up with whilst composing a Facebook post to ask for help from American Friends which I then used to bully myself out of for the sake of not causing possible offence.... There could be an element that referring to people's possibly less than optimal cognitive ability could be considered discriminatory, which is something society is more careful about now than it was when i lived in the UK, so people in both continents are less likely to use these terms now, and I'm less likely to have heard them in America as this is where I've been more recently.
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01-05-2019, 12:12 PM | #6 |
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Thick as two short planks
Sandwich short of a picnic Not the sharpest tool in the shed Dumber than a box of rocks Two bricks short of a full load Tuppence short of a bob. Not the full shilling. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Too daft to come in out of the rain. Not Firing on all cylinders Lights are on but nobody's home Not playing with a full deck Not the brightest bulb on the porch Adding: An ace shy of a straight Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top Thick as a brick Dumber than a bag of of hammers Duller than a bag of wet mice His cheese done slid off his cracker Ain't got the sense God gave a dill pickle (you can substitute 'goose' for 'dill pickle') So dumb he don't know beans from taters
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01-05-2019, 01:55 PM | #7 |
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it occurred to me not all of these are actually euphemisms e.g. "Dumber than a box of rocks") but they are still interesting, although I prefer the straight-up euphemisms. Carry on
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01-05-2019, 03:21 PM | #8 |
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01-05-2019, 04:37 PM | #9 |
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01-05-2019, 06:52 PM | #10 |
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those have a lot of syllables!
when we move to making our own: A syllable short of a military euphemism Cellar-specific: a dead hobo without a fish a tw short of a politics forum more lol than haggis
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01-06-2019, 07:28 AM | #11 |
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I don't know if this is the place for this,from my youth.
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01-06-2019, 12:55 PM | #12 |
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PEBKAC?
ID 10 T?
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