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    761 year ago

    An American comedian, following a long set here in Australia, told the audience to stand up and stretch. He then tried to direct us to “bend over and pat your neighbour on the fanny”. Stone cold silence did not indicate to him his mistake, and he tried several times before eventually realising he had lost his audience goodwill entirely with this starting skit.

    Turned out later that he had no clue what “fanny” means here, and had to have it explained to him.

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          1 year ago

          I think “grope your neighbor” just falls under unacceptable dumbassery from a stand-up regardless.

          Like, if the bit is making people refuse to do it, why keep trying when no one laughs?

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      291 year ago

      Genuinely curious what does fanny mean in Australia

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          81 year ago

          Well at least saying shove it up your fanny is indicating a similar location in both amarica and Australia

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          301 year ago

          It’s a word for butt. It sort of has a childish connotation, like a pre-school teacher might direct their class to “keep your fannys on the ground.”

          • @torvusbogpod
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            91 year ago

            Only in the US. In Commonwealth countries it’s a slang for vulva

          • @xX_fnord_Xx
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            31 year ago

            I worked for a UK based fashion retail business and they always found it blushingly charming when I referred to what they called a 'bum bag ’ a ‘Fanny pack’.

            Also, ‘Pardon me!’ Doesn’t mean excuse me in UK English. It’s more an excuse for if you do something disgusting that you are ashamed of, like if you fart or burp.

            Correct me if I’m wrong, but that was my take away the couple years I worked with British people.

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      81 year ago

      Okay wait, even if he meant “butt”, I feel like no one is going to follow a random comedian’s request to grope your neighbor on the butt…

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        21 year ago

        No, not grope, as I said, pat.

        He felt we had all been sitting down for too long, and should gently pat the stranger on the butt, presumably to help them with the pins and needles. It was weird, but we thought it was weirder still! I believe people did indeed ask a lot of questions of him, but at the time it was a massive moment of lost in translation and divided by a common language, etc.