On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:17:19 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:04:51 -0000, wrote:

On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:02:34 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I've never heard "loused up" before. Where does that come from?

WWI, It refers to being full of lice (Plural, louse), common in the
trenches. That is also where "cooties" came from.
Now it is just anything that seems screwed up.

I see. Odd, as the Brits had trenches too, and I've never heard that here. Only "****ed up", "screwed up", "messed up", "arsed up".

In New Zealand they just say buggered but that has become an all
purpose word, I even have an Australian "bugger" license plate (colors
inverted from the New Zealand plate). The guy who had that plate in
New Zealand still has the plate but they won't let him use it on his
car anymore. It is at his coffee shop The Bugger Cafe.