# I'm knackered
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313 "2025-04-21T16:29:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/41 "2025-04-24T14:34:52Z")
Sounds like somebody needs a good snog.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/42 "2025-04-24T16:28:08Z")
> [@teelabrown](#):
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> “Oh, isn’t that a right bobby-dazzler!”
A “bobby” is a cop, right? So is a “bobby dazzler” a cop magnet, like a flashy sports car?
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### Author:  [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/43 "2025-04-25T11:58:41Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> So is a “bobby dazzler” a cop magnet, like a flashy sports car?
Maybe. I looked it up; it means “a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent,” according to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), but the “bobby” part originates from the slang for a policeman. Bobby dazzler started being used in the 1860s.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/44 "2025-04-29T11:11:55Z")
I fancy a biscuit and a bevvy for brekkie, but blimey, me trousers are getting snug.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/45 "2025-04-29T11:39:11Z")
Excuse me for a moment. I have to get my English-to-American language dictionary so that I can translate that! 🤣
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/46 "2025-04-29T16:10:09Z")
Cheeky one, you are.
mmm
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/47 "2025-04-29T16:57:47Z")
Are you still sleeping in the park?
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/48 "2025-04-29T17:19:43Z")
With a ten-bob note up me nose.
mmm
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/49 "2025-04-29T17:39:23Z")
I pity yer sister — Sam, was it?
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/50 "2025-04-29T18:30:01Z")
> [@Jasmine](#):
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> Excuse me for a moment. I have to get my English-to-American language dictionary so that I can translate that! 🤣
You just reminded me of my aunt. The last time she was in the hospital, she didn’t warn anyone that she was hard of hearing. She’d just smile and nod and then be horribly shocked when they started doing whatever procedure they had just explained to her.
I put up posters in her room. If I was there, I’d listen to what the nurse was saying and then yell it into Aunt’s ear. Seriously, I was yelling directly into her ear and sometimes I’d have to repeat it.
When I phoned my sister with an update, she called it my English to English translation.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/51 "2025-04-29T18:51:15Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> When I phoned my sister with an update, she called it my English to English translation.
Humorous, but also very sweet! Your aunt is fortunate to have that kind of love! 💓
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/52 "2025-04-29T23:29:33Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> The last time she was in the hospital,
Correction: The last time she was in hospital, …
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### Author:  [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/53 "2025-04-29T23:51:35Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> I’ve not heard that, but I have noticed a definite increase in “no worries” in place of “you’re welcome”.
How does the person doing the thanking react to that?
I ask because, for awhile, there was a trend here in the US to respond to “Thank you” with “No problem.” And a lot of people got _very_ upset about that. “The proper response is ‘you’re welcome!’ How dare you imply that my request might have been a problem?” That kind of thing.
“No worries” isn’t quite the same thing, but it’s similar enough that I wonder if some Americans might be similarly offended by it.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/54 "2025-04-30T04:41:44Z")
The English. They don’t get inferiority complexes, they give ‘em.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/55 "2025-04-30T16:25:55Z")
Sure, the Brits conquered half the world. But Americans gives out Oscars, Super Bowls, diabetes, and shop at Walmart. Who’s really winning?
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-knackered/1017313/56 "2025-05-01T00:22:41Z")
Walmart. 😄
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