What Have You Bought Recently?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

It's very common throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire to call trousers pants. I'm not saying that everyone who lives in Northern England calls them pants, though.

I'm living in 'pants' country at the moment, and I take extra care to call them trousers at every available opportunity.

I don't live in Yorkshire or Lancashire, so that would be why. Do you get any strange looks when you purposely say trousers to people?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

If anyone unfamiliar with this place just stumbled on this thread, they might think there is a bizarre clothing section in Cult Labs!

The one way to get it back on subject is for someone to say what they thought about The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I don't live in Yorkshire or Lancashire, so that would be why. Do you get any strange looks when you purposely say trousers to people?

Yeah, people seem to think it's strange when I run up to them in street screaming 'trousers' in their faces for some reason...

It doesn't come up much in normal conversation, although they always know what I mean. Usually I'm the jerk pretending that they mean underwear when they say pants.

[gag]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I don't live in Yorkshire or Lancashire, so that would be why. Do you get any strange looks when you purposely say trousers to people?

Im from lancashire way but living darlington direction and trust me its not as pants as some of lancashire i mainly use the word pants to describe something that is rubbish

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

The one way to get it back on subject is for someone to say what they thought about The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants!

Underwear or trousers, Nos?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Underwear or trousers, Nos?

I don't know – I haven't seen the film!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gag

Im from lancashire way but living darlington direction and trust me its not as pants as some of lancashire i mainly use the word pants to describe something that is rubbish

We've gone from 'literal' pants to 'slang' pants!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I don't know – I haven't seen the film!

Me either, mate!

[Gojirosan]

You do hear "pants" for "trousers" around here, more so out in Woollyback land.

Mostly hear "kecks" nearer to Liverpool. I would say "trousers" or "kecks". It would never occur to me to say "pants" for outerwear, though people I know near St Helens say it.

To keep it relevant, I heartily enjoyed seeing Rik Mayall cavorting in the red, spikey, rubber pants in Guest House Paradiso again today!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Mostly hear "kecks" nearer to Liverpool.

Every time I hear that word, it reminds me of Red Dwarf.