I don’t get that one at all.
Dammit, Hampshire, you kept him waiting four hours!
Harsh on clocks.
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I don’t get what you don’t get, unless you don’t get that “hot” means angry.
Sigh, I miss having coffee next to that one table of confused old guys… where one of them tells a joke and the rest spend the next ten minutes trying to figure it out.
And @terntii’s avatar is
Karsh on Hemingway
(Too esoteric?)
I recall one famous example in the UK on a tv panel game where one of the guests was a former senior politician who had made promises to appear and had backed out at the very last moment making if impossible to find a replacement.
The reaction was to put a large tub of lard on to the guest contestant’s panel top.
The line that was then used was -
‘…and our guest tonight was going to be a greasy disgusting lump of fat, instead he was replaced by the real thing’
One of the regular team hosts added that he thought that was unfair on the tub of lard
Who too esoteric? Hemingway, terntii or you?
/s
It was the third time he’d failed to appear and he had been warned about his putative replacement after the second.
For those not curious enough to Google it (unlike me), the MP in question was Roy Hattersley: The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP | Have I Got News For You Wiki | Fandom
The episode in question (from 1993) can be viewed here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3azcyu
Trigger warning - the opening scenes contain a joke alluding to suicide which definitely wouldn’t play today.
For me, yeah. “Hot” to me means either “attractive” or “lucky”. I’ve heard some phrases where “hot” means “angry,” like in “hot under the collar,” but I don’t think of it as a general term for angry. For example, if you told me the mods were hot about some poster, I would assume they liked them, not were angry at them.
In this thread we’ve now had both newer slang that confused one poster, and older slang that confused another.