Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
82scott wrote:For me, it's either "right then!" or the ending of sentences with "yeah?" or "isn't it?" / "aren't they?" / "wasn't he?" or any other way of taking a statement and making it into a question begging for affirmation.
......aren't I?!
......innit?
.......ain't I?!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
83here's some:
ooh, you daft apeth!
daft as a brush
if i had a swimming pool it would catch fire!
crash the ash (gi's a fag)
awight cunt?! (black country)
cow me! 'ark at 'er! (black country)
ooh, you daft apeth!
daft as a brush
if i had a swimming pool it would catch fire!
crash the ash (gi's a fag)
awight cunt?! (black country)
cow me! 'ark at 'er! (black country)
Tom wrote: I remember going in the back and seeing him headbanging to Big Black. He looked like he was raping the air- really. He had this look on his face like, "yeah air... you know you want it.".
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
84Chapter Two wrote:steve wrote:Up the Garry.
?steve wrote:Bobbins!
?
Are you making these up?
I concur, it must be a southern thing.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
85bobbins? means rubbish, crap, a load of bobbins!!
Tom wrote: I remember going in the back and seeing him headbanging to Big Black. He looked like he was raping the air- really. He had this look on his face like, "yeah air... you know you want it.".
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
86fantasmatical thorr wrote:bobbins? means rubbish, crap, a load of bobbins!!
As in, Little Frank, that's bobbins
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
87scott wrote:For me, it's either "right then!" or the ending of sentences with "yeah?" or "isn't it?" / "aren't they?" / "wasn't he?" or any other way of taking a statement and making it into a question begging for affirmation.
In the contemporary vernacular one says "innit?" or "wunnit?" my friend.
*edited for typo*
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Rick Reuben wrote:He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
89Help ma boab!
Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'
Scots people: do people really say 'help ma boab?'
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
90Josef K wrote:Me too, It's not always used in an aggressive way as in the example above. It is often used as a term of endearment between friends. e.g.
"alright bawbag?"
Aye, dinnae ferget the similar term 'cuntybaws'.
I'm also a big fan of 'radge' - a crazy or hard man, and 'bottin' - a fool or idiot. The first is Edinburgh slang, the second Glaswegian.
arthur wrote:Don't cut it for work don't cut it to look normal, people who feel offended by your nearly-30-with-long-hair face should just fuck off.