In the States is “piss-poor” means of very low quality or extremely impoverished.
As in the saying "Perfect Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance".
(I may be misremembering or miscounting the Ps but the gist is there)
It's not true. Piss-poor planning guarantees piss-poor performance but it doesn't automatically follow the other way
I had the thought as I wrote it down but the saying still exists. I'd also argue that bumbling through half-arsed often produces surprisingly good results.
“Lanky as a streak of piss” = very thin
“Hasn’t a pot to piss in” = very poor
(There is a certain Texan who posts reviews of UK food and historic sites on Facebook who was also discussing the various meanings of “piss” earlier today - is this where this thread originated, or is it sheer coincidence?)
"Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" = totally incompetent.
I knew some guys at university who lived up to that saying. They organised an annual trip to the Black Sheep brewery under the thin guise of the Cheese Society visiting Wensleydale. Every year, they'd get banned after causing carnage, but every year, they booked under different names and addresses, until 2004 (if I recall correctly) they slipped up and the brewery cottoned onto them.
Not quite a tangent. Late one night a fella shuffles up to a stranded motorist on the side of the road. "Washa madder?" he asks. "Piston broke" the motorist explains. The fella nods and shuffles off, "Sho am I", he replies.
Not quite a tangent. Late one night a fella shuffles up to a stranded motorist on the side of the road. "Washa madder?" he asks. "Piston broke" the motorist explains. The fella nods and shuffles off, "Sho am I", he replies.
I confess it took me two readings before I got it. A joke very much in the Norfolk & Whey style.
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Pissed off is angry but merely pissed is inebriated in UK usage.
To say that something is "worth less than a cup of cold piss" is to say it's absolutely worthless.
As in the saying "Perfect Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance".
(I may be misremembering or miscounting the Ps but the gist is there)
It's not true. Piss-poor planning guarantees piss-poor performance but it doesn't automatically follow the other way
I had the thought as I wrote it down but the saying still exists. I'd also argue that bumbling through half-arsed often produces surprisingly good results.
"Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" = totally incompetent.
Once when working in Montreal I heard a serious irritation being described as 'un pissoff majeur' - a phrase that I've often found to be quite useful.
'Pissing about like a pox-doctor's clerk'
“Hasn’t a pot to piss in” = very poor
(There is a certain Texan who posts reviews of UK food and historic sites on Facebook who was also discussing the various meanings of “piss” earlier today - is this where this thread originated, or is it sheer coincidence?)
I knew some guys at university who lived up to that saying. They organised an annual trip to the Black Sheep brewery under the thin guise of the Cheese Society visiting Wensleydale. Every year, they'd get banned after causing carnage, but every year, they booked under different names and addresses, until 2004 (if I recall correctly) they slipped up and the brewery cottoned onto them.
A local variant: full of piss and wind like the barber’s cat
I confess it took me two readings before I got it. A joke very much in the Norfolk & Whey style.