Bristish Slang for their Motherland

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I am always amused at the various names/references that Britons have for their country such as old blighty. Anyone have more?

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Old dart, but that maybe Australian/NZ.

HG

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I don’t know if you know but Blighty is old British Army slang and comes from the Hindi word for Britain “Belaiti”

There are a lot of these words in common use in Britain or at least there were when I was a child e.g. chit, dekko, doolali.
i always found them amusing.

I found older people in New Zealand who still referred to Britain as “Home” even though they’d never been there, even more amusing, though it may have been rather tongue in cheek.

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Someone from England is Limey or they are from an the the island on the old side of the pond. Being from Nova Scotia you could say I’m a bit of an “Old Boy”

here is my redition of god save(shave) the queen

God shave our gracious queen
both legs and in between god shave our queen

Let her sit over us
rectun and oriphus
God I wish she could blow all of us

God shave our queen

question
where is the best place to find a knife

in the back of an Englishman

what is an English man?

A Scotsman with his head kicked in.

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Useless trivia: Which part of Scotland is officially part of Nova Scotia?

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?

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scot ???

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?[/quote]
You of all people should know snydewinder. Your kind perform there frequently.

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?[/quote]
You of all people should know snydewinder. Your kind perform there frequently.[/quote]

where like Cape Breton- you know they still speak Gaelic there, but only old people can speak it now. The Canadian goverment basiclly destroied the the Gaelic culture back in the 50’s and 60’s.

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?[/quote]Yes, we need to know this, it needs to be quelled. Seems we missed a bit.

It must be one of these areas:

  1. Inverfuck
  2. Giggles
  3. West Stabbing
  4. Lost
  5. Dead Man's Crater
  6. East Twatshire
  7. North Bastardshire
  8. Michty
  9. Gibsontown
  10. Chib
  11. Midbollock
  12. East Bollock
  13. Clacketyplook
  14. Knife
  15. Swearytoon
  16. here be dragons sheep
  17. Sheepshire
  18. Sheeptoon
  19. Furry
  20. Fuck All
  21. Na h-Eileanan Siar (formerly Leper/graduate colonies)]]
  22. US TERRITORY
  23. Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls
  24. Valley of the Shadow of Death
  25. North Arseshire
  26. East Arseshire
  27. South Arseshire
  28. Sleekit and Pish
  29. South Bastardshire
  30. No Man's Land

(above shamelessly stolen from uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Scotland )

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?[/quote]
You of all people should know snydewinder. Your kind perform there frequently.[/quote]

Or is it Edinburough castle

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You’re off-course with location. I have a fucking amazing CD by a band from Cape Breton, the name of which escapes me now.

But Edinburgh castle esplanade is officially Nova Scotia soil, if you care to know. Its true.

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I’m not too sure sandman why don’t you tell me?[/quote]
You of all people should know snydewinder. Your kind perform there frequently.[/quote]

Or is it Edinburough castle[/quote]

hah I knew it I’ve been there

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[quote]

question
where is the best place to find a knife

in the back of an Englishman

what is an English man?

A Scotsman with his head kicked in.[/quote]

MI-6 will be contacting you shortly :rainbow: