HOW TO INSULT LIKE A BRIT | AMANDA RAE
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Introducing a friend from Canada to the word "bellend" was hilarious 😂
I did the same with the word "wanker"😂
I love that word. Always use it
🔔🔚 and its emoteable!
You should spend a couple of weeks in Liverpool UK. You'll hear some of the funniest things in life. NOTHING beats scouse humour.
I worked with a few other nationalities and a couple of times referred to an American colleague as a bellend. He asked why I called him that and told him with a straight face that it was just a nickname because his cycling helmet was made by Bell. after about a year more with this cheerful nickname, when inebriated he asked again as he had forgotten the original meaning. Someone else answered. Much rage.
And of course the Brits have the ability to use the most profound of insults as a term of endearment
so true!
Same as us Aussies.
Your lot get the prize, Geoff.
Regards from Trent Bridge Town
A friend worked in a building site when he was a student and one of the workers would say, about someone he rated: "He's a good c*nt!"
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Aussies definitely tie with Brits on cursing and insults 😂 both have hilarious humour too.
Greetings from Spain, where, coincidentally that word Amanda’s not allowed to say (Berkshire Hunt? 😆) is also used similarly, affectionately sometimes, definitely how you say it though and not for everyone!
Remember a couple of things about us Brits.
Firstly, if we like you we will probably insult you.
Following on, it is not what we say but HOW we say it. Good old inflection.
exactly that ! haah
Exact what Banter is🤷♂️🤷♂️
WE Brits.
@@ashleyhoward8926 if you really care then you will notice that the whole sentence is grammatically wrong.
Anyway, WE implies that I want to be associated with others.
Na, I prefer the company of people I think are interesting, intelligent, good looking, oh, and modest.
Only problem is that I can only find them when I look at a mirror
😇🤣
In a movie starring Richard Burton, was this gem. His ex says "I don't know why you married me." His reply was, "I mistook you for a woman."
The meaning of the two finger sign depends upon which way round the fingers are.
Palm outwards is 'Peace', back of the hand outwards is 'FU'.
of course!
Tosspot by Royal appointment was always a good one
Favourite insult? ( clean! ) " If you had another brain cell it would be lonely!"
You haven't got two brain cells to rub together.
And, of course, any reference to the fabled "Ugly Tree" is always funny, as in "...They fell out the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down..."😁
😂😂
another thing that's kinda along similar lines, but not quite an out & out insult. is if you think someone is not ugly, but not hot as hell, you would say, they've not been hit with an ugly stick. Meaning they're kinda pretty/good looking, but you're not exactly attracted to them either.
Great! 🤣
''Everyone has a right to be ugly, but she abuses it.''
And landed on their face... on a rock 🤣
I can't say my favourite insult as it is a bit blunt (and rhymes with it)
Tosser is the tamer version of wanker .. which means you know what. It pretty much means the same as arsehole. Muppet is more of an affectionate way of calling someone an idiot.
Yeah, me and my grown-up daughters like saying this to each other, just so funny. I think most Americans would find it quite shocking, which in itself is also really funny.
I rate tosser and wanker much the same. Both are definitely meant at the subject. I think wanker gets shouted out more and sometimes gets another adjective added such as fucking wanker.
A Tosser was originally a drunkard, a toss pot. Tossing off was slang for masturbating,
These insults make me proud to be British lol
If someone in a really bright shirt walked into a bar an American would react by saying “Hey, that’s a really great shirt man”. A Brit would react by saying”Bloody hell, I wish I’d brought my sunglasses”. It a cultural difference but they both mean the same thing.
I remember a friend of mine saying to a guy in a brightly coloured shirt have you a volume control on that
Anyone who turns up to the pub in any clothes that are vaguely new, will always be greeted with “Blimey, you should’ve told us it was fancy-dress tonight!”
My favourite has to be the scientist who loudly announced someone he disagreed with was a spherical bastard, a bastard no matter which way you look at him.
"If wit was sh*t you'd be constipated."
"If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off."
lol!! 😂
My favourite way to describe someone not quite with it "Lights on,door open,no one at home"
lol! love it
Lady Astor: You sir are drunk!
Winston Churchill: And you madam are ugly. I will be sober in the morning.
😂
The 'c' word was a definate 'No, no' and rarely used when I was a child over sixty years ago. How times change! My two favourite sayings are 'The lights are on, but nobody's in' and 'The lift doesn't go to the top floor'. Bye the way, love your instagram channel! You've kept that quiet all these years.
haha thanks so much mike! :)
Calling someone a tosser is not the same as calling them a Muppet. A Muppet is more like a Pillock, whilst a Tosser is a Wanker
ah okay, I gotcha :)
Tosser is slightly politer than wanker
Spot on
I got stressed worrying about what Amanda had been doing to those muppets...
Pillock is Yorkshire slang for scrotum.
Us, Brits are so unique in using these words, especially with sarcasm and there’s an awful lot more, which are very descriptive
But you’re right, it’s when you say it and who to, and in what context if you leave them scratching their head, wondering whether they’ve been insulted or not you’re a Brit It normally starts with us in the playgrounds so we grow up with it
“He is a legend in his own mind”
haha !
Alternatively - Legend in his own lunchtime
Or he’s a leg end not a legend
"A legend in his own mirror."
A variation I quite like.
My all-time favourite was when by Catherine Tate, when Derek snapped at Una Stubbs: "Director? Don't make me laugh! You couldn't direct piss into a bucket!".
"face like a slapped arse" was a favourite insult/expression of one of my bosses. Generally used to describe an entitled bratty 20 something fresh from university who thought he or she knew everything and received an abrupt attitude correction.
No, it means miserable looking, my 87 year old mum has always used that term .
Or in Scotland "face like a well skelpt arse"
My mum used to say, “face like a bulldog chewing a wasp”
My favorite: Is your head just for decoration?😂
lol!!
I like the combinations of words, mix em up hundreds of ways
Someone referred to “as about effective as a fart in a thunderstorm” always makes me smile.
i love that one !
Or about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Love the fact you said my fellow brits
Been here in the UK since 06. The insults over here are so creative and so much more fun. I love em lol
hah same!!
Queen, the song "I'm going slightly mad" is literally a list of phrases questioning someone's sanity.
I got loads but i am too well mannered to say them. The sign for F off is with knuckles facing the person, the peace sign is the other way as you rightly demonstrated Amanda ❤
thakns so much john :))
My brother worked for a newsagent back in the sixties who could rapidly insult any for two minutes nonstop without swearing or repeating himself and do many different insults. He had us all on stitches.
thats pretty impressive ! haha
Use of C**ty McF**k always made me laugh.
lol!!
Have you heard the Monty Python sketch about the versatility of the word fuck. A classic
I havent but now i need to look it up ahah
That is legendary
'Fuck' is the mostly flexible word in any language. Amazing word.
It’s British compliments that can be most cutting.
Well done you 👍🏻
You’re special 😜
Aren’t you clever 🤡
Your parents must be so proud 😂
Give that boy a big shiny gold star.
“I like your haircut. It’ll look nice when it’s finished” 🤣
Who did it? The council? 😂😂
@@MrWheltsThat was one of Julian Clary's heckler put-downs.
Here's a good one, for when somebody's needling you and won't shut up:
To think I stood up for you the other day!
Did you?
Yeah - someone said you weren't fit to sleep with pigs, and I said you were... 😏
You asked "any other comedians?". The ones that make you to laugh the most often.
Only the Brits and the Aussies seem to really appreciate the glorious c-bomb.
ahah i think you're right!
Don't forget the Irish!
I literally had to sit and explain every use for the word piss to a Spaniard , including some which I didn't even think I knew!
“Looks like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle”, or “ looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp”
“They fell out the ugly tree hitting every branch on the way down”
“If brains were dynamite you wouldn’t have enough to blow your nose”
You could always say to someone randomly, “that’s what I like about you”. When they ask “what?”, simply reply “fuck all!”
haha! i love that last one 😂
One of my favourite insults is " If you had a brain you'd be dangerous ".
😂
If you had another brain, it would be lonely.
my favourite way to call someone something nasty, without actually swearing is ... "C U Next Tuesday" and walking away.
The one heard the other day which I liked was "Can't Understand Normal Thinking".
I've often spelled it out, "stop being a Charlie Uniform November Tango", then watched the look on their face as they worked out the phonetic alphabet.
Reply with, “The Week After That.”
You can also go with There We Are Then repeated after said person says anything stupid.
@@ianwestwick4381 was just going to post the same - one of the absolute best, especially if the person you're insulting doesn't know about it, but everyone else does
Knob-Sock is a newish one I've started hearing recently (and using, particularly when I'm driving)
Have not heard this insult for a while: "You couldn't arrange a pissup in a brewery."
haha love that one !
Couldn't run a bath.
or bunkup in a brothel
As useless as a chocolate teapot/fireguard.
As useless as condom in a convent / fart in a sauna
I was in the Royal Navy in the 60s and 70s. On one of my ships (Minerva - our future king joined shortly after I left) we had 2 Dutchmen join the mess. After a few months they could eff and blind like natives, and I can still hear one saying "I love your beautiful English swear words! They are so expressive!"
haha i bet they did!
In one of the episodes of Mrs. Browns boys, she tells the story of how her phrase of "That's Nice" came to be, and how it actually means F... Off. I say That's nice quite often now and only had two people so far know what I meant! 😇
That's nice.
hahah i havent watched that yet
Ha, I’ve been doing that ever since I saw that episode too!
“Evening Tossers” the fave pub greeting between mates!
lol!
bungalow- because they have nothing upstairs!
😂thats a new one
Context is everything.
"You absolute helmet" - personal fave
I think Muppet is probably the mildest of insults . I remember as a youngster an older colleague would say " If you had brains you'd be dangerous " which I don't think I've heard much since ,there can be some unique one offs and we are pretty good at insulting each other .
ahah i love that !!
My personal favourite " I wouldn't say you're wrong, but then we'd both be wrong"
It’s a fine art. To be able to hurt without leaving a wound. To be able to insult without a third party being able to see the insult, leaving only the insulter and the insultee knowing the how and the why. 😁🇬🇧
Indeed! haha
Skiver, was that an animated ref to Ferris Builers day off.😎🚘
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I am an ex coal miner from the North East.
My Dad was a coal miner.
My Grandad was a coal miner and ex Royal Navy.
Our language at work and between us was pretty fruity.
But we never swore in front of women kids or strangers.
haha i bet it was ! :) my family were coal miners as well
For me the whole insults, below the radar thing is just as strange as an American would find it even after living here all my life.Cos I'm autistic and we don't often understand subtleties. We can be very literal and we can't just change the way we think to fit in with others. I'm also from north east England and with me it's best to just say what you mean with no subtleties or sarcasm since, any of that is just wasted on me
''A Face like a Clumsy Beekeeper'' is one of my faves.
lol!!
Face like a unmade bed is another 😂
@@serinadelmar6012 Try, 'A Face like an apple with a Bite out of it.'
At work I often use, What does your village do for an idiot while you're here at work? We have a truck driver that gets lost every time he goes out on a job. So the saying is about right for the muppet. We usually just refer to him as Village.
lol!! ive never heard that before
@@LADYRAEUK A variation is to suggest there is a village missing their idiot in reference to someone.
Also if someone drops a drink in the pub they're the 'Spillage idiot'😀
We used to have a bus driver who was similar. Called Bungalow, on account of having nothing upstairs.
When my little brother used to work with our milkman, the latter used to call him nightlight. When asked why, he'd say "Because he's dim!"
Always watch your videos at bedtime makes me smile before sleep look forward to your next Video Amanda
😊 thank you
That word beginning with C you mentioned, since my American girlfriend met me she's become very good at saying it (not at me usually lol). I guess she must know a British guy who says it a lot 😂
ahahh she must! where is she from?
If someone calls someone a C--- in the US the recipient is always female. In the UK it is a male.
Churchill during the war used to be seen giving the 2 finger salute to the crowds but later on in the war ,I think someone had a word in his ear because he changed it to the V for victory sign that nowadays is used as the peace ✌✌sign.
Hi Amanda, great to see you back on your TH-cam channel........Most of the examples given here are correct, but you are correct in your thoughts about the peace sign, in New castle it does indeed mean - F Off, but the fingers must be pointing toward yourself, if the opposite way around, it actually means it is a Victory sign......More please, take care gorgeous. 😘
thanks thomas! same to you :)
also just took a mouthful of my drink when you said the "bollocks" bit, and then had to wipe said drink off of monitor😆😆
lol!! sorry
"Tosser" is a slightly more polite way of saying that someone is a
ahh i gotcha! ahha
Whilst checking your phone - “your village is calling, they’ve wondered if I’ve seen their idiot - he’s gone missing”
lol!!
ive been in the states and was asked by the other guys in the lift to call them a Kin C, 5 of them they laughed for 4 floors, and bought me a drink in the bar
Historical fact:
A "pillock" is a short length of ribbon which was used, in medieval times, to hold a sheep's gut condom in place by tying it belong the scrotum
haha i had no idea!
@@LADYRAEUK Nor have 99% of us Brits!!
The two fingers salute is very specific how you show it. Famously Sir Winston Churchill would show two fingers as a good luck using the two finger shape in the “V” for Victory sign but he alway did it with his finger knuckles on display facing away from himself, which is the acceptable way. The other way is with the back of the hand facing forward thumb in holding the other fingers tight.
When I was flying on the RAF Hercules from Zagreb to Sarajevo the Croatian people when they saw us driving passed in our crew land rover they would do it similarly but they added their thumb to the gesture meaning the same Victory gesture as our basic “V” shape.
thank you for takign the time to explain, i really appreciate it :)
The Peace gesture with the two fingers is not the same, as the hand is held up facing the other way. The insult is presented with the palm towards yourself.
As regards the two-fingered 'peace sign', it is/was also a 'V for victory' symbol, and in that context Churchill used the V in both ways (knuckles toward and away from the viewer)
Well, as I understand it, the more recent meanings V-sign depends on palm facing outward or inward: palm facing outward is the peace sign passed down to the '60s.
However, palm facing inward USED TO mean Victory! as per Churchill's use (but he may have lost touch with the more recent generational meaning) ... until the dug-in trench warfare of the Great War (aka WW I), when its meaning was ironically flipped - a sort of cynical "right - victory!" with the implied sense of "F*-you!!" for suggesting the possibility.
Having been in the UK military, we used lingo( in house speak) designed to not let the locals know how we thought. Tosser is regarded as a fool or an officer that knows nothing. Wanker is mainly used as a phrase to describe someone who needs educating or forgotten about, we have also, non hackers. They are those that don’t fit in yet complain that they didn’t fit in. We call those wankers. A self perpetuating cycle I do believe.
Re not offending locals. Down in the South Atlantic the locals were called Bennys, as they tended to wear hats like Benny from Crossroads. When the top brass found out they banned it, so they became Stills (Still Bennys) 😅
"Don't worry, mate, you're really not being paranoid when you think that everyone in your unit is out to get you" - insult reserved for someone who complains that they think that nobody likes them.
(English) My favourite for idiot is 'if they had another brain, it'd be lonely '. In general, i tend to combine a random amount of swear words lol.
haha dont we all!
Now i'd never set out to deliberately insult anybody but if i did,.....i'd sure as hell make sure that person knows they've been insulted !!! xo.
That's the whole point of Brit humour, You either laugh along with it, or you show weakness, by not being able to laugh at yourself,
@@bryansmith1920I'd say the opposite. The person insulting shows weakness by not following the example of Christ Jesus. And the person that doesn't laugh shows strength because he knows it's contrived. That's how I'd see it
Hi Ms Rae. My favourite insult/put down - ‘I shall treat that remark with the contempt it deserves. Go back to the insignificance from which you should never have come!’ Yikes!
When I am being seld-deprecatory.I will say. "NOW, can I return to the obscurity that I, so, richly deserve".....
haha thats a good one :)
@@LADYRAEUK Thanks Amansa.I will give you my standard "apology". lol........." My disappointment in myself is immeasurable and no words can adequately express my remorse regarding my inexcusable faux pas. I am mortified that I got to make such a Schoolboy error and I only try to crave your forgiveness for my brief moment of total complete and utter insanity in making this mistake. I have no excuses and I can only apologize, profusely, for my stupidity, once again. You are a good man for pointing this out to me. I'm inconsolable at the moment.".
Ones I often use is "They are dimmer than a broken lightbulb" or "Thicker than frozen yoghurt"
I thought 'minger' was descended from the word 'minge', which I tend to appreciate.
I remember back in the 70s when a lot of UK comedy showed up in Canada & the US, so this stuff isn't all that unheard of.
If swearing was an Olympic sport...the UK would be top.
I think the Aussies would give us a run for the money.🤣
British humour and Aussie humour are pretty much along the same lines, which is understandable given how Australia began 😂😂😂
Yes calling your best friend the C word is normal in Britain when they have messed up, it is term of endearment and they know it... but I said the C word to my mate in a Hard Rock Cafe in Miami....... everyone stopped and looked at us ..... total silence... and for comedy genius he said "no, your the effing C....." thankfully we had paid the bill and both of us left laughing
lol ! i bet everyone looked shocked haha
We do not know Amanda we sort of ran out
I'd say it's possibly normal among those that are the most uneducated. But in the kinds of circles I'd mix in I never hear it, since I'd run a mile from anyone that vulgar and rude
The sheer attack on my name is hilarious 😂😂
Firstly I always used Mardie to mean someone was scared of stuff. My all time favourite is: You Spawney Eyed Parrot Faced Wassock.
That last word would have been "twazzock" in Gloucestershire.
I have found many here in California use the 2 finger salute when they want to say 2. I took me some time to not be insulted by it.
Yeah, I find that so funny when I see Americans doing that in videos.
Actually "Skiver" comes from the shoemaking factories, there were various jobs one of which was the Skiver, this job was to thin the thick leather with a skiving knife, and was one of the only jobs that could be done sitting down, therefore it was seen as an easy job
ahh i had no idea, thank you for sharing hta twith me :)
Maybe an urban myth, but two of the most famous British phrases. [not insults] are said to to date to the early days of Meccano, yay!!, a British invention ! It was available in two sizes, ''Box Standard', and, ' Box Deluxe'. Over the years these have evolved into into the phrases: 'Bog Standard'. and .Dog's Bollocks,!
Myth
Dogs bollocks refers to the fact dogs spend so much time licking their balls that they must taste great!😋
The origins of 'Bog standard' are disputed with little evidence supporting any of several theories.
Personal favourites are "they've got a face like a bucketful of smashed crabs" and "They smell like a Billingsgate box"
loL!! love it
I got caught out with an American colleague for using harsh language during a meeting I said under my breath "for fucks sake". She wanted to pull me up on sexual harassment and swearing in the workplace. Okay I will accept one but not the other. Bring in US HR... they were down on me from the second saying I will be dismissed from the company for using such language, when UK HR was brought in there was an investigation and many hours were wasted. Finally it cam to a senior leader based in Australia that was to tell me my sanction... I was given a verbal warning (the least punishment) but in his summation with both UK and US HR in the meeting he said "What you have to understand is those in the US are as offended by bad language as we are by mass shootings."
He then raised an HR case against the woman that reported me!
that seems a bit crazy haha
Hi Amanda, great series of vlog. The two finger salute is palm forward for victory and the other way for insult and it's palm forward for two of course.
Yes! Thank you! :))
When greeting an old friend with "still taking the ugly pills then? 🤪
lol!!
My favorite insult: "Are you naturally this stupid, or do you have to work at it?"
🤣🤣
Just a warning. Don't try these if you are not actually a Brit. You will not get them right, and people will be embarrassed for you.
I learned most of the Brit insults I know from Blackadder (actually referenced in this vid- kudos there) and the original run of The Bastard Operator From Hell. If you've ever worked in tech, it's a must-read.
haha theyre great insults haah
Another one I liked and sotimes say it to this day is "you sir are a fornicating baboon".
Tosser is like the politer or more PG version of Wanker basically, my favourite swear word/insult is Twat which is the politer more PG version of the C word which is the last proper swear word thats frowned upon by most people i would say, its another versatile word that can be used to mean a lot of different things depending on context, imo a lot of the negativity popping up in the he said/she said banter is when people are taking the words out of context and basing their reactions on just the words, i tip my hat to u for the self neg on creativity lol self deprecating humour is a huge part of British humour and shows others that we dont take ourselves too seriously and will laugh at ourselves just as much and sometimes more than we will laugh at others
Always liked "A sandwich short of a picnic"
The difference between "peace" and the two-finger salute is which way your palm is facing.
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Yea, something Churchill got wrong from time to time.
@@tk9780 Deliberately, by the way. I believe the whole V-sign thing was an ambiguous way of saying, "Up yours, Nazis".
Oh, he knew.
I’m a Brit, and I’m constantly calling people a ‘flannel’
The best insults are the ones that you walk away from and hear HEY! as you’re going.
Since this is the U (Universal, Suitable For All) version of insults I shall go with "Muddy-Funster" and, my own personal favourite that I use on a daily basis when watching most Tipping Point contestants "You utter twonk".
haha thats great !
When NWA debut on bbc radio 1 they needed to cover up MF with another word that sounds the same, tried a few alternatives, Muddy funster monkey feather mother father.
Favourite insult, Your educated beyond your intelligence, Said to a boss or higher manager.
Google what the slang meaning off a mott is. We went to see the hand that rocked the cradle after a few beers late at night and when Dr Mott was a gynaecologist that was it, film over the whole cinema was roaring laughing
Minging is such a good word. It's UK military slang 👍
The piss taking culture is funny watching Americans trying to understand if we like or hate that person
Its simple, you guys hate everything.
Mardy is Leicestershire and surrounding counties. So geographically East Midlands
Ah okay, thanks ☺️
Well if you consider Grimsby and Sheffield East Midlands, yeah.
Mostly in london 'merchant'
I was born,bred,lived in east London 37 yrs - bit older now & not there anymore - but I started to greet mates by turning the offensive word C.U.Next.Tuesday by adding the letters -> Y or ie
lol !
the two finger sign is straight knuckle side showing which means FO put nicely go away...turning the hand with palm showing is the peace sign as you know...the word mardy began in Leicester in the midlands in fact the actual full wording is mardya*se which i believe has been shortened over time during the time it has travelled over the years and is not country wide take care
Flipping the bird is the middle finger, putting two fingers up is the equivalent of Fu*k Off, well in Wales it is 😂👍