I love brits

[Valaire]

So I tried to add distanced to my msn list, and instead I left out part of the address and I got this british guy, who knew what TM was apparently this was not the first time someone had misread the address and talked to him. At first I was like who is this guy and why was he on my list, but after talking to him for a while hes pretty funny, we got into a conversation about canadians and brits it was great, we talked about art attack and coronation street, (they being the only british shows I watch), I learned how to spell ta ra, and I learned what Wankers meant, man it was fun.

I guess what Im trying to say is, BRITS ROCK

Not that Im prejudice I just think north america is boring and the rest of the world is so much cooler. I especially like russia too although I dont think there are any here.

[naiveheretic]

we are boring...and what isn't boring here is often just plain scary (yes, guys, the civil war ended over 100 years ago...)
british tv rocks my world - if my college put bbc america on our cable, i'd be so incredibly happy.
although come to think of it, we have non-scary interesting people...you just have to look

[Vartanho]

*waves* we love u too lol

[Pareitentar]

Hmm...so far the brits I've met are awesome! I love British accents, dunno why.

[Valaire]

oh ya me too, but there are so many different kinds, help me out here arent there like high, low, wales etc......You can tell I have no idea what Im talking about but if anyone else understands what I mean by the different british accents help me out.

[Pareitentar]

dont worry, I know what you mean. I love all types! Our American accents are so boring, well at least our Californian accents are.

[Valaire]

My favourite american accent, is maybe boston although Im partial to texas, although not actually partial to texas (no offence).

I like dannish accents too though, something that isnt so canadian always makes me feel more interested, even french accents are too canadian for me and dont even get me started on newphies.....lol.

[Steppenwolf]

I have a freind who lives in England and I LOVE talking to him over MSN. He's so funny. But I still love the good ol' USA. We're not boring. Just not as funny as Falwty Towers or Monty Python.

Steppenwolf.

[Pareitentar]

I practically have Monty Python and the Holy Grail memorized...god, I love that movie. :004:

[Steppenwolf]

I have the T-Shirt. :-D.... It's just a flesh wound!

[Wonderwall]

Oh aye mun, Brits ROCK! :59:

No lol, alas I'm not British myself, but I just loooove Britain and everything related to it! :D I'm a massive sucker for British accents, no other accents can compare cos British own 'em ALL! Yep, the British are dead funny and cool and wheee, sorry but I just love that country. :o I've been there once (London is da bomb, wow) but I'm bound to go back asap and check out the rest of the country, yay!

I'd really really like to learn Welsh though, pity it's not spoken much anymore. :(

Scotland is beautiful too, will visit it sometime in the future no doubt.

As for accents, I still can't tell them apart, but my favourites are deffo South English accents, mmmm!! http://www.teen-moods.net/forums/images/icons/icon11.gif

Erm, sorry I never meant to get so jumpy about this, it's just that I'm a massive fan of Britain (in case you haven't noticed)... :041:

PS: Let's not forget ALL the best writers are British, such as JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Celia Rees, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams etc etc ETC! :cool:

What's not to love? :037:

[Valaire]

Wonder Wall, ALL THOSE AUTHORS ARE BRITISH, wait all of them thats freaking great, I guess I kind of knew that, but except for Enid Blyton and Celia Rees, I have read so much of all those authors, and probably the other two I just dont remember, Monty Python and the meaning of life is so funny.

[distanced]

lol then valaire im glad u typed my name in wrong (altho i did have it wrong for a while but i fixed it b4 u added me).....im not a brit myself dammit they have the best accents...but my really good friend that i just met moved her from london and shes SOOO COOL hahaha she spells color colour ahah its awesome and she talks in the coolest way.....i dunno im just agreeing i guees

[Gnome]

Most are okay, except for the ones named Peter Cuthberson. You have to watch out for that far-right wing asshole ;)

[Jessq]

We mostly rule. But, some of us are complete idiots, like some Americans. We did win the rugby...need to make sure you guys remember that one! I have a kinda south-east London accent, mildly Cockney but more a kinda drawl. The nastiest accent gotta be from the west country, or Birmingham. Sorry if anyones from there, I know south-east London ain't pretty either but come on...

Jq
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[Valaire]

wow, I know those words are english but what they mean I have no idea.

[distanced]

RUGBY IS BY FAR THE MOST AWESOME SPORT....cept mayb lax cuz u get to hit ppl in the head with sticks....hhaha

[Valaire]

I didnt understand a word you said, jessq but then Dan came back online (the guy who started this) and he translated it for me and he says that the rugby game even though England made a few mistakes was sound or mint, which mean good.

Man I love slang from other countries.

[bubbles]

yay we won the rugby :D

[Valaire]

I just learned that england at least where he is, is 5 hours ahead, arent foreign people GREAT, does anyone know the university UNI.

[distanced]

nope but i knew england was 5 hours ahead...isnt that soo cool!!!were living in the past!!!

[Valaire]

and there the future, wow, that means china is really futuristick right.

[distanced]

i guess so, kinda a scary thought...i feel so behind the times right now....yeah does that mean like their fashions are more advanced?

[bubbles]

there is some islands that are a full day ahead of another place as they are just across the date line now thats strange!!

[Gnome]

I just learned that england at least where he is, is 5 hours ahead, arent foreign people GREAT, does anyone know the university UNI.

I believe "uni" is in fact short for "university," unless it is also an acronym.

[Valaire]

its possible sometimes its impossible to understand brits, and when there using slang or sarcasm I just give up.

[distanced]

hahahahahaha i love it wen brits say cheeky, thats just the coolest word..im so CHEEKY!! or your so bloody stupid, sayings like that make the world go round!

[Wonderwall]

hahahahahaha i love it wen brits say cheeky, thats just the coolest word..im so CHEEKY!!
I take it you haven't heard The Cheeky Song by The Cheeky Girls yet, eh?

Ewww the horror! :yuck:

Try downloading that song and I bet you'll never want to hear the word cheeky again. :p

[Valaire]

You want british slang I got a bunch, these are words meaning good, mint, sound, wicked

bad things are gash

if someones a jerk there a wanker

if your saying goodbye, why not say ta ra

and finally coronation street is called, cornie

[Wonderwall]

Haha those are wicked, Valaire! :D

As a matter of fact, I was planning to do sort of a research project on British slang for my English class sooo I asked (a certain) someone for a list (boy, that was ages ago) of slang terms they could think of and voila, here's some more cool stuff...

quid- one pound sterling
fiver - five pound note
jack - nothing
dab hand - skilled person at a certain task
dodgy - risky, suspicious
savvy - to understand
noggin' - Head
Geordie - person from Newcastle
div - idiot
bodge - to do a poor job
slob - lazy person
gunk - gooey liquid
gob - mouth
chump - unliked person
kip - sleep
doddle - easy
tosh - nonsense
doss - easy
caned - intoxicated
toff - upper class person with style
double Dutch - nonsense
bollocking - severe reprimand
drip - feeble, boring person
smarmy - flattering person
camp - acting gay
chin wag - conversation
have a butchers - have a look
dosh - money
gormless - foolish
flog - sell
codswallop - nonsense
minging - undesirable
argy bargy - trouble
ruckus - fight / quarrel

Try using those in your convos, haha!

[Jessq]

I'll try and add some. Listerine means anti-american, its a long long complicated route back through ryming slang. A bird is a girl, and minging means ugly, or smelly, or bad generally...Nick means steal. Jacked and jumped mean mugged. Dog and bone means phone but that ones kinda lame. Can't think of much else.

Jq
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[Pareitentar]

A bird is a girl? I call girls chicks...hmm...::feels the need to ponder::

[Vartanho]

where i am in the UK lol we call girls lasses lol kinda scottish i know but hey its the celtic blood lol and a group of people guys.....hmm kinda sexist now u look at it lol

[Vartanho]

yer uni is slang for university lol
alot of this slang u listed erm we dont always use, alot of it was "fashionable wen our parents wee kids" lol we make up our own rubbish lol u know ill list some 2mo ill go round college n see what i can gt every1 to come out with just cause my day couldnt b more interesting lol hehe it'll b fun tlkin 2 complete strangers lol just like friday heehehe

[biffy]

hehehe wow. this threads pretty cool seeing as im from england. its weird cos most english people like american accents, and most americans like english accents!! :innocent:
lol... its not that hard to use all them words in sentences!! mind you, im bloody used to it! someone should put up some american words that i could use!!!

[unspoken]

Heh... Cockney Rhyming Slang...

Yes, this is a weird thread, being english. It's like, I know some american people who watch Harry Potter films for the accents. Sounds weird to me...

[Vartanho]

hmmm is jelly in america jam?? cause here its u know water n fruity flavured geletine like gummy sweet but wobbly n watery lol

[Tainted]

hmmm is jelly in america jam?? cause here its u know water n fruity flavured geletine like gummy sweet but wobbly n watery lol

yeh it is, i'm not american but they have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches dont they? which is as far as i know, peanut butter and jam. This is pretty weird cuz i'm english.

i'l try and get some of my mates to think of some words tomoz and i'l post em on here for ya'l.

i'm Welsh by the way.

xXTaintedXx

[Vartanho]

hehe i made of of those there quite nice n i hate peanut butter just so long as its crnchy n u use more jam it makes it less salty n nice n sweet yummmmy more plz lol

[Tainted]

LOL!

heres sum words i asked my mates for, most of them are swear words, i dont no wether they're right or not though......

bollocks=a lie
jam=jelly like stuff we put in sandwiches
sofa=couch
birds=girls
shagband=something sum1 gives u an if u break it it means you gotta shag them
quid=pond coin
tena=ten pound note
slack=not fair!
love-bite=you guys call em hickys (or however u spel it)
fit=if you say sum1s fit you think theyre fine or good looking

the following are just offensive...

twat
wanker
cunt
prick
minger
hoe
moron
retard
bint
biatch

and a few phrases.......

spasticated arse bandit= your gay
twat with a lense= you dumb fuck
as straight as a 50p coin= a 5op coin isnt straight so its like sayin your gay.
the dogs bollocks= thats really really good!


and thats all we could think of lol
xXTaintedXx

[Jedi]

Anyone who watches Art Attack is deffinatly alright in my book

[Valaire]

AWESOME I LOVE ART ATTACK, YES I DO OH MAN IT ROCKS,

Sorry anyway does anyone notice that Im the only north American posting I gotta represent yall, but I love brits, as I have said, so dont get me wrong. TA RA, get it thats awesome

[Jedi]

I was only trying to be firendly....

[Valaire]

and it worked, Im sorry if I came off a little strong but man that show floats my boat, I watch it every day I can, and I wasnt kidding about the starways stuff either.

[Jedi]

sorry I didnt read it like it was meant, my bad :(

[Valaire]

its just so good.

[Steppenwolf]

And on the list of British authors don't forget J.R.R. Tolkien. Ya know, the guy who wrote the book of the CENTURY? Seeing as how last time it was the bible....He did good.

Steppenwolf.

[Raven]

J.R.R. Tolkien is so cool. He made the LORD OF THE RINGS! I am obsessed with that movie...my...precious AH! The power of the ring is taking...over...me...help...NO!I will be evil and take over middle earth!!!!! NOs topping me now! Ahahahahaha!!!!

~*~*~

No...it's taking over me...stop it...the ring...must...destroy...

~*~*~

NEVER! The ring is MINE....all mine...hehe.

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K..whatever that was...don't ask. I was having a little battle with my mind for a second while simaltaneously obsessing over LOTR...Legolos is awesome.

I'll shut up now. Bye.

[Jedi]

Lord of the rings is the second most read book in the world. The bible is first. Personly I think Tolien should of wrote the bible.

[Raven]

If Tolkien wrote the Bible, I would read it every day! ;)

[Jedi]

lets see if anyone can decode what im saying here:

"Easy mate"

"what you sayin"

"all good ya get me"

"me and some nex girl going to Ministry"

"nah man dat place is dry innit"

"ah seen, safe"

"aiight laters"

[Raven]

??? *Looks around confused* Cool...don't get it though...is this a secret message?

[Jedi]

its a conversation between two people. And yes people do speak and talk to each other like this.

[Raven]

I recognized that it was a conversation...what does it all mean? What is ministry?

+Paprika! I love the new smilies!!!! :biggrin:

[Jedi]

Okay ill translate it into written english.

"Good Afternoon"

"How are you today"

"I am fine thank you, thanks for asking"

"I plan to take my girlfriend out tonight to Ministry Of Sound"

"Oh no I have heard terrible things about that place"

"Oh really, well I do thank you for your advice

"Goodbye, and take care"



all makes sense now doesnt it Raven!

[Raven]

Yes, NOW it does...I don't talk like the first example...I talk with pretty good grammar!

[Jedi]

lots of people talk like the first enxample in England. Its cool to talk like a twelve year old. Well apparently....

[distanced]

hahahaha thats really strange...its in code, but in ENGLISH but different english....wow jedi im impressed its like speaking a whole other language!!

[Jedi]

Danka Schon

[Jedi]

oh and it is a great way to talk to your gran.

"would you like a sausage roll dear?"

"nah man dat shit is dry"

"hook me up with some some of those mince pies they look dark"

[Raven]

Interesting...that is all I have to say...

[biffy]

lol.... its just the townies that talk like that... 'alternative' people talk a bit more.... proper i think. i dont know. nah. townies use all the slang that no one understands but we talk ok! *nods*

[Jedi]

whos "we"?

[Raven]

nah. townies use all the slang that no one understands but we talk ok!
whos "we"?
I think that "we" is townies.

[Jedi]

I have no idea what a Townie is

[Jessq]

They mean a rude methinks...in my bit of London everyone talks like that, no matter what your little sect. Not the whole time, but bits of it.

Jq
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[Becca]

Lol yeah people do talk like that!

[Raven]

Same here, but I am in the US, so it is slightly different. People at my school call it punk...but I am not a person that uses labels...

"Labels are for soup cans."
-Morgan Conroy

My friend made that quote up...she is creative.

[Jedi]

I dont think im a townie... i especially dont try to be rude.

[Raven]

I am not a townie either...I talk in plain normal English. And I definitely am not rude.

[Valaire]

well, overhere in Canada, the closest thing to that, I guess, would be newphies who have thick accents or the french in quebec who just throw in french words, periodically or when they get mad. Other then that there are like wiggers, genos that type of stereotype.

[Becca]

I'm definately not a townie

[Jessq]

Not rude...A rude

Jq
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[Jedi]

Now im just confused, someone just said a "townie" was someone who just lived in a town. But I live in a town.... :S

[Jessq]

Townies are sometimes called trendies, Barrys, Darrens, Sharrons, and so on...

Jq
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[Jedi]

I found out what townie means!!!!

from a conversation on msn:

Alex says:
whats a "townie"?
ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º Chelleybaby ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º says:
why
ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º Chelleybaby ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º says:
ppl who take the piss outta alternative ppl and dress trendy and listen to shit hehe

[Jessq]

Hurrah!

Jq
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[distanced]

that definition didnt help...i have no clue what that means haha....isnt a townie someone who lives in a town?

[Valaire]

JUST A WARNING I WAS BORED AND I WANTED A LARGE POST. POSSIBLY TO GET OFF THIS TOPIC SO DONT READ UNLESS YOU WANT A LAUGH
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Ta Dah!

drum role please...............

I wouldnt get involved Distanced, I have been avoiding this conversation it seems like quicksand, first your just a little curious then, your like "hmmm what is a towniie", except noone really knows, or does know IM SO Confused, thats what happens, so you ask everyone you know, who might be mildly british, "what does townie mean?" but no one knows, so you log on here but no one else knows here and then you wonder where did the word come from.....and thats when your brain explodes...

sorry, sometimes I just like to go off on to tangents if I dont have something to say in a forum, and I know everyones going to be all like hey thats not cool, if your not posting about the topic, dont post at all, and get that serious look in there eye, that says "dude I just dont know sometimes", but thats cool, I dont remember what Im talking about, and um well thats, fine, I dont want to cheat by looking at the top, sooooo, I guess Im pretty much finished, ahh, because I started this thread so I can do what I want, WHOAAAAA, enough Ill go.

[distanced]

and while we're getting off the topic of what a townie is or isn't, whats
A RUDE....hmmmm
British people sound so cool but you guys really confuse me

[Valaire]

oh man do they ever, I swear, they have like a whole nother language, like a sweetie tube, a lou role, a WC, a kitchen role, and cling wrap, wow, and Yes I did watch art attack......TA RA

[distanced]

cling wrap is american too....well at least i use it but maybe im just strange?

[Jedi]

oh man do they ever, I swear, they have like a whole nother language, like a sweetie tube, a lou role, a WC, a kitchen role, and cling wrap, wow, and Yes I did watch art attack......TA RA

Never heard of any of those

[distanced]

what does TA RA mean?

[Jedi]

it means goodbye in scouse

[distanced]

and scouse is......?

[angelfalling]

townie is a "trendy"
the sheep of the uk. they like hip hop RnB and pop music and dispise anybody who is different. therefore not a sheep. they beat up people who are different and talk like "yo yo yo big it up yo"
and shit thats hard to understand.
townies females like to have their token baby. either they seem pregnant. OR they have a pram with them at all times. a baby is the ultimate fashion accesory :|
anyway. i guess you can figure some out from that

[distanced]

hmmm i guess i wouldnt be qualified as a townie then....these words are all so complicated, why cant we all speak MY english (acting selfish again)

WHAT IS SCOUSE!

[Jedi]

A Scouse is someone from Liverpool, the beatles were scousers.

The go: "Calm down, Calm down" "Ey but they do tho dont they tho"