mattk: Love the biography in your profile . Do you have a big black van with a red stripe down the side . 
Cheers, yojimbo. I’m afraid I had to ditch the van, it was getting a bit easy for the Military Police to spot me.
Whew! Maybe one of y’all can help me on a Cockney Wanker strip I was reading in Viz. Cockney’s buddy was at the pub, and ordered some crisps (potato chips, iirc). He asked for ‘birds and bees and veruca and bunion’. I’m thinking veruca+bunion = “onion”, though it could be ‘salt’ (like veruca salt). What’s ‘birds and bees’ then? Could it be ‘sea’ making ‘sea salt’?
Viz is my brit-slang paradise, with “turtle’s heads” and a pint of ‘pineapple fritter’ (bitter beer), Smarties, the lot.
Long live Sid the Sexist and the Fat Slags!
-sb
“Rah, rah, rah, we’re going to squash the Oiks!”
Birds & bees = cheese, I’d guess.
He’s asking for Cheese & Onion crisps.
Neither of these crisp terms are genuine slang they are just illustrations of the daft flavours that are sometimes available.It is also a piss-take of Cocknney Rhyming slang.
More interesting is the Cockney Wankers.
There is a resentment of London around our country because government policy seems to be very London-centric and what might be good for London such as high interest rates to keep house price inflation under control is regarded by many as very damaging to the rest of the country, especially if that involves the seemingly unfashionable manufacturing sector.
Londoners appear to think that the world rotates about them and Cockneys are taken to exemplify this.
So Cockneys are regarded as spouting loads of bullshit and are self centred and arrogant.
This is nothing like the truth but like all stereotypes it appeals to the ignorant.
Viz is a parody of ignorance.
I bet you have some area in the US that seems narcissistic and self-absorbed too .
In relation to Viz, i just wanted to stick my oar in for the Fat Slags - always remember the one where they ‘pulled’ Prince Charles.
Re Slang: A new one (to me) seems to be doing the rounds sarf of the river… male masterbation = ‘knocking one out’, wondered if it’s more widespread - the phrase, that is. Also, ‘spuds’ for breasts seems popular among the kids but not as well used as ‘top bollocks’ was for the same accessories.
And on that quality note…
http://www.londonslang.com No real relavance to the OP, but (IMHO) a good dictionary. Keep in mind I am not European nor have ever been there. I do wish the dictionary was cross referenced though.
L.A. But the folks there are to narcissistic and self-absorbed to notice.
I can’t possibly see a thread on regional slang pass by without offering some Scottish (mainly Glaswegian) examples.
country pancake - a kid’s term for a cow’s dropping
boke - to vomit
bendy juice - a slang term for an alcoholic drink, derived from it’s effect on parts of the body, notably the legs.
wee goldie - a familiar name for a glass of whisky
walloper - a slang term for the penis
toley - a local word for the product of a bowel movement
spinbin - a slang term for a psychiatric hospital
randan - someone who is on the randan is on a spree of wild behaviour, usually involving debauchery or drunkenness
All courtesy of “The Patter” By Michael Munro
Ahh…the American equivalent of “pulling one off”, or “rubbing one out”. I’m actually pretty sure this was an adaptation of British vernacular in America.
Sorry for the Hijack to American slang…
Going back to the OP, top one nice get sorted is a reference to having a good time at a rave and taking Ecstasy. The whole rave thing glorified this to the extreme where a group called The Shamen did a song in which the lyrics to the chorus were “He’s a good he’s a good, he’s ebeneezer good” When sung this sounds like E’s are good. It’s all about the Peace , Love and Brotherhood culture of old school raves and the like, it’s a bit like Communism in that it doesn’t work!!!
Sorry for the boring bit here is some more Brit slang for you. There will probably be 100 different meanings to these dependant on where you are from in the UK.
Laters = see you later
Wicked = Excellent
Safe = Excellent, nice one
Birds = Women
Doing Bird = Doing time in prison
That’s sound = Thats really good
Doing it Large = Going all out in the search for a good time