11.23.2005

A drop of Brit for a very American holiday


Sod it all, peeps, and get pissed. Enjoy the holidays.

Handy British phrases to learn over the holidays

"He couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" (1)
"It's a f***ing bear garden here" (2)
"Use your loaf" (3)
"Innit" (4)
"She is swanning around, as usual" (5)
"[Insert actor's/actress's name] couldn't act his/her way out of a paperbag" (6)
"Bloody hell" (7)
"That is one dodgy pudding" (8)
"Barmy old codger" (9)

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Translation notes:
(1) "He is a bloody incompetent git*"
*Contemptible person
(2) "It's such a mess, we'd have to call in the Marines"
(3) "Use your head" (loaf of bread - rhymes with head - Cockney slang)
(4) "Isn't it" as per an Eastender**
** Someone from the East of London
(5) "She is wandering about, not doing much, as usual"
(6) "He/She couldn't act to save his/her life, his/her mother's or his/her father's"
(7) "Holy cannoli"
(8) "That is one strange, weird pudding***"
***Dessert, unless it is used in connection with Yorkshire pudding or black pudding
(9) "Crazy old fogey****"
****Old fashioned, strange man

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