I was under the opinion that the word describing intense inebriation was 'twatted' and not 'twated'. The latter sounds like something has been done to you of a surgical nature, hence
I think it's also a pregnant goldfish isn't it? Or is that another rude word? Where's CCC when you need him?
I'm not one for those urban legends. So I've got my mirror....................... ......................."Candyman, Candyman, Candyman........................aaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhh!"
What's the deal with threads getting interesting when I leave them? I've seen this myth before. 'Twat', or 'Twit', or 'twerp' or 'twirp' for a pregnant fish or, more specifically (sometimes), goldfish. Bindiana is correct when he says fish don't get pregnant, technically, as 'pregnant' is primarily a mammalian descriptor. Fish are usually termed as 'gravid'. Not of the above terms are technically used for pregnant fish, but could be used colloquially. 'Twatted' is in the dictionary as 'female genitalia', and 'beaten up'. 'Twat' can also mean 'fool'. To get 'Twatted' as in drunk is a colloquialism which is not been accepted into the dictionary yet, but is used quite widely. As Michael McIntyre jokes you can use any word in there and the meaning becomes apparent from the context, e.g. 'I was absolutely shedded last night, completely trousered!' We'd all infer that meant drunk.
Isn't there a point between the male and female goldfish 'coming together' and the female goldfish laying the eggs...? Would the goldfish technically be pregnant for this period...?
No that's conception followed by being full of fertilised eggs (gravid). In layman's terms you could say a fish is 'pregnant', but biologist would say mammals are pregnant and that fish/reptiles/bird are gravid. It's just technical jargon but it helps with clarity. People are often confused by technical talk but it helps with accuracy in complex areas. The most obvious example in science is the word 'theory'. Colloquially 'theory' is synonomous with 'guess', as in that's 'just your theory'. In science, 'theory' is the most powerful nomenclature we have for synthesized ideas. A theory in science can be defined as: an explanation of natural occurances which comes from a significant body of facts and has been repeatedly confirmed by experimentation. Which is in no way a 'guess'. The closest thing we have to 'guess' in science is the lowly 'hypothesis'.
