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ORIGINAL: kdsub
Teabagger…slang for a Muslim tied to a water board and dipped in tepid warm water.

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ORIGINAL: takemeforyourown

I'm not sure. It would seem that Teabaggers really like scrota in their faces...I dunno.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Don’t let them fool ya

Teabagger…slang for a Muslim tied to a water board and dipped in tepid warm water.

Republican…Christian crusader controlled by the religious right Corn Belt evangelists.

Democrat…corrupt, inefficient money wasting socialist.

Winger…slang for wiener, which is not allowed on American TV.

GOP… what my wife makes for supper.

You know what the words mean…what is your real point?

Butch

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ORIGINAL: AnimusRex

Hey, as long as we are getting all international, maybe our UK friends can explain the following oddities:

"Page 3 girl" - Women with large bosoms who appear topless on page 3 of the adult comic called The Sun
"Cock up" -   A mess, disaster
"Gobsmacked"- Surprised
"Yobs", esp. "Crackdown on"- Yobs being people who annoy others, usually youths, Crackdown on, meaning someone intends to do something about the annoying some times law breaking youths
"Jack Straw" - A labour party politician, or a nobody, ( not meant to include the politician, but a name for a nobody, Joe bloggs, man on the street etc)


The following headline in the Daily Mail:

"Gorbals Bleated-What A Gallumphing Numptie!" Gorbals is a name, bleating is what sheep do lots off, a plaintive cry possibly, gallumphing meaning large, big and stupid, numptie, meaning brainless, idiot

Explain that one, and we might translate "shiznit".

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n the contrary, I don't know what the words mean, it is why I asked, but from what I have read so far, I am still fairly clueless, as it seems there are many meanings some I guess ranging from insult to personal understanding. But, I thank all who have contributed so far, for it has been educational and in some part, humorous.

But another word has appeared, scrota, what is that, some kind of fungus ?

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ORIGINAL: Elisabella

GOP - Grand Old Party, aka the Republican Party (and said like letters gee-oh-pee not like "gop")

Teabagger - slur referring to the Tea Party movement, a conservative/libertarian movement against big government.

Republican - the more conservative of our major 2 parties. Comparable to the Tory/Conservative Party.

Democrat - the more liberal of our major 2 parties. Comparable to the Labour Party.

Winger - Left Wing is liberal/Democrat, and Right Wing is conservative/Republican. Derived from the three estate government of Revolution era France where the third estate sat in the "left wing" of the hall.

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What gets called left and right wing in the US would be called centrist and right wing everywhere else.

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ORIGINAL: philosophy

.....mostly correct, but wrong on the UK equivilant of Democrat. That'd be the Liberal Democrats, not the Labour party. There's no equivilant of the Labour party in US mainstream politics. What gets called left and right wing in the US would be called centrist and right wing everywhere else.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Thats because the United States is a center-right country.

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ORIGINAL: philosophy

What gets called left and right wing in the US would be called centrist and right wing everywhere else.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Thats because the United States is a center-right country.

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53
No, thats because there is no such thing as a hard left in American politics. What so many of you bleat on about as "left" is far from the real deal. Many of you have compared Obama with communism and he is not even close.