ok, so yesterday i was in Tesco

[Aero]

Yeah, so

as the title says, yesterdays i was in tesco, minding my own business, buying lunch when i hear some old lady saying something at me. i turn around and she repeats what i thought she said, beleving the first time i must have misheard her -

"excuse me, do you have any ballbags?"

i instantly laughed in her face (how could u not?) and said,

"wait, what?"

"ballbags, ...ummm mixed ballbags!"

again, i laughed and, rather than say i dont work in tesco or what have u, i continued

...laughing. "ballbags!?!?!"

the womans face goes from confusion, to a hint of anger before her face goes red and she exclaims

"oh, i think i better rephrase that..." and thankfully starts laughing herself

she slowly explains she means those bags of assorted hard boiled sweets, which in fairness are indeed refered to on the packets as "mixed balls" i was nowhere near the sweets at the time so it never even crossed my mind thats what she was after.

erm... i found this hilarious, but feel all is wasted in this write up of it... still thought it was worth haring.

so.... WHAT WIERD THINGS DO OLD LADIES SAY TO YOU?

[wraslinfreak]

lol, thats hilarious

[jitz]

This is all completely lost on me. One, what's a Tesco? Two, what on earth is a hard boiled sweet? Three, do you have to call it a hard boiled sweet? It makes you sound like an old woman. A lolly? Four, in research for finding out if lolly was infact an international word, I found that "do one's lolly" was 'Australian slang' for "to lose one's temper". It's not, I've lived in this country for 22 years and haven't heard that once, it doesn't even make remote sense to me, as little as Aero's post infact. Five, mixed balls? They don't sound very appetising. Is this some old lady's grocery store?

[samountain]

Yeah reminds me of this time I was playing tennis against this team that has this huge clubhouse, where everybody goes to get their tennis balls and they have the right amount every week (meaning if you take an extra somebody else misses out on a set). This week somebody took one extra, so a group of old women walked straight up to as and yelled "Do you boys have any balls?" I cracked up laughing but nobody else got it. They started talking about where they might be blah blah blah and one of the women goes "We can't play without any balls". Again, I was the only one actually laughing out loud. Shocked me. I actually started worrying I might be a bit immature for my age or something. Edited February 27, 2008 by samountain

[samountain]

Also on another note, I've never been a very good storytellar. It's one skill I've always wished I had.

[Aero]

Tesco is a huge chain of super markets in the UK

boiled sweets are basicly.. boiled sweets, some are a bit like lollys only without the stick i guess.

its gerenally only old ladies that eat said boiled sweets

as for the mixed balls... they are a variety of ball shaped boiled sweets, mint ones, brandy balls, butter balls and fruit flavored balls... hard to give another name reall.

[Nemo]

i dont get what the big surprise is. arent you used to elderly women hitting on you?

[Aero]

aye, but not in tesco!

plus my new lady friend is nice n young hahahahaha

[crunk]

This is all completely lost on me. One, what's a Tesco? Two, what on earth is a hard boiled sweet? Three, do you have to call it a hard boiled sweet? It makes you sound like an old woman. A lolly? Four, in research for finding out if lolly was infact an international word, I found that "do one's lolly" was 'Australian slang' for "to lose one's temper". It's not, I've lived in this country and haven't heard that once, it doesn't even make remote sense to me, as little as Aero's post infact. Five, mixed balls? They don't sound very appetising. Is this some old lady's grocery store?

lmao... that covered exactly what I was thinking when I read the topic

[CanaMatt]

wtf?? Are you talking about hard candies?

[Aero]

probably, but we dont call them that

[jitz]

Are you sure these things are boiled? Like in water that is boiling? Seems strange to subject a candy to.

Yeah I'm gonna call it a candy in this internation arena, as "sweet" sounds like I'm talking to my grandparents.

[Aero]

well, they are sweets over here grrr. and no, i have NO idea how they are made, but they are called boiled sweets all the same.

feel free to retell my story making it more internationally friendly.

[Chillalex]

of course they are boiled

most are

they're Hard boiled because they're hard and the mixture, boiled.

Sweets, because of colloquialisms.

And wikipedia is nice and informative of who says what in reference to sweets. Basically its not a hard concept, unless your purposefully trying to be a dick in which case, you're just a retard anyways.

Outside North America, the generic name for candy is sweets or confectionery (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries). In Australia and New Zealand, candy is, in normal usage, further categorised as either chocolate or lollies (for all other non-chocolate candies).

In North America, the UK, and Australia, the word lollipop refers specifically to sugar candy on a stick. While not used in the generic sense of North America, the term candy is used in the UK for specific types of foods such as candy floss (cotton candy in North America and fairy floss in Australia), and certain other sugar based products.

Edited March 1, 2008 by Chillalex