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Heaven help me, yet another nasty new noun, the unholy marriage of "volunteer" and "tourism".
Voluntourism, an act carried out by "voluntourists", is when hoardes of - generally - the great unwashed backpacker brigade descend on a place to do have a jolly nice holiday - usually at precious little cost to themselves - and do the occasional bit of good work.
Looks good on one's CV as a gap year activity.
Voluntourism, an act carried out by "voluntourists", is when hoardes of - generally - the great unwashed backpacker brigade descend on a place to do have a jolly nice holiday - usually at precious little cost to themselves - and do the occasional bit of good work.
Looks good on one's CV as a gap year activity.
Voluntourist 1: Shall we go to Khao Lak to engage in a spot of voluntourism?
Voluntourist 2: No, tsunami voluntourism is old hat now. All the bars are closed and hardly anyone is living in the houses built, anyway.
Voluntourist 1: Good point. (pauses) Sierra Leone?
Vouluntourist 2: Are you insane?
Voluntourist 2: No, tsunami voluntourism is old hat now. All the bars are closed and hardly anyone is living in the houses built, anyway.
Voluntourist 1: Good point. (pauses) Sierra Leone?
Vouluntourist 2: Are you insane?
by Roo September 6, 2005
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by roo May 6, 2004
Get the fwip! mug.Another unfortunate compound noun.
Thai + Irish = Thairish, reflecting the profusion of (at best fake and at worst real) Irish bars in Thailand.
Of course, is said by a native of that fair Asian country, it becomes Thailish.
Thai + Irish = Thairish, reflecting the profusion of (at best fake and at worst real) Irish bars in Thailand.
Of course, is said by a native of that fair Asian country, it becomes Thailish.
Remember the old song:, "When Thairish eyes are smiling"? Well, it's often playing in half a dozen faux Irish bars in Phuket right now...
by Roo April 8, 2010
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Rather common, potentially fearsome and almost entirely insane lower-class countryside dweller wont to shouting "GET ARFF MOY LARND!" and pointing a 12-bore at one. Fond of tractors, cider and unpleasant acts with farmyard creatures, he or she serves a purpose. Quite whatthat is, apart from making a good beater and emptying the slurry pit occasionally, is moot.
Not to be confused with the Barbourian, which is a far higher caste of rural inhabitant altogether.
Better somehow, than town-centric, SUV-driving types, whose prisitne vehicles climb nothing higher than the kerb outside the local Waitrose.
Not to be confused with the Barbourian, which is a far higher caste of rural inhabitant altogether.
Better somehow, than town-centric, SUV-driving types, whose prisitne vehicles climb nothing higher than the kerb outside the local Waitrose.
Referred to in Blur's Coffee and TV, the agri-yob also features in the film Straw Dogs and in Waugh's novel Scoop.
From Coffee and TV:
"Do you go to the country?
It isn't very far.
There's people there who will hurt you
Cos of who you are…"
From Coffee and TV:
"Do you go to the country?
It isn't very far.
There's people there who will hurt you
Cos of who you are…"
by Roo August 12, 2009
Get the Agri-yob mug.While the distance travelled by light in a year (a "light year") is a significant measurement, there is one that has greater relevance to most of us: the "shag mile".
The shag mile (noun) is the distance one is prepared to travel in order to have sex.
The shag mile (noun) is the distance one is prepared to travel in order to have sex.
Imagined SMS exchange*:
A: I am quite enamoured with you.
B: I feel rather passionately disposed towards you.
A: If only...
B: ...we weren't so many shag miles apart?
A: Yes, but it's a measure of my deep-seated lust for you that I will travel around 150 shag miles to see you.
B: I'll be waiting on the bed with my kit off.
*The real exchange would be considerably fruitier than this
A: I am quite enamoured with you.
B: I feel rather passionately disposed towards you.
A: If only...
B: ...we weren't so many shag miles apart?
A: Yes, but it's a measure of my deep-seated lust for you that I will travel around 150 shag miles to see you.
B: I'll be waiting on the bed with my kit off.
*The real exchange would be considerably fruitier than this
by Roo October 6, 2013
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