I was curious why cigarettes are called "squares" in slang so I Googled it and the first result was from a website called "niggermania.com"

@NankerPhelge It should be taken with an entire salt shaker more like it lol

Seriously though you've never heard cigarettes called squares? Like someone saying "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go smoke a square?"

@BlueMetalChick I love the salt shaker comment. Lol :)

Seriously, I haven't heard cigarettes called "squares" before. Maybe it's a regional dialect thing, I don't know.

@NankerPhelge It might be. I'm in the American Midwest, so it could be slang from this area.

@BlueMetalChick Very likely. I've never been to America in my life (although I have watched a heck of a lot of American movies over the years). I live in the UK and it's not an expression we use here.

@NankerPhelge Britain, huh? I speak a bit of British English. Romanian is my first language so I learned English later in life, but I was taught to speak by another non-native speaker, a Somali, and he spoke a mix of American and British dialects. So I don't watch TV, I watch telly, and I don't go to math class, I go to maths class, and I don't put jelly on my toast, I put jam on my toast. But at the same time, I don't put a plaster on a cut, I put a bandage on it, and I don't eat biscuits, I eat cookies, and my car hasn't got a boot or a bonnet, it has a hood and a trunk.

Apparently in Australia they called cigarettes "durries" and that's really weird.

@BlueMetalChick Australians are a dictionary unto themselves, that's one of the things I like about them. Lol :)

I find it fascinating to learn about different words and phrases from different parts of the world. I've learned more about that from the Internet than I ever did in school. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge Oh yeah, I've spent time in Cairns and Port Douglas in Australia and it takes some time to understand what the hell they're saying. "Let's go to the servo for a pack of durries and an amber!" Translation: Let's stop at the gas station for some cigarettes and beer.

A fun one from my country, you ever heard someone who is asexual referred to as "ace?" I'm an asexual myself but I hate when people call me ace because in Romanian, "ace" is slang for when you're giving someone a blow job and you suck their balls too.

@BlueMetalChick I've never heard "ace" in either of those contexts before. I can see how it's phonetic abbreviation for "asexual", that's the kind of thing Filthy, Rich and Catflap would come out with in their show (it was on TV in the 1980s). I'm not familiar with the blowjob meaning of "ace" though. Where I come from, "ace" means "top" or "champion" (such as an ace footballer or an ace musician). I think that meaning was derived from the playing card. Lol :)

I guess the Australian slang "servo" is short for "service station", I haven't heard the word but I can imagine an Aussie saying it. I know they referred to Foster's beer on the TV commercials as "the amber nectar". Foster's is one of the three brands of lager I drink most often these days.