...but I suppose that would be classified as a c**k up then

obviously made a bit of a dick of himself

The American kind, of course. Since we outnumber you limey laddies, we ought to be able to define things from our side of the pond, right? :-)

That Scott Carson (and/or McLaren) wasn't the biggest prick of the night?

a MASSIVE cock up

I'd say it was a huge cock up.

No need to ask about where the PH angle is then?

I'm sure there must be a Paris Hilton angle to this story.

... obviously he'd not learnt the croat anthem, but the scroat anthem...

Sounds like a cock and bull story to me..

As much as I hate American English, flop and todger are British.

Shorted Oxford English Dictionary online search returns.

todger

• noun Brit. vulgar slang a man’s penis.

— ORIGIN of unknown origin.

flop

• verb (flopped, flopping) 1 hang or swing loosely. 2 sit or lie down heavily and clumsily. 3 informal fail totally.

• noun 1 a heavy and clumsy fall. 2 informal a total failure.

— ORIGIN variant of FLAP.

It however 'WOT' is not english (TXT?) or at least not in the context you meant.

wot

singular present of WIT2.

Back to school?

You see, English is a bit like Microsoft, there are many more users of English than the English themselves, but the English get to call the shots.

If you don't like this, please, feel free to learn Finnish, but you'll have to accept that not may English words work in that language, or may do things you weren't expecting.

I think this guy is just making a mountain out of a mole hill...

Got the coat, Taxi?

"aluminium not aluminum" is incorrect, Sir Humphry Davy originally proposed the name alumium for the element, which was undiscovered at the time. He later changed the spelling to aluminum and it soon changed again to aluminium, so technically it should be called alumium as that was the initial naming but any of the 3 would do.

Not sure why I'm posting, I didn't really have a comment to make.

I'll get me croat.

a supposed conversation between the Queen mother and a worker in a shipyard

"Are you copper bottoming 'em my man?

no I'm aluminiuming 'em mum"

Try saying that with a mouthful of crisps!

there was a football match on was there? -and we lost you say?

"tries to give a damn and fails"

(i choose the icon that looks a bit like a football/tit)

"Flops? Todger? Wot? Speak English, please. :-) The American kind, of course. Since we outnumber you limey laddies, we ought to be able to define things from our side of the pond, right? :-)"

Well there are more English speakers in China than in the US, so by that logic we should go with their ranguage conventions.

Just how many likely young Croat lasses came 'round to see if Tony's boast had any basis...

I was in Tesco earlier today buying OXO cubes. They had Chicken, Lamb, Vegetable and England. "What's the England one?" I asked the assistant. "That's a new one we've just launched" she replied. "It's a laughing stock!"

I thought football (soccer) was a girls game?

At least the England Ladies are doing better than the mens England team, perhaps we should have fielded them against Croatia we might have won, no perhaps not the Croaians may have got the wrong idea especialy the cock up in the National Anthem and it would have ended up as a a good mass Porno game