Funny side note: I had a flat mate once who was on a working holiday from Japan. He was in love with and endlessly curious about English slang, it’s basically

Funny side note: I had a flat mate once who was on a working holiday from Japan. He was in love with and endlessly curious about English slang, it’s basically all we talked about. I remember explaining to him why my uni friends and I referred to things as being “craptastic”, starting with American marketing’s love affair with the portmanteau. He got it pretty quickly and enjoyed using it in conversation. The saying that was harder for him to understand was “fuck all”. He always wanted fuck to be the verb, rather than using “fuck all” as the adjective, so he would say things like “I fuck all my money last night at the pub”.