I like Ricky. Though Off Licence isn't slang, it the real name. Slang for Off Licence is Offy pronounced off-ee.

I never used to like Ricky but lately I'm really starting to realise how good he actually is. By the way JT, It's not Ricky Jarvis, it's Ricky Gervais ( Pronounced Gervayz ). Edit: I posted this as soon as I heard you call him Jarvis. I won't remove it though as a lesson to myself not to jump the gun. .🤦‍♂️

Yes - "Those pants are pants" is a perfectly legitimate sentence that everyone in the UK would understand to mean "Those underwear are garbage/awful"

😂 Your reaction when you realised it was Gervais not Jarvis is priceless 🤣🤣

We call "Off-licenses" the offy - as in "Just popping down the offy do you want owt?"

I feel like British slang is endless. Even as British people, there’s always stuff we haven’t heard before. Although I’m not British, but Ive lived in England for a few years

There are more accents in England alone, than there are in the whole of North America. Accents can change by going around a corner or crossing a street. The different accents (and pronunciations), combined with how many languages went to make up English, means slang can change just as quickly as accents here. It's also the reason we have so many slang words for each and every thing lol American English started diverging from our English hundreds of years ago, which is why it took a different path. Some American words are archaic English and no longer used over here, and some are just alternate corruptions to the ones that produced our modern words. Again, influenced by other languages, in different ways to how our English was. We tend to automatically understand all the different slang variants here, even if we don't use them ourselves. You can have a conversation between people from 4 different parts of the country, and they will all use their own slang term for something, understanding each other, but not copying.

Ricky Jarvis... haha.

As a Brit I can confirm we use 'Pissed off' a lot more than 'cheesed off' we're also a lot more Liberal with the use of the word 'Cunt'

As someone else said (thanks!), off-license is the correct term - 'offy' the slang. Also, 'shambolic' is not slang; it's a perfectly correct term.

Shambles is an old term for a slaughter house, a Meat Market! The battle field turned into a right shambles!

It's actually 'off licence', with a 'c' (and no hyphen), because it's the noun form. With an 's' it's the verb form. e.g. The DVLA licensed me to drive by giving me a driving licence. We do the same with advise / advice, practise / practice, etc. ;-)

I would recommend watching /reacting to Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes for the last time. I've never been a big fan of his but it's hilarious. Zero f's given 🤣🤣

That was a 1/2 pint beer glass, it was probably specifically for that type of beer, but would be fine for most bottled beers. Pretty sure it was not a wine glass.

A shambles…. is a noun. Shambolic… is an adjective

I believe the 'bog' in 'bog standard' stood for 'British or German'. It dates from over a hundred years ago and referred to the quality of precision-machined hardware such as nuts and bolts. British and German engineering were considered the best, so 'bog standard' actually meant top quality. Over time, this meaning drifted to what it means today: ordinary, no-frills.

Off-licence is more descriptive than slang. The slang would be Offy. "I'm heading to the offy to get some booze if you want any"

Basically geezer can be a compliment or derogatory depending on the context, if you're saying he's a right/absolute geezer, it's typically a compliment, but usually the intonation of the sentence will tell you if it's a compliment or not.

Please would you react to "Learn English with Ricky Gervais". It's hysterical!

You need to do a Cockney rhyming slang (if you haven’t done one yet) now that will confuse you.

Just to confuse things further (because I can!) in Australia, a liquor store - or off-license - is called a bottle shop - or 'Bottle-O'

In the uk we also have different slang in different areas. So for example where I live when we get off the bus people say “cheers drive” to thank the driver. My grandmother was from further up the country and called everyone “duckie”.

I'm glad my favourite comedian was helpful in teaching you slang. Yeah todger is usually more a word used by old men. Inf i bought a pair of undies that were poor quality i could say they were pants pants, although personally i tend not to use pants for either. We often shorten off-licence to offi, or beer-off, or sometimes just shop as regular corner convenience shops at the end of residential streets sell beer etc too, the one at the corner of my street is a 5 minute walk and open 24 hours, i've been known to buy beer there at 4-30 am before lol.

The glass style is popular in the UK, its replaced the standard pint pot and the honeycomb pot because of how it breaks, it does less damage when used in pub fights 👍

Cheesed off is the polite form of Pissed off, which we also say. A geezer is like a 'dude' in American, but can also be a dodgy person. We also say 'shambles', but shambolic is the adjective form.

Shambolic is the same as shambles. If something IS shambolic...it is in a state of shambles. In the same way that a parabolic curve is a curve that is a parabola. It's just the ending that changes it from 'being a' to 'being in a state of' Like metabolic rate is the rate of metabolism Or if something is a symbol it is symbolic of something else

Off-Licence is the official term, the slag would be "Offie".. or in some parts of the country, the "outdoor". This comes from the days where a pub would have a separate door to a small area with a bar where they would serve you drinks to be consumed off the premises, so a similar etymology to off-licence I guess.

You'll also hear Off-Licence abbreviated to Offie or Offy (probably spelt differently in parts of UK). Geezer can be used in multiple terms, normally it's a good thing, anyone who rips me off normally gets descibed with a word starting with a C not geezer. Diamond geezer is obviously a good thing to be, respected by your mates etc.

I met my American fwb's parents for the first time a couple of weeks ago at their Treason Day "cookout". That was fun, I kept getting told off by my friend for deliberately confusing her parents. 😂

Geezer in thia context imo is used in the South of England , London and surrounding areas. I've never heard it used this way here in the North_East, here it would mean an old man "Old Geezer"

Off license isnt just a liqour store, its the local cornor shop that also sells milk, news papers, chocolate, crisps, the off license only refers to that corner shop or convenience store selling alcohol to take away

If someone says "he's diamond geezer" it means he's a good laugh and someone to go down the pub with. If someone says "he's a dodgy geezer" it means they might try to rip you off and or someone to be cautious about.

I love the Ricky Jarvis at the beginning. He could have edited that but rolled with it. Respect 👍

For 'cheesed off' , I would say it's more like a mild irritation. Not the same as 'pissed off'. However, it all depends on the words before it and context. So someone could be 'a bit cheesed off' (also referred to as 'miffed' if you're me nan) or 'he was really cheesed off' (which I'd say verges on 'pissed') I do love British slang. There's a word for everything lol

This is old skool English slang, the Youth in cities have a totally different set of slang words, and its slightly different in each city as well

Loved this and the slang. Really love your southern accent

I was getting ready to tell you how to pronounce his name and he beat me to it lol.

'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' Back in the day, the navy kept cannon balls in what was called 'monkeys' made from brass. During cold weather, the brass monkeys would contract and push cannon balls out. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

I heard him say Jarvis and just smiling thinking "aaaany second now..." 🤣🤣🤣 Aw bless

0:33 "Ricky Jarvis" 🤣

Your right that shambolic derives from shambles, we use both. Note the Shambles in York is worth a look.

That moment when you realised how to pronounce Gervais had me rolling in laughter. Oh, and that is a fancy beer glass.

We still use most of words you would use. Just a lot more variables and extras. For example domestically you would use the word “ Yard “ we would say a garden. ( Grass shrubs, flowers etc ) We would use “Yard “ for an area front or back of our property that was mainly a hard surface like concrete etc.

LOL. "I thought 'Liquor Store' was universal." It always makes me laugh when someone from the US thinks the rest of the world uses the same words for everything. Ask yourself why, when you install a text based app, it asks you if you want to use the 'English (US)' (English according to the US) or 'English (International)' (English used nearly everywhere else in the world) dictionary. LOL

@7:16 an off-licence it’s often abbreviated further, to call it just the “Offie”. As in - I’m just nipping to the Offie to get some more beers. We have a lot of words for everything. We don’t discard the old ones when, we discover new ones. No, we just keep both. Lol

Coming from Newcastle, I love stottie cakes. Many internet recipes say stottie is derived from the Geordie (& Scot) verb stot - i.e bounce, because the stottie is soft, chewy and bouncy. That might be the case, but stot means to bounce / hit hard. He stotted his head off the wall. It's stotting down (raining hard). Stotting also means to be very drunk - probably from stotting drunk contracted to stotting. I always thought it was because someone was so drunk they were bouncing off walls, but my dictionary also defines stotting as staggering.

He’s a true national treasure!!!! Save our Ricky!! Keep him safe! We need you!! Ricky For PM!! 😂😂. ❤️🇬🇧

Cheesed off ..originates from the way photographers ask the subject to smile by telling them to say " cheese" as the word widens the mouth just to say it..and appears to smile....so to say cheesed off means any scenario thats wiped the smile off the face.

Kia ora from New Zealand 🇳🇿 I thought I might understand more of their slang than I did 😅 I was a little surprised that I use more words, the same as you do. 'Trousers' instead of pants seems posh to me 😂 I actually found this pretty entertaining, so I've subscribed 😊

JT, you should write a song..."who the hell is Ricky Jarvis?"..lol! Dishy...what I think of Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. Waz is a shortened form of Twazzock or Wazzock. Ricky is so funny, and educational, lol!

As a fellow British person, I can also confirm that the UK use shorter slang words for words that are already considered slang. An example of this is Offy for Off-Licence. I’m just popping up the Offy.

The problem with slang is that it can differ from place to place.

Cream crackered rhymes with knackered. Knackered is another term for extremely tired

The best slang explanation I've seen

I'd also add that "cheesed off" tends to mean annoyed to any degree, but we use "pissed off" as more on the angry scale x

Jt you crack me up love your facial expressions 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

And straight off the bat I'm loving because you discovered how to pronounce Gervais! 😂😂

Another side to UK slang is different places calling one item by different names. One of the biggest debates is what you call a bread roll. Where me and my dad are from, Nuneaton, we call it a batch. But my mum is from Manchester and she calls it a barm cake. But where I live now, which is about 30 mins from Nuneaton, it’s called a cob. But there’s plenty of others like bun, teacake, muffin. Pretty sure I’ve heard some call it a wagon as well.

Just to be clear - and I don't care that I may have the Grammar Police knocking down my door - 'license' is a verb and 'licence' is a noun in British English, therefore, the correct term for an 'Offy' is 'Off-Licence'.

My guess is that the expression ‘bog standard’ probably started off as a reference to a standard flush toilet, supplied to the house building trade. After all, you can buy fancy bogs.

Getting closer to that tattoo J.T love Ricky Gervais! Keep up the good work 👍🏻

I'm really enjoying this as I come from the same town as Ricky and also speak using this slang 🤣

the off licence one ,the pubs near me have what we call out door a hatch that is at the door

Off licences are sometimes called beer offs where I live. Note the spelling of licence.

Another point, in the UK, we won’t use the word “liquor”, we’ll say “spirits” instead. The booze section in a supermarket is “beers, wines, and spirits”, or BWS if you work there. A bottle of “plonk” is wine. Most nouns +ed can be used to mean drunk, for example pissed, wankered, trolleyed, wasted…

In Portsmouth we have local slang called Pompey Speak. Three common ones are, mush meaning mate / buddy; Dinlo means idiot and to skinny is to cry or complain.

My bud from S Carolina used to crack up at the term "mucka" he said it sounds like a cuss word when in reality it's an extremely friendly way of referring to someone.

I can`t believe you`ve never used these words- Ricky is spot on for the meaning of each and I use all the words weekly. Tosser - Toss Pot

Love your videos they're awesome. Hi from Bolton England 🇬🇧

The word "wazzock" has been a favourite of mine since I was a kid 🤣

Didn't expect to enjoy this vid but reply enjoyed this one ;) waz just makes me thinks going for a pee tbh. Love that you're absorbing British culture x

It's believed Bog Standard comes from early Meccano. They had two boxes originally. Box Standard and Box Deluxe. Box Deluxe may be the origin's for Dog's Bollocks which means really good.

Geezer means a few different things, in the positive it means he's a mans man, or hes cool, or he's "a geezer" which is an archetype/stereo type we have in the UK, kind of similar to "wise guy" or "Goodfella" it actually has connections to gangs and all that from back in the day, which is why in the negative it means he will steal from you or finesse you. Its like "Wise Guy" and "Goodfella" in a mafia context, but its outgrown the organised crime roots and grown to become a way of basically saying "yeh hes cool hes like us into the same things" or even "life and soul of the party" kind of idea. Its funny how much we dont notice how odd the words we use are, and its only when you have to explain them you realise many parts of the meaning are not even solid, yet everyone in the culture understands what it means, even if they dont have enough words to fully explain it

Barmy, comes from the old mental institution at Barming village in Kent, England, a few miles from me, so some one who went there with mental health problems was then called Barmy.

JT, the term off license is usually shortened to offy and it can also be replaced by saying the bottle-shop. Alcohol here in the UK has to be sold from a licensed premises, so there are two different types of premises, the off-license, or the on-license also known as a licensed premises. This is all legal terms to describe weather alcohol can be purchased by the public , only to be taken away from the premises before being consumed or if sold via on-license it means that the purchaser can remain in the premises in order to consume their alcohol or they are free to go elsewhere. If a customer attempts to consume any alcohol inside an offy the license holder( or licensee )can lose their license which would mean that they are no longer allowed to trade in alcohol of any type.

You should do Scottish Slang, brace yourself to laugh and be confused as hell lol

My absolute favourite is 'the dogs bollocks' or 'the mutts nuts' 😆 ie this pub is the dogs bollocks as it serves the best curry and beer

In Reading where Ricky is from, they call woodlice "cheeselogs". It's the only place in the UK that calls them that, and nobody, including people from Reading, know why.

I would say geezer is a London/Essex thing for the most part. I'm from that area and I know quite a few. It's a very specific type of bloke. They're usually working class (though if they're wealthy they would be self-made). They tend to like football, and a drink and a smoke, and are often found in the pub. They're super friendly and charming, very gentlemanly to women, and are the life of the party. They'll do anything for their friends, but you wouldn't want to get on their bad side. They're usually a bit dodgy, and don't think much of breaking a few minor laws here and there. They often have quite a strong accent. If you've ever seen Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy is the quintessential geezer.

Geezer basically means someone who's "rough around the edges". You could say it as "He's a good guy, he's just a bit rough around the edges." Or, you could use at as a warning - "Careful around that guy...he's a bit rough around the edges." That's basically geezer. Shambolic is a grammatic conjugation of shambles. If something is in shambles, it is shambolic.

Where I live we would also say Offy for Off License, possibly common in the rest of the UK too.

Cheesed off means pissed off but it's a term you'd use if you don't want to swear or if there's children around, like how we would say sugar instead of shit

Yes you could say these pants are pants. You can also call underwear undies. Iv never heard waz. Shambolic is another word for shambles. Uk use both.

In Northern Ireland, we would say "Offies" more for an Off-License... & we wouldn't say Shambolic...at least I've never heard it, in all my yrs! We'd say its "on its last legs" or it's "done" usually used...

Those pants are pants 😂 Love it mate,I actually laughed out loud then. (I won’t use “lol” because it used to mean don’t go near the water on signs,looks like a bloke drowning and waving for help)

Love Ricky Gervais. Grew up in the same suburb as me. Which was Whitley in the town of Reading Berkshire u.k. awesome bloke. 🙆😊

I'm sure that shambolic does come from shambles. There are very very old streets in some cities that are actually called The Shambles. The kind of streets that are incredibly narrow with houses where the upper stories hang over the street - really really old. Not sure whether shanbles as a word goes back to those streets but I do think that shamobolic is just a more modern way of saying it.

Man i have been here since 10k just hit 100k already love from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I see you're still eating that badger 😄

you should probably watch the ricky gervais show. it's hilarious. there's also teaching english with ricky gervais and karl pilkington which is funny too

Many Belgian beers are served in what you might consider a wine glass, if you drink wine by the pint.

Cheesed off is like just fed up, pissed off is annoyed

'The Bog' - for toilet - was particularly used when I was at school. Also to - I think you say, play hookey - at schol, was 'hopping the wag' for us. We have an odd way to say someone is bad at something - don't know if you have the same allegoary. If someone is a bad plumber (for instance), you say 'as a plumber he makes a brilliant violinist'

At one time all the local pubs would have an off licence, where you bought beer, crisps etc then go home, some times they would have small tables and women would sit and talk while having a drink with their kids.

Bevvy is quite common down south, another one is shant, but haven't really heard that outside the town I live in

Some slang words are regional e.g. "Bizzi" means police officer in the Liverpool area but is almost unknown elsewhere.

In the uk you need a license to sell alcohol, pubs and restaurants have on licences so the alcohol can be consumed on the premises but a shop would have an off licence where the alcohol has to be consumed away from the premises hence the term, slang for this is an Offy

Not sure if this is true, but the story goes that basic products used to be packaged under the label 'Box Standard' and higher quality products labelled 'Box Deluxe'. Over time 'Box Standard' mutated to 'Bog standard' and 'Box Deluxe' mutated to 'Dog's bollocks'

The problem with Geezer is that it refers to a very specific type of person that only really exists in the UK. Because of that, its very difficult to describe to a foreigner because everyone in Britain knows exactly the type of person you're talking about and doesn't really know how to put it into words. You look at a geezer and you know he's a geezer. I'll try to describe the type of person but it'll be very difficult as it relies on a lot of British cultural touchstones to understand the type of person a geezer is. Here goes: A geezer is a proper bloke. He's a man about town either decked out in a football top or trackies. Everyone knows him and he's always about, whether it be in the pub or just around town. He drinks, he smokes, he gambles. He is more than likely either in a low-paying job or on benefits (though he may have other sources of income the government doesnt know about). Because of the way he is, the geezer is good friends with his mates but might not take shit from them. He also probably isn't a fan of outsiders to the people he knows. He has connections for the people he knows but he might try and swindle a person he doesn't. He is generally in his 40s as it takes that amount of time to really gain a level of notoriety in the local community. I know its a bit jumbled and confusing but this was me trying my hardest to come up with everything that makes a geezer a geezer.

You should do Liverpool slang it’s very different to London slang