Captain Brain
<font color=teal>School is so draining<br><img src
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- Aug 13, 2005
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Spotted dick - Not actually a medical complaint, spotted dick is a suet pudding with dried fruit and is an excellent pudding in winter with custard.
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Bum - This is the part of your body you sit on. It might also be someone who is down and out, like a tramp. You might also bum around, if you are doing nothing in particular, just hanging out. Finally to bum something means to scrounge it from someone.
*** - Probably the most famous troublesome word for Brits in the USA. I even fell for it myself when I visited my first US supermarket aged 16 and asked how much the fags were. The lady gave me a horrible stare and pretended not to hear me. Little did she know I thought I had found a business opportunity to make money on cigarettes. Fags are expensive here!

You should talk to him then. You speak French well. You can say more than one setence.Everytime my parents call this friend of theirs they insist on speakin French (as a joke, their friend is learning French for work), and the way they speak it makes my ears hurt.