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Gone to rat shit

This expression originated with the British Royal Navy from the time of the wooden sailing ships. Storage of food aboard these vessels was quite primitive and foodstuffs were subject to attack by the numerous rats living on them. Frequently food, or other stores, would be destroyed by rats or so contaminated by them as to be totally unusable, the crew would then say that whatever had been destroyed had 'gone to rat shit'.

The expression became common in the Royal Dockyards where its use expanded to mean anything that had become broken or unusable whatever the cause. The use of the expression further expanded to mean someone who had changed from being a pleasant person to an unpleasant, grouchy bastard, or someone whose health was beginning to fail.
Malcolm's made another major fuck-up with the website, it's all gone to rat shit.
Yeah, when Sally told him about it, he screamed at her like it was her fault! He never was very nice, but now he's really gone to rat shit.
Malcolm's gone to see his doctor again, he really has gone to rat shit.
by Croatalin December 20, 2013
mugGet the Gone to rat shitmug.

Snotrag

A handkerchief or tissue. Implicit in the word is that the handkerchief or tissue has been used and that the product within it is particularly vile, greasy, and slimy; the result of diseased sinuses or a severe nasal infection. By extension the word can be used to describe a person having the same qualities, an obnoxious, slimeball whose very presence makes people nauseous.
Gordon's tried to cop off with Alice again.
Fuckin' snotrag needs a good smack in the chops.
by Croatalin November 21, 2013
mugGet the Snotragmug.

londoncentric

A word used to describe the attitude of Londoners who seem incapable of realising that places other than London even exist. It describes the attitude that London is the centre of the universe and that anywhere else in the country or even the rest of the world is unimportant and not worthy of their attention. In short it describes people whose heads are so far up their own arseholes that if their eyes aren't brown then they ought to be.
Since he was moved to HQ, Malcolm has become really londoncentric.
by Croatalin January 26, 2014
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Bastard

Besides all the usual meanings, it has a meaning in engineering as well. A bastard is a type of coarse-toothed file.
Conversation in the stores.
"Hi, I need a file."
"A half-round bastard?"
"No, a little triangular fucker."
by Croatalin December 20, 2013
mugGet the Bastardmug.

Karzy

It's a toilet, or rather the room containing the toilet. It's from a 19th Century Cockney word 'carsey' meaning a privy, and is itself probably derived from the Italian 'casa' meaning house. Interestingly, the original word 'carsey' could also mean a den or brothel! It does make you wonder what the old Cockneys got up to when they went to the toilet.
Malcolm's been in the karzy for an hour!
Crappin' or five finger shufflin'?
With Malcolm you really don't want to know.
by Croatalin February 15, 2014
mugGet the Karzymug.

WOSP

Unlike WASP, this is s British acronym standing for Waste Of Space Prick (sometimes Prat or Pillock) and is usually applied to someone who is so monumentally stupid that they don't even realise they're stupid.
Malcolm's done it again! He got sent some malware and, instead of isolating it, he copied it to everybody, now the system is down for three days while it's cleaned out!
What a WOSP
by Croatalin December 7, 2013
mugGet the WOSPmug.

Scrounging

British slang for obtaining goods or services without having to pay for them. This can be for personal advantage or to further a project or piece of work; it can also be to obtain goods, materials or money for a charitable organisation.
How did you get the job finished so quickly?
Johnny went out scrounging and brought back some plastic piping, brand new, that someone had dumped in a skip.
by Croatalin May 11, 2014
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