funny things british people say

[b i o n i c]

i love it when british people say "whilst"

sounds so leisurely. "i may file my nails whilst punching out your grandmother"

[Freebasser]

Cunt

[b i o n i c]

i use that word on the regular

[ms.peachy]

getting on my tits

[b i o n i c]

i love that one too. america needs to step it up on that one.

calling someone a boob doesnt have quite the sting as calling someone a tit does

[beastiegirrl101]

The British accent is a sure fire pantie dropper, LOVES it!

I think I may have mentioned this before but when I was in London I needed an English to English interpreter to understand VenusVenus, her accent was so thick and adorable.

[na§tee]

*calls up nata*

can't be arsed
chock-a-block
codswallop
knackered
up the duff
yonks

[b i o n i c]

i must say, a girl with a british accent is nice. id be a tit to not admit that whilst knowing otherwise. or something like that, i need to work on my whilst.

[na§tee]

seriously, someone give me a script to say and i'll make a wee video. BIZORED.

[Drederick Tatum]

girls with a British accent can be ok, but then sometimes you get one who sounds well common right.

[Guy Incognito]

wank is a british thing i think.

cock or cocker is used in the north as a form of mate, which always makes me smile.


i occasionally get a bit of stick on here for writing how i speak, using "summat" for something and other northern phrases i cant think of at the mo, but i say bollocks to that

[Guy Incognito]

*calls up nata*

can't be arsed



i have always said cba -its a cant be arsed way of saying cant be arsed. total genius

erm - fuck that for a game of soldiers

[Freebasser]

Fuck, if you can't understand a posh London accent, then I dread to think how you'd handle someone from north of Watford.

[Guy Incognito]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVGuxj7AWQ

[ms.peachy]

Fuck, if you can't understand a posh London accent, then I dread to think how you'd handle someone from north of Watford.

There's a cohort of people I work with who are based up in and around Bolton. Most of the time I never see or speak to them, it's all email based. But when we are together for the occasional meeting, I am like, "Whaaa?" It sounds like they are swallowing whilst they are talking or something.

[Freebasser]

A lot of the clients I speak to at work are very posh, stiff-upper lip people from dahn sahf, and sometimes I feel like they are belittling me when I say "Uh courz ah can chairnge vu frunt cuvver" and they go 'uh huhhhh'.

:'(

[Lyman Zerga]

some british accents are sexy, some are quite annoying

[b i o n i c]

this cracks me the fuck up, right? ok, right? ok! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqbCoNCNKm8) thats liverpool, right? ok

i had a british teacher who did the right, ok, right thing a lot

[TAL]

It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. Its metabolic processes are now of interest only to historians! He's off the twig! He's fuckin' snuffed it! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot!

[Dorothy Wood]

I'm pretty good at understanding british accents, I have british movies and television shows to thank for that.

also, when I was younger, I watch Trainspotting 3 times with closed captions so I could figure out what everyone was saying exactly. even though the characters were scottish, it still helped me learn to discern all kinds of accents.

I have trouble with the frenchies though. but like, I have a swedish client that nobody can understand but me. she speaks perfectly clear english, but doesn't phrase things in an american way, so I guess it's confusing. maybe it's just my scandinavian DNA.


ANYWAY, I LIKE IT WHEN BRITISH PEOPLE SAY "NO" INSTEAD OF "NOT". so I try to do it too. hee.

[Nuzzolese]

I like when they criticize americans

[b i o n i c]

i love it when british call people fannies as an insult. again like tit, it takes a harmless word and gives it sting. oh you brits are good, YOU're GOOD!

[Myu-to]

I like when they criticize americans
Or each other...

NIP-PLE!

[Freebasser]

FANNY KNOCKERS TIT BANGERS AND MASH IN YO FACE, BLOOD.

[beastiegirrl101]

bloody!

[Nuzzolese]

I ain't dirty! I washed my face and 'ands before I come, I did.

[Nuzzolese]

Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

[Nuzzolese]

G'day mate, put another shrimp on the barbee, the Dingo ate my baby!

[mickill]

"CHEERIO!"

"I'm jus 'avin a wank!"

"Great Scott!"

[b i o n i c]

having a shit
having a wank

sounds to me like giving birth

brilliant!

im gonna take a sandwich

[mickill]

That's sarnie, not sandwich.

[Freebasser]

It's 'butty' where I come from.

[checkyourprez]

you like dags?


o ya sure i like dags.

[mikizee]

G'day mate, put another shrimp on the barbee, the Dingo ate my baby!

For the record I or no one I know have ever put shrimp on the barbie.

Actually, come to think of it, we did the other week.

I thought it was funny in Tropic Thunder when Alpa Chino was giving shit to Downey saying that shit and he was getting upset.

Downey's Australian accent in that movie was woeful

[russhie]

British people are easy enough to understand. It's the Irish I have trouble with.

[Lex Diamonds]

You fackin shlaygs best put a cork in ya pie oles sharpish, or I moight avta ping ya inna boat next time I see yers dahn't battle cruisa! FACKIN MAGS.

[ms.peachy]

I like "fell pregnant". Like it's something that could just happen as you're walking along and there's a crack in the pavement.

Ooh, pavement, there's another one. It's taken me years to stop saying 'sidewalk'. Pavement. As though the road is not also paved.

[Guy Incognito]

bell end

[camo]

There's a cohort of people I work with who are based up in and around Bolton. Most of the time I never see or speak to them, it's all email based. But when we are together for the occasional meeting, I am like, "Whaaa?" It sounds like they are swallowing whilst they are talking or something.

thats where I was raised/dragged up. Although I'm not as broad accented as most folk there.

[b i o n i c]

"did a poo"

this takes it to a whole new level of funny. "look i did a poo!" sounds about 32 million times more hillarious and like more of an accomplishment than "i pooped"... you did it!

say poo and look in a mirror, do the same with poop. which face is classier?

the word poop sounds sloppy and uncouth. a poo is neat with a curly tail.

5 stars(y)

[trailerprincess]

My Texan friends were amused by the word and affection Brits appear to have for 'queueing'.

I in turn was amused by people saying 'I'm fixing to <complete with random activity>'

[Guy Incognito]

in some parts of north west people people say "i'm goin fer shop" instead of GOING TO.

[rirv]

this cracks me the fuck up, right? ok, right? ok! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqbCoNCNKm8) thats liverpool, right? ok

i had a british teacher who did the right, ok, right thing a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbiu6P0lcw

[Myu-to]

My Texan friends were amused by the word and affection Brits appear to have for 'queueing'.

I in turn was amused by people saying 'I'm fixing to <complete with random activity>'
:D

And actually it's pronounced "fixin' to". Having the "ing" on the end makes it way too formal.

[b i o n i c]

arrrrrrr this movie is rated arrrrrrrr

[camo]

alreet cocker, ow's ya bin? Ave ya 'erd from yon mon (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yon+mon)?


And in totally unrelated news I found this (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=padster) on the site. Not only is Padster like marmite to most but even his name cuts it either way.

[b i o n i c]

My Texan friends were amused by the word and affection Brits appear to have for 'queueing'.

I in turn was amused by people saying 'I'm fixing to <complete with random activity>'

the queuing thing should go in the annoying thread for when americans say it. like the n word, its only ok for british people to use this.

i worked with a british lady who insisted i say "ZED" for the letter "Z". i draw the line there. fuck outta here

[Lex Diamonds]

And in totally unrelated news I found this (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=padster) on the site. Not only is Padster like marmite to most but even his name cuts it either way.
Er not really. Me and Planetary did those years ago.

[camo]

Er not really. Me and Planetary did those years ago.

Egg on my face then.

[Lex Diamonds]

Maybe I will...

[camo]

Cadburies creme smeg.

(a guy incognito style pun)

[hpdrifter]

Do the British still say "tits up"? As in, I can't believe Bernie Mac went tits up!

That's my favorite.

[camo]

Sure we do.

Also if someone fell over we'd say that they went 'arse over tit'.

[hpdrifter]

Let's have a lesson on the cockney rhyming slang. How does it work? Do people just make it up on the spot and somehow everyone understands them? Or do some enter the lexicon and become the widely-accepted form? A little bit of both probably?

Teach me some besides Septic.

[camo]

It's all gone a bit pete tong. (wrong)

[hpdrifter]

Good one.

[hpdrifter]

Can you day "tits up" when you're talking about something that went wrong? Like, my project was going really well until the copier jammed and then everything went tits up. Sort of like "went to shit"?

[Lyman Zerga]

Sure we do.

Also if someone fell over we'd say that they went 'arse over tit'.

didnt know you were british

[hpdrifter]

British people are easy enough to understand. It's the Irish I have trouble with.

Yeah, there's an Irishman that works at a bar around here and I asked him for a corona once a long time ago (before it occured to me that corona sucks) and he said we don't have that but we have Pacifico. But it came out more like Pahsfica. I had to ask him to repeat himself about three times and then finally he just pointed to it.

[Lex Diamonds]

Do the British still say "tits up"? As in, I can't believe Bernie Mac went tits up!

That's my favorite.
Nah, it doesn't mean "dead" like that.

Let's have a lesson on the cockney rhyming slang. How does it work? Do people just make it up on the spot and somehow everyone understands them? Or do some enter the lexicon and become the widely-accepted form? A little bit of both probably?

Teach me some besides Septic.
Yeah it's a bit of both. The key to a successful bit of cockney is everybody knowing what you mean without having to be told. Things like "Gary" for arse or "bubble" for laugh. (Gary Glitter & Bubble Bath)

Some are more obscure like butcher's and me ol' china, but when you hear people saying them all the time you just take them for their slang meaning without thinking about it.

Can you day "tits up" when you're talking about something that went wrong? Like, my project was going really well until the copier jammed and then everything went tits up. Sort of like "went to shit"?
Yep, that's a perfect example of use. (y)

[hpdrifter]

Awesome.

:cool:

[AceFace]

"apples and pears" means "up the stairs", i think.

a lot of the pub's names are cockney slangs, right?

i find that so interesting.

[Guy Incognito]

Cadburies creme smeg.

(a guy incognito style pun)

not quite my style mark, i'd get the spelling right (Cadbury's)


also, not sure if its from rhyming slang or not but to "rabbit on" is to talk a lot, no idea of its origin

[Guy Incognito]

"apples and pears" means "up the stairs", i think.

a lot of the pub's names are cockney slangs, right?

i find that so interesting.

yes it does mean that - not sure about the pub names things, i just thought it was always two things that were nearby, like my old local was called the turf and feather cos it was on old farmland and there were a lot of birds about.
its made think about "the young ones", the pub in that was called the kebab and calculator

[Nuzzolese]

Is cockney rhyming slang something everyone knows? Does the queen know it? The Beckhams?

[Freebasser]

Cockney Rhyming Slang is an invention of the media.

[Lex Diamonds]

Cockney Rhyming Slang is an invention of the media.
Are you being serious?

[Freebasser]

I'd say 'yes' but those reporters have been sitting outside my house in their van for 4 days now and I'm worried that they're listening in on my posts, so for the record, my answer is 'no'.

Meet me in the sure shots thread in 10 minutes.

[AceFace]

good to be safe, sweet dick.

[Freebasser]

Thanks, mams!

[camo]

not quite my style mark, i'd get the spelling right (Cadbury's)

t'was intenshunul

[camo]

Just wanna mention Rogers Profanisaurus (http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus.html) as well, for some of our 'new words'.

[Guy Incognito]

Just wanna mention Rogers Profanisaurus (http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus.html) as well, for some of our 'new words'.

they've got a better version now, its massive, called the magna farta(y)

[camo]

link it up for me/us!

[Pres Zount]

Ahaha. I always wanted a deluxe leatherbound copy of the Profanisaurus in my living room, I imagine reading it whilst smoking on a bubble pipe.

[camo]

Staple an old leather jacket to the cover of a hard back version (y)

[saz]

whilst
chipper
maths
blimey
limey
on the photos
at the weekend
governor
sport
flat
chuffed off me tits
oi

[Guy Incognito]

link it up for me/us!

at work at the mo - all i know is i have a copy in my bog - its hilarious.

Bog! there's another british thing!

[hpdrifter]

"everyone is on the jam roll nowadays" translates to "everyone is on the dole nowadays".

I have no idea what either of these phrases means. :confused::(

[Freebasser]

"Everybody is unemployed and scrounging off benefits nowadays"

[hpdrifter]

How does "dole" imply "sponging off the state"?

The intricacies of your dialect never cease to amaze.

[venusvenus123]

^^dole=welfare ... ?^^


The British accent is a sure fire pantie dropper, LOVES it!

I think I may have mentioned this before but when I was in London I needed an English to English interpreter to understand VenusVenus, her accent was so thick and adorable.
remember meeting me outside "sausages"? that still makes me chuckle everytime i walk past that place.

my accent thick and adorable. awww shucks honey!!!:o
;):)