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Matt asks Dale from The Puncturists about pants | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: Now I've been learning a lot, you know, talking to
Speaker 1: people from from your part of the world. You know,
Speaker 1: we have we have a lot of guests from there
Speaker 1: on the show, and I love the music that comes
Speaker 1: out of there. But I just learned I just learned
Speaker 1: yesterday from a friend of mine who's British. You know,
Speaker 1: pants that over I guess over there, Like, if you
Speaker 1: want to express this approval for something but you don't
Speaker 1: want to swear, you say pants.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Or if she's just messing with me?
Speaker 2: Oh you can't, no, no, you can do. Oh, that's
Speaker 2: that's complete. Usually it's when something is complete pants, so
Speaker 2: that you complete rubbish or garbage or whatever. Oh, that's
Speaker 2: that's that's total pants, you know, Okay, yeah, pants, Pants
Speaker 2: to us aren't trousers. Pants are the underwear.
Speaker 1: So oh okay, right right, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so it's yeah, it's like and I mean
Speaker 2: people also say nickers in in the in the UK,
Speaker 2: which again is another word for underwear that I've heard
Speaker 2: that pants. Yeah, something's a bit pants. It's not a
Speaker 2: very strong. It's something that's a little bit not very good.
Speaker 2: If it was really bad, then it would be worse
Speaker 2: than pants. There's just a little bit rubbish. Is a
Speaker 2: bit pans
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