Colonisation never stops.

Also got us here in Canada too.

Amazingly you even made it rain in NZ. It was quite heavy.

Always one isn't there.

🙄

i was thinking of you while listening to this

"ARE YOU FINISHED SHITTING IN THERE"
"n-no..?"

ok. I think im starting to understand the variety of ways I have seen it used on tv. This I think is the best explanation yet especially with the take the piss out of others. like that phrasing fits it better in my head.

Oh my god as someone with bowel problems due to disability the people walking to tap the doors in public toilets are like demons to me.

I’m like stressfully finishing up the most godawful diarrhea wiping and this person is hurrying me up lmao.

It is "the" lol. Taking a piss means going to the toilet, taking the piss is taking the mick, ie behaving with a mocking disregard for others.

Wrt loafing around, you might be taking the piss if you're not doing something, eg your household chores. It's not the laying around that takes the piss, it's that you're not doing what you're supposed to do. It takes the piss out of others when they have to pick up the slack for you.

Like a lot of British phrases, there's some flexibility in its usage.

ok this makes sense with the loafing. Sounds like variation of taking more than your fair share but instead not doing your fair share.

Taking the piss can mean going too far with some form of poor behaviour, usually at work, eg taking a two hour lunch hour might be taking the piss, or sparking up a joint during a ciggie break.

But it can also be in a social, non-work content: "It's fair enough to ask for petrol money, but Bob was taking the piss when he asked for a quid a mile, the cheeky cunt."

Surprisingly, there is actually a wiki page on the matter:

Wikipedia.org - Taking the Piss

Roughly covers the following:
1

• mocking someone
• making a joke at someone's expense

2

• saying/doing something unbelievable
• doing something unfair
• taking more than your fair share

"Are you taking the piss?" is pretty similar to "You've got to be joking, mate!" or "are you fucking kidding me!?!"

That's Kings Cross station, one of the better free toilets we still have. No signal in there though, so you cant just setup shop and have a phone dump. Plus someone, usually one of the cleaners, routinely walks by tapping on all doors to get you out and its a super annoying.

Still though, for central london, 8/10 toilet easily

The second meaning is a bit like "you are pushing your luck" or being unreasonable, usually at someone else's expense.

Taking a piss means going to urinate.

Taking the piss means screwing with someone, specifically by saying stuff you don’t believe as if you believe it.

I’ve never heard any variation on this phrase to mean loafing around as a euphemism, but taking frequent bathroom breaks is definitely a time-honored way of avoiding work.

Full disclosure: I am not British

so. its funny. but I have been meaning to ask on a british community about taking a (edited - I think I meant the) piss. Sometimes by context I feel it means screwing with someone and sometimes I feel it means loafing around. Am I off?

To the pubs??!!??

You can taste the microwaves in the molecules

I honestly don't understand the preference for how the molecules in your water start moving.

Tannins.

You don't want actual actively boiling water to make your tea. Also, water heated to just below boiling and cooled off from boiling to just below boiling is the same temperature.

No way that water doesn't come out tasting like old coffee

Coffee machines do not boil water. Just heat it to below boiling.

This has a significant effect on the brewing of tea. And means the flavour will be very unpleasant to many Brits.

It is also the issue Brits find with the vaste majority of tea sold in American restaurants etc.

Yeah it matter way more to folks who like darker tea.

Water that is boiled allows the tanning to release more effectively. Hence tea made without boiling water thens to look whiter and even when colour is forced out with a spoon. Lacks the same flavour.

Tanning is also why tea has a calming effect. Mached with caffeine. It places the mind in a good state for problem solving. Hence the UK reputation of turning to it for all problems.

Well that and both tanning and caffeine are addictive.