English phrase intepretation

[joycem10]

Found the phrase "100% Brummie" in the following article and had no idea what it means, anyone clue me in? Why is it noteworthy enought o merit a line in the story?

The story is about an "orgy" on a ship off Cyprus featuring some Britons.

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,7445,1246094,00.html

 

[privatehudson]

A Brummie is a person from Birmingham, a city in the midlands.

A Geordie is from Newcastle, a Scouser is from Liverpool, a Cockney is from London (though usually east london) and there's probably a few others I missed

 

[col]

Brummie is slang for "from Birmingham" in the midlands , UK.

 

[insurgent]

A Geordie is from Newcastle, a Scouser is from Liverpool, a Cockney is from London (though usually east london) and there's probably a few others I missed

And you conquered an empire, how...?

 

[joycem10]

Are these slang/derogatory terms? Is this the Birmingham equivalent of a "100% white trash" T-Shirt?

 

[col]

Slightly. Brummie's are regarded as somewhat stupid. Accent is hard to understand.

 

[Abulafia]

Slightly. Brummie's are regarded as somewhat stupid. Accent is hard to understand.

Nay! Impossible!

It's hardly derogatory because Brummies call themselves Brummies in the same way Scousers say they're Scouse, and Geordies (from what I can make out ) say they are Geordie. It's more affectionate/jokey than derogatory; not like other English nicknames for other countries: Kraut, Frog, Taff, Jock, or Paddy.

Then again, it's as you see it. Black rappers call themselves '******'.

 

[privatehudson]

And you conquered an empire, how...?

Easy, before package holidays, the cheapest way for the common British person to see the world was to batter some native tribe into submission and stick a flag on his country Why fight wars here when we can fight them in countries with better weather?

 

[col]

Yes - but scousers are regarded as criminals and geordies as drunken wifebeaters - and scots as mean. Its just those stereotypes that authors use as a kind of shorthand.

 

[Abulafia]

Yes - but scousers are regarded as criminals and geordies as drunken wifebeaters - and scots as mean. Its just those stereotypes that authors use as a kind of shorthand.

Once you get to Scotland, the division gets broken up again so that Aberdonians are the mean ones. In Glasgow, we're the alcoholics.

 

[Suppersalmon]

a Cockney is from London(though usually east london)

no your only a cockney if were you are born you can hear the Bow Bells in London

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

And you conquered an empire, how...?

At the time most of the ennemies were armed with sharpened mangoes...at best.

 

[BassDude726]

Gimme an aristotle of the most ping-pong tiddley in the nuclear submarine!

 

[Iggy]

Some Yorkshire phrases:

A more jammy so and so ah nivver met - that person is inordinately lucky
A reet ding dong - a big argument
As 'appy as a pig in’t’trough - sublimely happy
Ee’d eat t’oven if t’were buttered - he seems hungry
Ee’s a face like a busted clog - he’s not awfully attractive
If is brains were dynamite they wouldn’t blow is cap off - he’s not very clever
Am a bit shoretat mo - It’s your round
It’s breetnin up - the weather is improving
Od thi osses! - wait a minute!
Pop thi clogs - to die
Put wood I’t’oil - please shut the door
Shoo’s an awfu bletherskite - she’s a gossip
Stop bezzlin, brussen guts - stop eating, greedy
Thas as edgy as a crocodile in an andbag factory - you seem rather nervy
Thas getten reyt bogbellied - you have put on weight
Thi mam wants thi booits for loaf tins - you have big feet
Tha can't swing a cat in a ginnell - you can’t do the impossible
Wha arta bletherin abaht? - what on earth are you talking about
Nah then! (The meaning is dependent on intonation. Only use when at an advanced stage of understanding the dialect) - Hello / How are you? / Fine thanks, and how are you / What’s up? / You look nice dear / Is dinner ready?

 

[BassDude726]

My favorite Bostonian phrase: Go s**t in your hat. Meaning: Please remove yourself from my presence.

Others: Wicked pisser - extraordinary
She's a double-bagger - I would need to place two paper bags over her head before I would consider having intercourse with her.
Butterface - A woman with a great body but a hideous face. (Oh, but her face!)
Fugly - F'-in ugly
Wicked - very

 

[phil87]

Smoggies is sometimes used in the North East for people from Boro since theres so much industry its difficult to breathe and ur clothes disintergrate the further into the centre you go....unless they get nicked first

 

[privatehudson]

no your only a cockney if were you are born you can hear the Bow Bells in London

Whatever, I don't care as I'm from the north

 

[phil87]

do they not have double glazing in London maternity wards?

 

[BassDude726]

Why do the English use "muppet" to describe a moron? I thought the Muppets were quite clever!

 

[cgannon64]

Butterface - A woman with a great body but a hideous face. (Oh, but her face!)
Fugly - F'-in ugly

Bah, we all know those

Btw, those Yorkshire phrases are the stupidest things I have ever heard. "A more jammy so and so I've never met"? How the hell do you get from that to "very lucky"?