NTSC-RePlay 020: "One Does Not Simply Walk Away From Borderdown"

[fuse]

It's really nice to come in here and see so many of the posts echoing how I feel about the place. The internet as a whole may have fallen out of love with forums, but I still think they're great, and this one's been where I've felt most at home now for a long old time. You get a good sort round here.

[Hirst]

I don't understand what kernts means . I'm out of touch with English slang.
I do know kermit

I've only ever seen it typed on the Internet, but it's a swear-filter dodge of an existing popular swear (rhymes with hunts).

I think it's meant to be in the style of some wideboy Cockney or something. Maybe I'm over thinking it.

[prinnysquad]

First usage on this forum… 5/5/2013.

[Hirst]

In terms of the thread itself - I ran a specific car-related forum for some years, it was pretty popular considering the somewhat narrow subject matter. Usually dozens of posts every day, many threads going on for pages.

Social media gradually strangled it, it went from popular to more-or-less dead within about 2 years. I did mostly ignore the possibility of spreading the content onto social media, probably at my peril, but I just didn't like the idea of the content being on somebody else's website.

It's probably the older userbase that has kept this place alive, I think as forums go it has done really well. Most places are long dead now.

[Yakumo]

I've only ever seen it typed on the Internet, but it's a swear-filter dodge of an existing popular swear (rhymes with hunts).

I think it's meant to be in the style of some wideboy Cockney or something. Maybe I'm over thinking it.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the lesson in a new word for lady garden. Jesus, I'm so out of touch with the youth, lol.

[Golgo]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the lesson in a new word for lady garden. Jesus, I'm so out of touch with the youth, lol.

Interestingly the innocuous sounding word 'berk' means the same, it being a contraction of the rhyming slang for 'Berkshire Hunt'. Which is a splendid way of stealth-deploying this fine swearword.

[Hirst]

It's a sad reflection on the forum that I'm advising on youth slang. I remember the home video format wars. My main barrier to gaming is not wanting to bend down that far to put the cartridges in.

If Bordersdown was a TV channel, we'd have constant ads running with Alan Titchmarsh or somebody going on about leaving a cash gift for our loved ones. There's a free pen just for enquiring.

[prinnysquad]

First time I saw ‘kernt’ used, it was on the Ready to Go Sunderland forum.

[wakka]

I am 1000% sure that there is nothing about the word 'kernt' that is any way youthful

Interestingly the innocuous sounding word 'berk' means the same, it being a contraction of the rhyming slang for 'Berkshire Hunt'. Which is a splendid way of stealth-deploying this fine swearword.

I didn't know that! I thought 'berk' was an innocent one!

[QualityChimp]

This is all hilarious, but you're all on temp bans now for avoiding the swear filter.

[Dogg Thang]

I had no idea about berk either.

Reminds me of back in the day when Zig and Zag, who at the time presented the children's TV block here in Ireland, released a Christmas single with the word 'twat' in it. Only found out years later what it meant.

[Asura]

Reminds me of back in the day when Zig and Zag, who at the time presented the children's TV block here in Ireland, released a single with the word 'twat' in it. Only found out years later what it meant.

Does "twat" mean the ladybits in British English/Irish English though?

I often hear Americans say twat (they practically say "twot") with that explicit purpose, but I always thought it was more of a nonsense word, like when people say "twat it" for "hit it".

[Dogg Thang]

Does "twat" mean the ladybits in British English/Irish English though?

Well it's definitely not the association I had. I don't know when it came to mean that or whether it is only US.

[Neon Ignition]

It's been both meanings but in most instances, especially UK ones, it's definitely inferring the ruder one hence how it isn't used in non-adult friendly content

[wakka]

I had no idea about berk either.

Reminds me of back in the day when Zig and Zag, who at the time presented the children's TV block here in Ireland, released a Christmas single with the word 'twat' in it. Only found out years later what it meant.

My Dad never approved of Zig and Zag. Maybe this is why.