Tea-bagging WTF

[Arese]

To me the phrase is purely used when you're in a situation and you're trying to gently introduce one component to another. You know, like gently dipping a tea bag into a mug of hot water.

Now I used that in a meeting today discussing a situation we have with a customer. It appears the audience didn't take the phrase as I intended and the ladies are quite upset !

So am I way out of line here or am I correct in that it's a commonly used phrase?

[Burnham]

Dude, you have landed yourself Balls Deep I'm afraid.

[4mo]

[Don]

[Biker's Nemesis]

You're in it balls deep.

[gilla]

Any gheys in the meeting, you'd have closed the deal there and then

[louismchuge]

[anonymous-user]

[ImDesigner]

[andyjo1982]

[Arese]

None of the ladies winked in any way either!

[RDMcG]

OK then...what does it mean in general terms?......Evidently I have been living well outside the curve......

We had an interesting meeting in Melbourne a while ago when a very senior executive from the US came over and was giving a speech to local people. She mentioned that she had been working her fanny off to get the organization turned around. ( This is perfectly acceptable business parlance in the US but apparently drove the Australians into incredible guffaws......)

[omgus]

[Mr Gearchange]

I forsee a deluge of these type of Beefy baiting threads...

[gilla]

RDMcG said:

OK then...what does it mean in general terms?......Evidently I have been living well outside the curve......

We had an interesting meeting in Melbourne a while ago when a very senior executive from the US came over and was giving a speech to local people. She mentioned that she had been working her fanny off to get the organization turned around. ( This is perfectly acceptable business parlance in the US but apparently drove the Australians into incredible guffaws......)

Dipping ones nuts into another persons mouth - much resembling the dipping of a teabag in and out of boiling water..

HTH

[Don]

RDMcG said:

OK then...what does it mean in general terms?......Evidently I have been living well outside the curve......

We had an interesting meeting in Melbourne a while ago when a very senior executive from the US came over and was giving a speech to local people. She mentioned that she had been working her fanny off to get the organization turned around. ( This is perfectly acceptable business parlance in the US but apparently drove the Australians into incredible guffaws......)

The Americans call (British English) "Bum bags" (American English) "Fanny Packs".

And a Bumbag would probably be quite surreal for them...as "bum" doesn't mean arse...

[Shaw Tarse]

When tea bagging for the 2 girls did you use one cup?

[Sonic]

[andyjo1982]

Don said:

RDMcG said:

OK then...what does it mean in general terms?......Evidently I have been living well outside the curve......

We had an interesting meeting in Melbourne a while ago when a very senior executive from the US came over and was giving a speech to local people. She mentioned that she had been working her fanny off to get the organization turned around. ( This is perfectly acceptable business parlance in the US but apparently drove the Australians into incredible guffaws......)

The Americans call (British English) "Bum bags" (American English) "Fanny Packs".

And a Bumbag would probably be quite surreal for them...as "bum" doesn't mean arse...

Yeah, cos over there Fanny means arse, NOT ya minge.. :takes a giant bite out of scotch egg:

ref keith - the office 2001

[Don]

I once said to a bunch of Australians -

"Yeah you go and do that. I'll root from the sidelines."

They howled with laughter. Yes. "root" means something very different.