You ever travel far in a cab? - Here to Aberdeen Airport is 32 miles & £50 so London to bristol @ £180 don't sound so high that its in idiotic territory. At end of March I had to get a taxi home only 25 miles maybe less and that was £45! But whilst she sounds idiotic her willingness to pay that amount isn't idiotic?
It doesn't make sense, it's just become a habit of the lower classes (read: Argos-chique, chavs/chavettes, people named Shannelle, etc) to use it at the end of sentences, much like "you know (wha'I'msayin')".
Indeed. You're the first one to mention the Futurama reference. Thanks for answering me(Both of you/All). I could almost understand what they were saying, but I didn't quite get it. We have people like that over here too, and it annoys me when they go in for an interview or are talking to teachers/superiors with slang. It shows no respect to who you are talking too, and it makes you seem less intelligent. I don't mind if they are talking to a friend sometimes.
I hate the little ****ers as much as the next person, but why the hell are you getting uppity about them stealing a way of speaking? If they want to speak like that they can do so (just not near me) as much as they want. Coloured people - as you put it (although I'm pretty sure it's just the black gangstas your talking about) - probably got their accents and little quirks in their dialect from somewhere else you know. Just like I have a slight twang of Dorset in my otherwise quite Yorkshire accent. I find myself Yorkshirefying all kinds of words, but if someone wanted to copy me I'm not going to get all huffy over it. Also, there are a hell of a lot more chavs around where I live than there are gangstas so from my point of view, the gangstas stole the chav's way of speaking. In short: Dant git affended awn behaf of uva' peopol ya fakin' tit 'ead
"All I want is your cheapest cab, isn't that easy enough to understand" initt=isn't that easy enough to understand ?
That's not true, stricktly speaking, Cockney Rhyming Slang is characterised by, suprisingly enough, Cockneys, which has a precise definition as someone who was born within a certain radius of a particular church in London city (sorry, I can't remember the radius or the church) Last time I knew, London was in the south, not the north </rant> I know way too many people that talk like that, annoys me to no end! "innit", to me, is not quite as excruciatingly annoying as people dropping their "t"s resulting in "water" becoming "wor err", "shut up" becomes "shaa aap" or "little" becomes "lih ull" - makes me cringe every time!
St Mary-le-Bow, it's within the sound of Bow Bells innit Seriously, are there really people in the UK who think people don't really talk like this?? It isn't a new thing, back when I was at college (pre-chav, well before the word not the type) it was mainly the Asian girls who used it, but it was every other word. We even developed a drinking game around it. It always reminded me of my Dad's old Welsh mates who say "isn't it?" at the end of every sentence.
Nah, I got the location. Your brain thing, eh? Yep, Futurama fan nerd. Drinking games are fun. Except for the Sleepy Hollow drinking game, which was weirdly depressing, yet hilarious at the same time. I might have to explain it. To do: make a drinking game thread....
