@moonbus saidYes, one means homosexual as you know and the other means a woman is pregnant.
"Loo", you, too? Yes, the Brits have lots of expressions which sound funny to those born not in the land of the Queen's English. "Having a fag at the back of the bus," or asking a hotelier to "knock me up in the morning," ordering "bangers" for breakfast, spring to mind.
Different kind of English than we speak here in Canada for sure. Those ones could get you in trouble over here!!! Of course the accent would tell the story, so may not be too bad if you slipped up, depending on where you were at the time. 😉
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@moonbus saidOr..."chuck me a bob, I'm skint"..."ring me up a char this flat is a shyt-show" or the ubiquitous..."al 'ave a paint"
"Loo", you, too? Yes, the Brits have lots of expressions which sound funny to those born not in the land of the Queen's English. "Having a fag at the back of the bus," or asking a hotelier to "knock me up in the morning," ordering "bangers" for breakfast, spring to mind.
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@very-rusty saidIt sounds like a very localised vernacular sort of east end of London with more than whiff of Dick Van Dyke.😊
LOL....Hard to believe that is English!!! 😉
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@kevcvs57 saidAh, the (im)famous chimney-sweep pseudo-Cockney slang from Mary Popins. That came back to haunt him. There is an interview with Dick van Dyke where he confesses his chagrin at his awful accent, and admits that his coach for that was an Irishman, not a real Cockney.
It sounds like a very localised vernacular sort of east end of London with more than whiff of Dick Van Dyke.😊
@moonbus saidIt makes me laugh now, but watching the film as a kid and not being a cockney I thought it sounded about right. It’s ironic that an Irishman was responsible you’d think he would know all about Americans being crap at accents, perhaps he did it for the Craic.
Ah, the (im)famous chimney-sweep pseudo-Cockney slang from Mary Popins. That came back to haunt him. There is an interview with Dick van Dyke where he confesses his chagrin at his awful accent, and admits that his coach for that was an Irishman, not a real Cockney.
@wolfe63 saidThank you sir for providing the first line in my competition entry.
Or..."chuck me a bob, I'm skint"..."ring me up a char this flat is a shyt-show" or the ubiquitous..."al 'ave a paint"
@ghost-of-a-duke saidOoooh, I'm scared now ! "Ubiquitous" very creepy. Very, very creepy.
Thank you sir for providing the first line in my competition entry.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIt would probably make for a scarier closing line, unfortunately I’m sure that’s already been used in the Debates forum, ‘Trump 2020 I believe. 😊
It becomes so sir when accompanied by 'slime.'
'Ubiquitous slime had consumed the eye sockets of every man on Earth and oozed thick and green down the cheeks of humanity...'
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThe topic is ghost/supernatural/scary story, not Brexit.
It becomes so sir when accompanied by 'slime.'
'Ubiquitous slime had consumed the eye sockets of every man on Earth and oozed thick and green down the cheeks of humanity...'
@chessturd saidImagine if you could string a load of words together that somehow related to each other but didn’t have rhyme or chyme.😟
What the hell is prose?
(That is my submission)