Izzie Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 I'm watching death and the lady, and i noticed a word on the wall of the adult theatre. It looks as if it's saying 'w*nkers aweigh'. I'm not seeing things am i? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJ Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 It's been done before, pal. To wit, dig this dialog from "Phil The Shil:"Phil: You must take me for a right wanker, son.Izzie: Well, a right wanker who's got no furniture, mang.Phil: Now look, a wanker is a twit, a tube, a tool... ...that is exactly what I'd be if I took you for anything else other than a two-bit thief! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 so what. The F-word is sprayed next to this in the same scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzie Posted May 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 I've heard the phil the shill bit. I never noticed this in Death and the Lady. I ain't seen the f-word either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lar Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Never noticed the F-Bomb on the wall (screencaps, anyone?), but the W-Bomb does sound a little familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 W*ker doesn't sound like profanity to me. I think I have heard all the US swear words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECN5247 Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Wanker is a British term that means "one who wanks", or masturbates. It is also a form of calling someone a d ick, as s, or j erk.Wanker has since been "decriminalized" and used as loosely as the word damn is today.On the other hand, tea-bag, a seamingly innocuous term means something far more graphic and rude when applied as a verb.Very impolite indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators timm525 Posted June 1, 2008 Administrators Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 I'm not 100% sure all terms meant the same thing in the 80's as they do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzie Posted June 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 I'm not 100% sure all terms meant the same thing in the 80's as they do now.I was thinking the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamijimf Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Ya to me "teebag" always meant a Limey or a Brit. The disgusting connotation is recent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECN5247 Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Well, regardless of what you all may think, it is what it is..."teabag" or "to teabag" is not nice and no, this disgusting connotation is not recent...it goes quite a ways back...it just hasn't been recognized as a vulgar phrase here in the US until recently. That doesn't mean the words like puta, maricon, comemierda, ugatz, va fangul and other "recent" terms are not bad although they have been used in the mainstream from the street to the movies on a constant basis! Most of them getting past censors because the censors only censor what they know and understand.Common usage does not make them any "cleaner". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brotherskeeper1970 Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 The neon sign is posted inside a porno shop in that shot so i think they are refering to masturbation meaning wankers aweigh without angering the tv sensor gods just my .02$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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