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Essex girls have a reputation.
As do Essex men.
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The 'taking' thing isn't common parlance nowadays. It would mean, 'This took him ....' or 'This put him in such a state that ... ' or, 'He was so completely taken by this that ....'
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Essex girls have a reputation.
As do Essex men.
hey thats an unfair sweeping statement about my county and my countrymen.!! I havent had casual unprotected sex with a rude woman for at least 2 days!!
The Earl of Poncey will summon an army and lay siege to your castle for that insult McCrum - once we have ransacked the keep, we will pint glass the men and bonk the women up against a wall in an alley behind the castle. 
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A girl has kid at 15 who has a kid at 15 - oh i get it. Thats funny.
Tbh, it is sadly far too common an occurance among disaffected teenage girls who think getting pregnant is the solution to happiness. Not restricted to essex, either.
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Gentlemen, I merely added the Essex men bit for David's benefit.
Norfolk .... inbreeding jokes.
Wales .... bestiality jokes.
Ireland .... strange ways of doing it jokes.
Essex .... drunken promiscu jokes.
Scotland .... don't do it at all except in Glasgow jokes.
Send your bravest gnomes. Guardez Loo at the portcullis.
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Bah - we have catapults that can fling at your battlements 50 large handbags and porn shoes soaked in peppermint and camomile oil and set afire. More devastating than the fkn dragons in game of thrones.
Lets see how you like them apples, eh?
Your kilt-wearing guards wont cope with that brutal towie-power bombardment.
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Thanks, fellas. Now try this:
In a documentary, an 82 year old man named Bernard in South London is taking an interviewer on a tour of his home. They stop to see a collection of teddy bears that belonged to Bernard's late husband Ron.
At one of the bears, Bernard says, "This one Ron won in a lottery, so we called him 'Sweetie Pie'."
Sweetie Pie? What's the connection between a lottery and the name "Sweetie Pie"?
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You better phone him. Sounds like a nutjob.
Thats like saying "the kid was conceived on an island in Bali so we called him Grimy industrial power station. "
Sorry dib havent a clue what hes on about.
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Thank you, Bill, for giving it a spin.
Ooops. I mean, "Thank you, Your Lordship."
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Oh thats not necessary David of Berkeley, although I be the Earl of Poncey, we drop all that formality of addressing me as my Lordship. My Lord is perfectly acceptable.
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Essex girls have a reputation.
As do Essex men.
That's a scurrilous accusation - just because the best-selling product in the Basildon branch of Clinton Cards is the banner that says ”Happy 30th Birthday Gran!"
Re 'Essex Girls': some recent news ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37761668
Note the pompous, 'We never take things out of the Oxford English Dictionary, once they're in'. Now how arrogant and UNSCIENTIFIC is that? In other words, 'We could never, ever be even conceivably wrong!'
That's BARMY. Or 'balmy' as these eedjits would have it.
Non OED sed OCD. Shakespeare, Yeats, Eliot and Dylan write literature. The OED are mere buttock-clenchers ....
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In GOD'S OWN COUNTRY, which takes place in the north of England,
1) At the screening I saw, it started with the camera watching a sunrise, and the subtitles "(Wind blowing". They turned on the stupid subtitles for the deaf! I was wondering if I should complain to the management when after a few minutes of the characters talking, I realized why. Their accents were so strong, I could easily lose track of what they were saying.
Does that ever happen to you Brits, when watching a movie peopled with characters from another part of your country?
2) A calf is born dead. The farmer says "it were ass over tit." Does that mean it was a breach birth?
3) When asked if she'd tried a food that was prepared by someone, a woman replied, mildly, "Nowt, ta."
What does the "ta" mean? Is it a mild exclamation? Or a mild epithet? Or something else?
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Nov 20, 2017 - 12:07 AM
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Disco Stu
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I don't think it's the Clockwork Orange actress, although the vocal similarities are striking. They both use a slightly exaggerated form of clipped pronounciation formerly called, somewhat derogatorily, "BBC English". The vocalisation was a deferential response to a so-called upper class (even Royal) way of speaking, and every poor bloody actor or presenter was expected to talk like that until the 60s. Thank god for the likes of Michael Caine and Connery! Interesting that that vocal mannerism was being sent up for comedy purposes way back then.
Sadly, that ridiculous fashion has made something of a comeback in UK broadcasting since the arrival of the Etonian mob in Britain's parliament. I hear a lot more upper-class twit accents on the telly these days - mostly pundits and journalists who seemed to arrive, somewhat suspiciously, out of knowhere in the last 5 years.
Well it's a somewhat welcome break with the godawful insurgence of the "sincere and true" accents that were pushed everywhere in the second half 90s. All of a sudden a large contingency of the television population was Scottish or Liverpudlian, you know, the "real people".
D.S.
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Dp
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In GOD'S OWN COUNTRY, which takes place in the north of England,
1) At the screening I saw, it started with the camera watching a sunrise, and the subtitles "(Wind blowing". They turned on the stupid subtitles for the deaf! I was wondering if I should complain to the management when after a few minutes of the characters talking, I realized why. Their accents were so strong, I could easily lose track of what they were saying.
Does that ever happen to you Brits, when watching a movie peopled with characters from another part of your country?
2) A calf is born dead. The farmer says "it were ass over tit." Does that mean it was a breach birth?
3) When asked if she'd tried a food that was prepared by someone, a woman replied, mildly, "Nowt, ta."
What does the "ta" mean? Is it a mild exclamation? Or a mild epithet? Or something else?
do we struggle to comprehend what fast speaking glaswegians are saying?? Yes. And other northern areas.
Nowt ta, nowt is what northerners use for nothing, and ta is short for thanks just about everywhere. But its common. I put ta in texts more than saying it.
Ass over tit is flipping over. A fall. As in your ass is above your breasts. But im pretty certain without looking it up, that it was arse over tip to begin with. Like many phrases in england, people hear it and repeat what they hear but they miss hear. A classic is Dull as dishwater, which should be Dull as ditchwater. There are lots of similar phrases like that, and a lot of north - south and regional variations. They start as a mistake and evolve into actual.
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do we struggle to comprehend what fast speaking glaswegians are saying?? Yes. And other northern areas.
Nowt ta, nowt is what northerners use for nothing, and ta is short for thanks just about everywhere. But its common. I put ta in texts more than saying it.
Ass over tit is flipping over. A fall. As in your ass is above your breasts. But im pretty certain without looking it up, that it was arse over tip to begin with. Like many phrases in england, people hear it and repeat what they hear but they miss hear. A classic is Dull as dishwater, which should be Dull as ditchwater. There are lots of similar phrases like that, and a lot of north - south and regional variations. They start as a mistake and evolve into actual.
Many thanks, Poncy! 
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Now how about this:
One of the dwarves in the DISKWORLD books is Cheery Littlebottom. Her father is Happy Littlebottom. Both names invoke laughter generally among the Diskworld-ers, which I understand.
I don't understand why the grandfather "Beaky Littlebottom" is meant to be funny as well. What does "beaky" mean?
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