I want a Cab, innit

[Sausage Surprise]

I lwork in Gateshead and my adjacent colleague is from "that London". He has the annoying habit of randomly saying "is it?". For example....

"Great match on TV last night?"........."Is it?"

"There's some cream cakes over on the next desk"......"Is it?"


WTF does it mean

[BA to the Stars]

Southampton

Scum

[snaw]

I lwork in Gateshead and my adjacent colleague is from "that London". He has the annoying habit of randomly saying "is it?". For example....

"Great match on TV last night?"........."Is it?"

"There's some cream cakes over on the next desk"......"Is it?"


WTF does it mean

Welsh people do that don't they? Or is that just the welsh bloke on my footy team who's been living in London too long?

[BA to the Stars]

Do the Welsh play footie or does he just pick up the ball and run

(I'll put my tin hat on)

[gingerjedi]

Well it's only fair, you lump the whole of the North together when you mean just anywhere north of Watford.

But we empathise with you northerners, we have a common enemy that is the south east.

[bogeyman]

Do the Welsh play footie or does he just pick up the ball and run

Well Cardiff seem to be in the FA Cup final, somehow.

The comments here sum up one of the big problems with this country - the inhabitants of every region and subdivision of this benighted land hate the inhabitants of every other bit.

God knows how we ever managed to pull together to build an empire and win world wars.

[BA to the Stars]

Well Cardiff seem to be in the FA Cup final, somehow.

The comments here sum up one of the big problems with this country - the inhabitants of every region and subdivision of this benighted land hate the inhabitants of every other bit.

God knows how we ever managed to pull together to build an empire and win world wars.

I agree, but we do have a common language (Welsh & Celtic speakers acknowledged but are minority languages). Throughout the nation, we have regional accents but it is the introduction of this "chav speak" for want of a better phrase that is the problem highlighted on this thread. A Geordie, Scot, Cockney, Brummie, et al would all ask for a cab or a taxi. The pronouniciation may be different but no-one would end the word cab or taxi with innit. What these people do not realise is that whilst they think it may make them appear cool within their own peer groups, it gives everyone else the impression that they are too lazy to learn their own native tongue and come across as uneducated.

As for Cardiff in the cup final - "Play up Pompey" (Yes I am a Pompey fan)

[Bagpuss]

anybody who says off of should be shot

as in I got off of the motorway
I picked it up off of the table


no, you got off the motorway
you picked it up off the table

[snaw]

I agree, but we do have a common language (Welsh & Celtic speakers acknowledged but are minority languages). Throughout the nation, we have regional accents but it is the introduction of this "chav speak" for want of a better phrase that is the problem highlighted on this thread. A Geordie, Scot, Cockney, Brummie, et al would all ask for a cab or a taxi. The pronouniciation may be different but no-one would end the word cab or taxi with innit. What these people do not realise is that whilst they think it may make them appear cool within their own peer groups, it gives everyone else the impression that they are too lazy to learn their own native tongue and come across as uneducated.

As for Cardiff in the cup final - "Play up Pompey" (Yes I am a Pompey fan)

I'm not entirely sure I liked being lumped in with a bunch of sassanachs, to be used as a tool of comparison.

Aye. Gonni noe dae that, jist gonni noe.

[BA to the Stars]

anybody who says off of should be shot

as in I got off of the motorway
I picked it up off of the table


no, you got off the motorway
you picked it up off the table

Or says "What" (pronounced whaaarttt) instead of pardon

Sounds like a flock of crows in full cry