Spyke
lemmy.world

This is simply incorrect, the guidelines approved and enforced since Victorian times is the man kneels before the woman sat on the bed, they hold hands, the lights go out for a minute, then come back on and she is now with child.

Anyone found breaching said guidelines are roundly shunned through heavy tutting.

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piefed.social

I misread that as the man kneels, before the woman shat on the bed.

Some traditions never change

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I always have wanted to work "Bob's your uncle" into my everyday speech, but I always forget it exists

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D_Creply
sh.itjust.works

No British person speaks like this. You, you, you nincompoop!!!
Cor blimey, guvnor, I done gone and said the only swearword that's frowned upon!!!

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So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman's entrance and have her lick me yardballs!

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How do you feel about chimneysweeps with a cock-er-nee accent and their own dancing penguins? We've got one of those going spare. :starts whistling:

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feddit.org

That's fine as long as you're not being a dick to everyone who doesn't fit your fetish.

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piefed.social

I will admit, as a brit, that my automatic reaction to being startled is "Good Lord!"... 🧐

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feddit.uk

As a Briton, I appear to use either the traditional "fuckin' 'ell" or "shittin' 'ell" or the somewhat nonsensical "shit the fuck".

I'd be interested to see if I could train myself to switch to "Good Lord!", like some sort of gritty Northern "My Fair Lady".

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

It wasn't until relatively recently that I learned that the British often use "tea" as the word for their midday meal.

As in, "what are you cooking for tea today?"

Weird

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Tea is not the midday meal, it's the evening meal. Usually the largest meal of the day on a work day evening.

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Depends on where you live...

Up north tea/supper is also another word for dinner

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lemmy.today

Wait... Is it really not just:

"Oi oi oi oi oi! Have a biscuit ya cunt!"

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"Have a cunt ya cunt, I just cunted in yer cunt" might also be acceptable. I'm actually for real not sure and was asking in hopes of a real answer.

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Depends on accent:

South West: jrink me loike a bo'oh wa'er ('=glottal stop like in "ugh")

London: drink me lyke a botto a wawtah

Merseyside: dlrinch me liche a bottull a wahtah (ch=choking sound)

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I'm reminded of a phenomenal interactive documentary on life in a small British town. It's called Thank Goodness You're Here.

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lemmy.world

Thanks for the meme, but all these are real words, so it's not quite the same innit?

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