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To: Constitution Day

Yes Brit for trash is ‘rubbish’. As you may have noted, the article was by the BBC.


17 posted on 02/19/2018 10:55:45 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

Trash is southern for garbage.


21 posted on 02/19/2018 11:01:51 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: sodpoodle

Mozambique is the only country that was never a British territory or colony (it was Portuguese), but in 1995, asked to join the Commonwealth anyway.


28 posted on 02/19/2018 11:08:07 AM PST by PGR88
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To: sodpoodle

“Yes Brit for trash is ‘rubbish’.

Also a polite way of saying bull shit. A garbage can is a dust bin.


30 posted on 02/19/2018 11:23:32 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: sodpoodle

Yes, I realize this.

It is almost impossible for me to read the word without imagining Jeremy Clarkson saying it in his inimitable fashion.


35 posted on 02/19/2018 11:32:59 AM PST by Constitution Day
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