Are you taking the piss!

Let’s go smoke a f a g

nice fanny pack OP

nice fanny pack OP

U fokin wot mate

you foking tosser m8

Wtf is a trolley?

just because you lot are too scared to even say f ag anymore

Throw the rubbish in the bin... bunch of freaks

r u a sodding wanka bruv?? fish and chips. pip pip cheerio mate

fancy yourself a cup of tea dear

bloody hell m8!

thread for muppets, jog on you slags

Clonker

Lol I remember when I asked for ****s at a shop in America, the cashiers reaction was pretty lulzy heh

OP, I previously fort you was a diamond geezer n a bit of a ledge n that we had no beef.

But it turns out you are a no good chlag that deserves a right proper hiding.

I was finking about inviting you for a cheeky Nando’s or a ruby murry so I could ave a word...but you can do one, pal.

I could care less

Is this even English?

B’oh’oh’woh’oh

Here are just 38 of the Americanisms it seems the British public really can’t stand.
1. When people ask for something, I often hear: “Can I get a . . .” It infuriates me. It’s not New York. It’s not the ’90s. You’re not in Central Perk with the rest of the Friends. Really.
2. The next time someone tells you something is the “least worst option,” tell them that their most best option is learning grammar.
3. The phrase I’ve watched seep into the language (especially with broadcasters) is “two-time” and “three-time.” Have the words double, triple, etc., been totally lost?
4. Using 24/7 rather than “24 hours, 7 days a week” or even just plain “all day, every day.”
5. The one I can’t stand is “deplane,” meaning to disembark an aircraft, used in the phrase “you will be able to deplane momentarily.”
6. “Touch base”—it makes me cringe no end.
7. Is “physicality” a real word?
8. Transportation. What’s wrong with transport?
9. Does nobody celebrate a birthday any more, must we all “turn” 12 or 21 or 40?
10. What kind of word is “gotten”? It makes me shudder.
11. “I’m good” for “I’m well.” That’ll do for a start.
12. “Bangs” for a fringe of the hair.
13. Takeout rather than takeaway!
14. “A half hour” instead of “half an hour.”
15. A “heads up.” For example, as in a business meeting—Let’s do a “heads up” on this issue. I have never been sure of the meaning.
16. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it”—horrid!
17. People that say “my bad” after a mistake. I don’t know how anything could be as annoying or lazy as that.
18. “Normalcy” instead of “normality” really irritates me.
19. Eaterie. To use a prevalent phrase, oh my gaad!
20. I’m a Brit living in New York. The one that always gets me is the American need to use the word bi-weekly when fortnightly would suffice just fine.
21. I hate “alternate” for “alternative.” I don’t like this as they are two distinct words, both have distinct meanings and it’s useful to have both. Using “alternate” for “alternative” deprives us of a word.
22. “Hike” a price. Does that mean people who do that are hikers? No, hikers are ramblers!
23. Going forward? If I do I shall collide with my keyboard.
24. The most annoying Americanism is “a million and a half” when it is clearly one and a half million! A million and a half is 1,000,000.5, where one and a half million is 1,500,000.
25. “Reach out to” when the correct word is “ask.” For example: “I will reach out to Kevin and let you know if that timing is convenient.” Reach out? Is Kevin stuck in quicksand? Is he teetering on the edge of a cliff? Can’t we just ask him?
26. I hate the fact I now have to order a “regular Americano.” What ever happened to a medium-sized coffee?
27. My worst horror is expiration, as in “expiration date.” Whatever happened to expiry?
28. I am increasingly hearing the phrase “that’ll learn you”—when the English (and more correct) version was always “that’ll teach you.” What a ridiculous phrase!
29. I really hate the phrase “Where’s it at?” This is not more efficient or informative than “Where is it?” It just sounds grotesque and is immensely irritating.
30. My pet hate is “winningest,” used in the context “Michael Schumacher is the winningest driver of all time.” I can feel the rage rising even using it here.
31. My brother now uses the term “season” for a TV series. Hideous.
32. Having an “issue” instead of a “problem.”
33. I hear more and more people pronouncing the letter Z as “zee.” Not happy about it!
34. To “medal” instead of to win a medal. Sets my teeth on edge with a vengeance.
35. “I got it for free” is a pet hate. You got it “free” not “for free.” You don’t get something cheap and say you got it “for cheap” do you?
36. “Turn that off already.” Oh dear.
37. “I could care less” instead of “I couldn’t care less” has to be the worst. Opposite meaning of what they’re trying to say.
38. Dare I even mention the fanny pack?
The Americanized version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone refers to “English muffins” instead of “crumpets.” It has come to this.

Sadly, some do actually speak like that. It is exaggerated.

Gonna go watch some footy on the telly.

Reach out feels like they are offering a hand job.

I could care less is completely wrong and stupid.

Are you aving a laugh, mate

Lol, I'm sure you guys have a million and a half examples of slang/idioms that technically make no sense either.

Why say "are you having a laugh?" when surely "are you laughing?" is proper?
Are you taking the piss? Where to even begin with this one?
And try pronouncing your R's for once ya wanka.

Are you having a laugh means are you taking the p1ss. Nothing to do with laughing.

It’s actually slang rather than commonly used.

I was sat

I had an Aussie roommate actually refer to "Zed Zed Top" once.

That’s not common. Uneducated chavs abuse The Queen’s (mine and yours 🤯) English.

Yeah, my point was that it might not make much sense to an outsider when taken at face value. But it's so common to you that you don't think twice about it. Just like half of the bloke's list from above.

For example, below is the first time I heard the phrase. I thought Karl was literally asking his producer if he was laughing.




I'll reach out later so we can touch base on this.

the point is that we invented it, so we get to play with it as we want