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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... :confused:

Any advice would be much appreciated
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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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The only advice I can give you is to change your location from 'Under the blue skies' to 'Under the dismally, eternally wet skies' :D
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Well, theyre really not that diffrent from the rest of us (even though they act like it :D )

Just be polite, ask nicely, and remember to say bloody one in a while.
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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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Post by Rob-hin »

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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Originally posted by Rob-hin
Quote Kayless®
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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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Post by Mr Sleep »

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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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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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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@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 :D Welcome to SYM, btw :)

@Zelgadis, LMAO! - too true :D

@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 :p

@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 :D

<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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Post by Robnark »

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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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! :D :p
That there; exactly the kinda diversion we coulda used.
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Originally posted by Rob-hin
I figured you were a loyal reader of kayless's Dungeon Crawl inc. :)

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Originally posted by Vicsun
Sorry about derailing the thread.

Awww, but it's cool to derail a topic by talking about DCI. :D

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.
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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 :p

@Kayless-I have been watching the Monty Python movies :p .Good fun, I must say
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Post by Tamerlane »

Originally posted by IHateUsernames
remember to say bloody one in a while.


What!?!? You Poms are stealing our slang words, for shame... :p ;)
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Post by C Elegans »

Originally posted by Brink
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... :confused:

Any advice would be much appreciated


LOL, so you are becoming a Londoner now all of a sudden? :D How funny :D

London is a big, dirty, expensive city with Europe's worst public transport system, a constant traffic jam and suitable for cycling only if you are suicidal. It's also a relatively safe and quite nice city for it's size, and there is nothing you'll ever need that you can't find there. Cultural life is excellent, as is the club life. Which area of London are you going to live in, and what is the reason for this sudden change of continent?

Hope to hear from you soon, you know how to find me :)
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Post by Georgi »

Originally posted by Yshania
I have lived and worked in London for 16 years, and have still to meet any Londoner who speaks like that
Well, you have evidently never been on the set of a Guy Ritchie movie. :rolleyes: :D
@IHU, don't patronise, bloody is a bloody good word to use without offense!


It is indeed a great word. "I was fabulous, and it was a bloody good laugh!" - Plunkett and McLean :D
Originally posted by Tamerlane
What!?!? You Poms are stealing our slang words, for shame...
Where do you think you criminals got them in the first place? :p

@Sleepy bollocks is a fantastic word as well, and one which has unaccountably caused people abroad to snigger at me whenever I use it... :confused:

@Brink just watch out in November, I hear a certain Ms Elegans is going to be in town causing trouble...! ;) Oh, don't be tempted to go and see David Blaine in his stupid plastic box. Maybe if we all ignore him, he'll bugger off. :rolleyes:

@CE you make it sound so attractive... :D
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Post by IHateUsernames »

Re: Re: UK newbie
Originally posted by C Elegans
suitable for cycling only if you are suicidal


So true, so true.

And its not the subway, its the underground
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erm.......what is 'bollock' :confused: :p

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