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Unrelated, but does `Bollocks` mean anything to people outside of NZ?
by xupybd 11y ago
Unrelated, but does `Bollocks` mean anything to people outside of NZ?
- codezero 11y agoYes. Most people from the United Kingdom and the US will recognize this vernacular. I'm saying this in response to your question, I don't expect all English speakers to understand it.
- johnloeber 11y agoIt's a common expression throughout the commonwealth, since it is British in origin (and quite old, to boot). It's uncommon in the US.
- girvo 11y agoYes, in Australia and the UK it has a lot of meaning.
- pheroden 11y agoLiterally, it means testicles, but more colloclially it means bullshit in every English speaking country I know of. edit: Apparently not. Just messaged my American buddy, and he thought it might be a wig for cows... So, maybe not Americans.
- sanswork 11y agoNot Canada either but def Australia
- schrodinger 11y agoI'm an American, and I think most Americans would recognize it as meaning "bullshit"; I certainly did. it's not commonly used but it is commonly understood.
- DrScump 11y agoI'm an American; it strikes me as an overloaded expression, used to imply both "bullshit" and "testicles", plus whatever the Sex Pistols were on about in their album title... ... yet in C. S. Forester naval stories, it clearly refers to steers or bulls. So, I can only conclude that it is a random operator used to confuse colonials.
- tacos 11y agoOne of the top 50 albums of all time used it in the title, so yeah. (Mr. Dotcom offered it as a pirated download from his service, too.)
- circlecrimson 11y agoI don't mean to flame but even the slightest cursory look at world culture would have given you the answer to this question.
- xupybd 11y agoSorry, I thought it would make interesting conversation. I'll happily delete my question, if this is detracting from the discussion?
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781843 and marked it off-topic.
- codezero 11y agoThanks dang.