Oi, Cockneys - no!

[Cycleops]

Just to fill in the blank gold watch is scotch.

 

[Drago]

A Scottish gold watch? Now there's a thing.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I don't think it's rude not to speak to people on one's commute. I'm one of those people who, on a train or bus, will just sit there for the entire duration without talking or making eye contact with anyone. This is not being rude, it's just being comfortable with silence. So many people can not handle periods of silence and feel the need to start a meaningless conversion just for the sake of it. It is the human equivalent of sitting on the sofa with the TV on, not watching it. I'd hazard a guess and say that if anyone in London genuinely needed help (e.g. directions) then most people would speak to them. If I asked someone for help and they ignored me, then that would be rude, but I've never experienced that.

 

[Lonestar]

Took me a long time to get used to it @Electric_Andy and was why originally why I avoided using the tube and commuted by bike in the 1990's to SW London when my work moved...Although I was already cycle commuting before then.I rarely use the tube nowadays also and can't remember the last time I was on a bus.Must be well over five years ago.

 

[potsy]

Yeah, I think so. It contains elements of what is termed rhyming slang. Myleene is short for Myleene Klass, which rhymes with ass. Rub a dub is short for rub a dub dub which rhymes with pub.
Put it together and what Cyclops is saying that the members of the think tank need a kick up a donkey and that, were he to encounter a northerner, he would take them to the pub and buy them a gold watch.
Why anyone would want to kick someone up a donkey is beyond me. The gold watch will of course be stolen and not real gold.
HTH.

I understood it perfectly well, I used to watch Eastenders so have experience of real cockney behaviour.

 

[Hacienda71]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4oaGQ2POC8

 

[petek]

Dead easy to freak out Londoners when in London.
Just smile, nod and say "Good morning."

 

[Andrew_P]

I would hate it if everywhere I went random people started to engage with me. Especially if its about ferrets, allotments and being called pet, love or duck!

 

[petek]

I would hate it if everywhere I went random people started to engage with me. Especially if its about ferrets, allotments and being called pet, love or duck!

When we moved to Leicester having lived and worked in London I couldn't at first fathom what those circles of people just standing in the street were up to.
They were chatting.
We're from t'north originally and you just don't see that oop north of Manchester and never in London.

 

[Drago]

Fascinating insight into the lives and culture of native Londoners.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWPR9TM0Gk

 

[Andrew_P]