The language of straight boys

Being Irish i thought it was only the wannabe gangstas that spoke like that, didn't realise it was so commonplace! It would really get on my nerves having to listen to that in clubs and stuff. Although we've got some awful slang over here too..

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Gario** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:08 pm

rawandpeace wrote:One of things I used to hear at uni a lot was "izzit". It didn't even make any sense! This guy on my course used to say it all the time. One day I said to him that I went to the cinema the night before and his response was "izziit". WTF

They don't even realise they're saying it. It's like when a normal person goes "Mmm" to indicate they're listening.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **jamcc** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:08 pm

Gario wrote:Nah, chavs isn't the best term because these people were mostly well spoken and Uni students.

Well then they're most likely using it in a jokey way. My friends and I sometimes use chav speak for a laugh. eg "breda".

I normally just use "cool" though. Nice and simple. Or "Coolio", to take a piss a little.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Gario** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:08 pm

Phatman wrote:
Gario wrote:Nah, chavs isn't the best term because these people were mostly well spoken and Uni students.

Uni students who pay £3.50 a pint? Leeds centre is very expensive generally mind, couldn't find a pint under £3.

I have a problem with people who use the term 'sick', as in 'that's sick mate' and I don't know why.

Try £3.50 a bottle (330ml or less).

Gario wrote:
Phatman wrote:
Gario wrote:Nah, chavs isn't the best term because these people were mostly well spoken and Uni students.

Uni students who pay £3.50 a pint? Leeds centre is very expensive generally mind, couldn't find a pint under £3.

I have a problem with people who use the term 'sick', as in 'that's sick mate' and I don't know why.

Try £3.50 a bottle (330ml or less).

*dies*

Phatman wrote:
Gario wrote:
Phatman wrote:
Gario wrote:Nah, chavs isn't the best term because these people were mostly well spoken and Uni students.

Uni students who pay £3.50 a pint? Leeds centre is very expensive generally mind, couldn't find a pint under £3.

I have a problem with people who use the term 'sick', as in 'that's sick mate' and I don't know why.

Try £3.50 a bottle (330ml or less).

*dies*

This.

Sarge · PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Sarge** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:11 pm

puppetBoy wrote:
Sarge wrote:'Safe' doesn't really bother me, what does irritate me is when people say...'safe, blood', 'I'm gonna bus' him up when I catch 'im/see 'im'

Is 'I'm gonna bus' him up' supposed to be used as a threatening term?! My favourite threat is 'I'm gonna spark you out, boy'. Rubbish.

Also, has anyone else encountered anyone who refers to money as 'bar'? As in 'My jacket cost 50 bar'? I've only ever heard this in Cheltenham.

Aye. What makes it so funny is that the people who say it usually have their jeans/jogging bottoms/whatever it is they are wearing down to just under their arse so their boxers are on display. :lol:

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Gario** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:13 pm

Sarge wrote:
puppetBoy wrote:
Sarge wrote:'Safe' doesn't really bother me, what does irritate me is when people say...'safe, blood', 'I'm gonna bus' him up when I catch 'im/see 'im'

Is 'I'm gonna bus' him up' supposed to be used as a threatening term?! My favourite threat is 'I'm gonna spark you out, boy'. Rubbish.

Also, has anyone else encountered anyone who refers to money as 'bar'? As in 'My jacket cost 50 bar'? I've only ever heard this in Cheltenham.

Aye. What makes it so funny is that the people who say it usually have their jeans/jogging bottoms/whatever it is they are wearing down to just under their **** so their boxers are on display.

Yes! The guy who was "Safe"ing the most last night had his bottom on display. Bizarre.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Barley** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:14 pm

'Merked' seems to have slipped in my vocabularly recently. I'm not sure if it's ironic or not. :oops:

I hate it when people use "bruv"

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **rinks** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:37 pm

Programmes like Big Brother are partly/largely to blame. You get some jumped-up little tosspot on there using a peculiar phrase, and suddenly every moron sheep in the country starts saying it.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Vermin** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:15 pm

Gario wrote:Nah, chavs isn't the best term because these people were mostly well spoken and Uni students.

Pretentious little gimps.

They'll be saying, 'that's well Mexico' next.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Octoroc** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:28 pm

Insert 10p to continue wrote:I regularly used the word gay in front of my gay friend last night, like saying this is gay and general stuff like that.

Is it the same as saying the N word infront of black people?

Genuine question because I wasn't sure of if I had made a social faux pas.

Well if you say something is "gay" because its not very good i.e. "Oh sh!t, we've missed Match Of The Day- that's gay", then clearly that implies that the state of being gay is inferior to the state of not being gay. That's not nice although arguably the word "gay" already has another meaning in a different context so why not another one?

Better to play it safe and say "ghey".

With regard to "safe" and/or "sound", I'm a hopeless Sixties throwback so I say things like "far out", "groovy" and "too much" with "man" as an optional suffix, however, if I was paying 3.50 for a pint I think "too much" would be highly appropriate.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Banjo** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:33 pm

I have a habit of saying splendid or marvellous. No idea why, they're just the first words to pop into my head.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Vermin** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:34 pm

Marvellous is a great word. Nothing wrong with that.

Perhaps its just that I'm getting old but 99% of the time when ordering a beer I say "Can I have a whatever please" as thats the only way I know how to order a pint. I'd rather cut my own ears off than ask how much a beer costs before I buy it to be honest as if its a rip-off I will leave after one pint and find another pub.

Has normal polite English become a foreign language all of a sudden?

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Banjo** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:44 pm

Not at all, it's just buried under slang and gibberish.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Barley** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:44 pm

Octoroc wrote: "man"

I use this daily, sometimes even referring to female friends. It's an "ace" word.

Barley wrote:
Octoroc wrote: "man"

I use this daily, sometimes even referring to female friends. It's an "ace" word.

You're an ace word.

PostRe: The language of straight boys by **Octoroc** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:46 pm

Barley wrote:
Octoroc wrote: "man"

It's an "ace" word.

Man, that's so ghey.

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