Chris Head Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 [quote user="verviale"]He probably thinks I am a bit of a chav, Bovvered !!!!![/quote]Hey that's cool Chick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 duh, hello. As if. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I could do a whole thread on this myself.The thing that really irritates me the most is, "There you go".Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Meg and Mog"][quote user="Cassis"]Next time he calls, you could always take a raincheck. [:)][/quote]Or just tell him to talk to the hand. [/quote]What does that mean? I'm going back to the UK next week, I feel I should know these things. I do so want to integrate, you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Just about everything the cast of Eastenders says, they make me cringe, I'm sure people don't talk like that in real life, they must be accentuating the accent for dramatic effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 You need to get watching as bit of daytime TV SB. Ricky Lake for example. A lot of these words are just sooooo like totally American!!You go girlfriend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pip Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 What does that mean? I'm going back to the UK next week, I feel I should know these things. I do so want to integrate, you know? by SBCum yu down to the Wes Cunrie maid, we knows ow to spek down yer ! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pip Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 can't understand why c. u. m. was edited ![:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Right, thats it........ No more marketing speak........ Lets see whats happening further down the river.All those, with meetings to attend, can now enlighten their day.http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Chris Head"]Just about everything the cast of Eastenders says, they make me cringe, I'm sure people don't talk like that in real life, they must be accentuating the accent for dramatic effect.[/quote]We could have a whole thread on accents on TV. Like to start one Chris ?Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I would be at a loss on the subject Hoddy, I rarely watch TV, Sarah's one of those who actually finds the soaps entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I always wondered if anyone in the UK really talks like the actors on Eastenders. When I first started watching it (yes, I admit it), I couldn't understand most of what they said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Lori"]I always wondered if anyone in the UK really talks like the actors on Eastenders. When I first started watching it (yes, I admit it), I couldn't understand most of what they said. [/quote]When it was first broadcast, I couldn't understand why the Eastenders didn't all talk like Dick Van Dyck in Mary Poppins. He was a proper cock-er-ney wasn't he?Right, I'm off to bluesky a letter to Monsieur Le Maire about colour schemes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Meg and Mog"]I reckon that Cool is an acceptable word to use!! As long as it's not used by anyone over middle age (no offence it's true) and not followed by the word 'man'.Are we all cool about that?[/quote]Oh dear. How long do I have until I'm over middle age and have to stop using words I've used all my life! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="SaligoBay"][quote user="Meg and Mog"][quote user="Cassis"]Next time he calls, you could always take a raincheck. [:)][/quote]Or just tell him to talk to the hand. [/quote]What does that mean? I'm going back to the UK next week, I feel I should know these things. I do so want to integrate, you know?[/quote]Talk to the hand? I may be wrong but I assume it's alluding to him being like something a bonobo monkey frequently holds on to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand Cassi to see if you should still be using a certain phrase try saying it in front of a teenager. If you see them finch and cringe, stop using it!! [:D] Unless you are saying it to be naff on purpose (like my Dad!!). [kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Meg and Mog"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand [/quote]Oh dear, how perfectly hideous! What IS the Anglo-Saxon world coming to? [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Chris Head"]Just about everything the cast of Eastenders says, they make me cringe, I'm sure people don't talk like that in real life, they must be accentuating the accent for dramatic effect.[/quote]Coming from Barnes, I do believe a plum in the marf might be the only accent you understand....I have heard voices far more mockney than anything on that strange soap [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I come from NORFOLK Miki, it's a little bit up from and to the right of the smoke, you'd need your passport and an interpreter to get into the county! Hey, don't blame me, it wasn't my fault that my Mum was a Hyacinth Bouquet wannabe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Meg and Mog"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand Cassi to see if you should still be using a certain phrase try saying it in front of a teenager. If you see them finch and cringe, stop using it!! [:D] Unless you are saying it to be naff on purpose (like my Dad!!). [kiss][/quote]I think my speculation as to the possible origins of the phrase was far more graphic and interesting. [:)]I tend not to trust teenagers in matters of taste, style or anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [quote user="Chris Head"]I come from NORFOLK Miki, it's a little bit up from and to the right of the smoke, you'd need your passport and an interpreter to get into the county! Hey, don't blame me, it wasn't my fault that my Mum was a Hyacinth Bouquet wannabe![/quote]Then you bin tellin' porkies. Recently you said you was from Barnes and moved to Mathews county.........don't deny your bourgeois past, I am proud to have lived on an island in Chiswick, albeit on a roundabout [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 At the end of the day? Wot a bloody stupid expression!!! What is going to happen at the end of the day. One of my mates used to use that about 4 times in every sentence. "Well, at the end of the day it will?????" As for 'cool man', what's wrong with that, apart from the fact that it was totally cool man to use it in the 60s. And yes I was there and yes I DO remeber the 60s. That was a fantastic time of life for me. All the excitement of being on the front line of servicing big pasenger aircraft in the Royal Air Force and being wisked all over the place to do the job I loved. Africa, Malta, Cyprus, Singapore, USA, Guam, Honolulu and Stornoway in the Hebrides. How cool do you want to get? But then again I'm probably just talking to my hand....One thing I would love to do is to learn French well enough to be able to translate Cockney ryming slang into French and be able to use it with someone in the know. Can you imagine Goin' up the apples and pears -- montie les pomme et les poire??? Even the best English speaking French would be pooped with that peut etra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 JonzMy neighbour speaks very good English and he does know some rhyming slang. It was very amusing when I went for dinner and he asked me do I drink rosie lee.The one I detest the most is 'in all fairness' along with 'at the end of the day' I had a bank manager that used to use both of these, what a twit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Just had a thought Miki, he works in barns now so he ain't come far has he. That workshop has got to be a barn init? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 [quote user="Jonzjob"]Just had a thought Miki, he works in barns now so he ain't come far has he. That workshop has got to be a barn init?[/quote]I live near a Monument and an Embankment. Can't get away from Laaahndaaaan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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