"Getting the Slang of It" with Brett Goldstein 

he's here, he's there, he's fucking everywhere!

Another Brit here. In my neck of the woods we call a fart a trump. As in “did you just trump?” Never heard a fart referred to as a fluff.

Roy Kent! He's here. He's there, he's every fucking where!!

Brit here - I’ve never in my life heard of “bum & parsley”. That’s a load of cobblers!

"I mean.. not something I've come across..." * blink blink *

Just LOVE him...

"He's wafflin' on with his bit of fluff." "Well, Bob's your uncle, then."

Ach, dinnae fash yersel. "Yer arse in parsley, yer bums out the windae" is Glaswegian and the sassenachs noo unnerstan ut.

Love all of the call backs!

I love this guy so much!

He DEFINITELY is a writer (a fact I only found about from the recent Colbie interview with him). 😂 Love you dude!

Oh I love him so much

"Bob's your uncle" means "mission accomplished." Example: "Here's how we do make this cake: mix it up, pour it into the pan, pop it in the oven, and Bob's your uncle."

‘I don’t know what the pig did’ 😂😂😂

I'm British and have heard and/or used all of these other than "You're all bum and parsley". Growing up, whenever my mum trumped she'd say she's "just fluffed as women don't trump". Oh yeah, "Trump" is another word we use for "Fart" too, and came before the ex-president Trump was anybody.

LOVE ITTTTTTTTTT! Roy Kent!

"Fluff" is used (or was 30 yrs ago) as a euphemism for "fuck up". "He fluffed it" means he failed at something, e.g. scoring a goal, asking a girl out, sitting an exam.

American here and I going to use Fanny Adam's at work ALL DAY LONG😁

they tried hard to make the segment unfunny, but Brett carries it to humor

Well done mate! You’re doin us proud! Chuffed we are!! See ya soon, me ol China. 😊

‘Made a right pig’s ear’. I think in that context the ‘right’ is like a synonym for ‘proper’, not specifically talking about the right ear of the pig. 🤔 I know Brits do use ‘right’ in that manner.

Remember him in the Ricky Gervais series, Derek? He was great!

Since I learnt who Fanny Adams actually was I find it hard to use sweet f a. Fanny Adams and sweet f a have become connected unfortunately but they weren't originally.

Ah, you youngsters. Maybe you need to be a certain age to know fluff in the fart sense - used in my school all the time 😂

Stephen Colbert brett Goldstein getting the slang awesomeness job

He’s here. He’s there. He’s fucking everywhere

My father was born and raised in London and he says "foof" for fart. Did you just foof? Lol

They missed out: "All mouth and trousers"

Sweet FA is actually older and sadder than most people who use it realise. Fanny Adams was a Victorian era child, murdered and chopped up into tiny pieces - there was nothing left of her, hense it entered the lexicon as slang for 'sweet nothing'.

And there's a second part to that "Bob's your uncle". The full saying is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt"

Ok I’m not British but I assumed for whatever reason fluff meant fart! 😅

I wanna be this man's bit of fluff

I vaguely remember "anorak" being an insult for a nerd but it's super old. I'm guessing late 80s at the most? (if it had been in use I would have heard it thrown my way!)

Take the biscuit. Not take the cake. Fanny Adams was a child murdered in 1867, and chopped up into myriad small pieces, i.e. chopped meat, nuffingk. Navy slang then arose for their new rations of tinned, chopped meat 😱. Sweet F.A. also stands for 'zilch, nada, nothing ', like her body (never found, unlike the perpetrator).Her brutal death was widely reported in the media, caught the imagination of the public.

what? your avin a bubble mate!!! (bubble bath=laugh)

I legit think the writers made up “bum and parsley” just to be silly. Sounds like something they would do.

Love ‘extra’ posts but this was especially amusing. I had to watch it three times in a row☮️

We used fluff for f*rt in the fifties. I'm a Northerner. And yes I haven't kicked the bucket yet

Could “all bum and parsley” be a reference to cooking? If you’re making do with thin resources (say, I don’t know, a housewife on the home front during one of the wars), you could get the cheapest cut of meat from the butchers (we’d call that “rump roast” in the US, and rump = bum), dress it up with a load of parsley, and it could look like a meal.

Fluffer! Omg what a job!

The term 'Sweet Fanny Adams' stems from the murder and dismemberment of an 8 year old girl in 1867. Perhaps many people who use the term don't understand the connection, but it always shocked me that people would treat such a serious matter so flippantly by using her name that way.

Wish Brett had done "naff". It would definitely require a bleep.

He is so handsome

Blast! I've got a bad rubber. Pull onto the nearest layby, open the boot & get out the johnny.

Bob's your uncle, Sally's your aunt.

I knew what "Bob's your uncle" translated to, but am curious about it's origin. Any anoraks out there?

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This is Brett’s week first Harley Quinn valentine special now this

My new son in law is British! Im gonna send this video to the family, so we can be on the same page with him! ❤ thx

I Actually learned some British slang that I never heard before! 😁

What about some cockney rhymes like up the apple and pears

as i understand it, fanny adams was a young child who was born a very long time ago, who was found murdered. some how, people started using her initials to represent the phrase, "fuck all". supposedly that's when that phrase first came in to existence. i learned that from the youtube channel, "thoughty2".

I thought this was a WIRED video😂

It's funny, I'd heard all of the ones he'd heard of except for anorak. And I didn't realise any of them weren't used in the US. Never heard fluff mean trump, or "bum and parsley".

That's very south east England specific. Not really 'British'. More London (ish).

I think Viagra may have put an end to a career as a fluffer!

Waffling on with that bit of fluff!

It's chesty claire anorak.

Dear American friends. I would like to explain a few things about this video that are somewhat misleading. Unfortunately, our English neighbours (I live in Scotland), very often confuse England for Britain. Let me explain. There is not really such thing as “British Slang”. Most of the slang that Brett showed in his video is English slang. Except “You are all bum and parsley” (which is Scottish slang), in the 30 years I have lived in Scotland I have rarely ever heard someone use any of the other expressions (unless they moved up from England or on TV or the radio). We have our own slang here in Scotland, and we are proud of it. Calling something British is a very English thing and it annoys a lot of people in Scotland. You would rarely ever hear a Scot say that “you are all bum and parsley” is British slang, they would call it just slang or Scottish slang. The reason many Scots don’t like what they often refer to as “Union Jackery” (referring to the plastering Union Jacks on everything Scottish) is because it erodes the Scottish identity. The result is that we see more and more instances where something that is iconically Scottish, is now referred to as British. It is not unsurprising that people are confused and think that everything is the same wherever you go in the UK, when it clearly isn’t. Scotland is very proud of its identity, culture and produce and we are passionate about making sure that that identity is not watered down or eroded by this relentless Britification of everything. So dear English friends, kindly stop calling things British when you actually mean to say English, unless you talk about something that is truly British, like driving on the left or drinking beer in pints, especially when you try and explain something to those who do not live in the British isles.

Aquí te tengo un slang Brett, eres un sojas

brett blink twice if you need help

He’s a right bad man, innit bruv? Just a little something to wind the Americans up 😛

Most of these seem to be different ways of saying “Fuck”

taking the piss is known as ranking in the USA

British slang makes me want to move there just to experience it!

As a Brit, I can confirm nobody in Britain has ever used 'fluff' for fart

In contrast, “up the duff” means pregnant.

He’s joking about the left ear. As if I am informing anybody.

"A right pig's ear" means *definitely* a total mess, no question about it. Has nothing to do with right or left.

Maybe somebody saw guff and thought it was misspelt so just went for fluff

Do two another slang means double it

"Fluffie" is slang for fart the same way "trump" is, but I thought that was only in Australia.

Anorak = Granola/crunchy person?

so cute

I say that British people is half Türk, who immigrate from Türkiye. 😅

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Pigs ear best EVER WORDD

wait? do other americans not know the phrase "taking the piss"? i heard this phrase all the time growing up in Buffalo NY

What does "Sticky Wicket" translate to?

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Please find me a British person that uses all bum n parsley on a regular basis. I’m English and I can’t imagine anyone saying it

This explains why whenever you hear brits talk to each other it always sounds like they grew up near each other, possibly as friends. They have so many "insiders" that work throughout their nation...

Good bit but - even speaking as an American (who lived in England & has many Brit friends) - a lot of this slang is a little bit restricted to certain groups of people, not in general usage. I imagine everyone in Britain understands all these phrases, but they were picked for being interesting, not because everyone says them all the time. (Side note - "Bob's your uncle" is pretty widely used; we certainly have said it in the States since before my time)

Does that mean he did write everything he didn’t say he didn’t write?

'Anorak' means 'Snow Suit' in german

Any news on Colbert's stay on EPSTEIN ISLAND ? His name was on the list.

I'm English and I've never heard "did you just fluff" either

I only get my Bacon from consenting Pigs

Doesn’t “Bob’s you’re uncle” mean that you can get away with it / anything “ ?

Is this guy related to Dick Van Dyke?

The real and most common SE England slang for this totally bogus "all bum and parsley" expression would be "all mouth and trousers" - preferably pronounced "mahf 'n' trahzers".

Hey you got the old last week tonight void

0:21 "Did you just fluff?" I've never heard this one spoken by anyone here! 2:11 "You're all bum and parsley" - I think that this is Scottish slang specifically, but I've never heard it spoken either!

If you're an anorak about something, you are the equivalent of a trainspotter for your favourite subject. A geek with loads of useless in-depth knowledge about what you love.

feel like some of these would be like insisting that americans constantly say "broad" to refer to women

Fluff---- Fart

I couldn't understand*JACK SHYTE.

I think it's a class issue. I wouldn't use any of those words or sayings. My parents did not spend money on our expensive schooling, only to have us speak like dock workers.

Mastermind is a know it all not that parsley bollocks (Bollocks/made up/Bullshit) ref to a uk tv quiz show based on knowledge of anorak interests

Why is Stephen Colbert's name I the Jeffrey Epstein flight list?