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So if you were to say "pants"...

Zapsta [Edit] [Delete] 117 replies 00:28, 25 September '09

(as an item of clothing), what do you reckon you'd be referring to?

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  • Still not sure what you mean by "widely-accepted" here, bud

    You mean it's widely accepted in the UK that people in the US use 'pants' to refer to refer to trousers? Is that what you mean? If so, I agree, it probably is widely accepted. Love the "Maybe people only refer to trousers as 'pants' because of television" by the way. Masterful irony.

    Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 00:35 | X
  • surely if i said it i'd know what i was refering to?

    brusma | 25 Sep '09, 00:31 | X
    • http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4199972#r4899968

      So, if you prefer, "What do you reckon the context would dictate you would be referring to?"

      Zapsta @brusma | 25 Sep '09, 00:37 | X
      • I know what you were referring to

        You're obfuscating.

        Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 00:51 | X
      • take off your pants and jacket

        manbearpig | 25 Sep '09, 00:32 | X
      • "Claims"

        It probably *is* kik.

        Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:35 | X
      • ah finally something that surpasses wikipedia as the most

        useless bit of evidence to back up a point ever

        Jack_il_biscotto @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:38 | X
        • doesn't make it right though does it vikkers

          Jack_il_biscotto @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:41 | X
          • By 7 people who have spent too much time watching Friends because they're all on the dole

            Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:45 | X
            • That's how many you need

              to end up with the 7.

              Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:52 | X
            • I'm sure they are known as pants there and I'm sure

              it's a commonly accepted term but between you and me calling trousers pants is the mark of the welk and we're better than that

              Jack_il_biscotto @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:47 | X
              • Fuck man

                The one chance you had of being right and you've just pissed all over it. Fuck.

                Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 00:53 | X
                • Not even close

                  Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 00:59 | X
                  • Right

                    Well I meant the "It's not even a North/South thing", but okay.

                    Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:04 | X
                    • *North/South" thing

                      Zapsta @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 01:05 | X
                    • If you're simply trying to compensate for your atypical American pretension

                      with some literally-couldn't-be-more-typical stubbornness, I don't think you have to worry anymore about whether you've succeeded or not.

                      Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:11 | X
                      hellatronix this'd this
                      • It's flattering that you think I'd even be capable

                        Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:15 | X
                      • that's probably more a genetic thing than a geographical thing

                        Jack_il_biscotto @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:12 | X
                        • 100% this

                          Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 01:17 | X
                        • ah the beauty of the internet

                          arguing about things you don't really give a toss about.

                          By the by I don't think I've claimed anything. I'm just another nob who wants to chat breeze, hence why I'm here

                          Jack_il_biscotto @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:30 | X
                        • I've never heard anyone refer to trousers as pants

                          granted I'm no more of a southern spokesman than your are the northern equivalent

                          Jack_il_biscotto @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 00:56 | X
                        • manchester aint the real north

                          its almost the midlands, I've never heard trousers refered to as pants in north yorkshire.

                          jimitheexploder @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 00:38 | X
                        • depends on the context

                          Anschul | 25 Sep '09, 00:35 | X
                        • An item of clothing.

                          poptimusgrime | 25 Sep '09, 00:37 | X
                          • In some parts of Scotland, trousers are known as trews

                            Zapsta @poptimusgrime | 25 Sep '09, 00:41 | X
                            • donald where's your pants

                              Jack_il_biscotto @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 00:42 | X
                            • And "breechs".

                              With the "ch" pronounced the same way as in "loch". Fact fans.

                              poptimusgrime @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 00:49 | X
                        • common in the north.

                          pffffffffffffffffft southerners

                          Nestor | 25 Sep '09, 00:39 | X
                        • I would be referring to underwear

                          crashinglikeamouse | 25 Sep '09, 00:45 | X
                          Nestor and sharp_yet_blunt this'd this
                        • Trousers.

                          But then, I do live in the US.

                          ainsm | 25 Sep '09, 00:55 | X
                        • never use the word ever

                          Mehodor | 25 Sep '09, 00:57 | X
                          this'd this
                          • good advice^

                            Anschul @Mehodor | 25 Sep '09, 00:59 | X
                        • i love that this deserved its own thread

                          Matt_J | 25 Sep '09, 01:07 | X
                        • A long-legged article of clothing, that isn't a pair of jeans.

                          But I understand that it's probs a northern thing, and trousers is probably technically correct. It just sounds a bit, y'know, posh.

                          deadonthestairs | 25 Sep '09, 01:09 | X
                          • high five

                            *holds up webbed hand*

                            Jack_il_biscotto @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:13 | X
                            • Ah, so this is all just a bit of misguided classism

                              I see.

                              Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:17 | X
                            • I say trousers

                              so, I'm super posh for a Northern bird.

                              Whats more, my mother says pants and I shout at her when she says it. I shout like she's just called my nan a cunt or something.
                              I can't help it though, I'll have none of those Americanism's around here, thank you very much.

                              Scout @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 01:42 | X
                              • It's sad that Americanisation has even got to the older generations

                                Zapsta @Scout | 25 Sep '09, 01:43 | X
                                • Not sure you should be talking about Scout's mum like that

                                  Especially since she probably would have been about 5.

                                  Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 01:46 | X
                                  • My mother did not blow GIs...

                                    but then I did wonder why she always had so many pairs of tights. Hmm.

                                    Scout @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 01:48 | X
                                    • she probably just tickled the gooch for some banana custard

                                      Jack_il_biscotto @Scout | 25 Sep '09, 01:57 | X
                                      • gooch is 'west country' for tackle right?

                                        broonski_beat @Jack_il_biscotto | 25 Sep '09, 01:58 | X
                                  • And how did that hold up in court as a defence?

                                    Zapsta @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 01:53 | X
                                    • Sorry :((((((((((((

                                      Zapsta @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 01:54 | X
                                      • Both of you should stop with jokes about my mother

                                        you really should, you're bad men.
                                        And I don't want to imagine her involved in the act of fellatio. Has never happened, neither has sex; the stork delivered me.

                                        Scout @Zapsta | 25 Sep '09, 01:59 | X
                                        • Thanks. Now please gents, let's move on!

                                          Scout @kissinginkansas | 25 Sep '09, 02:17 | X
                                        • I say pants when referring to trousers.

                                          AlexTurner | 25 Sep '09, 01:19 | X
                                        • Underwear (or bad..as in "that is reet pants")

                                          But my better half is Australian...so much frivolity ensues when pants are mentioned

                                          broonski_beat | 25 Sep '09, 01:22 | X
                                          • I'd invite you outside for some pugilism

                                            if I wasn't pissed!

                                            broonski_beat @_vikram | 25 Sep '09, 01:53 | X
                                          • in scotland pants are kecks ie underwear

                                            nobody in scotland calls trousers pants unless they are a yank here on holiday

                                            and manchester aint in the 'north' of the uk .... its barely even half way

                                            cs009d4735 | 25 Sep '09, 10:24 | X
                                          • PANTS MAN

                                            http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/media/gallery/2009/apr/29/the-apprentice-week-by-week/Pantsman-9366.jpg

                                            shucks | 25 Sep '09, 10:31 | X
                                          • Trousers, no question

                                            I don't think underwear would even cross my mind. Panties I'd think of underwear obviously, but a man can't say panties without sounding like a sweaty perv with a comb-over

                                            Lucien | 25 Sep '09, 10:36 | X
                                          • I'd mean underwear, probably more particularly Y-fronts/briefs

                                            Pretty much every northerner I've met that has ever spoken to me about clothes (and it's admittedly a select group) has called their trousers pants.

                                            DanielKelly | 25 Sep '09, 10:38 | X
                                          • i can't believe so many people call trousers pants

                                            it's just wrong guyyys. underwear = pants. UNDERWEAR

                                            pretty_vacant | 25 Sep '09, 11:46 | X
                                          • Can I just chip in?

                                            From north and I always call them trousers

                                            I remember a friend of mine referring to them as pants ages ago whern I was 17 and I thought 'why is he referring to them as this'

                                            Assumed 'pants' was used if you just want to add a bit of 'comedy'

                                            But someone at work said about two weeks ago the term and I think I have the connection:

                                            The two people in connection are very bright, uni educated and from working class background so maybe it's a subconscious way to say: look I'm from the north and I'm working class (one always used the term 'our kid' for brother which used to annoy me for some reason

                                            I have never heard what you may call someone of the underclass persuisian use the term so I think it's a studenty term, for example 'fella' (which I don;t have qualms with)

                                            But as someone said earlier in post, yeah if I hear it as pants it really annoys me, f___ knows why

                                            JonnyPix @_vikram | 26 Sep '09, 13:49 | X
                                          • I wouldn't say it

                                            shrewbie | 26 Sep '09, 14:03 | X
                                          • I can't even remember

                                            I think I call knickers pants sometimes for a bit of variation and also trousers pants. But as I say this is like when someone asks you if you say boooook or buk and it puts you under pressure and you JUST DON'T KNOW and it's all very traumatic

                                            icouldwinarabbit | 26 Sep '09, 14:10 | X
                                          • undercrakers

                                            bizzy | 26 Sep '09, 14:20 | X
                                            • underkraken

                                              shrewbie @bizzy | 26 Sep '09, 14:26 | X
                                          • Pants are pants.

                                            Due to my liking to get on with people I'll interchange the meaning from trousers to undergarment, depending on the geography of the conversation.

                                            But where I grew up pants were, and still are, trousers. Like when you're mum would scold you for getting grass stains after church from playing footie on the grass in 'your best pants'.

                                            Incidently, America is a much younger country than the UK. It's more likely the notion of pants was passed on to the Yankees when we conqured the Americas. Or something.

                                            gowman | 26 Sep '09, 14:24 | X
                                            • 'Pants' came into use a long time after America got its independence

                                              so extremely unlikely. I'm tempted to say this is a Manchester thing, on the basis that all the people in this thread who've said they say it to mean trousers are from Manchester, but then I try to imagine Blanche saying it in Coronation Street and I realise it can't be.

                                              Zapsta @gowman | 26 Sep '09, 17:36 | X
                                          • What are underpants?

                                            a second 'insurance' layer of y-fronts?

                                            marckee | 26 Sep '09, 15:22 | X
                                          • jeans

                                            katti | 26 Sep '09, 18:24 | X
                                          • pants

                                            cowcow | 26 Sep '09, 21:30 | X
                                          • Real people don't freeze bread?

                                            Zapsta @grouchland | 26 Sep '09, 21:36 | X
                                            • 'Butties' is an Americanism

                                              Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 26 Sep '09, 22:47 | X
                                              • Let's get this straight, *I* don't, personally

                                                but my parents do, because, you know, some days you just don't feel like a sandwich.

                                                Zapsta @_vikram | 26 Sep '09, 21:45 | X
                                                • Oh dear

                                                  Zapsta @grouchland | 26 Sep '09, 21:56 | X
                                                • it doesnt take that long!

                                                  katti @grouchland | 27 Sep '09, 01:51 | X
                                                • freezing bread is a studenty thing

                                                  for those who love playing the part of poverty stricken student, its abit annoying, bread is so cheap anyway, and when you share a tiny freezer with 6 bread freezing chumps and you have no space for actual frozed food its quite frustrating, I never saw any of them defrost bread

                                                  ThingsThatFly @Zapsta | 26 Sep '09, 22:33 | X
                                              • undies

                                                unless prefixed with a word like work-

                                                soapy | 26 Sep '09, 22:50 | X
                                                • 1. a. Originally (colloq.): pantaloons. Later: trousers of any kind (in early use applied to men's trousers, but in the 20th cent. extended to include those worn by both men and women).
                                                  Chiefly N. Amer. and S. Afr., *******except in the names of particular styles of trousers, as loon, hot pants, etc.*******

                                                  Zapsta @kissinginkansas | 26 Sep '09, 23:00 | X
                                                • no

                                                  pants = undies
                                                  work pants = grown up version of school trousers or perhaps workies kegs if you're more working class and manual laboury

                                                  soapy @kissinginkansas | 26 Sep '09, 23:07 | X
                                                • My trousers.

                                                  Pants mean boxers or trousers in America. They play fast and loose with our great tongue, they do.

                                                  orsonwellesrabbit | 27 Sep '09, 02:07 | X
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