Brit Expressions

[nq:1]Are Brits familiar with/do they use the expression "faff around"?[/nq]
I think so. In the sense of "stop faffing around and get on with it"; "what's she faffing about at?" etc.

Hercule Platini

[nq:1]Are Brits familiar with/do they use the expression "faff around"?[/nq]
Wait a minute, YOU'RE British. Why do you have to ask this?

The Peripatetic Samurai Robot

[nq:2]Are Brits familiar with/do they use the expression "faff around"?[/nq]
[nq:1]Wait a minute, YOU'RE British. Why do you have to ask this?[/nq]
because I haven't lived there for years

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Red Smith

[nq:2]Wait a minute, YOU'RE British. Why do you have to ask this?[/nq]
[nq:1]because I haven't lived there for years[/nq]
Apropos of nothing - I have Flood rented for tomorrow night.

Hercule Platini

[nq:1]Apropos of nothing - I have Flood rented for tomorrow night.[/nq]
hope you like it

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Red Smith

[nq:1]Are Brits familiar with/do they use the expression "faff around"?[/nq]
There's also it's earthier, cruder, more comical cousin: "fannying about"

Used by Sidney James in the "Carry On" movies, as in, "Aw ri' then, get crackin', and no fannyin' abaht."
Also used by the blond detective in every episode of "The Thin Blue Line" starring Rowan Atkinson written by Ben Elton (I don'

One of my best-est friends in the world is a Brit who constantly reminds me of Shaw's observation, something like, "Americans and Brits are divided by a common language."
He'll come up with some throw-away comment that I really have to think about; Cockney rhyming slang or some Anglican public school absurd reference... it's like getting the most subtle jokes imbedded in an obscure Monty Pytho

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[nq:2]Are Brits familiar with/do they use the expression "faff around"?[/nq]
[nq:1]There's also it's earthier, cruder, more comical cousin: "fannying about" Used by Sidney James in the "Carry On" movies, as ... could say, "Stop fannying about." Martin NOTE: "*****" in Britain and the colonies means ***, not **** or ***.[/nq]
My dad, who was quite polite

[nq:1]"Tell it to my Aunt *****, kid."[/nq]
Was she related to sweet ***** Adams?

Martin

[nq:1]But only Uncle Phil, our family's answer to Jack Nicholson, who did and said exactly as he pleased (but he was a nice guy), could say, "Stop fannying about."[/nq]
My uncle Phil's party trick:
He had a little dachshund ***. He would call it into the lounge in front of the guests and say, "Come on girl. Show your *****. Show your *****."

The dog would roll onto its back and op