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I just sent this to a couple of British friends of mine to translate
I’m British, let me do you the honour:
“Gesib, hit is earfoð þæt to secgenne. Hƿilum þū eart mid þīnum ƿinuman ƿandigende beforan JD’s ceapstōre, and þū miht ƿilnian þæs cires-clybbe æt þǣm Spōnum, ac þīn gefera Calum – þæt is ānhoga and hlāford beþēahte drycra – þæt ealdor of Banterbury, ƿill secgan: ‘Brōðras, ƿuton gān to þǣm scēadan Nando’s.’ And þū ƿilt secgan: ‘Þæt is tōp! ƿuton hit tōsmiþian!’”
S-tier shit post.
That clears it up perfectly! Thank you!
I don’t know why people bang on about Nando’s, it’s not even that good.
I understood all of this but it was still quite hard to read because lots of people talk like this but nobody writes that way.
I love peri peri chicken but Nando’s is among the worst I’ve had. I don’t understand it, either.
The last time I was at a Nando’s I thought to try my hand at mild flirting, it somehow worked and the lady seemed interested, however before I could get her number I started getting extreme abdominal cramps and spent half the visit on the toilet… Praying to every god I could think of.
She said she’d like to see me again. I never went back. It’s just not worth it… Good chicken though.
Thank you, Laszlo.
This is a quote from a horror story. I’m annoyed that I can’t seem to find it with a search, or remember the title or author. It’s a good story. It goes on like this, iterating through more and more awful Nandos-based scenarios without ever losing the Chav speech patterns.
Hmm. Maybe the quote came first. There’s a lot more hits for it than for the story.
Nando’s is a South African multinational fast casual restaurant chain that specialises in Portuguese flame-grilled, peri-peri style chicken. The name is derived from a nickname for the male given name Fernando in reference to one of the company’s founders, as in Fernando’s restaurant. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987.
Wizard.
I think the big point of confusion is why it’s cheeky to go to this restaurant.
As the other commentator said, it’s a bit of a “treat yoself” moment for a fast food chain thing that’s surprisingly good.
Though, when I was there, nobody actually called it a cheeky nandos, it was just “let’s go to Nandos”.
Then it wasn’t a cheeky visit!
“cheeky” is a bit like a little treat. Something you shouldn’t do, but isn’t a big deal
Because you were going to get curry.
“archbishop of banterbury” really got me. Top shelf.
This has been a thing on British-speaking dating app profiles for at least 10 years to the point that I absolutely hate it now.
I’m sorry for your loss.
And all this time I thought it was that one kick Will Osprey does.
I had some colleagues from UK, who talked like that from time to time between themselves. God knows how many cheeky beers we had.
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Isn’t it just eating at nandos? Like that was the least confusing part of this whole conversation to me
I’m calling foul. There’s no way an absolute ledge would call it “the Spoons”. It’s just “Spoons”.
Not that I’d drink there, mind. Fucking Brexit Arms.
Are you a southerner by any chance?Do you call it a bap, a roll? I’ve heard it called ‘the spoons’ when I was in Manchester (I’m French though, sorry about it. Proof: ‘squiwwel’)It’s a roll, mate. Baps are tits, WAHEY!
Baps are grand, don’t be a muppet!
I like how apparently Northern Scotland and the Southern bit of Northern Ireland just don’t have any bread at all. Apparently the heathens don’t deserve it.
… but there’s only one spoons in their locality
There’s only one Spoons near me. It’s called Spoons.
and what if there were two, but only one good one. What would that be called?
The good spoons.
It’s a purely hypothetical question though. Spoons are all trash
There’s one in Newcastle where downstairs is trash and the upstairs is merely crap. They do weddings, if you want the most depressing wedding in the world.
I know the one. Nice staircase, but I’m not the target market for the over-50’s disco night
As @silasmariner@programming.dev has already noted, there’s no such thing as a “good Spoons”. They’re all McDonald’s for beer.
But if you need to differentiate between two, you’d use their location.
That is: “Meet at Spoons by the station for a pre-town sesh, yeah?”
Or: “We were in Spoons next to Nandos. We’d had some cheeky piri piri and Damo went and shat himself when he necked a Stella! Absolute scenes, mate. Pure bants.”
All wrong. The spoons is where the ledge stuff once happened.
Haven’t stepped foot in one since 2016, with one exception where I went for a piss and run, can’t say being there brought back fond memories, bit depressing if anything.
why is his mate an arch bishop?
Archbishop of Canterbury, but “banter” instead of “Canter” because he’s good at banter
oooh that’s funny
Cuz he’s an absolute ledge, brevs.
Cor
got is bants pants on
Never thought I’d see the day that Australian English sticks closer to proper English than British English
mate ‘struth eh? One arvo your pissing around with your mates at JB browsing heaps and you might fancy a durry and flat white from HJs but ol’ mate Dazza who’s a shitcunt and the PM of piss-takes will be like 'bruz let’s have a cheeky nandos" and you’ll reckon “Mad. Let’s fang it”
This is british english.
I thnk that’s what they meant, as in, surprised that the British have bastardized English more than the Aussies have
My bad!
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sketti and meatballs
Neither do the yanks!
as the only ones capable of proper English, the English language is passed on to the Dutch.
The might as well take English. They just sound drunk when they speak their own language.
(To Germans…apparently)
Spaghetti is an Italian word, so it’s fine!
- That’s redneck speak, not Yankee speak. Yanks say things like “fuggetabout it”, and “Hey! I’m wolkin’ 'ere!”
- Rednecks are mostly confined to the South-Eastern part of the country. Yanks are in the Northeast. Most Americans are neither Yanks nor Rednecks.
Yep. We’re 50 countries in a trench coat. We have about a dozen dialects, many occasionally incomprehensible to others. My favorite example of this is “finnabouttabe.”
The English language itself is like nine languages in a trench coat. It’s mainly German/Dutch & French, with some sprinkling of Latin and various other romantic languages.
And most Brits are not chavs or MadLads, yet this post exists.
The drunks want chicken. S’not Italian.
I feel like it’s one of those things where as a native speaker you really should be able to understand it but if you’re ESL it’s fucking nightmare zone of slang and strong accents.
I’m American and living in the UK, it’s just as hard as if I was ESL
Give yourself some credit: it is ESL
I speak many Englishes
Basically yeah
It’s a quick in-and-out kebab place. You’re not necessarily getting a normal meal, youre just popping in for a quick bite of chicken
Cheeky = playfully naughty more or less
