On 2020-07-18 14:00, T wrote:
On 2020-07-18 02:39, Andy Burns wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I know "could care less" is the US version of this expression

Please don't attribute that mangled expression to all of us over
here.

Very sorry! Glad it's not universal in US. But I haven't seen it at
all used in UK.

I must admit I did think all Americans used the "could care less"
variation.Â* Similarly I thought all Americans used "I'm ****ed" (which
in the UK means "I'm drunk") rather than "I'm ****ed off" but I've
started to hear the latter more now.


A good video on this is Superman and Hot Fuzz
discussing British Slang:

Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg Teach You English Slang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIj1nDUs9g

So in the UK would "I'm ****ed off" mean you are
sober?

:-)

Oh and our GI's picked up the word "Crap", as in
"I am going to the crapper" from your guys:
Thomas Crapper & Co. Crapper's trade marks
were all over your crappers.

And GI's picked up "****", as in "I am going to
go take a ****", from the French word for the
crapper: ****oir.

Apparently our British Allies didn't quite
educates us properly on the latter.