Lips McGee

Ok, so we have these two Royal Navy pilots on exchange in my squadron, and I'd like to show them a thing or two by throwing down some good ol' fashioned slang from the Queen's English.

Please feel free to throw down your best slang greetings, jokes, or namecalling here. (BUT PLEASE KEEP IT CLEAN!)

GEEDUBBYA

Howdy Mike,

Well as you know I am not from the UK, but from L.A. (lower arkansas), however, I was an administrator at UKChat for awhile...I was the one who booted ppl for various reasons including foul language.
Well being from arkansas, I learned quite abit from my experiences there. Some are listed below:

1. "Pissed"- here in the states, it means "madder than a wet hen" but in the UK, it means Drunk.......(dont ask me, I dont know how they came up with that lol ).

2. A "manc" is a person from mancaster (sp?).

3. A Lanc is a person from lancastershire.

4. "Cockney" is a language unto itself, dont try to understand it and you will be able to avoid long weeks of psycho-therapy.

And lastly, this took me a few weeks to learn, alot of ppl blame it on me being a redneck from the deep south.......
5. A "Brolly" is not a piece of female clothing, its an umbrella

A few other things I learned were they dont have "hoods" on their vehicles, they have "bonnets", a "banger" is a sausage and not a wild sex starved female.

Anyway, i hope this helps, I really enjoyed my dealings with ppl from the UK while I hosted the chatroom, it was educational for me and i think they may have learned a thing or two about us "yanks" (Like us ppl down here in the south dont like being called anything that sounds like "yankee" or what we call "perpitraitors of unprovoked northern aggression".

have a good day,

Greg

rjwood_uk

apparently you guys over there dont know what "chuffed" means?

a scoucer is someone from liverpool
generally we just call everyone above cambride "northerners"
people from right at the top are called jordies

a blower is a telephone
and yes a banger is a sausage....bangers and mash!!!
another word for "pissed" (dunk) is "bladdered" or "smashed"
so an drunk is called a "piss-ed" (piss-head)

i wont bother going into cockney slang, there are whole websites devoted to it!!

Richard

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Desert Rat Racer

Dog & Bone = Telephone
Straight as a dog hine leg = straight line freehand
Couldn't ly straight in bed = Anyone promising the world
Skyrocket + Pocket
Wallet full of Moths = no money
Flat out like lizard drinking = not working hard

Thes are some of wot I use here in Australia

rjwood_uk

ok then...cockney slang it is.

giraffe - laugh
'alf inch - pinch
jimmy riddle - piddle (take a leek/piss/toilet..etc)
town crier - liar
tutti-fruity - beauty
thomas edison - medicine

i could go on for a long, long time!!!

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Lips McGee

Outstanding!

You guys are the dog's ballocks for sure!

bogstandard

Please gents, 'Dogs Dangly Bits', this is after all a family site.

That would be the 'posh' way of saying it.
It just might sound better to the upper crust type pilot. It just depends how they 'came through the ranks' - promotions.

BTW, it is spelt with an 'o', as in 'bol*****', it gives a deeper and more gutteral sound intonation.

A few more RAF sayings.
Rum, bum and baccy boys - A reference to the naval side of the armed forces ( as your pilots are). It refers to their drinking, sleeping and smoking habits.
Brylcreem boys - As above but refering to the Air Force. With reference to the old style, slicked down, sleazy hairstyles.
Cannon fodder - As above but in relation to the Army. Nuff said on that one. What they are doing in the air, I have no idea.
Wot ho! - Usually spoken with an upper crust accent - Hello.
Prang - any sort of crash.
Jolly - an unexpected flight or outing.
Oh! whizzo - spoken in the same accent as wot ho - fantastic, great.
Bodged - bad, as in a bodged repair or bodged landing or WHY.

I lived with these people for 14 years, and believe me they have a language that is worse than Cockney.
But I am sure that the Rum Bum boys will have sayings of their own relating to their side of the armed forces.

John

Task Force 57

hrrrrrrrm, lets see what we can add to the party:

Shufti kush....to take a look (in a round-about manner)
Char... Tea
Cinderella/Cindy/crab air... RAF / RAF pilot
Foo foo... talcum powder
greenie... a salt water wave
nutty... a choc. bar with nuts
Bimble... to walk around with brain set in the off possition
Banyan... a beach party/picnic
pussers... queens regulations (RN/RM)

Those ought to fill in a few gaps....

ps, never use "shufti" around a lady of indi extraction unless you want your jaw re-arranged by her entire male family.

rjwood_uk

a nother common saying for "dogs boll***" is "the mutts nuts"

love that one lol

Richard

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Graeme Brumfitt

How about "Blue veined custard chucker" ye dangly bit!