Well here's my twopennarth,. Speaking English is one thing, but try learning any British dialect which is a whole other kettle of fish. It might take donkey's to get anywhere near. But, if you knuckle under, and don't let the cat get your tongue, it's doable. Anyone who says not is all mouth and no trousers. It's probably better to learn with a friend so you have someone to chew the fat about it with, but if you're under the weather, probably best to give it a miss until you're feeling tip top again otherwise it would be bloody hard - if you'll pardon my French. If you study regularly, it shouldn't go pear shaped and you might even find it a piece of cake if you're lucky. I've known folk try to learn my dialect and it's mostly been a bit of a damp squib, despite the expectation and fanfare. Do it in my neck of the woods and get it wrong, you're going to get some stick, or could even be sent to Coventry. To be fair I'd not touch trying to learn some accents with a barge pole, they're thick as thieves in some places and if you kick one, they all limp. Hope that doesn't throw a spanner in the works for your plans but if you follow my advice... Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt.
That really made me chuckle. Given I am British no surprise I got 99% of it. As a southerner who has lived in the North for 20ish years some saying and phrases have both been funny and gotten me into trouble lol. One example is... I walked into work one day and my colleague said “could you give us a lift" I proceeded to go and get my coat and car keys and ask them where they wanted to go... turns out they meant could I help them as lots of jobs had come in at once.
This is great. I understood all of it but I must admit, I have never come across the expression "if you kick one, they all limp". Well, probably other, more literal, versions of it such as "if you knock one of us down we all fall".
Bob's your Uncle is different to a Piece of Cake, Piece of cake may be used to describe a task as easy, Whereas Bob's your Uncle would be used to indicate a task is complete when giving instructions. You do this then that and Bob's your Uncle.
I do agree, and I certainly wouldn't have explained it the same way in as in the video. But I would say if someone took 10 minutes explaining how to do one thing and then said 'Bob's your uncle' right at the end...I'd think they were taking the piss!
In the UK 'pissed' on its own is always 'drunk'. But we do use 'pissed off' to mean angry/mad. Chav- it doesn't really mean 'trouble maker'. It more generally refers to people deemed to be of lower class with tacky tastes in everything. 'Give me a tinkle on the blower'. Well- everyone in the uk would know what was meant- but I'm not sure anyone since the 1950's has actually used the phrase - unless they were deliberately trying to sound dated for effect. Your deductions were pretty good, by the way!
@@jBread28 I did a course on Romanies and gypsies when I was in college and I learned some Romany language. It was accepted that this is where the word 'chav' as a derogatory word came from - from those who looked down on Romanies and gypsies.
Wow! These are early days and the jury is out, but Tyler! It seems like new neural nets are forming in your brain! In this video you successfully recalled things you had learned in other British videos you reacted to, and made some accurate deductions. Keep up the good work! (No sarcasm intended.)
@Tyler Rumple is evolving. His mental growth has become exponential and is now unstoppable. What we are witnessing here is nothing less than the ascension of an American mind into new realms of consciousness. But this is just the beginning; he is nowhere near his final form!
UPDATE: Verdict after Tesla / Elon Musk's AI Day 2 - Tyler is still way ahead of the Optimus humanoid robot - his wry sense of humour alone puts Tyler light years ahead :)
British Prime Minister Robert Cecil employed his nephew Arthur Balfour as the Minister of Ireland. Balfour used to refer to the Prime Minister as ‘Uncle Bob.’
By the way Tyler, the word "rubbish" is _not_ slang; that's just the word that we use for it. There is no situation where the word rubbish would be considered too informal, inappropriate, or unacceptable to use. Oh, and one more tip: 'Watch Mojo' videos are almost always a complete pile of crap. They often make broad, inaccurate and misleading generalisations about topics that they never adequately explain, so you're not really going to learn much from them. In addition, they have a habit of illustrating their 'compilation lists' by showing minuscule 2-second clips that barely give you a moment to hear or see what they are trying to demonstrate (whether it's music, dialog, or anything else). Therefore the Watch Mojo channel is best avoided, if possible. There are much better alternatives.
totally agree, mojo's entries seem poorly researched, have next to no cross reference's suggesting everything they say needs no proof, the app seems to be little more than click bait, I and many of my friends ignore it like the plague.
@@ulyssesthirteen7031 He's awful. I guarantee the "locals" that he speaks of bloody hate him. I've lived in a small tourist city & we didn't mind the normal US tourist, however we really despised his type. "Oh look. We've assimilated. We're so AWESOME. Let's all have a pint." It's ludicrous & patronising.
Watch Mojo is so naff. The tacky junk that the channel puts out is even more low-effort than BuzzFeed. It's proper cringey! This particular video is actually one of their better ones (believe it or not). Also, Watch Mojo videos usually have an incredibly annoying "narrator" on them, instead of the bloke that they've used in this video.
I don't think these words are slang. Brahma and Liszt, Mutt and Jeff are slang terms as are cokney rhyming slang terms. Trump is a well known slang word for flatulence or fart.
I (British) use both 'Murphys Law' and 'Sods Law'. I always use 'Murphys Law' when talking to older relatives because 'sod' was considered a more taboo word a few generations back. It's also used as an alternative to 'f#*k off' ('sod off') or 'f#*k it' ('sod it').
There are small pill/bean shaped toys called jumping beans that and feeding a horse beans to produce more energy is where the term full of bean's comes from. Taking the biscuit means someone is taking advantage in an unreasonable way.
I think 'Taking the Biscuit' originates from partaking afternoon tea and taking the last cake or biscuit of the plate when handed round by the butler or footman. One shouldn't have had to as the plate should have been restocked by him. So considered bad form by both parties.
Yes. I thought that one wasn't explained well in the video. For example, if someone knocks your shoulder, you might at first think it was an accident. Then if they do it three or four times you could say 'well, now you're just taking the biscuit' as in, 'taking the liberty' or 'intentionally going too far with something'.
'The bee's knees' actually originated in America. It's part of an Ivy League university slang that was popular before WW1. 'The cat's whiskers' is another, but most are now forgotten. It dates from post-WW1 in Britain. Though 'The dog's bollocks' seems to be purely British, copying the original form.
The dog's bollocks actually comes from the business of movable type printing, and refers to the pair of symbols :- commonly used to mark the start of a list (why it was called the dog's bollocks should be obvious). Why it was seen to be so good is a mystery (unless it was simply that the item at the top of the list is usually the most important).
@@trevorgoddard2278 Yes, I'd heard that. I suspect a phrase coming from one usage became better known when it 'merged' with the 'bee's knees' usage that was also around.
I heard that' 'The dog's bollocks' was a corruption of the words 'Box deluxe' and 'Bog standard' came from 'Box standard' which were used on the side of Meccano sets to describe the quality.
In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle!
This is the usual explanation for the idiom. However, Salibury's (Gascoyne-Cecil) last administration ended in 1902 and Balfour's in 1905 but the idiom is not first attested until the mid 1930s - a very long time in the public consciousness. This is not to say that this explanation is not plausible, only that it is not so clear cut and there may be another, as yet unknown, explanation. BTW, none of Balfour's blood aunts or the wives of his blood uncles had any name, either first or middle, that could reasonably be construed as "Fanny".
@@simongleaden2864 you could also 'my aunt fanny' as is if you disagree strongly with someone ie someone makes controvertial statement and you might reply 'my aunt fanny it is!!'
If I remember rightly the expression Gorden Bennett comes from hundreds of years ago when people used to wee in pots behind screens indoors as no toilets. One chap called Gorden Bennett was at a dinner party ( not to sure if to meet soon to be in-laws) when he weed into the fireplace and the fire went out and someone said GORDON BENNETT in exasperation
I always thought chavs stood for council housed and violent 😂. It’s also often used to describe a thing or persons look as “chavy” even if they were not in social housing. Say you bought a nice car and added too RGB lights and zebra print steering wheel cover - it would look chavy. Or a person rocked up at a formal event in a tracksuit in large hoops and a Croydon facelift
Sod's Law can sound rude to some, so many people tend to use Murphy's Law instead. Butty was originally used more in the North while down south a sandwich was called a sarnie but now can be either.
The full phrase is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt", the second part is dropped these days as Fanny used as a diminutive for Frances has died out. I don't know that many girls called Frances these days, not too popular now. FYI Fanny is British slang for a Vagina. Out of the millions of words and phrases, both acceptable and unacceptable today, in The Oxford English Dictionary, the complete edition of many volumns, less than one percent are still in common parlence, many having multiple meanings, new words and phrases added annually.
I was told "Full of Beans" refers to Jumping beans which would describe it well, then there is also Ants in your Pants which is restlessness. Chav i was told comes from a Gypsy term Chavo/ Chavi for a Gypsy child, similar to the term Pikey which comes from people who hang around the turnpike (an old term for toll road) to rob people, in scotland they use the term Ned not educated delinquent . butty is also a canal barge (containing goods inside) which is towed behind another narrowboat unclear which came first. the Bees Knees is also the Dogs Bo**ocks which is the best thing for breeding pedigrees. Getting Pissed off is getting angry however. and having a chuftie is having a look. the full saying is "and bobs your uncle and fannys your aunt", though "my aunt Fanny" means thats nonsense. Fanny doesnt mean the same in the Uk as the US
My old Dad was a dab hand at making sugar buttys, well high in calories! It was also a term used on the canals - now forgotten but not to a canal aficionado, a butty is the narrowboat towed behind the for'ard narrowboat (which carries the load), the butty being accommodation for the master and his family.
I wouldn't say taking the biscuit means annoying, it's more a situation or action that had gone to far or is inappropriate. So for example of you found someone laugh annoying you wouldn't say that laugh takes the biscuit. But if someone was being loud on a train for example then started playing music on their phone you could say that takes the biscuit.
There was a craze for 'jumping beans' in the 50's & 60's. Whether there was/is such a thing as a jumping bean I have no idea - but it was supposed to jump up & down when taken out of its box/matchbox. Thus if you're full of energy you're 'full of (Mexican jumping) beans'. The 'bee's knees!' is said to have come from New York in the 19thC, when there was a influx of Italian immigrants; who were keen to get into business in the USA. There was an existing phrase for something that was very good: "It's the business" . However when Italian-speaking people said it is sounded like "Beez-neez" ...the bee's knees.
Original 'Jumping beans' are beans that have the larvae of some insect living inside them, and would appear to vibrate and even jump a little. The toy ones were plastic bean shapes with a heavy ball inside that would roll from end to end, causing the 'bean' to tumble end-over-end. A bit like a slinky going down the stairs, but much smaller scale.
"take the cake" or "take the biscuit" is really the same thing - from the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes; in its original sense to "take/win the prize". So it's be "the most extreme" manifestation of anything, either for better or worse.
🇨🇦Canadian here: I know/use most of these, probably from growing up watching tons of BBC content on Canadian TV in the 70-80s. We are a hybrid of both Britain and US, so we are familiar with both countries’ vocabulary of things, sayings and comedy.
Often when the expressions don’t seem to make a lot of sense, it’s because origins of the phrase have been lost or at least are a long time back. Sometimes it’s also because the expression is a clipped version of the original, like saying “if you could do ….”, where the full version would include something like “, that would be appreciated.” Sometimes you have slang, a good example is when you call someone a berk, berk being rhyming slang “Berkshire hunt”, as in the second word that instead begins with the letter c - something of a taboo word in the US.
In some regions in the mainly in the north "Chuff" can also mean someone who is being difficult or annoying . As in "David forgot to lock the door again, the chuff."
I grew up with most of these slang terms even though I live in Canada. My maternal grandfather was born in England and came to Canada when he was a teenager.
Bob’s your uncle refers to The Marquis of Salisbury who was Prime Minister in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His actual name was Robert Cecil ( a descendant of Elizabeth the First’s chief minister William Cecil). He had a nephew , Arthur Balfour, who took over as Prime Minister from him. Because this was seen as being a bit of a fix the phrase, “and Bob’s your Uncle” started to be used for times when a difficult task has a quick solution
Reminds of a funny situation. I had a friend from US living here in UK, one saturday we were on an all day session in the pub when he'd got a call from a relative back in US, he told them "can't talk I'm really pissed & going outside to smoke a fag" and hung up on them. Next day met him for brunch nursing a hangover when he told me that he'd had a bad night he'd had phone calls all through the night from his worried family in US thinking something really bad had happened. Because of the call the day before they thought he'd been really upset by a gay person and had gone after them to shoot them.
That's interesting, the word "spud" for potato has a similar root. It was the English making fun of the Irish accent when they said the word spade, the type of spade they used for digging potatoes out of the ground.
We say in the UK I’m pissed off for angry or your pissing me off means your really annoying me , or piss off means go away, it’s a pisser means not an ideal outcome ie I couldn’t go to that night out I had to work it’s a pisser. It’s pissing down, raining fast. There’s probably more I’ve forgotten 😂
Tinkle is the ringing of small bells, as on a telephone. Talking (blow) tubes had whistles like kettles. They could be connected with short cylinders to make trunk calls.
Us tea drinkers on occasion have biscuits (digestives, hobnobs, rich tea, custard creams, bourbons, etc.) to dunk in our tea. If sharing, it is considered quite rude to take the last biscuit, and possibly even ruder to take it if offered to you. Chuffed isn't the only word we have for passing wind... out of the many synonyms there is one that may be making a resurgence: trumped.
bits and bobs, originated from carpenters' tool kits containing parts for a drill, with bits used for making holes while bobs are routing or screwdriving drill attachments.
Full of beans was still a saying in the South when I was younger. And it was used both ways. Biscuits to Brits are cookies to Americans, so not so dissimilar. And usually 'that takes the cake' IS used in a derogatory way. At least it is where I'm from. No matter what area it's in, if something silly or stupid is outdone, it takes the cake. A sod (as used about people) is a total screw-up. Brits also say 'sodding', as in 'that sodding car is always breaking down'. Murphy's law is more about things going wrong outside a person's control, like the universe is perverse and determined to make sure that anything that can go wrong, will. Our equivalent of Chav is punk or thug or possibly trash.
I've got a feeling that the tinkle bit from "A tinkle on the blower" possibly comes from the early days of the telephone when calls went through a manual exchange (the lady with the headphones and a board with loads of leads plugged into ). When she alerted the person that she had connected to she would wind a handle which would make the phone tinkle at the recipients end and it's an historical hangover from the past. I'm getting on in years but I'm not that old to know first hand so I could be wrong. The blower is obviously from the speaking tubes on ships.
I saw Bob on the thumbnail and I started laughing. It's not necessarily funny but one of my friends has called all of her friends Bob at least once, it's not regular but she has done it multiple times before, the name Bob has become a meme of sorts I don't know why but I do know that the name Bob was a very popular name around 100 years or so ago I don't know the exact time, I could be way off
12:24 I always imagined it was just someone slanting the pronunciation of "business", as in "it's the business, man" as in "its the best in the business" or "its the best". "It's the beese-neese, man" and ultimately someone who didn't know that just heard "bees knees"
Tinkle on the blower is easy when you remember that early phones used to have a bell. Ringing bells are said to tinkle. We use the word rubbish like USA uses trash, but in the UK trash means of low quality, as in "He isn't a very good player, he's trash", or "These cheap headphones don't work, they're trash". If we called something a trash-can we would mean it is very poor at doing what it is meant for. Full of beans is attributed to a practice of feeding beans to horses as fodder. Supposedly, horses that were fed beans were more energetic and lively. Bobs your uncle - common theory is that the Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one
Sods law. I always use it as the Public transport where I live isn't great. In the context of when the bus is late and i think "I'll bet if leave and walk to the next stop, its sod's law that it will drive past when I'm in between stops" lol
"Rubbish" isn't really a slang word, it means the same as your "garbage", as in "put the rubbish out" or "that packaging can't be recycled, throw it in the rubbish bin". It can be used to describe something really crap, "that film (movie) was rubbish!" Or when someone doesn't know what they're talking about "You're talking rubbish mate!"
"Full of beans" From feeding a horse on beans would make it more energetic. "Taking the biscuit" Taking the other person's last biscuit from a shared plate of biscuits, very annoying to a Brit. "Bits and bobs" about the same as "Odds and sods". "Pissed" also means angry in the UK. As in being "Pissed off", or "He's really pissed". Also "Taking the piss" means mocking somebody.
Taking the piss comes from another old slang of 'piss proud'. When men get old and have. . functional difficulties below... They may occasionally wake up erect. But not from sexual energy but from a full bladder. They would be 'proud' to have achieved an erection at such an old age only for their self esteem to be defeated as they would become flacid again as soon as they took a piss. To 'take the piss out of' is to show a piss proud fool for what he is. A fool. Mad, aye?
In (most of) Scotland, "chavs" are called "neds". The most common explanation is that it's an acronymn for Non Educated Delinquents, but that seems to be an urban myth, because the term actually goes a long way back into the 19th century.
Young Tyler, look up your American singer , Guy Mitchell. He recorded a song called : "Bob's Yer Uncle And Fanny's Yer Aunt", back in 1954 as a 78 record. I don't suppose that you have even heard of Guy Mitchell. I enjoy your channel.
Piss is very versatile. Getting pissed while getting pissed at someone taking a piss (at whatever or whoever) while taking a piss in the bog and pissing off when it's pissing cats and dogs.
Butty is interesting to me, because when I began teaching Russian speakers English I discovered the Russian word for sandwich is бутерброды - buttebrodi :D
For bobs you uncle it’s like going- to cook the casserole just chop the meat and throw it in with a load of chopped veg, a jug of water and a beef or chicken stock pot. Then set the timer for 2 hours and bobs your uncle that’s dinner sorted.
I think "Takes the biscuit" and "Takes the cake" are basically the same phrase, but in Britain it became used ironically at first before the original meaning got lost to time and it just became a negative exclamation.
Taking the cake meaning winning in the USA where people in America don’t use sarcasm and irony much in UK ? We’ll get an ordinary slang saying like taking the cake now add Brit sarcasm, well you ca possibly add a couple of swear words as in “well that bloody well takes the sodding biscuit” and there you have the difference, see? If you put this to translating slang plus adding how someone says the slang you get more nuance as well.
Council house and Violent (Chav) Council houses are what the US would call social housing, generally assumed that lower class or hard up people live in them and that they have more social problems making them more likely towards a life of crime and violence due to deprivation of basic needs or just plain bad luck. Council houses are generally good quality, equal to the private sector of housing.
Yes, you're right. I think it comes from the Welsh "Bwt y bach" ( please excuse my spelling if you're Welsh speaker!!) meaning "little friend" often shortened to "but".
"takes the biscuit" is more "the final insult" In the clip, Mark has just been mugged, but the muggers are so confident that they don't even run away, they know they can win in a fight, they take his wallet, laugh at his Bus pass photo and then tell Mark to f off. Being made to run away from your own mugging. The final insult.
“Bob’s your uncle … and Fanny’s your aunt”, is the complete phrase. It means someone in the know will see you OK, as in a Prime Minister (Bob) who once got his nephew a job.
I've lived in the UK my whole life and I was today years old when I learned what "full of beans" actually meant. I thought it had something to do with flatulence! XD
"Tinkle on the Blower" you have to know that "Blower" is (now old fashioned, kinda 1940s) slang for a telephone. Then you have to think of the noise an old-fashioned phone might make when it rings (the tinkling of bells). And then you can see that if you are making the "blower" do that tinkling thing it is because you made a call to them.
Hay Tyler. The first baked beans was by indigenous people. But the first commercial canned baked beans by Heinz was in Pittsburgh USA. so I wouldn't go moking your own country. Sorry can't remember the year. Luv baked beans. My favourite. Try Barbaque one's. Yummy. Well done America. Nice produce. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care. PEACE ☮️
slang changes in any language from year to year even my parents have trouble with young people from hong kong taiwan or mainland china where they lived before coming to north america
Well here's my twopennarth,. Speaking English is one thing, but try learning any British dialect which is a whole other kettle of fish. It might take donkey's to get anywhere near. But, if you knuckle under, and don't let the cat get your tongue, it's doable. Anyone who says not is all mouth and no trousers. It's probably better to learn with a friend so you have someone to chew the fat about it with, but if you're under the weather, probably best to give it a miss until you're feeling tip top again otherwise it would be bloody hard - if you'll pardon my French. If you study regularly, it shouldn't go pear shaped and you might even find it a piece of cake if you're lucky. I've known folk try to learn my dialect and it's mostly been a bit of a damp squib, despite the expectation and fanfare. Do it in my neck of the woods and get it wrong, you're going to get some stick, or could even be sent to Coventry. To be fair I'd not touch trying to learn some accents with a barge pole, they're thick as thieves in some places and if you kick one, they all limp. Hope that doesn't throw a spanner in the works for your plans but if you follow my advice... Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt.
That really made me chuckle. Given I am British no surprise I got 99% of it.
As a southerner who has lived in the North for 20ish years some saying and phrases have both been funny and gotten me into trouble lol. One example is... I walked into work one day and my colleague said “could you give us a lift" I proceeded to go and get my coat and car keys and ask them where they wanted to go... turns out they meant could I help them as lots of jobs had come in at once.
This is great. I understood all of it but I must admit, I have never come across the expression "if you kick one, they all limp". Well, probably other, more literal, versions of it such as "if you knock one of us down we all fall".
@@maxpacker2372 Same here, had never heard that one.
Lol 😆.
@@maxpacker2372same
Bob's your Uncle is different to a Piece of Cake, Piece of cake may be used to describe a task as easy, Whereas Bob's your Uncle would be used to indicate a task is complete when giving instructions. You do this then that and Bob's your Uncle.
You forgot the rest of the saying which is “Fanny’s your aunt”
We say Bob's your uncle here in Australia, pre much the same as the UK
@@laurabailey1054 never heard that bit 🤷🏼♀️
I do agree, and I certainly wouldn't have explained it the same way in as in the video. But I would say if someone took 10 minutes explaining how to do one thing and then said 'Bob's your uncle' right at the end...I'd think they were taking the piss!
If it's a piece of cake it's also a piece of piss.
Full of beans.... is linked to jumping beans not baked beans, therefore lively and excitable. 🙌🏼
I thought it was related to coffee beans. If someone is full of those, they'll be energetic!
In the UK 'pissed' on its own is always 'drunk'. But we do use 'pissed off' to mean angry/mad. Chav- it doesn't really mean 'trouble maker'. It more generally refers to people deemed to be of lower class with tacky tastes in everything. 'Give me a tinkle on the blower'. Well- everyone in the uk would know what was meant- but I'm not sure anyone since the 1950's has actually used the phrase - unless they were deliberately trying to sound dated for effect. Your deductions were pretty good, by the way!
Chav comes from Romany Chaver( pronounced Shaver) which simply means young man or fellow.
Whenever I hear an American say I'm pissed I always say don't drink then which makes them even more pissed....
Council Housed And Violent (CHAV)
Does it? Since when
edit: about the drunk meaning
@@jBread28 I did a course on Romanies and gypsies when I was in college and I learned some Romany language. It was accepted that this is where the word 'chav' as a derogatory word came from - from those who looked down on Romanies and gypsies.
Personal favourites: "Gordon Bennett!", "Crikey!", "What a palaver!", and "Lawks a Lordy!"
Got to say & i'm sure many would agree.. Tyler has one of the greatest personalities of the American reaction channels going 👍🙂🇬🇧🇺🇸
RE the "bee's knees", we also have a cruder version of "that's the dog's bollocks". It means the same thing though.
You can also say CHUFFED TO BITS as in you're very happy or delighted about something
Or 'well chuffed' 😁
@@Jaycee.79 chuffed to buggery
@@branthomas1621 That's a new one on me, I must have lived a sheltered life! 🫣
Wow! These are early days and the jury is out, but Tyler! It seems like new neural nets are forming in your brain! In this video you successfully recalled things you had learned in other British videos you reacted to, and made some accurate deductions. Keep up the good work! (No sarcasm intended.)
Tyler is growing his neural nets faster than Elon Musk's FSD software. I may need to update this assessment after Elon's shortly upcoming AI Day 2!
@Tyler Rumple is evolving. His mental growth has become exponential and is now unstoppable. What we are witnessing here is nothing less than the ascension of an American mind into new realms of consciousness. But this is just the beginning; he is nowhere near his final form!
@@zyndr_ Fingers crossed for luck!
UPDATE: Verdict after Tesla / Elon Musk's AI Day 2 - Tyler is still way ahead of the Optimus humanoid robot - his wry sense of humour alone puts Tyler light years ahead :)
British Prime Minister Robert Cecil employed his nephew Arthur Balfour as the Minister of Ireland. Balfour used to refer to the Prime Minister as ‘Uncle Bob.’
By the way Tyler, the word "rubbish" is _not_ slang; that's just the word that we use for it. There is no situation where the word rubbish would be considered too informal, inappropriate, or unacceptable to use.
Oh, and one more tip: 'Watch Mojo' videos are almost always a complete pile of crap. They often make broad, inaccurate and misleading generalisations about topics that they never adequately explain, so you're not really going to learn much from them. In addition, they have a habit of illustrating their 'compilation lists' by showing minuscule 2-second clips that barely give you a moment to hear or see what they are trying to demonstrate (whether it's music, dialog, or anything else). Therefore the Watch Mojo channel is best avoided, if possible. There are much better alternatives.
totally agree, mojo's entries seem poorly researched, have next to no cross reference's suggesting everything they say needs no proof, the app seems to be little more than click bait, I and many of my friends ignore it like the plague.
Add to that Wolter's World videos. A couple of those have made me wonder whether he's actually visited Britain or whether it's just green screen.
@@ulyssesthirteen7031 He's awful. I guarantee the "locals" that he speaks of bloody hate him. I've lived in a small tourist city & we didn't mind the normal US tourist, however we really despised his type. "Oh look. We've assimilated. We're so AWESOME. Let's all have a pint." It's ludicrous & patronising.
Watch Mojo is so naff. The tacky junk that the channel puts out is even more low-effort than BuzzFeed. It's proper cringey!
This particular video is actually one of their better ones (believe it or not). Also, Watch Mojo videos usually have an incredibly annoying "narrator" on them, instead of the bloke that they've used in this video.
I don't think these words are slang. Brahma and Liszt, Mutt and Jeff are slang terms as are cokney rhyming slang terms. Trump is a well known slang word for flatulence or fart.
I (British) use both 'Murphys Law' and 'Sods Law'. I always use 'Murphys Law' when talking to older relatives because 'sod' was considered a more taboo word a few generations back. It's also used as an alternative to 'f#*k off' ('sod off') or 'f#*k it' ('sod it').
There are small pill/bean shaped toys called jumping beans that and feeding a horse beans to produce more energy is where the term full of bean's comes from. Taking the biscuit means someone is taking advantage in an unreasonable way.
I think 'Taking the Biscuit' originates from partaking afternoon tea and taking the last cake or biscuit of the plate when handed round by the butler or footman. One shouldn't have had to as the plate should have been restocked by him. So considered bad form by both parties.
Yes. I thought that one wasn't explained well in the video. For example, if someone knocks your shoulder, you might at first think it was an accident. Then if they do it three or four times you could say 'well, now you're just taking the biscuit' as in, 'taking the liberty' or 'intentionally going too far with something'.
Jumping beans are natural not toys. They move because they have a maggot inside.
'The bee's knees' actually originated in America. It's part of an Ivy League university slang that was popular before WW1. 'The cat's whiskers' is another, but most are now forgotten. It dates from post-WW1 in Britain.
Though 'The dog's bollocks' seems to be purely British, copying the original form.
Well, isn't that just the bee's knees, idn't?
The dog's bollocks actually comes from the business of movable type printing, and refers to the pair of symbols :- commonly used to mark the start of a list (why it was called the dog's bollocks should be obvious).
Why it was seen to be so good is a mystery (unless it was simply that the item at the top of the list is usually the most important).
@@trevorgoddard2278 Yes, I'd heard that. I suspect a phrase coming from one usage became better known when it 'merged' with the 'bee's knees' usage that was also around.
I've always understood 'the bee's knees' was a corruption of 'the business'.
I heard that' 'The dog's bollocks' was a corruption of the words 'Box deluxe' and 'Bog standard' came from 'Box standard' which were used on the side of Meccano sets to describe the quality.
In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle!
There is more to Bobs your uncle. The rest of it is and “ Fanny’s your aunt”
My dad used to say this sometimes and he actually did have an aunt named Fanny.
This is the usual explanation for the idiom. However, Salibury's (Gascoyne-Cecil) last administration ended in 1902 and Balfour's in 1905 but the idiom is not first attested until the mid 1930s - a very long time in the public consciousness. This is not to say that this explanation is not plausible, only that it is not so clear cut and there may be another, as yet unknown, explanation.
BTW, none of Balfour's blood aunts or the wives of his blood uncles had any name, either first or middle, that could reasonably be construed as "Fanny".
@@simongleaden2864 you could also 'my aunt fanny' as is if you disagree strongly with someone
ie someone makes controvertial statement and you might reply 'my aunt fanny it is!!'
We also say Gordon Bennett. As a meaning of surprise when something odd happened.
Or to show exasperation.
If I remember rightly the expression Gorden Bennett comes from hundreds of years ago when people used to wee in pots behind screens indoors as no toilets. One chap called Gorden Bennett was at a dinner party ( not to sure if to meet soon to be in-laws) when he weed into the fireplace and the fire went out and someone said GORDON BENNETT in exasperation
I always thought chavs stood for council housed and violent 😂. It’s also often used to describe a thing or persons look as “chavy” even if they were not in social housing. Say you bought a nice car and added too RGB lights and zebra print steering wheel cover - it would look chavy. Or a person rocked up at a formal event in a tracksuit in large hoops and a Croydon facelift
The word "chav" comes from the Romany word "chaver" which means young man.
I thought so too - but it appears to just be a commonly associated phrase as the word is often used negatively
@@Abi-bi6cb I think that's because of people regarding Romany gypsies as inferior.
There's also the Harlow facelift.
Two nations devided by the same language! 😃
Sod's Law can sound rude to some, so many people tend to use Murphy's Law instead. Butty was originally used more in the North while down south a sandwich was called a sarnie but now can be either.
If Tyler is starting to make sense of things, then things are alarmingly simple! Break out the Bunting for him.
:)
The full phrase is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt", the second part is dropped these days as Fanny used as a diminutive for Frances has died out. I don't know that many girls called Frances these days, not too popular now. FYI Fanny is British slang for a Vagina.
Out of the millions of words and phrases, both acceptable and unacceptable today, in The Oxford English Dictionary, the complete edition of many volumns, less than one percent are still in common parlence, many having multiple meanings, new words and phrases added annually.
I was told "Full of Beans" refers to Jumping beans which would describe it well, then there is also Ants in your Pants which is restlessness. Chav i was told comes from a Gypsy term Chavo/ Chavi for a Gypsy child, similar to the term Pikey which comes from people who hang around the turnpike (an old term for toll road) to rob people, in scotland they use the term Ned not educated delinquent .
butty is also a canal barge (containing goods inside) which is towed behind another narrowboat unclear which came first. the Bees Knees is also the Dogs Bo**ocks which is the best thing for breeding pedigrees.
Getting Pissed off is getting angry however. and having a chuftie is having a look. the full saying is "and bobs your uncle and fannys your aunt", though "my aunt Fanny" means thats nonsense. Fanny doesnt mean the same in the Uk as the US
My old Dad was a dab hand at making sugar buttys, well high in calories! It was also a term used on the canals - now forgotten but not to a canal aficionado, a butty is the narrowboat towed behind the for'ard narrowboat (which carries the load), the butty being accommodation for the master and his family.
My Liverpool mum told me about having sugar butties when she was a kid in the 1920s and 30s. She also had conny-onny butties (condensed milk).
@@Lily_The_Pink972My dad made them for us kids in the early 70s and called them sugar bup bups.
I wouldn't say taking the biscuit means annoying, it's more a situation or action that had gone to far or is inappropriate. So for example of you found someone laugh annoying you wouldn't say that laugh takes the biscuit. But if someone was being loud on a train for example then started playing music on their phone you could say that takes the biscuit.
There was a craze for 'jumping beans' in the 50's & 60's. Whether there was/is such a thing as a jumping bean I have no idea - but it was supposed to jump up & down when taken out of its box/matchbox. Thus if you're full of energy you're 'full of (Mexican jumping) beans'.
The 'bee's knees!' is said to have come from New York in the 19thC, when there was a influx of Italian immigrants; who were keen to get into business in the USA. There was an existing phrase for something that was very good: "It's the business" . However when Italian-speaking people said it is sounded like "Beez-neez" ...the bee's knees.
Original 'Jumping beans' are beans that have the larvae of some insect living inside them, and would appear to vibrate and even jump a little. The toy ones were plastic bean shapes with a heavy ball inside that would roll from end to end, causing the 'bean' to tumble end-over-end. A bit like a slinky going down the stairs, but much smaller scale.
"take the cake" or "take the biscuit" is really the same thing - from the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes; in its original sense to "take/win the prize". So it's be "the most extreme" manifestation of anything, either for better or worse.
the 'penny dropped' for Tyler when he 'understood.'
Tyler: "Well I can't be more wrong"
UK: Hold my beer
🇨🇦Canadian here: I know/use most of these, probably from growing up watching tons of BBC content on Canadian TV in the 70-80s. We are a hybrid of both Britain and US, so we are familiar with both countries’ vocabulary of things, sayings and comedy.
Taking the last biscuit is a sacrilege
Often when the expressions don’t seem to make a lot of sense, it’s because origins of the phrase have been lost or at least are a long time back. Sometimes it’s also because the expression is a clipped version of the original, like saying “if you could do ….”, where the full version would include something like “, that would be appreciated.” Sometimes you have slang, a good example is when you call someone a berk, berk being rhyming slang “Berkshire hunt”, as in the second word that instead begins with the letter c - something of a taboo word in the US.
In some regions in the mainly in the north "Chuff" can also mean someone who is being difficult or annoying . As in "David forgot to lock the door again, the chuff."
In Cumbria Chuffed means happy!!
@@samanthahadwin Yeah, its a multi-purpose word.
And chuffing as a Northern English substitute for something more rude.
@@samanthahadwinI thought it meant that everywhere in the UK.
Chuff is definitely used a lot as a noun to describe a part of the body as in - something can be 'as dry as a nun's chuff'
I grew up with most of these slang terms even though I live in Canada. My maternal grandfather was born in England and came to Canada when he was a teenager.
When Bee’s flit from flower to flower the nectar can stick to their legs, something good.
Bob’s your uncle refers to The Marquis of Salisbury who was Prime Minister in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His actual name was Robert Cecil ( a descendant of Elizabeth the First’s chief minister William Cecil). He had a nephew , Arthur Balfour, who took over as Prime Minister from him. Because this was seen as being a bit of a fix the phrase, “and Bob’s your Uncle” started to be used for times when a difficult task has a quick solution
“Chuffed as a chocolate frog” meaning very happy comes from the Freddy Chocolate bars which are in the shape of a smiling frog!
Well chuffed with this reaction 👌
Reminds of a funny situation. I had a friend from US living here in UK, one saturday we were on an all day session in the pub when he'd got a call from a relative back in US, he told them "can't talk I'm really pissed & going outside to smoke a fag" and hung up on them.
Next day met him for brunch nursing a hangover when he told me that he'd had a bad night he'd had phone calls all through the night from his worried family in US thinking something really bad had happened. Because of the call the day before they thought he'd been really upset by a gay person and had gone after them to shoot them.
I heard that the phrase 'bees knees' comes the word 'business' and it was people making fun of the Italian immigrant's accent in the early 1900s
I'd always assumed it came from the word 'business' too.
That's interesting, the word "spud" for potato has a similar root. It was the English making fun of the Irish accent when they said the word spade, the type of spade they used for digging potatoes out of the ground.
We say in the UK I’m pissed off for angry or your pissing me off means your really annoying me , or piss off means go away, it’s a pisser means not an ideal outcome ie I couldn’t go to that night out I had to work it’s a pisser. It’s pissing down, raining fast. There’s probably more I’ve forgotten 😂
Tinkle is the ringing of small bells, as on a telephone. Talking (blow) tubes had whistles like kettles. They could be connected with short cylinders to make trunk calls.
Us tea drinkers on occasion have biscuits (digestives, hobnobs, rich tea, custard creams, bourbons, etc.) to dunk in our tea. If sharing, it is considered quite rude to take the last biscuit, and possibly even ruder to take it if offered to you.
Chuffed isn't the only word we have for passing wind... out of the many synonyms there is one that may be making a resurgence: trumped.
bits and bobs, originated from carpenters' tool kits containing parts for a drill, with bits used for making holes while bobs are routing or screwdriving drill attachments.
Full of beans was still a saying in the South when I was younger. And it was used both ways. Biscuits to Brits are cookies to Americans, so not so dissimilar. And usually 'that takes the cake' IS used in a derogatory way. At least it is where I'm from. No matter what area it's in, if something silly or stupid is outdone, it takes the cake. A sod (as used about people) is a total screw-up. Brits also say 'sodding', as in 'that sodding car is always breaking down'. Murphy's law is more about things going wrong outside a person's control, like the universe is perverse and determined to make sure that anything that can go wrong, will. Our equivalent of Chav is punk or thug or possibly trash.
Chuffed to bunnies. Absolutely happy as Larry!
I've got a feeling that the tinkle bit from "A tinkle on the blower" possibly comes from the early days of the telephone when calls went through a manual exchange (the lady with the headphones and a board with loads of leads plugged into ). When she alerted the person that she had connected to she would wind a handle which would make the phone tinkle at the recipients end and it's an historical hangover from the past. I'm getting on in years but I'm not that old to know first hand so I could be wrong. The blower is obviously from the speaking tubes on ships.
You’re channel is the bees knees, get yourself an egg banjo to celebrate 🎊
I saw Bob on the thumbnail and I started laughing.
It's not necessarily funny but one of my friends has called all of her friends Bob at least once, it's not regular but she has done it multiple times before, the name Bob has become a meme of sorts I don't know why but I do know that the name Bob was a very popular name around 100 years or so ago I don't know the exact time, I could be way off
The only way to fully understand the Brit Psyche is to come here yourself and experience it... not as a tourist...
We do say.. we're passed off .. when we're fed up or angry here in England x
12:24 I always imagined it was just someone slanting the pronunciation of "business", as in "it's the business, man" as in "its the best in the business" or "its the best". "It's the beese-neese, man" and ultimately someone who didn't know that just heard "bees knees"
When we're mad we say its pissing me off, or I'm so pissed off
Beans are like a national dish in UK!
The full saying is 'and Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt'.
Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt is one I like. It makes my granddaughters laugh. It just means all is good, all is well or simple.
Tinkle on the blower is easy when you remember that early phones used to have a bell. Ringing bells are said to tinkle.
We use the word rubbish like USA uses trash, but in the UK trash means of low quality, as in "He isn't a very good player, he's trash", or "These cheap headphones don't work, they're trash". If we called something a trash-can we would mean it is very poor at doing what it is meant for.
Full of beans is attributed to a practice of feeding beans to horses as fodder. Supposedly, horses that were fed beans were more energetic and lively.
Bobs your uncle - common theory is that the Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one
Sods law. I always use it as the Public transport where I live isn't great. In the context of when the bus is late and i think "I'll bet if leave and walk to the next stop, its sod's law that it will drive past when I'm in between stops" lol
"Rubbish" isn't really a slang word, it means the same as your "garbage", as in "put the rubbish out" or "that packaging can't be recycled, throw it in the rubbish bin".
It can be used to describe something really crap, "that film (movie) was rubbish!" Or when someone doesn't know what they're talking about "You're talking rubbish mate!"
Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt
A TV presenter used to say "... and Bob is your mother's brother"
I wish you were on British TV Tyler. Your videos are great and funny.
In the UK we can say all of these things because we know how outdated, silly or stupid they are and it makes us laugh.
Chav is used as meaning, council housing,antisocial , violent, became common in the 1980s to label any rebellious youngsters
"Full of beans" From feeding a horse on beans would make it more energetic. "Taking the biscuit" Taking the other person's last biscuit from a shared plate of biscuits, very annoying to a Brit. "Bits and bobs" about the same as "Odds and sods". "Pissed" also means angry in the UK. As in being "Pissed off", or "He's really pissed". Also "Taking the piss" means mocking somebody.
Taking the piss comes from another old slang of 'piss proud'.
When men get old and have. . functional difficulties below... They may occasionally wake up erect. But not from sexual energy but from a full bladder. They would be 'proud' to have achieved an erection at such an old age only for their self esteem to be defeated as they would become flacid again as soon as they took a piss.
To 'take the piss out of' is to show a piss proud fool for what he is. A fool.
Mad, aye?
In (most of) Scotland, "chavs" are called "neds". The most common explanation is that it's an acronymn for Non Educated Delinquents, but that seems to be an urban myth, because the term actually goes a long way back into the 19th century.
Haha love your channel man, here from the UK
'Full of beans' . Breakfast gives energy for the day. Baked beans on toast is a long traditional breakfast food that gives energy, hence...
Check out some cockney rhyming slang ... trouble and strife ..wife , dog and bone ... phone . There's many more .
When down the apples and pears across the frog and toad to get a Ruby Murray had to use bee's and honey couldn't get anyone one the dog and bone
I can’t believe that show missed “knock me up”!
Young Tyler, look up your American singer , Guy Mitchell.
He recorded a song called : "Bob's Yer Uncle And Fanny's Yer Aunt", back in 1954 as a 78 record.
I don't suppose that you have even heard of Guy Mitchell.
I enjoy your channel.
Butty is also a term to describe a mate (friend) here in Wales.
Piss is very versatile. Getting pissed while getting pissed at someone taking a piss (at whatever or whoever) while taking a piss in the bog and pissing off when it's pissing cats and dogs.
Fancy can also be used like E.g. that meal was really fancy. Meaning rather over the top.
Yes we use pissed as both drunk OR angry in uk. Or Iv heard people say Sam got pissed at the pub & Amy was really pissed when Tom broke the vase.
'In a tick' derives from the ticking of a traditional mechanical clock
Butty is interesting to me, because when I began teaching Russian speakers English I discovered the Russian word for sandwich is бутерброды - buttebrodi :D
For bobs you uncle it’s like going- to cook the casserole just chop the meat and throw it in with a load of chopped veg, a jug of water and a beef or chicken stock pot. Then set the timer for 2 hours and bobs your uncle that’s dinner sorted.
My daughter went out in top to toe Adidas today...she came downstairs and said Check me out in full chav"x
takes the biscuit basically means 'takes the piss' with an added 'cuit' on the end to cause less offense
I think "Takes the biscuit" and "Takes the cake" are basically the same phrase, but in Britain it became used ironically at first before the original meaning got lost to time and it just became a negative exclamation.
You did really well.
CHAV, Council Housed And Violent. Council Housing is the UK version of the projects
Taking the cake meaning winning in the USA where people in America don’t use sarcasm and irony much in UK ? We’ll get an ordinary slang saying like taking the cake now add Brit sarcasm, well you ca possibly add a couple of swear words as in “well that bloody well takes the sodding biscuit” and there you have the difference, see?
If you put this to translating slang plus adding how someone says the slang you get more nuance as well.
Council house and Violent (Chav) Council houses are what the US would call social housing, generally assumed that lower class or hard up people live in them and that they have more social problems making them more likely towards a life of crime and violence due to deprivation of basic needs or just plain bad luck. Council houses are generally good quality, equal to the private sector of housing.
I've read in a book called "how to talk like a local" By Suzie Dent that chav comes from a Romany gypsy word "chavo" which mean little boy.
In south Wales it is common to hear "Butty" used in the same context as "Buddy". We tend use "sarnie" more often for sandwich.
Yes, you're right. I think it comes from the Welsh "Bwt y bach" ( please excuse my spelling if you're Welsh speaker!!) meaning "little friend" often shortened to "but".
"takes the biscuit" is more "the final insult"
In the clip, Mark has just been mugged, but the muggers are so confident that they don't even run away, they know they can win in a fight, they take his wallet, laugh at his Bus pass photo and then tell Mark to f off.
Being made to run away from your own mugging. The final insult.
Pissed off and Murphies law are also common in the UK
We do say he's pissed off if someone's angry or annoyed
Have you never heard of jumping beans? That's what "Full of Beans" alludes to as meaning full of life.
“Bob’s your uncle … and Fanny’s your aunt”, is the complete phrase. It means someone in the know will see you OK, as in a Prime Minister (Bob) who once got his nephew a job.
I've lived in the UK my whole life and I was today years old when I learned what "full of beans" actually meant. I thought it had something to do with flatulence! XD
"Tinkle on the Blower" you have to know that "Blower" is (now old fashioned, kinda 1940s) slang for a telephone. Then you have to think of the noise an old-fashioned phone might make when it rings (the tinkling of bells). And then you can see that if you are making the "blower" do that tinkling thing it is because you made a call to them.
Hay Tyler. The first baked beans was by indigenous people. But the first commercial canned baked beans by Heinz was in Pittsburgh USA. so I wouldn't go moking your own country. Sorry can't remember the year. Luv baked beans. My favourite. Try Barbaque one's. Yummy. Well done America. Nice produce. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care. PEACE ☮️
slang changes in any language from year to year even my parents have trouble with young people from hong kong taiwan or mainland china where they lived before coming to north america
americans are taking the cake, brits are having the biscuit taken away
You really make me laugh Tyler
Rather than something being annoying, if it "takes the biscuit", it means like "it's too far/ the last straw".
Pissed is also a swear word in the UK. If you tell someone to piss off in UK it's like a slightly milder version of f@%k off.
Since 1860 .. "a really long time"
Oh, my dear boy!