Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

I first learned the phrase from the Sex pistols album (For all you fools who know one of the greatest bands ever: Never Mind the Bollocks Heres's hte Sex Pistols) andI ve used it ever since. I use it in the chat box because no one else knows what it means and then I can make fun of them, because thats how cool I am.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Patrick del Poker Grande: this new Coheed and Cambria CD is the [dog's] bollocks!

this phrasing wouldn't really work with "the nuts"

Actually, as a poker fiend, I often say "the nuts" in day-to-day speech when referring to anything that's the best.

For example, "Hockey is good, but playoff hockey is the nuts."

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yeah, i now realize i am wrong.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Patrick del Poker Grande: this new Coheed and Cambria CD is the [dog's] bollocks!

this phrasing wouldn't really work with "the nuts"

Actually, as a poker fiend, I often say "the nuts" in day-to-day speech when referring to anything that's the best.

For example, "Hockey is good, but playoff hockey is the nuts."

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yeah, i now realize i am wrong.

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Only on technicality. He's incredibly wrong in taste. Using "the nuts" outside of poker is very poor form.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Actually, as a poker fiend, I often say "the nuts" in day-to-day speech when referring to anything that's the best.

For example, "Hockey is good, but playoff hockey is the nuts."

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Russ? Is that you?

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

my bollocks were on your mums tongue last night but I guess she doesn't have a US tongue so this post isn't very informative.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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I first learned the phrase from the Sex pistols album (For all you fools who know one of the greatest bands ever: Never Mind the Bollocks Heres's hte Sex Pistols) andI ve used it ever since. I use it in the chat box because no one else knows what it means and then I can make fun of them, because thats how cool I am.

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You really think:

a) there are many people people that don't know who the Sex Pistols are?

and

b) there are many people that don't know what bollocks means?

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

I don't know about bollocks, but the phrase "pop in" has caught on, at least in NY. As in, "I have to pop in to the store to buy some milk." Also "bloody" as in "that bloody cab almost ran me over"

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

I think that most people are idiots and most dont have a clue about good music. so the answers are:

A) Yes

B) Yes

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

There's also what I think is a corruption of the original, used when something has broken down or is ruined. 'bolloxed' or 'bollixed' (I think both are used). ie 'This is bolloxed!'

I think this word actually appears in Shakespeare somewhere, but I could be confusing it with Chaucer or something.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

No, Americans pretty much never say this. A very high percentage of Americans wouldn't know what it means.

Occasionally Americans use Britishisms just for fun or to try to sound sophisticated. Gays and pretentious males seem to fall prey most to this anomalous use of language the rest of their peers don't even understand.

Usually these outbursts are confined to the use of "bloody" or "bloody hell," which basically have no place at all in common American speech.