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**Janszoon** · 03-03-2009, 04:52 PM

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Jesus H Corbett. How the frig can you not like British slang There is nothing better than talking a load of old pony and half of you not having the foggiest what we are gabbering on about.

I ought to get on the blower and have a word in your shell like.

I like a lot of British slang but I have to say the whole rhyming slang thing is pretty ridiculous.

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2. I'm English so I like to take the piss. Unfortunately on a predominantly American user site I have to tone down my infamous wit.

Oh come on. Hit me with your best shot.

Molecules · 03-04-2009, 05:46 PM

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I like a lot of British slang but I have to say the whole rhyming slang thing is pretty ridiculous.

british people don't go around talking in cockney rhyming slang. You might have done (according to wiki) if you were a market vendor or pickpocket in 19th century east London. Use yer loaf me old china!
Rhyming slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Y'all gon' lurve this!

**Janszoon** · 03-04-2009, 05:51 PM

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british people don't go around talking in cockney rhyming slang. You might have done (according to wiki) if you were a market vendor or pickpocket in 19th century east London. Use yer loaf me old china!
Rhyming slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Y'all gon' lurve this!

I'm know most people don't use it, but I certainly have run into quite a few people online who still seem to think it's the most hip and clever thing imaginable. And I've definitely heard it in modern movies.

Molecules · 03-04-2009, 05:57 PM

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I'm know most people don't use it, but I certainly have run into quite a few people online who still seem to think it's the most hip and clever thing imaginable. And I've definitely heard it in modern movies.

yeah but all those Guy Ritchie characters are hardcore cockneys anyway. The level of exposure of Americans to British culture is so narrow you probably also think we all walk around Leicester Square talking about sausages and stuttering awkwardly. Or something. ITS NOT ON

**Janszoon** · 03-04-2009, 06:01 PM

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yeah but all those Guy Ritchie characters are hardcore cockneys anyway. The level of exposure of Americans to British culture is so narrow you probably also think we all walk around Leicester Square talking about sausages and stuttering awkwardly. Or something. ITS NOT ON

LOL. I've been to Leicester Square so no. Unless the day I was there was an off day.

I should probably add for the record, since I know what a narrow exposure you Brits have to American culture, that I don't own a gun, a truck or a cowboy hat and I've never appeared on Jerry Springer.

jackhammer · 03-05-2009, 03:55 AM

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LOL. I've been to Leicester Square so no. Unless the day I was there was an off day.

I should probably add for the record, since I know what a narrow exposure you Brits have to American culture, that I don't own a gun, a truck or a cowboy hat and I've never appeared on Jerry Springer.

ROFL
I thought Americans looked like this:

and this is the sort of crap we punish the world with:

**Janszoon** · 03-05-2009, 04:32 AM

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ROFL
I thought Americans looked like this:

Damnit, where did you find that picture of me?

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and this is the sort of crap we punish the world with:

Heh, and here I thought scorpion bowls were a (faux-Chinese) American thing.