So many sayings that are simply not true and are used daily.
Zulus Polished Cows dung for flooring as it dries hard and smooth even has some sort repellent towards certain insects.
Come on what other rubbish sayings are there?
I dont know about rubbish sayings but I know about rubbish topics 🙂
To die for (go on then be my guest)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!?!
thats a good saying surely?
A hand in the bush and who cares about the other bird
put lipstick on a pig ... it's still a pig
don't look at the mantle piece when poking the fire
it's not the size of the nail but the hammer that hits it
cover the face and **** the base
every hole's a goal
can sprinkle glitter on a dog sh1t.....
All good things come to he who waits
not true at all.
you can't polish a turd...
but you can roll it in glitter
All good things must come to an end
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
An army marches on its stomach
also not true
Rarer than horses teeth
"cheap as chips" 😕
er, Dave, i've never heard anyone say that until now...
The Titanic wasn't sunk in a day
Cleanliness is next to godliness
Nope!!!
The Titanic wasn't sunk in a day
Never heard that one before
Rarer than horses teeth
Hens.
I'm going to split hair, in the true spirit of STW pedantry, because I'm bored. A floor made of dung is not a "turd", it is a floor.
"A turd" is a dollop of faecal matter, broadly speaking having the form it is given by the process of being expelled from the rectum. It is questionable whether it is properly applied to something too liquid to retain its shape. Using the term to describe, say, a slurry pit would be inaccurate. A slurry pit may contain matter which used to be turds, but it is not itself a turd, and it probably does not contain turds either as they will havee been broken down into an amorphous mass, losing their shape and individual identity. Using the epxression to describe a floor made of dried faecal matter is likewise inaccurate.
It remains true that you cannot polish a turd. I accept that you can polish a floor, even if it is made of dried faecal matter. Clearly, the expression "you cannot polish a floor" isn't a thing. If it was, I agree that it would be manifestly incorrect. 🙂
Fail on the OP. It's actually "however much you polish a turd, it's still a turd"
Hens.
Rarer than horse's hens?
Crime doesn't pay
Well it seems to doesnt it?
I'm going to split hair,
Pretty stupid saying right there. How do you split a hair?
Good things come in small packages.
No, good things come in bike sized packages.
like a chipmonk on acid
it's not the size of your cock, it's the speed of your arse
I thought the phrase "You can't polish a turd" meant that you can "French it" (by adding a moustache), "American it" by putting it in a long roll, so you could "Polish it" by giving it some vodka?
Fail on the OP. It's actually "however much you polish a turd, it's still a turd"
That's not the same saying and not a very common one.
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-would-you-post-to-nick-griffin#post-1638144 ]I give you Exhibit A[/url]
The American habit of saying "I could care less", when they mean that they could not care less.
You are what you eat
The STW habit of saying "epic all dayer", when they mean a 4 and a half hour (most of which is spent at a pub) bimble on a popular cycling route.
organic - the "bird" saying is actually pretty logical. It means (literally) the bird you've killed (that you can eat) is worth more than the 2 birds you haven't/can't kill(ed) (and therefore can't eat).
Or more broadly - be thankful for what you've got 🙂
Probably....
You can't have your cake and eat it.
organic - the "bird" saying is actually pretty logical. It means (literally) the bird you've killed (that you can eat) is worth more than the 2 birds you haven't/can't kill(ed) (and therefore can't eat).
I would much rather have 2 birds in a bush.
A pub in Bristol had "one in the hand is worth 2 in Kate Bush" written on the wall. I'm not sure that's right.
you wont catch me with me trousers
Or a bird with 2 bushes - freaky 😆
Cheap at half the price.
Well of course it is!
Hanging on for grim death.
Eh?
Every woman has a right to be ugly, but she just abuses the privilege.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
Yes you can, especially after a good ride 😀
i saw a mythbusters where they polished a turd. it came out, erm, shiny.
"in my humble opinion" is one i think is sh1t, generally said by people with very little humility.
I'm going to split hair, in the true spirit of STW pedantry, because I'm bored. A floor made of dung is not a "turd", it is a floor.
So when someone asks you what kind of wood your floor is you'd say "Floor, it's no longer wood it's made of floor!"
No, that would be stupid. I would not however say that my floor is a tree. 🙂
lol
So when someone asks you what kind of wood your floor is you'd say "Floor, it's no longer wood it's made of floor!"
I just spat my tea out thanks.
'I could care less' is a bit of an odd thing to say that I hear more and more.
Saying something is 'quite nice' seems a bit of an insult to me.
"it's made of floor", brilliant. Now how to get someone to ask me what my floor is made of, although my floor's laminate, but i do have a table made of table.
Quite hard to set up, isn't it? 🙂
You can't put a sheen on a s**t
[i]'I could care less' is a bit of an odd thing to say that I hear more and more[/i]
That's because it should be "I couldn't care less" which makes a little more sense.
Indeed - but why do people say it?
I often say "I [i]could[/i] care less".
For example, if someone says "Peter Mandelson's memoirs are out on Friday", I don't care very much at all. My give-a-f***-o-meter is barely bleeping. But I could care much less. About Wayne Rooney's opinions on fiscal policy for example. Or who wins Strictly Come Dancing. Or that millions of peole are starving while I feast on caviar. So I'd say "I could care less". But I'd say it quite ironically, so it'd be fine. 🙂
I thought Zulu's [wasn't he on star trek 😕 ]used dried dung as fuel for cooking,and the floor is made of just plain old dirt pounded hard.
seems unlikely,average cow dropping a few a day,you'd be waiting months to get the room floored 😆 😆
'quite nice'
'Quite' can either amplify or diminish. It's not always clear which is intended.
[that's not a saying BTW]
'its a bit of a nip and tuck game'
Just heard that on TMS commentary AUS v PAK, nip and tuck???
Cricket, football, plastic surgery...whats the nip and whats the tucking involved??
"as much use as a handbrake on a canoe "
Point of order - the flooring is not pure turd, but a mixture of bovine faeces and ant hill soil that has subsequently been dried - therefore the initial saying is correct, since although you [b]can[/b] polish a mixture of faecal matter and selected soil that has been through a secondary process, you [b]cannot[/b] polish [b][u]a[/u][/b] turd, which by definition would be pure and in its original unadulterated form.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
Thats just a phrase thats become too abreviated over time, it means you can't keep it as a pretty object as well as eat it and enjoy how nice it tastes. However you could just buy two cakes. Or take a photo.
The 'can't polish a turd' is about futility, you can polish a turd, given time, and then its just shiny turd, but its not improved by being shiny. But the phrase again is over abreviated, it should be 'no matter how much you polish a turd, its still a turd'.
However the phrase "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" .... I think many stroke victims would disagree
We have the point of view of an actual Zulu. Case closed I think. 🙂
I thought Zulus were the bogs at Regent's Park.
I once heard a furniture salesman, enthusing at a fine oak bookcase say "Wood like this doesn't grow on trees, you know".
I'll get my euphemism.
it's just common sense (if it was common there wouldn't be a name for it)
cheap at half the price
speed kills
I used to work as a contractor at a number of MoD sites.
At one naval base, in the PO's mess, there was a polished turd in a glass case.
It was a shiny, plated, dried turd that had once passed through the beloved bowels of HRH Elizabeth the Queen Mother. As you know, Royalty cannot pass motions in the same facilities as the rest of us, so they require specially installed ones when they make official visits to the haunts of their subjects.
So our inventive Petty Officers had installed a Royal Poo Trap in the loo supplied for HRH's use, and had extracted and dried and mounted and POLISHED the royal turd.
It was still a turd, however.
So there.
Thanks bakes
, I very nearly choked on my post-ride Soreen!you can't polish a turd...
but you can roll it in glitter
At one naval base, in the PO's mess, there was a polished turd in a glass case.
Must be the best-travelled turd in the world, because I've heard this story twenty times and I've never been on a Brit military base...
Rarer than horses teeth
That should be hens teeth 😆
go out for a bike ride - you don't actually kick anything in per se, and no household repairs are required.
seems unlikely,average cow dropping a few a day,you'd be waiting months to get the room floored seems unlikely,average cow dropping a few a day,you'd be waiting months to get the room floored
Cows drop loads of turds, they had huge herds of them that would produce tonnes of the stuff. My Dad is/was a fanatic on Zulu history.
If I had a floor made from cow dung (polished or otherwise) I would say I had a shit floor...
IGMC
"i was shit faced" - no you weren't, you just drank to much!
"i couldn't get me hat off" - i'm sure you could really!
"if you save your pennies, the pounds will look after themselves" - stop talking shit mom!
EDIT; oops... two sayings there!
"the best things in life are free" - er... no they're not!
moses, I'm assured that the "poo-trap" was clingfilm 😀
"Killing two birds with one stone" Have you ever tried even hitting one bird with a stone? The chances of fatally hitting one moving bird and then following on with a fatal ricochet to another has got to be a lot harder than just bloody doing the two jobs in the first place surely?
I reckon you'd have to brick tens of thousands of birds before you got lucky.
"built like a brick shithouse" ?
"Killing two birds with one stone" Have you ever tried even hitting one bird with a stone?
It would be a useful skill if stones were for some reason rare and expensive. The trick is in these circumstances is to sellotape the birds to a plank then bludgeon them with the stone.
"never cry two tears in a bucket, f*ck it"??
'Shit Happens'
Sometimes.. 😉
You can beat an egg...but can't beat a w4nk 😯
"I'd forget me balls if they weren't in a bag."
Timeless.
"If it ain't Raining it ain't Training"
"If your going to hoot with the owls in the night, be sure you can soar with the eagles in the morning"
Hes "Tighter than Rambo's headband" that mon.