Who?

@@gavintillman1884 RONNIE PICKERING!

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Who? 😂😂😂

@@djbenavit RONNIE F-ING PICKERING!!!!

Boatrace...

@@junekatana78 boatrace = face... look at the boatrace on that bird over there, it looks like a slapped arse... bird = woman.

Right. I had to learn about that to read Charlie Bronson's book. It's like in every paragraph. The one he wrote. Looneyology. I was like asking Google - what's a nonce? Oh. China? Oh. Etc etc. I'm from Chicago. We're not as colorful.

@@Scooot1972 pal they go and on some go over my head and I live up the road when 7/10 talk like it!

@@junekatana78 most are easy to get but some evolution further like... he gave me a rubber Gregory = the check he gave me bounced... Rubber bounces and a check is a Gregory Peck. It does get confusing but its fun. It was started so the law had no idea what villains were talking about if they were eves dropping.

A bar I worked in had him in for 'an evening with' it was fucking cringeworthy, all the local wannabees doing a Q&A with him sucking up, hated every second of it.

@@justenough2326 sounds typical, I hope these americans know how much cringey all this uk gangster/criminal stuff can get 😂

he was a draft dodger and a bully

Yeah.

" Pan breed" is the glaswegian version. We also use C*nt as a term of endearment. For example we would say "he's a sound c*nt". I've been in the paras for 20 years and remember having to explain this to my English mate's. Scouse boys seem to get it without explanation.

@@rossmiller5929 I'm not Scottish, or Scouse, I'm from Birmingham and we often use unlikely language on friendly terms too.

Yep, if you got on the wrong side of Fred you would end up brown bread.

The pub on the corner of Hollydale road and Brayard’s road

I went to school with Danielle Fraser who was Mad Frankie Fraser’s granddaughter!!

was the pub local to you by any chance?

Did you know Danny holland

And a knuckle sandwich 🥪 😋

Yes, a fab film

That is my favourite film. Closely followed by snatch

It really is!!!

Watched it last night 👌🏻

dont forget snatch :)

Also they all seem to grass on eachother left right and centre. No code or morals these days

I could be wrong, but I think it's down to American cultural influences - I didn't see the type of "gangsters" we have today until America made it "cool" and a way to "show pride" in one's upbringing (and as a peasant myself, seeing my brother act that way infuriates me! He thinks he looks like a "badass" as he smokes weed, has his pants on show, and talks like a "badman", but in reality, it just looks like he's trying way too hard to be cool).

Any of those shows/movies you could recommend, please?

Just a heads up dont be like your mate and nether disrespect any gangsters dead or alive as some have friends and members allover.

" The Mafia? I've shit 'em "

@@migspit "Americans love culture. They always feel like they've arrived in England when the upper classes treat 'em like shit"

His “hotdog” put down of the Americans is his best line.

Brilliant series

Was a lot after the war

gun werent banned until the 90s

@@prod.sr7186 we still have prevalent gangs that don't use em.

@@OctaviaBeirne-oi9xc not saying that mate, just saying before the ban it were a lot more common to have a few gang members owning weapons (wether they used them or not is a different discussion) in most gangs, obviously a few were fighting only, but guns were common ish

@@prod.sr7186 see were youre coming from. werent meant to cause any discourse, just pointing it out since older family gangs seem to not be taken as serious nowadays - people seem to have this view that we're dead an gone. Yet the restriction on gangs even back then was still real tight; real tough to get your hand on an efficient one that doesnt take a shit ton of time to reload. Fists and other cac were more efficient and respectable day-to-day.

I thought that's what he was referencing anyway? He said he had seen Bronson, so I presume he knew it was Tom Hardy who played him too, no?

U mean wannabe gangsters. No code, loyalty these days. Dying breed. No skool like the old skool as they say

@@beelzebudha666 😂😂😂 yh ok, fair point they are wannabe's

Thugs or organised thugs. They're still just thugs.

Well its like just an ordinary street fight . Back in the 80s 90s a fight outside a pub would be just that , a fair fight .lots of fists and bloody noses but that was really it . Now its knives and the aim is to get their victim on the floor so 5or 6 can stab and jump up and down on the victims head . Just cowards not to be able to have a fair fight ...

@@jessbirmingham889 Just because it's worse now doesn't mean it was ok in the past.

I thought ri se of the krays was better than legend.

I too am from England & I remember all this very well. We definitely have had the baddest of all baddest mf's, though let me finish by saying. "Ahh Martin Kemp" Which proves we also have the most naturally handsome man ever to walk this planet. Yeah I grew up in the 80's. Who didn't like Spandau Ballet

I smell bullshit. Every video there's someone who claims there grandad or great uncle worked for the Krays

@@stevelowe2647 maybe because they purposely searched it up. Use your brain

I mean someone’s gotta b related t them and it seems like a weird thing to lie about but then people do lie about weird things

I think it's fair to say that he made the right choice? We here so much about these "famous gangsters" but the one thing no one seems to mention is that most of them have spent the better part of their lives banged up. Surely if you are genuinely a professional criminal then the very last thing you want to be is famous? I'm in my 50s now but when I was in my teens I knew this fella. He was just an ordinary bloke, had a normal job, I think he was a painter and decorator, lived in a very modest family home, wife and 2 kids about my age, drove a 10 year old cortina and had one holiday a year in great Yarmouth. When I was in my 30s I bumped into one of his sons and he told me that about 10 years previously his dad announced that they were moving abroad, he never said where, and then the story came out that his dad was an armed robber, he never got caught because he was never flash. He did it all alone, kept the money hidden then when he had enough dough he packed up his whole life and emigrated with enough money to buy a nice home and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. I was gobsmacked, I'm usually good at weighing people up but there was nothing about this guy that would've given even the best detective the slightest inkling that he was who he was and that's exactly how he got away with it.

@@sambrooks7862 Yep thats the way to do it and I can honestly say of the many villains I grew up around only ONE made it and had a great life without ever going down. And the Richardsons lived around the corner from me. R.I.P JB.

we'll get your cherubs back...

NSS

The gangster took his name because he liked the death wish movies so much.

Didn’t happen

@@robs715 whatever makes you sleep better pal 😂

@@johnmackay496 the truth

Thats a myth, they extorted protection money from innocent people just trying to make a living and the Krays even supplied children to peadophiles.

@@garibaldi54 my mother worked as a barmaid is a pub the Krays drank as a girl. she said they were polite and smiled but made her skin crawl , she was terrified of them.

@The Yorkshireman Reacts So all the men who later came forward in the 70's and 80's and reported being sexually abused were lying? Looks like you're the gullible here.

One word to that in general; Bollocks!

Good to their communities??? They ran extortion and prostitution rings you muppet

Dave Courtney, his book is called "stop the roundabout I want to get off"

@@graemeday4195 the Bronson one? I know he has a few. One i read was just titled Bronson

@@beelzebudha666 no mate. The gangster was called dave Courtney.

Hardy acted Bronson very well. Bronson was....... well let's just say different.

Or there’s the 80’s British film “the krays”

@@smudger746 90s. 1991 or 1992 I believe. Martin & Gary from Spandau Ballet

@@stevelowe2647 that’s the one

London slang.

@@stephenleader8065 It came from there, but like most of the rhyming slang, it spread over elsewhere.

@@stephenleader8065 London is the capital of England and English is the country's native language, it is English slang.

@@jimmyhughes5392 It is rhyming slang from a small area of London. It may be copied elsewhere but it is primarily cockney rhyming slang, not English rhyming slang.

I was waiting for Paul Ferris aka "the wee man" can't believe he's not on this list.

haha tell your friends parents, they are stupid, the krays were the tastiest around i assure you, evil bastards, and could they have a fight wow

Greatest what? You don't set the bar very high, do you?