May 01, 2006

In Case You Forgot, I Live in the UK

I got an email today from a friend here. It included the following:

"Today is pretty rubbish for work for me too. The old grey cells straining a bit...am planning to go to footie tonight but may bottle it as am feeling cream crackered."

She's great and I'd love her even if she didn't say such excellent british things. I think "cream crackered" is the new "plumb tuckered" in my vocabulary.

For you, Sioned (who's Welsh in case y'all can't tell), who requested more Seattle stuff on the blog, here's the Seattle translation:

"Yeah, today sucks for me,too. My brain's totally fried ... was gonna go practice with my band (or paint or work on my screenplay or some other arty endeavor), but'll probably scrap it 'cuz A of all) I'm beat, and second, I don't feel like it. "

It would probably, most often, have more cursing in Seattle, but this here is a family blog.

Posted by at May 1, 2006 06:45 PM
Comments

Can I try?
"Yeah, today totally blows for me too. I'm going a little stir-crazy -- I was thinking a night out might snap me out of my funk but I may bag it since I'm feeling kinda burnt."

Posted by: flamingbanjo at May 2, 2006 10:10 PM

The curse version had "I can't think for shit." I said stir crazy wasn't PNW enough, but joshua says it so is. and "bag it" is definitely better than scrap it. Kinda burnt is also good. (I just wanted to get the Annex a of all and second kind of stuff in)

The other difficulty was that Oci's version has footy, which is soccer, and I couldn't think of anything sufficiently sporty and virtuous to replace it. While I know people play soccer in Seattle, but no one I know. Maybe the climbing gym is analagous.

Any other tries, folks?

Posted by: Appalachia at May 3, 2006 09:12 AM

Do non cockneys actually do rhyming slang like that? Or is cream crackered something you say without even thinking about it?

My try:
Yeah, I'm pretty out of it today, my brain is toast.

I can't improve on flaming banjo's second half.

Posted by: some guy at May 8, 2006 08:00 PM

Apparently they do. I'm pretty sure she just knocked out that e-mail without thinking about it. In person she usually says "I'm a bit knackered."

"Brain is toast" is perfect.

Posted by: Appalachia at May 9, 2006 11:03 AM