# Is "with my thumb up my ass" universally understood?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-with-my-thumb-up-my-ass-universally-understood/373895 "2006-09-23T22:34:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![scotpens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@scotpens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotpens)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-with-my-thumb-up-my-ass-universally-understood/373895/21 "2015-07-27T21:04:11Z")

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> [@Antigen](#):
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> Well, I dunno, I’d feel pretty sluggardly useless with my thumb in a donkey.
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> Incidentally, why is it that people without lovely UK accents just can’t really say “arse” without sounding moronic?

For the same reason people who aren’t British or Australian can’t use the intensifier “bloody” without sounding like affected poseurs.

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