I met an 80 year old in Hackney,East London who had endless stories and they were mostly of endearment but they all involved the person being described as a cxxx..lol

Yup, in fact I'll bet most insult use, by far, in the UK is between friends, taking the piss.

@@MiscellanyTop You're absolutely right, especially amongst Guys..

Yes, zit-on!

@@MiscellanyTop Tru Say,Mi Bredda. Preach Those Words,Mi Bredrin..Zeennn

Yea, you Trumpet 🤣🤣

@@moonshinepz You spelt (spelled?) 'Yeah" wrong. Wrongly. Incorrectly.

@@johnhough4445 Cornish 😜

@@moonshinepz can we still say teapot to someone a bit light on the loafers? Probably not....PC gone crazy.

@@MGForums haha, haven't heard those in a while... light on the loafers 🤣

Yes, and the other two could be used as “tossing themselves off” or “having a w***”

Please tell every North American KZfaqr. The pillocks use the Agincourt Salute all the time. (Misnomer). Usually they follow it up with "...number three...", or "Love...".

'onanist' hairy palms, bad eyesight

Comes from the 100 years war with our old enemas, the French French soldiers would cut off the first two fingers of the hands of English longbowmen. The "Agincourt Salute" shows you have your bowing fingers so they are f...ed

Yes a friend of mine used to call me a dick Ed all the time and she meant it as a term of endearment lol

Yes it's all in the tone and body lamp

Sorry mate - don't be a twat. I'm from Dorset and we have hedgehogs a-plenty and arseholes a-plenty also. We probably made the connection of what we would wish on a tosser who has peeved us more than a little roundabout the same time and maybe earlier than any Jockinese offering on pain and discomfort and how to will it on other more deserving of it than our good selves. Awa' 'n' boil yere heed!

Yir a funny C***

I love it when a Scottish person days the word "shite". The same as I like it when an Australian says "c*nt". Hilarious! 😂😁👍

Sounds similar to Australian forms of insults.

@@bwcat5586 They clearly easily transportable and added to on arrival on your distant shores by thousand from elsewhere in the world. A veritable melting pot of insults and a rich vein for humour too I'm guessing - never made it as far as the Antipodes so it's only a guess.

The Aussis took the affectionate usage of insults and ran with it.

"Casual cunting" it's known as In our house

This can definitely be applied to some American insults, Jerk can most definitely be used as a term of affection.

If you meet a close freind and say "now then you f..ckin wanker ,hows it hanging " he definitely would not be insulted . In England.

We were on the same side in WW2, but Churchill still sank their navy. (To stop them surrendering their ships to Germany)

@@neuralwarp Price of war I guess. I mean... he wasn't wrong in his predictions was he? France fell like a tonne of bricks. Not saying any of that is pleasant, but Vichy France was always going to happen. And a Vichy France 21 miles from the UK with as smaller fleet as possible is the better option! History has proven him right, Europe has been (largely) peaceful since, Nelson's Column is still in its rightful place and we still speak English... mostly, thanks Tony!

You mean the Frogs?

That’s hilarious that the French were opposed to us joining and leaving, I suppose it’s in their nature to oppose us no matter what! Britain wants to give us a trillion pounds? No we are completely opposed to them being kind to us! They’ve said there now not giving the money because we opposed it? We are opposed to the British taking the money away from us! You just can’t win🙄

@@jsmith54565 Tyler's like...huh? Frogs? LOL.

What else are they there for ?

​@@England-Bobsurrendering when it's the Italian's day off?

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There the only one to have reverse lights on there tanks 😆

"Cheese eating surrender monkeys"- Groundskeeper Willie

One sandwich short of a picnic!

The Armies version of chocolate teapot is, 'you're as much use as tits on a fish.'

10p short of a pound🤣

Oh I loved Cupid Stunt ... and Gizzard Puke!! Much missed in this house. 😢😢😢

I will also add the two fingered salute is knuckles out. If palm is out that is the peace sign to us here in the UK. But the USA seem to do the peace sign both ways.

Also mardy isn't just a northern thing. My mum started calling me a mardy bitch 40 years ago and I am in the east Midlands lol

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Wanker also falls into the same jerk/tosser category.

Yes and the jerk/tosser also goes for w*nker

I knew somebody who would say “you couldn’t stop a pig in a ginnel”

If the film about him was correct, then it was his secretary who put him right on that. But given how the TV/Film industry is notorious for skewing history, it to me remains an unknown.

My sister-in-law was one of Churchill's drivers. He knew very well what the gesture meant but he also knew that a photograph of him sticking two fingers up at Mr Hitler would never be printed... so he turned his hand round and said it meant victory. She's a lovely old woman, surely she wouldn't mislead me? 😀

Yes Tyler do a video on cockney slang you will have a right tin bath 😂 or is it giraffe? Or bubble bath? Lol

not cockney, but was taught the cockney alphabet. A for 'orses. B for mutton, C for miles, D for ential, E for brick, F for vescence.... and so on.

If you’re reading this, Tyler, it should be written as ‘within the sound of Bow bells’, Bow being the name of a district in East London.

the most appropriate cockney slang term 'trouble and strife'

A cockney would only every say “septic”.

I love these ones too, havn't used them in ages 😂

Cockwomble is my all time favourite insult! 😂

In other parts of the UK we also ttp out of the french just not as much as the English

Except, the French (Normans) conquered England in the first place and Edward Longshanks was actually French (Norman) descent and also the Duke of Aquitaine I often think there is so much "friction" between the English and French because they are actually very similar in many ways

@@UnknownUser-rb9pd The Norman nobility that conquered England with William the Conqueror saw themselves as Norman, not French. A mindset that dates back to the Vikings first being given Normandy, and is shared so an extent by the Aquitanian nobility due to the historic autonomy of the region. By the time of Edward I the nobility already saw them selves in a transitional Anglo-Norman light and were starting to shift toward a purely English mindset. The English idea would be thoroughly cemented by Edward III starting the 100 years war, claiming French lands not as a French noble, but as an English king. The only part of English royalty at the time that could see themselves as primarily French would be the immediately Angevin kings Henry II, Richard I, and John. However due to the way their titles were managed, they likely may have seen themselves as both French counts, and Anglo-Norman kings simultaneously.

@@mezzmainia Fair enough but I believe French was still the language of the English court at that time. And the French people (and Kings) were descendants of the Frankish (Germanic) tribes in the same way that the the common people in England were descended from Germanic tribes Angles and Saxons (plus some Viking thrown in).

@@UnknownUser-rb9pd Yes, French was the primary language of the English and French courts. French was also the primary language for diplomacy across Europe, hence the term 'lingua franca'. This was an artefact of the Carolingian empire that spawned the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire, following the collapse of the Carolingian dynasty. Though Latin was about equally popular for international affairs, particularly those involving the church. To the best of my knowledge the first English king to officially use English in court was Henry V, though its use in official settings had been becoming increasingly common before then. The Scottish nobility also went through a similar process to the English nobility, where they became progressively more Norman, via either passive cultural influence or direct inheritance by Norman families. A brilliant example of this is Robert the Bruce, being the direct descendant of the de Brus family who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066. The majority of Viking heritage in England is confined to the north east around York, thinning out as you head south toward the River Thames. While Saxons were the primary Germanic group to settle in England, as you said, Angles and Frisians also settled around the south east. Eventually these different groups merged and the idea of the English formed, though this did exclude the Vikings until Canute came to both the English and Danish thrones blurring the lines between the different groups. That said, there persisted a north-south cultural divide which can be seen today. When William conquered England the northern English were much less accepting of the conquest and continued to fight for much longer than those in the south, resulting in William's Harrying of the North where he butchered and destroyed much of the north of England.

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Its apocryphal. Reenactors of the modern era *probably* made it up as an amusing story to tell visitors to historical places/events around 1970, and it propagated by word of mouth. Even a lot of reenactors believe it. People have actually researched it amongst the reenactment community, and amongst the archery community, and no references or rememberances to it being for that reason have ever been found before the modern pastime. In reality, in medieval times, if you caught an archer, you'd kill him. Far more of a psychological impact to leave dead bodies strung up, than cutting off two fingers. However, the salute as an insult certainly seems to goes back at least to around 1900 - there is early film footage of a cheeky factory worker kid doing it to the camera as an obvious sign of defiance. But the Agincourt reason is bogus. Anecdotally: My dad was a target archer from about 1960, and a history buff later on, but he told it to me as a kid in the 70s, but even he said he had only heard it after visiting re-enactment events, not through his time as an archer. I've been a medieval reenactor for 20 years, I actively have to dissuade other newbie reenactors from repeating that tale.

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And jerk lol and in my family I don't no if its a British thing we call eachother a creep if u are creeping to someone like sucking up to them but in America they call people creeps like if they do something creepy haha

Retard is used in the South West, although it's probably only used between friends tbf, a stranger would laugh at you most likely.

Yes it is still used a lot down here but is considered very socially unacceptable.

These are both words I encountered for the first time when I moved to Stoke on Trent from the south of England. I've been here for 25 years now and they are as much a part of my vocabulary as any other word. Another one that springs to mind is "snappin" which here we use to describe your lunch.

I first heard 'mardy' when my family moved from London to Leicester in the mid-sixties. We were there for a year, then moved again (dad's job) Now I live not far from Leicestershire, and mardy has come back into my life. I've never heard it anywhere else in all that time.

Two fingers vs one finger is definitely an age thing. Two used to be considered far more offensive than one. Would certainly get you in a lot more trouble in school in the 80s for example.

Knob-jockey is actually a homophobic slur, literally means riding a penis.

i agree, we have so many more, bike=hooker slag=easy lady

​@@deanmitchell1803I thought it was more the idea of a suck-up in the way Americans use the phrases brown-nose or d*ck-riding, and then generally taken to mean unpleasant for doing so

In the north east you might say "He's a complete spanner heid (head)."

Bell-end refers to the head of a penis - that's like calling someone a dick/dickhead/bit of a knob....

I gave you a follow because no woman should be alone on KZfaq x

That's the key, ms Jay. It's how it's meant ( and taken) . I call my friends a right "c.u .n .t" all the time . No malice, it's just part of the venacular.

Yeah I more associate it with small children than teens. If someone is mardy they're sulking! Being more upset than the situation calls for.

I've never heard that before, you learn something new every day

Yep I would get called a "mardy bum" by my mum if I dint want to do something that was"fun" or if someone wanted to know what was up with some one you would say oh nothing really they are just being mardy.

@@kirstygunn9149 "Stop whinging mardy bum. Its only a foot of snow"... That took me back, Thanks Kirsty! 🤣

@@kirstygunn9149it wasn’t Mardy bum it was mardy arse in our area when I was young

Yes. Although Toss can also refer to an older insult, Tosspot, one who tosses up his drinking pot, a heavy drinker.

Ironically tosser might be related to toss pot (an Elizabethan insult for a heavy drinker/someone who could not hold their drink).

But even the 'c' word can be used affectionately... "You did what?...you daft c**t'.

I was wondering if someone was going to explain this! I'm glad you did, because otherwise I would have felt the need to. 😂

Yes lol, where every word is an insult if delivery correctly

Dim as a Toc H lamp.

"Good sir"= sh*t is about to go down

Daft as a brush is more common, I think.

As in talkking to rees mogg... 'Sir you are a Bellend

It's almost a sport!

The neighbours from hell as Al Murray calls them 😀😄

For over a thousand years and still going strong 😂

Apparently, they do the same back, which I found both funny and cool. 😂 I still love how the Channel tunnel train arrives at Waterloo Station... classic British humour... and something I'd fully expect from them too. 🙂

@@BFalconUK it arrives at St Pancras station now unfortunately so less chance of needling 😄😏

Aggh, that be so me duck.

“Kecks” is used in a lot of the northwest. Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire and pretty much everywhere between.

The variant I hear a lot is "a pork pie short of a picnic". There are the variants too: "not the full shilling". I also like "the lights are on but no one is home"

@@QuentinRichardson-supersnail yeah they're good ones too. 👌

One can short of a six-pack?

@@g8ymw Another good one.👌

It means FO.

I’m from the East Midlands and it can be used in a negative way.

West Midlands here, definitely can be an insult. Like calling a teenager moody

Mardy most likely comes from the word "Marred" meaning perplexed or troubled (or spoilt, cosseted) not a contraction of marriage.

We say marred not many dy

'Mardy arse': to describe someone who is in a bad mood. "Did you see Jane earlier, she had a proper mardy arse!"

Most of my best friends are wankers or Twats, as I am to them, 😂

agreed its all about the inflection and where the emphasis is.

What's "British English"? I only know of "English", named after the country where it arose.

@@stevet7695 as apposed to American English the two have diverged considerably.

I bloody hate when people say American English it’s English ok

@@janice506 while I agree in principle it is kinda handy to know which spelling of certain words to use.

Duh ....... that's what his videos are about LOL

@@helenholmes3530 the pun was me saying bugger mate

@@dev0nSA1nt really ? Oh well you thought it was funny

@@helenholmes3530 XD very british

What a Plonker.

Or (the usualy) army version, Cock womble; as in "they are just a bunch of cock wombles".

I'm from Yorkshire and it's marry arse.

I'm a nutter,it's supposed to say mardy arse.

@@hazelholmshaw9415 regional variations

You do realise, that's just the excuse, your friends use when they are called out about being rude to you. 😁

We do in Middlesbrough too never heard the mardy though

@@sharonwelsh8102 My mum used to say Mardy

I love "thick as pig shit" but also love "happy as a pig in shit" to mean someone super happy too 😂

Yes, well, the others didn't have to fight them. I think the Welsh sent a company of archers.

The French tend to throw their lot in with others as and when back up is required... Fighting their own battles us not exactly second nature to them so over the centuries they had to find it within themselves to grow a backbone and now they battle in the streets at the drop of what even against their own countrymen. Mind you, thus country could do with some of that fighting spirit these days and stand up to the government who are steadily stripping it if all assets and we are the fools who pay and let them get on with it unchallenged. Time to learn something from the French other than the inclusion and use of their language into our own .. What do you say .. Viva la France or... Huh... Rule Britannia eh ..

I’m Welsh, we definitely make fun of the French here 😂

Yeah, the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh make fun of the English instead.

The Scots were on the French side at Agincourt

I always heard it used as "see you next tuesday" (Tyler if you're wondering, it's basically sounding out the letters of the c word, lol)

Yes, I love using all of these