Comments on: Win Tix to The Streets at Club Nokia Oct. 15

By: Gregg Fuller

Gregg Fuller — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:07:08 +0000

Minger! I’ve dated some right mingers in my day. Glad I have a tasty bird now

By: Johann

Johann — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:13:23 +0000

Easy Geezer, would be pucker if I could get to this gig ya get me, true say a couple of my bredrins now ex mates acted like cheifs and skanked me. Plebs. *goes to toke a fag*
anyways would be blinding if you lit could send me I ain’t been back home in yonks and don’t really get to shows out here yasimi…

Equals

hi there it would be awesome if I could get to this show, a couple of mates were going to go with me but let me down… Shitheads. Smoke a cig.
Now that I have calmed down it would be great because since moving to la I’ve hardly been to any shows.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:10:53 +0000

I fancy calling sneakers “trainors” because it makes me sound more athletic…you know, like David Beckham. He’s pretty cool. So if I’m like him, then maybe I’m cool too?

By: erin h

erin h — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:29:28 +0000

I don’t know a lot of the Brit slang.. but when I was in London for the weekend I did learn what it was to be “mullered!”

see also: rat-arsed, tanked, off your face, juiced up, arse-over-tit, snockered, slogged, faced. … well, drunk. :)

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:25:16 +0000

Flower, I also like the variation “Robert’s your father’s brother.” That’s in a Guy Ritchie movie, either “Lock, Stock …” or “Snatch.” Speaking of which, those give a great education on cockney rhyming slang, and one of them has a whole glossary on the dvd special features. And it’s why Toshio’s “cream-crackered” means “tired,” because it’s c.r.s. for Burns’ “knackered.” Get it? Meanwhile, gotta go, I hear the dog and bone, and I think it’s my trouble and strife telling me I’m in a bit of Barney (Rubble). (Translation: “I hear the phone, and I think it’s my wife telling me I’m in a bit of trouble.”) Not really.

By: Burns!

Burns! — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:14:09 +0000

Though I can’t go to the show on the 15th, I thought I would add that I’m also a fan of “Bob’s your uncle.” My other favorite is “knackered,” meaning tired, worn-out, beat, lacking in energy due to physical exertion.

By: flowerofhighrank

flowerofhighrank — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:18:15 +0000

I used to hire Brits as teachers for my schools in S.E. Asia, and I still can’t stop saying ‘Bob’s your uncle”. To me, it just sums up the situation: you do this and this and this and you can’t miss…because a highly-placed Army official named Bob is, indeed, your uncle.
Now, I teach Mexican and Asian-American kids near East L.A. and I have to explain the whole thing every year. I hear that some still use the expression after graduation. That makes me very happy.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:20:34 +0000

This may be more Scottish than British, but I’ll give it a try:
I’m a chocolate teapot after I got an ASBO and ended up skint.

I’m useless after I received a civil order for doing something ‘anti-social’ (like graffiti, harassment, vandalism, or just being inappropriately loud)….and now I have no money.

By: Rickety

Rickety — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:08:45 +0000

Blimey! I twilight crap da Streets. I gok wan’t afford ter actually buy da tickets, but tony blair is a Twist (and twirl) I wish ter take.

Could you see i’ in your big jam tart ter give a pair ter me dis time? Thanks. Nuff said, yeah?

TRANSLATION:

I love the Streets. I can’t afford to actually buy the tickets, but there is a girl I wish to take.

Could you see it in your heart to give a pair to me this time? Thanks.

By: toshio_m

toshio_m — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:54:42 +0000

You’d never guess “Cream-crackered” means “tired”