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[can-]

hench

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[maj]

hench is someone who is swole af

[RycePooding]

Germ just called me hench. This is helpful.

[germinal]

hench, like a henchman

i.e. tonk, built, stacked

[can-]

Tonk



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[charybdis]

Er, just read this

What does "are ye cheeky, luv?" mean?

[germinal]

it roughly translates to "are you cheeky, love?"

[charybdis]

[germinal]

sorry i was being facetious

he's asking if she's a prude or not so he can judge whether it's appropriate to talk about ferrets hanging off his bellend in her presence

[bels]

Militarial

[Syeknom]

Asking if she's game/unphased by sex talk

[can-]

the hell is 'ronseal' lmao definitely not a word

[germinal]

[can-]

'Wowch'

-syeknom

[RycePooding]

"proper job"

-Seyknom

[Syeknom]

[smiles]

apparently there's a fair bit of cornish or something in rural vermont accents

[Syeknom]

Is/was there much of a mining industry there? There was a lot of Cornish diaspora to the West and Australasia during the 18th and 19th centuries when these regions needed skilled miners. These migrants are known as "Cousin Jacks"

[can-]

"Palaver"

-'Bobbin'

[Syeknom]

"What a palaver!" is quite common as meaning "what a fuss/ordeal/hubbub/racket"

[charybdis]

ahhhhh the app I use on my phone to access IRC is called palaver. That makes so much sense now.

[Syeknom]

[charybdis]

what is a digestive and why are we dipping them in our tea?

[germinal]

v important

[Syeknom]

They're like lifeblood

McVities are very expensive here though, exotic foreign food

dwindles in tea they go all soft and soggy with delicious tea and the tea gets loads of yummy crumbs in. Very relaxing!

[can-]

there's nothing relaxing about cookie crumbs in anything

[Syeknom]

Not cookies though is it

[can-]

oi polloi ?

[bels]

Hoi Polloi, means the common man.

[charybdis]

What on earth is a "chav"?