You have got it all wrong....
A lag is what you get after you have drunk 2/5 of your pint of Australian alcoholic beverage ( though that might be a "ger")
And a jacksie is what I use when I want to change the wheelsie on my carsie.
Dear Reg: What is a 'Lag' and a 'Jacksey'?
It's Thursday, and we could all do with a bit of light relief at the end of the week, so here is some, in the form of an entertaining email which landed in my inbox earlier this week: To L. Haines, What is a "Lag" ?and what is Jacksey" [sic] ? (article seen on Google TODAY!) Would you be speaking SO RUDELY about a person if …
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Thursday 27th March 2014 13:14 GMT Loyal Commenter
Re: Tread carefully
Causing offence may one day be a criminal offence!
If this does indeed become the case, then I shall be doing all I can to bring forward prosecutions for the many things I find offensive, starting with the attitude toward the people of this country of its politicians...
...or maybe common sense will prevail, and people will realise that nobody has the right to not be offended. Offense, is, after all, an internal process originating with the individual experiencing it.
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Thursday 27th March 2014 10:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: You have got it all wrong....
Why would you even have wheels fitted to your bog?
Tsk. You're thinking of a khazi, not a carsie.
As for confusing slang, when my dear old dad moved out of London in the 1970s he went to buy fish and chips. Just before paying, he asked if he could have a wally as well. Almost ended in a fight as the chip shop owner thought he was being mocked in some way until my dad pointed out that "wally" is East End slang for a large gherkin (pickled cucumber for non-Brits I suspect).
Then there was the time he went to the doctors complaining about a pain up his aris ...
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Thursday 27th March 2014 06:43 GMT Mondo the Magnificent
Reminds me...
..of the time I was at police High Tech Crime Unit (HTCU) on business.
This unit had a special area for phone forensics and I saw the two investigators handling every phone they touched with rubber gloves.
When I enquired as to why they wear gloves, one detective replied "you'd be very surprised where some of these phones have been. This one was found "in a female inmate" pointing at a Nokia in an evidence bag. He also informed that they'd also investigated phones found "in male inmates"
It seems as if the "jacksey" is the standard cargo compartment for most things then, from an eighth of cannabis to a phone, but I await the day that ElReg reports that some inmate gets found with a fondleslab in the rear cargo hatch...
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Thursday 27th March 2014 09:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Reminds me...
Nowhere near the same level of stomach churning unpleasantness, but I remember one of our Summer interns who was given the task of checking faulty blackberries for water damage (invalidates the warranty).
He was having quite a successful day of it, popping off the backs, checking the indicator tabs and setting aside the red/pink ones. I noticed that he was picking away at his lunch while working his way thru' the pile and I asked him if this was wise.
Initially he didn't grasp what I meant, so I then suggested one of the likely places that the devices fell into water, which isn't a shower or a sink though it can often be found in the same room.
He lost his appetite.
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Thursday 27th March 2014 07:00 GMT Shadow Systems
Oh, those are easy to answer!
The First is what you're experiencing, complaining to El Reg about an ancient story presented on Google.
The Second is what you're acting like, complaining to El Reg about an ancient story presented on Google.
Now improve the first by pulling your head out of the second.
Ta Daaa! =-D
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Thursday 27th March 2014 08:25 GMT dervheid
PUBEs
Professionally Upset By Everything.
If this person (gender has not been formally identified) finds 'lag' and 'jacksey' offensive, they're gonna be apopleptic over 'C*ckwomble', F*cknugget' & 'W*nkstain'
Worse than that, they have no contol over their use of the apostrophy. Grammatical heathen.
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Thursday 27th March 2014 12:17 GMT David Pollard
Was Cecilia from the PR department at Chambers?
Perhaps Jonathon Green's three volume dictionary of slang isn't selling quite so well these days in the face of urbandictionary.com. So an agent has been sending provocative emails in the hope of getting editorial mention that it is available online to subscribers and that there is also an abridged single volume edition in addition to his seminal work, 'Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime.'
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Thursday 27th March 2014 13:17 GMT Jonathan Richards 1
Search terms, pl.
The "offending" article isn't very long; one wonders what Cecilia was searching for when she discovered the report of our hero's charger discomfort. Presumably "lag" and "jacksie" weren't in the search string, since Cecilia is unfamiliar with those terms, so was it "Swaleside Prison"? "drug and phone smuggling"? "cannabis and cocaine"?
Unfortunately, the original story at The Sun and Lester's story are both on the first page of GoogleTM results for "Tony Pile".
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Thursday 27th March 2014 19:25 GMT MrT
Maybe they need to hide...
...specially modified handsets along with the chargers?
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