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  1. 09-11-2008, 23:18 #1
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    Default English Question

    You outsiders there have an idiom such as "pee race" ?

    We got the exact idiom in Turkish which refers to somehow apparently immature/childish competition of knowledge/power/whatever etc. between two (or more) people.

    Some Turkish guy claims that he had seen the one-on-one translation, used as "pee race" among you English-speakers too.

    Is that it ? Does English have the exact idiom of "pee race" ?
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  2. 09-12-2008, 00:02 #2
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    pissing contest???
    quae res et cibi genere et cotidiana exercitatione et libertate vitae

    Herein events and rations daily birth the labors of freedom.
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  3. 09-12-2008, 00:15 #3
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    Default Re: English Question

    I have never heard of it if it exists.
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  4. 09-12-2008, 00:43 #4
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    Default Re: English Question

    Quote Originally Posted by cmacq View Post
    pissing contest???
    Yep, that would be what you are looking for if you want something that talks about two people who are having an immature competition that really has no purpose.
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  5. 09-12-2008, 00:50 #5
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    Default Re: English Question

    So regarding the same context with different choice of words.

    Thanks.
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  6. 09-12-2008, 01:26 #6
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    Default Re: English Question

    Although, ya gotta admit "pee race" conjures up an much funnier image.

    "Pissing contest" pictures two 8year olds urinating on the side of a barn to see who can wet higher. Quaint.

    "Pee race" however, evokes 2 kids running a 100 yard dash with their boyhoods hanging out, spraying hither and yon furiously, as they race to the finish line. Hilarious!

    I look forward to using "pee race" wherever I can, in conversation.
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    Default Re: English Question

    Quote Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine View Post
    So regarding the same context with different choice of words.

    Thanks.
    by your leave.
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    Herein events and rations daily birth the labors of freedom.
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  8. 09-12-2008, 05:51 #8
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    Default Re: English Question

    There are some fine examples of the expression in the BackRoom "US Elections 2008" thread...
    "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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  9. 09-12-2008, 07:34 #9
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    What is this backroom thing?
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  10. 09-12-2008, 08:52 #10
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    Default Re: English Question

    Ouch LEN, I thought you had me for such a question
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    Quote Originally Posted by cmacq View Post
    What is this backroom thing?
    User CP -> Group Memberships -> Backroom. That lets you see it.

    Basically it is the political and religious forum of the Org.
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    It's really the abyss of the Org.
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  13. 09-13-2008, 22:35 #13
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    Default Re: English Question

    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    Although, ya gotta admit "pee race" conjures up an much funnier image.

    "Pissing contest" pictures two 8year olds urinating on the side of a barn to see who can wet higher. Quaint.

    "Pee race" however, evokes 2 kids running a 100 yard dash with their boyhoods hanging out, spraying hither and yon furiously, as they race to the finish line. Hilarious!

    I look forward to using "pee race" wherever I can, in conversation.
    I would sig that if it wasn't so long
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    Default Re: English Question

    Quote Originally Posted by cmacq View Post
    What is this backroom thing?
    i was told mad people dwell on the underlings of the backroom waiting to tear you to pieces with fangs and axes...they lied
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