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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:51 PM
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British slang Americans should adopt?
I vote for "wanker."
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:51 PM
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1. Brilliant!
:D
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musette_sf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:51 PM
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2. Borderline Boiler
(my new Yahoo screen name... it wasn't taken!)
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:53 PM
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3. Bugger.
:evilgrin:
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:53 PM
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4. A bit of hard cheese.
Cor, blimey.
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:54 PM
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5. cheers mate!
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:54 PM
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6. "Fag" as in cigarette
So that way when some snake handling freak is holding a picket sign that says "God hates fags" you can tell them you're glad that you don't smoke either.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:55 PM
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7. "Sod off"
I love that.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:56 PM
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8. "Gets on my tits"
As in, "I can't stand George Bush. He gets right on my tits!"

Sorry Mods. Not trying to push the envelop or anything. I just like this bit of Brit slang.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:57 PM
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9. Bloody.
That bloody George W. Bush, for example...
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:58 PM
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11. Hey bob, find your own damn British Slang
and quit stalking me you bloody wanker. Bugger off!! :hi:
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:00 PM
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13. I say, old girl-you are confused, yes. Now sod off.
:hi:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:01 PM
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16. .
:spank:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:57 PM
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10. Bloody hell
Love it
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 02:58 PM
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12. I can think of one word I'd love to use more often...
...but that would get this post deleted. ;)
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:01 PM
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17. al, where have you been
and why are you ignoring me?
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MemphisTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:00 PM
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14. Every time I hear Americans try British slang, it comes of as
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 03:00 PM by MemphisTiger
sad and pompous. IMO, I don't think it works on us.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:05 PM
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20. It works better in Britain
I lived in the UK for a while and found myself using their slang on many occassions. I especially liked the Cockney Rhyming Slang-- that was a lot of fun.

When I got home, I would use it sometimes and people would give me looks like ":wtf: are you talking about?" And it wasn't even anything that was overly "strange", either.

It cuts both ways however. I would use an "Americanism" over there, and get plenty of blank stares back, too!
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:36 PM
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30. Bollocks!
;-)
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:00 PM
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15. I'm rather fond of...
... "gets up your nose."

Very expressive. :)
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:02 PM
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18. "Strewth!"
I don't know, I learned it from reading Hellblazer (Constantine) comics. It just seems like the right thing to say whenever you see someone spontaneously combust, for example...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:03 PM
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19. Bollocks
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:08 PM
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21. Loo
which is just a butchering of the french "lieu" and thus at least makes some kind of sense.
Why do we call it "the john" anyway?
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:09 PM
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22. Rhyming slang
Australians use it quite a bit, too, but IIRC it originated in East London with the Cockneys-- most of whom were Irish immigrants, too.

Let's see if I can remember it:

"D'you know Frank? He's a berk."

This one can be taken two ways:
1) berk rhymes with "jerk", so you're saying "Frank is a jerk".
2) berk is also an abbreviated version of "Sir Berkely Hunt". So, in effect, you're saying that Frank is something that rhymes with Hunt (let's just say it's a vulgar term for female genitalia, and leave it at that).
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:09 PM
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23. Pants.
I don't know if it was just my stupid ex and his friends, but because "pants" apparently means underwear, everything they thought was stupid/gross/disgusting they called pants.

If I remember correctly, it was a number of years ago.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:09 PM
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24. I wouldn't adopt WOG. n/t
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:11 PM
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25. Gasper for cigarette and how about..........
Wah Wah for headache.
Wah Wah, you've given me a wah wah
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:12 PM
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26. Bollocks!!!
..either that or learn how to say the word "bastard" correctly....
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:13 PM
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27. git, nob, "poo" instead of "shit"
nt
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:35 PM
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29. git is my fave...
I use it all the time. :evilgrin:
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:22 PM
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28. "isn't it?"
For some reason I love it when they make some statement and then back it up by asking "isn't it?". It's just so quaint!

david
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 03:36 PM
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31. Piss off!
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