Ello, whot aup old chap.
Well, I doat knoaw I am a ligah

Hmmm. Well...

I'm British ol' Chap, and surely you must be pulling ma leg with this ol' tosh? Truly ol' bean, let's sit down for a cuppa and forget this 'over' the pond mess, hay?

its funny how americans still think that we british still wear top hats and talk like that.

nah, im ike in manchester like, n' me n' me mates, were all like cool n stuff, so wed all like, bloody kill any toff, who, like talked like that, y'now. innit.

itd be more effective if i could swear more lol.

Just how cowboys and indians are still waging war in Texas.

Is Sadistic Jellyfish of Doom from the United States though?
Just because a person makes a stereotype doesn't always mean they're from the U.S.

haha, I know I know, I was just commenting on it because it brought up memories of american films that have 'british' people in them.

COCKNEY(london) MEANING EXAMPLE

Adam & Eve Believe “I don’t Adam & Eve it”

Apples & Pears Stairs “Get yer bacons up the apples and pears”

Army & Navy Gravy “Pass the army & navy”

Artful Dodger Lodger “I’ve got an artful to help pay the rent”

Bacon & Eggs Legs “You’ve a lovely set of bacons “

Barnet Fair Hair “I’ve just had my barnet chopped”

Brass bands Hands “I shook him by the brass”

Bread and Honey Money “I wish I had lots of bread”

Butchers Hook Look “Take a butchers at that”

Christian Slater Later “See ya slater” !!

Dicky Bird Word “He hasn’t said a dicky bird in hours !!


OTHER

Khyber (Khyber Pass) = arse

Lionel Blairs = flares (flared trousers)

Loaf (loaf of bread) = head ('use your loaf')


Marbles (marbles and conkers) = bonkers (mad - probably the root of the expression 'lost your marbles' meaning gone mad)

Merchant banker = wanker

Mother's ruin = gin

Micky (Micky Bliss) = Piss (the origin of 'taking the micky' - bet you never knew that)

Minces (mince pies) = eyes

Moby Dick = sick

Nellie Duff = puff (breath, evolved into 'not on your nellie' - puff being breath, and breath being life)

Nutmeg = leg (leading to the soccer term 'nutmeg', meaning to play the ball between your opponent's legs.)

North and south = mouth

Orchestra stalls = balls (testicles)

Old bag = hag (horrible woman - bet you never knew that was rhyming slang.)

On the floor = poor

Oxo (Oxo cube) = tube (the London Underground train system)

Pen (pen and ink) = stink


Plates of meat = feet

Pipe (pipe and drum) = bum

Pipe your Eye = cry

Skin and blister = sister

Sky rocket = pocket

Sweeney Todd = Flying Squad (The Sweeney was a big TV police series in the 1970's)

Syrup (syrup of fig) = wig (leading to 'golden syrup' meaning a really awful wig)

Taters (potatoes in the mould) = cold

Tea leaf = thief

Tiddly (tiddly wink) = drink (now evolved to mean drunk)

Good init!!!

I think the Irish and the Scots are cooler than the English and the Welsh. The accents that is.

OK.....This is a great topic on BRITISH STEREOTYPES

Oh, and BM, i'll admit to using or hearing maybe one or two of those, but none of the others

I have a distinct feeling in my green veins that this topic will be closed soon enough. I'm a Brit, Leliel's British, and i'll alot of the other members are, some of us actually take offence from these stereotypes, but do we actually type like that? Hell no. I guess I should bring up the American Stereotype of a fat, lazy person watching the NFL, huh?

Thought not. Phew, that's my daily rant over with.

Luckily, South African English is so screwed up, no-one can stereotype us....

There's the different accents, y'know, like folks trying to sound Brit or American... even some trying very hard to sound Aussie, there's the Local accents & then there's the fact that we have 11 official languages, that sometimes totally intermingle...

Kinda confusing...

I love the South African English accent. So smooth!

Dont forget me, moose! Though i prefer to be refered to as scottish, i wish someone could close this.......