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Well, it’s just not very good is it? It’s a load of cods.
Male, 35, Boston area, and I’m the only person I know who uses it. And even then it’s typically when I write. I rarely say it because no one will know what I’m on about.
Of course I lived in Britain from 1975 to 1986. It probably helps to know that pants, in UK terminology, is underwear, where as what we call pants in the States are “trousers.”
[QUOTE=chowder]
Pants in UK terminology means trousers.
It also means summink is crap
Keks are underpants
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You’ve got the wrong way round, haven’t you? Unless I’m being whooshed. Pants are underpants or panties. Kecks is Scouse (Liverpool) and can mean either trousers or underpants.
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow]
Of course I lived in Britain from 1975 to 1986. It probably helps to know that pants, in UK terminology, is underwear, where as what we call pants in the States are “trousers.”
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Uh oh… you’ve hit on a related topic I was hoping to avoid, simply because it makes my head hurt, but now you’ve done it, I’ll add to it…
I’m used to the whole “divided by a common language” thing, and this board alone has immensely helped a poor, innocent Commonwealth lad with North American usage in most areas, but there are some words that I simply avoid when talking to Americans, and I think it’s partly because Australian usage is starting to be affected by the American anyway, and partly because some Americans are translating for me by way of trying to be helpful, but that backfires too…
I’m completely confused about the words “pants” and “bathroom” in international English, and I try to avoid them as a result.
[QUOTE=Usram]
You’ve got the wrong way round, haven’t you? Unless I’m being whooshed. Pants are underpants or panties. Kecks is Scouse (Liverpool) and can mean either trousers or underpants.
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Yes he has got it the wrong way round. Even in Manchester, “pants” means “underpants”. OK, some shops (especially international chains) refer to their trousers on the label as “pants”, e.g. “cargo pants” “or sweat pants”, but everyone calls them trousers. Actually, strangely enough, the shop lingo tends to refer to them in the singular: “cargo pant”. And I’ve never ever heard anyone use that term!
Pants is bad. However, I only know this because of hearing it said by Rachel Griffith’s kids in After the Deluge
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
I have recently heard “pants” as a verb synonymous with “own/pwn” on the internet. A person retiring defeated and licking their wounds from a flame fest can be said to have been thoroughly “pantsed”.
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Well now “pantsed” is different. “Pantsed” means “forced to take off your trousers and run around the pool table without them due to having been slaughtered seven balls to zero in your last game”. That’s one I know off my own bat with no TV intervention whatsoever (fortunately not, however, from personal experience…)
Pants is bad. However, I only know this because of hearing it said by Rachel Griffith’s kids in After the Deluge
Well now “pantsed” is different. “Pantsed” means “forced to take off your trousers and run around the pool table without them due to having been slaughtered seven balls to zero in your last game”. That’s one I know off my own bat with no TV intervention whatsoever (fortunately not, however, from personal experience…)
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Aaaaah. And you’re from Melbourne! That’s interesting, because so are the other people I’ve heard use “pantsed”. Up here in New Souf, it’s “flash”, as in, “He’s on the black, mate. You’d better hurry up and sink one, or you’ll hafta flash!”
[QUOTE=Usram]
You’ve got the wrong way round, haven’t you? Unless I’m being whooshed. Pants are underpants or panties. Kecks is Scouse (Liverpool) and can mean either trousers or underpants.
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[QUOTE=Colophon]
Yes he has got it the wrong way round. Even in Manchester, “pants” means “underpants”. OK, some shops (especially international chains) refer to their trousers on the label as “pants”, e.g. “cargo pants” “or sweat pants”, but everyone calls them trousers. Actually, strangely enough, the shop lingo tends to refer to them in the singular: “cargo pant”. And I’ve never ever heard anyone use that term!
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NZ has such an unfortunate mix of Pom and US slang (plus the homegrown version), crisps=chips and fries=chips. Pants and trousers both work here, though trousers are probably for men while pants are for kids and women (as I type this I know I am wrong…it seems to differ from house to house rather then area to area!). Women wear knickers, men wear undies.
I think pants means bad due to the proximity pants are to the arse!
I’m 57, in central Indiana, US. The only place I’ve heard of pants as a bad adjective is a previous thread here on the Dope.
On CBS, The Late Show With David Letterman comes from Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants. I don’t know what he means by that odd name.
Around here, getting pantsed is a prank where the victims trousers are yanked down to his knees. If the victim isn’t wearing underwear, the pantser and the victim are both embarrassed.
My children and their cousins were listening to an Avril Levine CD in the basement at a family get-together Sunday while the adults talked amid relative quiet. My 2-year-old comes wailing up the stairs. His cousin explains, “they took the pants song off the boombox.”
He loved the pants song. He cried when they stopped playing it over and over again. What is it about ? It’s a mystery to me. Did it have anything to do with the pants of the OP?
31, LA (formerly Ohio). I’ve never heard that phrase before. Before opening the thread I thought you would be looking for things like trousers, slacks etc as other terms for pants, the clothing item.
41, Southern California. The only place I’ve ever heard it used is on Brit ex-pat Steve Jones’ (ex-Sex Pistol) radio show “Jukebox Jury”, where he and a guest panel rate new songs and declare them to be either “pants” (bad) or “mustard” (good).
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I have recently heard “pants” as a verb synonymous with “own/pwn” on the internet. A person retiring defeated and licking their wounds from a flame fest can be said to have been thoroughly “pantsed”.
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We do use pantsed in the US - it means to have someone (a bully) subdue you long enough to rip your pants down exposing your skinny legs and poorly chosen underwear, preferably maximizing the embrassement by doing so while around girls. Like this. What you’re talking about seems to be a metophorical extention of that.
30, upper Midwest (Wisconsin and Minnesota), no idea.
I thought it had something to do with the game of a couple of years ago - replace a key word in a movie quote with the word “pants.” Some of those were high-larious, so my initial inclination was that it was a good thing.
“Han will have those pants down! We’ve got to give him more time!”
