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okay so im a lonely phoenix kid stranded in london, and today i just went down to the store to get some pop tarts when this big guy comes up to me and goes (i quote) ''oi blad, bus me a fiver....safe''

and i was like WHAT THE F**K??? is this guy speakin english? well anyway can someone who knows about british slang translate it for me?

Lend me five pounds. Thank you.

never heard "bus" used like that before, but "safe" means thanks, you're alrite

and "oi blad/blood" just means "excuse me", only a little bit less formal

thank the lord....for all i know he could have been threating me with death. thnx dave.

you guys have some strange words...

was he white? please tell me he was white

yeah he was a 6 foot white guy with a weird cap and wearing a tracksuit i think. why?

What a dick.

yep

I hope you kicked him in the nads and told him to stop scrounging.

no i should have though. i just said, ''i have no idea what your saying'' and pushed past him. he gave me a damn dirty look but that was it

haha yup little scrounge did ya hurt him?

no like i said i just pushed past him.

but what i dont understand is why would anyone just come up to some random guy on the street and ask em for money? weird.

people do it and there called spraffs....there like little tramps always wanting money of people that why you tell them to f*ck off

furreal??? omg thats hella sad....from now on im gonna take my gun whenver i go to the store.

yup for real if people anyone asks for money shoot them.......i dont mind if someone asks for a ciggerette cause i know what its like choking for one and ya gotta ask. but thats like once in a blue moon.

thats cool i dont smoke cigs anyways.

lol

yeah, the "blad/blood" thing is derived from patwa, which is the way in which black ppl used to talk, you know, from jamaica. other words include "blaclah" and "bombaclah", meaning "nasty" and "****ing shite" or sumthing like that!! oh and also, "tay-oh-bitties" which means sumthing like "nice baps"!!

i have no ideas how to spell the words, but i used to live with three African guys, and they were always chatting like that. the funny thing is i used to talk like them, without realising, and i musta sounded soooo stupid, coz i'm white, female and british!!!!

oh, and the "bus me a fiver" bit was him just askin you to give him money, like "bust me", musta meant "give me"!

u shoulda said sumthin in US slang and laughed at the look on his face!!

Have you just moved here or are you visiting?

Well, i'm from sunderland in England, but i'm still known as a geordie, and i have to say, people from the north-east have the best words. I'll give you a few translations-
Canny= Good, alright, 'kind of'
Bugger= something you call a mischevious, naughty person
Mint= Great!
Scruff= Dirty person, disgusting; etc.
I'll give ya more if ya want them...

The guy's a towny, probably from brixton or kilburn or some place tuf. Anyway, the guy asked you for a fiver. I hope u didnt give that to him. Thats about 9 dollars US.
If the guy wasnt a towny, just a guy pretending to be one, he's even more sad.
F**k townies!

omg

silly wigga

His giro must have burnt a hole in his shell-suit, leaving him a bit skint.

You see the culture of despair...

oh the joys of being scottish we have our own lingo.
instead of that i would've said.
"Gies a fiver...ta." much more easier to understand i think.

Brixton may be pretty tough, but it is nothing on Oldham or Keighley!

....ok you guys have totally lost me again

ok i got another one. today this dude came up to me and said ''wa gwan'' or something like that. is this a real word??? translate please.

just another little british way to say hello

oh why oh why cant you guys just say ''hello''??? it would be so much easier. my little brain cant take all this

Cus us Brits are confusing Hehe, silly white guy. He was definately a townie. Ye don't say 'safe' unless someone gives ye something or you are mates with them

what the hell is with the word "bloody"? I only use the word blood to describe what my nose looks like after i get in a fight at a bar...but you insane Englishmen use it as a damn adjective for the word hell. "bloody hell" . What exactly does the phrase "bloody hell" do for you that the word "hell" can't do for you.

bloody just makes it seem even worse, i guess

cus it just sounds right. Oh hell, doesn't have the same feeling as oh bloody hell!! I think its just a nicer way of saying oh f*cking hell

u brits always sugar coat things. What ever happened to crude vulgarity?!?!?

Crude vulgarity? Hmmmmm, what the bloody hell is that??

lol...i hope your girls taste as sugary sweet as your sense of humor.

I am a girl

i know that...i was making a general statement. Wait......a "bloody general" statement.

Your getting the Lingo!!

visiting, but depending on how my new job goes, i might move out out here permanently.

TM is going to be a Cockney man!!

may i add...why is it you guys in UK say "arse" or shyte(sp)? and if you really want to make it even more so, instead of "bloody" you say "bleeding". excuse my ignorance, please explain.

oi you shut it geezer or i'll ave ya taking the mick!

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....but i have no idea what i just said

it's okay...i have a feeling they have no idea what they're saying most of the time anyways.

i think they make it up as they go along.

Like Ozzy Osbourne?

We don't!!! ye just said: Shut up man because i will beat ye up for making fun of me

Erm, i come from the exact same place as Ozzy Osbourne!! And i talk a lot like him. I just don't stutter as much

i knew that

Sounds a bit like "where are you going".

But why on earth do people just go up to you and blurt out something to you? That is not normal, even for the UK!

no this guy was a friend of a friend, i think he was trying to introduce himself to me

yep Raz has got it us brits rock we can say anything and only us brits understand its like a code

LOL...even for the UK

So did you not tell him that you didn't understand what he was saying?

BTW, if a brit was in your position, he would have punched him in the face. Try that next time

brits are lovers not fighters....

Ugly americans are fighters.....grrr!!!

okay but i'll be holding you responsible for any bodily harm i'll be bound to recieve from the several cockney skinheads with him

usaflag home of the brave!!!

Huntington Beach....arian brotherhood capital of the world (since Hitler's now gone) Nothing like cruisin down main street worrying that you're not white ENOUGH.

Just shout "It was Raz!!" when they start beating the "bloody hell" out of ya... wicked!!

^ u think that's funny....imagine if they stopped because you said that.

more Brit words/phrases i need translating:

1.) butters
2.) you've done bare
3.) neek

my brain hurts

As i a brit i can say that i have no idea what they mean

I have no idea. I could have deduced it from the context it was used in.

But why don't you just ask the people to explain it further if you don't understand them?

This is british...?

I cannot help translating those as 'someone is winding you up...'

yeah i guess i should just ask really...but sometimes its just people ive never met before who just say something to me in passing (thats how i heard 'you've done bare') , thats when i get really confused.

Use this english word next time you don't understand someone: "Pardon?"

id rather be refered to as scottish

good idea. maybe that will work better than 'say what now?'

ok im ignored

Hello!

HELLO RAZ!

G'day mates...out onna walkabout lookin' for a billabong ya beauts...oops sorry wrong thread

ooooook

offtopic Australia is thata way --->

oh ya

so does anybody know what these mean?

no im scottish

you have different slang words then?

yup

tell me some Scot slang! i wanna speak Scottish

aye awrite

whit ye wantin me tae say like?

anything!

aww well i cud talk like a ned

whit ye aw aboot man?

Jumpy more more more!

why is that smilie in a white square?

its crazy. hes been locked away in a white square from the other smilies for their own safety.

woah..

i know. hes very sensitive about it though so dont blab it about

ok i wont

please???

Damn thats bear stuff blod!

i dont understand....

more Brit words/phrases i need translating:

1.) butters - ugly
2.) you've done bare - you've done a lot (bare is just a large amount of)
3.) neek -

davers, do you know what a MOOK is?

new to me aswell....

butters means ugly??? im in trouble...

Neek? that sounds stupid so does you've done bare

i know pinch

Check this out: http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/rabbit_1.asp

Uncle Fred....is he related to Timmy?

Lor' luv a duck! Tom 'anks raz. This will be useful. Know what I mean?

IN ENGLISH-thanks raz, this website should prove most useful during my forays into english society.

lol
ahh, american slang is soo much easier!
well at least southern Cali slang is!

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