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Today in WTF!?

Grant Brissey
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Art.
Betsy Ross on March 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM Report this
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i vote that they are serious
on March 10, 2010 at 1:18 PM Report this
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Looks vaguely Canadian to me, I don't know why.
Timmytee on March 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM Report this
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Looks gay to me..maybe serious gay Canadians. Are there Afro-Canadians?
driver on March 10, 2010 at 1:25 PM Report this
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It's a pisstake. I can't remember what grime crew it is but they've got a few videos where they just get crazy but it's parody.
dotSpec on March 10, 2010 at 1:27 PM Report this
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Sargon, I hope you meant "rapping"...
Timmytee on March 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM Report this
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@6: I think you mean rapping.

@5: Links or it's not true.
Grant Brissey, Emeritus on March 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM Report this
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What is a pisstake? Is that where one TAKEs some time out to release excrement (as in PISS)?
douchus on March 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM Report this
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@6 Raping on rollerskates is incredibly efficient.
funkathrusta on March 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM Report this
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Looks British to me, with that brick housing project.
starsandgarters on March 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM Report this
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They're like that rollerskating gang in the Warriors.
on March 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM Report this
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Gangsters ? if they're anywhere near some now, let's just say I don't envy their situation ... damn shame.
Loveschild on March 10, 2010 at 1:55 PM Report this
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shut up loveschild, you suck and no one wants to listen to a god damn thing you have to say
on March 10, 2010 at 2:11 PM Report this
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Warriors! Come out to pla-ee-ay!!!
on March 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM Report this
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Wonderful! "Taking the piss" is a perfect description of this (and is an immensely useful expression I'm surprised hasn't been adopted sooner this side of the pond).
gloomy gus on March 10, 2010 at 2:17 PM Report this
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@8 Search on YouTube for Shadrack & The Mandem they've done a couple videos where they just straight up act fools and do an overblown parody of all the other grime videos you find on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOochMM3…
dotSpec on March 10, 2010 at 2:19 PM Report this
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@ 17: Thanks!
Grant Brissey, Emeritus on March 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM Report this
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@14, totally.
ng53 on March 10, 2010 at 2:29 PM Report this
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I saw this on Comedy Central's show Tosh.0 (which is my guilty pleasure show), and thought it was awesome. But that's probably because for 6 years as a teen, I was a DJ/Floor Guard at a roller rink, and I can also roller disco.
nicholaus on March 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM Report this
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@ 16 - 'Taking the piss' outta somebody is one of those Brit expressions I just never could quite understand.. It's like, why would I want to keep my piss anyway? Why would someone want to take it? I mean, I understand the meaning, but the words are... funny.

The other Brit expression I could never cotton to is to say 'Ta' when you mean 'Thanks'. To an American ear, 'Ta' means 'See ya', so you've basically got all these people running around sounding like they're saying 'See ya' when you hand them a bagel or something. Weird.

Americans and the British: two people divided by a common language.
merry on March 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM Report this
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They're speaking in my hometown accent: Totally South London, probably Croydon or thereabouts. In a tight spot I used to be able to on thick like that, but these days I sound too much like a yank :)
Stowe on March 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM Report this
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@21: There's levels of saying thanks that american english just doesn't have. 'Cheers' is informal, 'Ta' super-so. To British ears, Americans sound overly polite when they say 'Thanks' for just about everything.
Stowe on March 10, 2010 at 6:39 PM Report this
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Americans are "overly polite?" Seriously? You don't know us very well.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM Report this
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@23: Apparently, there's levels of American English that you just don't understand at all.
Lee on March 10, 2010 at 7:55 PM Report this
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@24&25: oh no, I know you very well now, having been married to and lived here for a third of my natural life ... you kids kinda missed my point :)
Stowe on March 11, 2010 at 7:59 AM Report this
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Oh, I got your point just fine, old chap, but it was more fun to mess around with you. Ta!
Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 11, 2010 at 8:23 AM Report this

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