Yup
Stormzy (musical artist) and the whole grime scene is probably a good resource for MLE usage.
But why? 
Ite geeez ye u kno it, u get me?
British English already peaked anyway. Tons of fantastic words. Bloke. Geezer. Mate. Innit. Twat. Knackered.
Wish I had more opportunity to use these fine words out here. I said cock-up the other day and my gf was just dumbfounded.
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Ay bruv!
I am coining a new term for those of us with a complex social background:
multi-slang-ual
(Ye ken it aight first, amirite?)
(Sheet mon, it irieā¦)
She was flabbergasted.
You canāt use the term knackered anymore apparently.
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Why not? Horses are offended?
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so is this MLE?
lots of silly videos from this guy
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Got her knackers in a twist. 
Is it because knacker is a slur against travellers?
Knacker is the (not very nice) term we use in Ireland for travellers. Knackered is now being outlawed cos of this. 
Even though we arenāt referring to travellers when we say knackered. Which is what Dermot Kennedy was explaining and he still got a ācancelation noticeā.
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Am I understanding right that when asked for examples of Irish slang, he offered an ethnic slur 
Probably not the quickest thinking 
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For fuck sake. Canāt we keep this, like weāve kept fag for cigarettes?
Iām starting to see how it happens that younger people think older people are more offensive/racist than they are. It quite possibly isnāt that they have become offensive or bigoted, itās just that the goalposts have changed.
As my friend put it the other day, there will probably be some retrospect on the current period and there will be atrocities that we will be blamed for.
āYou threw a laptop out the window after reading a forum post on a forum about a country that you donāt live in? Did you not consider the environmental impact of that/safety of the bricks that it landed on/the rights of the laptop itself to become a sentient being? Isnāt it cultural appropriation to be a forum member if you donāt live there?!ā 
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Iāve done a bit of googling and it seems the job of a knacker was considered low-level. I assume thatās why the travelling community are called it by people who dislike them in Ireland. Itās all news to me, but interesting to learn something new.
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They were called tinkers or knackers because thatās what they did. They travelled the country fixing pots and pans made of tin.
Knackered things, or knick knacks?
I never really connected the word knackered with them though. Anyway its another one thatās going to 86ed from our vocab.
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At junior school we werenāt allowed to say, āknackered,ā because it has the meaning to be sexually exhausted. I was at junior school from 1981 to 1988 for historical reference.
Comparing British English to American English often highlights just how culturally restricted North Americans are when it comes to knowing about the outside world.
A very good, worldly wise friend from New York didnāt know the word doddle yesterday. I was surprised.
My favourite English slang expression is knob head. Itās constantly usable.
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? That"s a new one on me, what does that mean?
To merk someone.
Take a dish off a menu, isnāt it?
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According to Google a knacker killed horses.
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