I love the reaction of Johnny and Joan as the 2 Americans in the crowd. They clearly thought what I thought, but all the brits in the room knew she meant eraser.
Rien Jen It's called a rubber because it's used for rubbing things out. The name was then transferred to the material itself, and thence to other things made from that material: first tyres ("a nice set of rubbers", you might find in an old book) and then condoms.
This made me laugh out loud...Graham's show is the best and that last girl talking about a rubber stuck up her nose and then what her brother told her was fab........... :-)
We definitely don't call erasers rubbers. If you asked for a 'rubber' in school in the US, you'd probably get sent to the principal's office. Or get detention. Or both.
I am also British and have heard a similar accent all over the UK. Whether or not she is from the same places as those people I don't know, but she definitely has an British twang to her speech.
To be fair though, i'm from Norway and i made that mistake as well. Think it's more an issue of "rubber" being popularized in english as meaning condom. The british version of it meaning "eraser" was new to me. Oh well, you live and you learn.
It was more a question of what counts as damage. She's more or less saying that while there was no permanent physical damage, there was/is psychological damage.
i fainted and broke my neck ... paralysed for the remainder ... almost 9-yrs ago. it's okay. Not as earth shattering as it seemed at the time. i'm still married. looking foward to becoming a gran. self-sufficient. you do become inured to people looking quizzically. like what happened as i look very much the same as i always did. and that's my red chair moment! lol
While stationed in Berlin in the US Army. I was in a strip club (as soldiers often do) and one of the ladies performing slipped and my nose was broken when she fall and her vaginal area smashed into my face. I was bleeding very badly and almost had to visit a hospital. It was a night I remember like it was yesterday and was back in 1989.
Growing up in Canada we said rubber as well. But by the time you reached Junior High (12 years old) you started saying eraser as rubber you found out meant something else too! Lol.
When my sister was 8 and my brother was 3 they were playing baseball out in the backyard and my sister was really good but my brother was absolutely dreadful. So when it was his turn to bat he was so upset that instead of hitting the ball when it was tossed at him he chased my sister around the baseball diamond and hit her as hard as he could on the wrist with the baseball bat and fractured her wrist. When we finally went to the doctor 3 months later her wrist was still fractured and remained fractured for the next 4 years. For whatever reason it just did not heal.
I remember Russell Howard did a bit about getting his younger brother to put marbles up his bum, claiming that if he got enough up there, he'd become a wizard! xD
Ohh, I get it now!! Haha; rubber, rubber johnny!! I didn't get it at first!! Lmao that is funny!! I love the erase my memory thing, this girl is so funny!! Johnny's reactions were so funny!!
Am I the only one that thought the girl that broke her nose was a bit like Pippa Middleton? She even has a little sort of mole close to the same location.
Also, I wish Graham hadn't repeatedly picked on the first woman he spoke to in the audience. He gets rather patronizing and cruel in his interactions with her.
