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[–] 207 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

Translation:

It is hard to explain my friend.

It is as if one day you'll be with your friends, browsing in JD Sports (sports shop) and you fancy a curry from the "curry club" menu at Wetherspoons (a nationwide chain of drinking establishments that serve "pub" style food).

However your friend who is male, called Callum, who is also an absolute legend and the epitome of banter (friendly and humerous conversation of a non-serious manner) will say "Brethren (an old fashioned way of referring to a friend you consider a brother) let's have a naughty Nandos (a chain restaurant that specialises in Peri Peri style chicken) instead"

Consequently you will think "Most excellent, let's go there and excel at the process of ordering and eating food"

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  • [–] [S] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I need you to do the subtitles when I watch British shows.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hit me up fam, I'll do you a solid.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Unsolicited peer review time...

    browsing in JD Sports (sports shop)

    *trainer shop, let's be realistic

    from the "curry club" menu

    The Thursday specials, to be specific.

    called Callum

    *Calum

    Brethren (an old fashioned way of referring to a friend you consider a brother)

    This comes from Jamaican Patois, it's not just a memetic imitation of Early Modern English.

    No further notes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok, now you're just writing random strings of letters...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mandem's basically in American English as well, we just say it a little different. It's a shortening of man and them, as in your boys. As Vince Staples says "know a change gone come like Obama 'n them say, but they're shooting every day round my mama 'n them way".

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You've translated but original question of what a cheeky Nandos is remains. So cheeky translates to naughty? And naughty is a type of Nandos food? Is there non-naughty Nandos? Or are they eating it in a naughty way? Or is Nandos somehow naughtier than curry from Wetherspoons?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My apologies no it isn't a type of food there, it is naughty in the terms of being indulgent or impulsive and is more of a turn of phrase that is often used in "lad culture" over here, which is sort of like a parallel to a "frat bro" in US culture. Think obnoxious, loud sometimes aggressive groups of guys.

    Cheeky in this sense was in the past more often used in terms of alcoholic beverages so often people would use it to say things like "Do you fancy getting a cheeky pint after work". More modern usage it is often used to refer to food as well as drink and in the case of "cheeky nandos" will quite often be used by aforementioned "lads" when they have already had a few drinks and want to go and indulge in some chicken before going out and getting shit faced for the night.

    Tldr: It is a turn of phrase used to mean indulging in an impulsive meal from the restaurant chain "Nandos"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Oh, so it's like kebab, something solid to fill you fast so you can get properly shitfaced.

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    Nando's is a South African multinational fast casual restaurant chain that specialises in Portuguese flame-grilled, peri-peri style chicken. The name is derived from a nickname for the male given name Fernando in reference to one of the company's founders, as in Fernando's restaurant. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think the big point of confusion is why it's cheeky to go to this restaurant.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The drunks want chicken. S'not Italian.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I feel like it’s one of those things where as a native speaker you really should be able to understand it but if you’re ESL it’s fucking nightmare zone of slang and strong accents.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I'm calling foul. There's no way an absolute ledge would call it "the Spoons". It's just "Spoons".

    Not that I'd drink there, mind. Fucking Brexit arms.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Are you a southerner by any chance? Do you call it a bap, a roll? I've heard it called 'the spoons' when I was in Manchester (I'm French though, sorry about it. Proof: 'squiwwel')

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's a roll, mate. Baps are tits, WAHEY!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    ... but there's only one spoons in their locality

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    There’s only one Spoons near me. It’s called Spoons.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    and what if there were two, but only one good one. What would that be called?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As @silasmariner@programming.dev has already noted, there's no such thing as a "good Spoons". They're all McDonald's for beer.

    But if you need to differentiate between two, you'd use their location.

    That is: "Meet at Spoons by the station for a pre-town sesh, yeah?"

    Or: "We were in Spoons next to Nandos. We'd had some cheeky piri piri and Damo went and shat himself when he necked a Stella! Absolute scenes, mate. Pure bants."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The good spoons.

    It's a purely hypothetical question though. Spoons are all trash

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Never thought I'd see the day that Australian English sticks closer to proper English than British English

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    mate 'struth eh? One arvo your pissing around with your mates at JB browsing heaps and you might fancy a durry and flat white from HJs but ol' mate Dazza who's a shitcunt and the PM of piss-takes will be like 'bruz let's have a cheeky nandos" and you'll reckon "Mad. Let's fang it"

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    sketti and meatballs

    Neither do the yanks!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
    1. That's redneck speak, not Yankee speak. Yanks say things like "fuggetabout it", and "Hey! I'm wolkin' 'ere!"
    2. Rednecks are mostly confined to the South-Eastern part of the country. Yanks are in the Northeast. Most Americans are neither Yanks nor Rednecks.
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep. We're 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is "finnabouttabe."

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "archbishop of banterbury" really got me. Top shelf.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is a quote from a horror story. I'm annoyed that I can't seem to find it with a search, or remember the title or author. It's a good story. It goes on like this, iterating through more and more awful Nandos-based scenarios without ever losing the Chav speech patterns.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    why is his mate an arch bishop?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I just sent this to a couple of British friends of mine to translate

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm British, let me do you the honour:

    "Gesib, hit is earfoð þæt to secgenne. Hƿilum þū eart mid þīnum ƿinuman ƿandigende beforan JD’s ceapstōre, and þū miht ƿilnian þæs cires-clybbe æt þǣm Spōnum, ac þīn gefera Calum – þæt is ānhoga and hlāford beþēahte drycra – þæt ealdor of Banterbury, ƿill secgan: 'Brōðras, ƿuton gān to þǣm scēadan Nando’s.' And þū ƿilt secgan: 'Þæt is tōp! ƿuton hit tōsmiþian!'"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Genuine question, is this hard to understand as an American? I'm a non native English speaker who's met British people before and there's, like, 2 references in there I didn't catch, but otherwise, you can figure, no?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I had trouble with the references to JD, 'Spoons, and Nandos because I'm not familiar with UK retail and restaurant chains.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, the context tells you that the latter two are places where you can get food, that's about all that's relevant

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Curry isn't ubiquitous stateside. It would not be difficult to find an American who doesn't understand "curry" is food.

    Without that reference, those latter two places could be pretty much anything.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Isn’t it just eating at nandos? Like that was the least confusing part of this whole conversation to me

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  • I had some colleagues from UK, who talked like that from time to time between themselves. God knows how many cheeky beers we had.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don’t know why people bang on about Nando’s, it’s not even that good.

    I understood all of this but it was still quite hard to read because lots of people talk like this but nobody writes that way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    The last time I was at a Nando's I thought to try my hand at mild flirting, it somehow worked and the lady seemed interested, however before I could get her number I started getting extreme abdominal cramps and spent half the visit on the toilet... Praying to every god I could think of.

    She said she'd like to see me again. I never went back. It's just not worth it... Good chicken though.

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    Thank you, Laszlo.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    And all this time I thought it was that one kick Will Osprey does.

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