Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks." Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

Please, please...

[newcastlejon]

At least call them arses. You say butt over here and you'll just get laughed at (fanny will get you an altogether different response)

Exchange Rate

[nixish]

As of June 29, 1GBP = 1.67USD which makes it 33,400 USD. For those who missed that pound sign and keep referring to the amount as 20K dollars.

Guide to British English

[Kupfernigk]

• Butt - a garden water container
• Bottom - the polite word for the buttocks
• Front bottom - the excruciatingly twee expression for the female pubic region. Lower middle class and evangelical Christians only.
• Bum - depending on context, the buttocks, anal region or pubic region.
• Arse - ambiguous: can mean either the buttocks, the anal region or the rectum. Best avoided by foreigners
• Fanny - ambiguous, can mean either the buttocks or the female sexual apparatus depending on context. Always has a sexual connotation, though.
• C**t - ambiguous, can mean either the female sexual apparatus or someone you disapprove of. Not safe for foreigners.
• Quant, quaint or queynt - old English word meaning female pubic region. Also used in hedge funds as a swear word.

The British, by the way, imagine Japanese to be a language full of double meanings and potential minefields.

Re:Guide to British English

[jabithew]

A couple of modifications;

I've never heard fanny mean arse over here (SE England/London).
I have heard bum to mean a person who is a waste of space as well.
Also have heard arse to mean someone disapproved of.

Re:Kari Byron's debut

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeeeeah..... one of the greatest episodes of Mythbusters.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhSLNlx3n0

0m 19sec....

Re:what?!?

[laejoh]

Never heard of a boy named Sue? I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named "Sue."

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Re:I've got a theory

[Just Some Guy]

I don't know, but I've been told: it's big-legged women who are soulless.

Re:I've got a theory

[Tom]

Remember when Columbus set sail? He knew, setting out, that he could reach India if he sailed west. He just didn't realise there was another continent in the way.

For one, that was fairly late, past the dark ages. Two, there was still a vocal minority (end of the 15th century!) that claimed he'd fall off the edge. Lately, the division of the world between Spain and Portugal that was made by the pope only works on the assumption of a flat earth, if you care to check it out. On a spherical world, you need two border lines, not one.

Nobody (in the Christian west, at least) ever believed women have no souls. We're talking about a time when people practically worshipped the Virgin Mary. She was a woman, remember?

Yes, as the vessel of the birth, not as herself. You can do the research yourself, I assure you the topic was under hot discussion by the so-called "intelligentia" of the time (aka priests).

Nobody but children ever believed that heaven was just above the clouds.

Weird, we have a lot of pictures that speak a different language, and art history experts say they weren't meant metaphorical in the sense we understand today.