# What a complete and utter prat!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 14, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591 "2011-01-14T14:07:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/1 "2011-01-14T14:07:19Z")
BBC video [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12190292).
You, mate, had a very lucky escape. But your boat isn’t worth your life.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/2 "2011-01-14T14:28:21Z")
Yes, but is he twee?
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### Author:  [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/3 "2011-01-14T15:16:32Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> Yes, but is he twee?
What?
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### Author:  [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/4 "2011-01-14T15:20:31Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> BBC video [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12190292).
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> You, mate, had a very lucky escape. But your boat isn’t worth your life.
If he’s stupid enough to do that, maybe the boat is worth at least as much as his life.
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### Author:  [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/5 "2011-01-14T15:22:25Z")
> [@SecondJudith](#):
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> What?
I assume he means [this;](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twee) but it’s still obtuse.
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### Author:  [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/6 "2011-01-14T15:25:15Z")
I know what twee means. I don’t understand why **FinnAgain** was asking whether the skipper was.
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### Author:  [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/7 "2011-01-14T15:35:04Z")
> [@SecondJudith](#):
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> I know what twee means. I don’t understand why **FinnAgain** was asking whether the skipper was.
Maybe it has some complex, greater meaning (playing on the word “prat”), and we’re arguing in the shadow of some higher intellect.
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### Author:  [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/8 "2011-01-14T15:35:19Z")
I was a reference to an old thread here where a poster pitted SkipMagic (I think that was his name) for being twee.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/9 "2011-01-14T15:40:52Z")
“Twee” was, for a brief period, a SDMB in-joke a year or two back.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/10 "2011-01-14T15:46:59Z")
> [@quartz](#):
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> bbc video [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12190292).
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> You, mate, had a very lucky escape. But your boat isn’t worth your life.
tldnr
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### Author:  [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/11 "2011-01-14T15:47:19Z")
Oh right. Thanks for clarifying.
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### Author:  [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/12 "2011-01-14T16:27:38Z")
> [@Mince](#):
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> If he’s stupid enough to do that, maybe the boat is worth at least as much as his life.
The fucking thing didnt even work _on water_! How good could it have been…
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### Author:  [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/13 "2011-01-14T16:52:28Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#):
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> The fucking thing didnt even work _on water_! How good could it have been…
No quarter asked, no quarter given.
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### Author:  [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/14 "2011-01-14T16:58:49Z")
What makes him even dumber - no lifejacket.
No excuses, he shouldn’t be alive.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/15 "2011-01-14T17:22:37Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> “Twee” was, for a brief period, a SDMB in-joke a year or two back.
Once. In 1960.
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### Author:  [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/16 "2011-01-14T19:24:42Z")
Can we pitt the woman on the video who keeps saying “Oh my god”???
Jesus, come up with a new phrase for “I can’t believe this is happening”, like…uh…uh…I can’t believe this is happening.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/17 "2011-01-15T13:54:17Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Once. In 1960.
For 20 minutes.
For 20 minutes.
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### Author:  [@The\_Jay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Jay)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/18 "2011-01-15T14:29:33Z")
_sigh_
Twee is used jokingly elsewhere also.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/19 "2011-01-16T04:26:46Z")
Yacht? That was no yacht, that was a scow.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-complete-and-utter-prat/567591/20 "2011-01-17T17:10:26Z")
And it shouldn’t be hauling garbage, but hauled away _as_ garbage!
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