A winged avian piece of shit, which due to a its lack of survival skills has naturally selected itself straight onto the endangered species list. By doing so, a variety of extremist animal protection and conservation groups have ensured that anytime one of these fang bearing, disease carrying, good for nothing creatures decides to lay nest and make babies on a beach, that beach gets closed down to people for weeks and months on end, regardless of the beaches popularity. Luckily there are a few organizations such as PHUK Plovers, (of Cape Cod, MA) which are fighting the good fight against these piping pukes.
Parents that never control their kids and then blame or attack others if they're hurt or in trouble. ( plovers are an Australian bird who let their chicks roam freely and violently swoop anyone that comes near)
This kid just ran straight into me and his crazy plover mother started screaming at me like I'd hurt him deliberately.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.