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09-25-2003, 12:08 PM
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G'day all,
How's everyone doing?Well, I hope.I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where I'll be spending my next 3 years(possibly longer, who knows?) in London.Well, my flight is tomorrow, and this is my first time to the UK(Europe, in general), so, erm, I'm pretty clueless as to what to expect when I arrive... 
Any advice would be much appreciated
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09-25-2003, 12:31 PM
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I'm English,
In London, they all speak in cokny ryhming slang. Here's a translation.
China Plate = Mate
Butchers hook = Look
Posh & Bex = Sex
Birds nest = chest
Sky Rocket = Pocket
Here's some General English:
Gorden Bennit / Bloody Hell = For god's sake
***s = Smokes
Direct Access Shandy Pants = Any biker who took direct access instead of a CBT
Bestest buddy in the whole wide world = I'm terribly drunk, please order me a taxi home
I listen to Will Young = I'm Gay
Nut = Headbut
Clump = hit some with a stick
Get the F** out of this bar, ya foregn C*** = (It's self explanitry)
That's all I can think of right now
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09-25-2003, 01:08 PM
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The only advice I can give you is to change your location from 'Under the blue skies' to 'Under the dismally, eternally wet skies' 
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09-25-2003, 01:12 PM
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Well, theyre really not that diffrent from the rest of us (even though they act like it )
Just be polite, ask nicely, and remember to say bloody one in a while.
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09-25-2003, 01:33 PM
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Damnit I'm seeing ghosts again. I should increase my medication. Either that or decrease it, I don't remember...
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09-25-2003, 02:10 PM
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| |  Quote: Originally posted by Vicsun
Damnit I should increase my medication. Either that or decrease it, I don't remember... | Quote Kayless®
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09-25-2003, 02:16 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Rob-hin
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| Huh what? Kayless said that before I did? Are there no things left to say, so that I have to resort to repeating things already said? Or was that quoatation just swimming deep in my subconsciousness just waiting for the right time to get out? (sorry for not making any sense)
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09-25-2003, 02:42 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by IHateUsernames
Just be polite, ask nicely, and remember to say bloody one in a while. | Not forgetting bollocks, a word only the British can say properly. Bollocks, indeed.
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09-25-2003, 02:44 PM
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Huh what? Kayless said that before I did? Are there no things left to say, so that I have to resort to repeating things already said? Or was that quoatation just swimming deep in my subconsciousness just waiting for the right time to get out?
| I figured you were a loyal reader of kayless's Dungeon Crawl inc. 
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09-25-2003, 02:52 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Rob-hin
I figured you were a loyal reader of kayless's Dungeon Crawl inc. | I am, I just don't remember every single thing every single character has said every single episode. 
Sorry about derailing the thread. Carry on discussing Brits. I'm outta here, I've got homework to do and essays to write. And I'm trying to converse with 4 people on msn simoutaniously (why oh why can't I spell?).
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09-25-2003, 04:32 PM
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@Kevka, sound advice indeed. Have you spent much time in London? I am a Yorkshire lass, I have lived and worked in London for 16 years, and have still to meet any Londoner who speaks like that - any English person even. I think you might have migrated into possible Peterborough colloquialisms that I am not familiar with lol! Though I did go there once - it was shut! j/k Welcome to SYM, btw
@Zelgadis, LMAO! - too true
@IHU, don't patronise, bloody is a bloody good word to use without offense!
@Sleepy, indeed, and it can be played so dismissively, and in another tone so emphatically. Better with the northern accent, though. It is much more clipped 
@Brink, wow! Out into the big wide world! *eek* We are human over here, honestly All I would say is relax, enjoy the scenerey (in London you have to look up to get that) and watch the pennies. What else do you need to know? You left it a little late to ask
<edit> @Kevka, (excluding bleeps) the "get out of the bar you foreign" example might be more likely to be confined to the outback, such as the north, Wales or Cornwall. Three quarters of the population of London are "foreign" to the city - trust me It is a transient town. Not always unkindly so, just circumstantially so
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09-25-2003, 04:58 PM
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| | | new to the UK? looking for advice? you've come to the right place...
when entering a public house for the first time, it is customary to take a sip out of the glaases of all those nearby
on trains, people will often go around asking for tickets. they are merely vagrants looking for a free ride and should be treated with disdain and, if necessary, force
further advice will be forthcoming as and when I think of it.
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09-25-2003, 05:18 PM
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It's too bad that Vivien isn't here to offer advise on how to interpret some of the horrific ways that the Brits abuse the English Language! | | |
09-25-2003, 06:52 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Rob-hin
I figured you were a loyal reader of kayless's Dungeon Crawl inc. | http://members.chello.nl/~j.vanthull.../BigGrin04.gif Quote: Originally posted by Vicsun
Sorry about derailing the thread. | Awww, but it's cool to derail a topic by talking about DCI.
On topic: The first thing you should know is that the British all have horrible teeth, so be careful when you smile (you could invoke extreme jealousy by having white, straight teeth). Also, all British people are either aristocrats or c0ckney chimney sweeps. There is nothing in between. To learn proper British etiquette I suggest watching Masterpiece Theatre and some Monty Python movies. http://scorpius.150m.com/master/smilie/rcain.gif
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09-25-2003, 08:20 PM
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Thanks for the advice(and the complimentary spam) guys.Sorry for the lateness in notification, since I've been....busy this past month or so
@Kayless-I have been watching the Monty Python movies .Good fun, I must say
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