Can Americans Guess British Slang? REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@darnarxz]

A lot of this is Jamaican slang/patois. Go to any city with Jamaican people like NYC or Toronto and you will hear these terms too.

[@starofdabloc]

It really was just Caribbean slang just brought over to the UK 😂 I’m sure there’s loads more but those ones were word for word

[@justlooking1087]

Lol not really, just listening to the first two, they aren’t Caribbean. Peng is not Caribbean and Fam is something everyone adopted from America. And Piff is American, I don’t remember what state but it’s American.

[@starofdabloc]

@@justlooking1087 Yeah I should’ve just said most of them. I know about that fam one though we’ve been saying that since like the 80s 90s 😂 But I’ve never heard Piff in my entire life though.

[@kalinin._]

@@justlooking1087 bredin and dead ting is Jamaican patwa

[@justlooking1087]

@@kalinin._ Yeah bredrin is Patois and ting is Patois, but as a phrase, I heard “dead ting” in the UK before I ever heard a Jamaican say it. As the Blokes said, to call something dead is an English thing. I could be wrong about that though, I’m not Jamaican but, my grandfather is and I grew up on Jamaican media and I never heard it growing up

[@williambill5172]

I thought "dead ting" was a Jamaican term like, "Hey mon, go ova der and grab me 'dead ting' off the table"!

[@LeahB31]

They’d say, ‘dat’ or ‘da’ or ‘de’, not ‘dead.’

[@williambill5172]

@@LeahB31 I guess it was a bad joke!

[@thezu9250]

A lot of the slang comes from the Caribbean

[@kalinin._]

Yea I’m Jamaican and I was so confused but I know there is a big population of Jamaicans there so I figured the slang came from them and the uk just started to adopt it in a way

[@casswashwash1070]

@@williambill5172 very

[@beesmitty3435]

That big girl is a riot. Shoulda had her make song outta all the slang at the end, practically turned each one into a hook trying to decipher them.

[@arnoldrivas4590]

Joyce is one iconic woman of Buzzfeed.

[@NikkiCox81]

The absolute best British slang are the ones that use tit. “Tits up” is so, so funny. The way I was taught in the south eastern U.S. you never speak impolitely and my grandmother would have freaked if I had said “tit” so casually in conversation. That’s what makes it so good! 😂😂 I’m such a rebel. 🤣🤣

[@jdawg3629]

Yeah, but your last name is a dirrrty slang, so I'm sure your fam was dropping gems left and right

[@sleepyheadluke]

tits up is British?

[@iwi2042]

I'm a big fan of "Put wood in hole" (close the door)

[@ky-passley4769]

A number of these slangs are Jamaican slangs.

[@Person-gk5ee]

Yeah they mostly come from the Caribbean community in London and have caught on throughout the country.

[@brickantonio4523]

Some of the slang from London sound Jamaican because there large Jamaican live in London.

[@gacaptain]

We get that. But that means it’s not British Slang it’s Jamaican slang.

[@officeblokedaz]

What’s her name? 😂

[@playlistkweentv]

A swear Jamaica is such a small country that has strong influence on the world "wi likkle but wi tallawah"

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

"What up blood? What up cuz?" That was 1980s American. And not even American per se, it was LA. How is that British slang?

[@DiaryofaBasicBW]

This is island slang. Not native to UK. We know the territories brought island people to the UK with their culture and vernacular.

[@LilliLamour]

"Fam" is straight from the Hood. That term is older than me. lol

[@joshsmith302]

That was funny guys.😂 Need one going the other way for you guys. Keep up with the good work 😎👍

[@StrosB4Hos]

Dude was thinking bout Drake’s song Blem from the More Life album. “I need you to stop running back to your ex he’s a wasteman.” Drake uses a ton of Jamaican slang from Toronto.

[@gnarxy]

agree, its crazy how much of this slang remind me of Jamaican linguistics

[@jdawg3629]

Makes sense, since it was a British colony

[@123reletive123]

Most British slang now is basically just Jamaican patois

[@nebbindog6126]

Back when I first started watching British television, I was like wtf is chuffed. The folks on Time Team, which I was binge watching, kept using it, and I wasn't quite sure if it was academic slang.

[@NikkiCox81]

Chuffed is the one that throws me off. It sounds negative but I always hear it in a positive context. Then I heard that it could also be negative. What? Lol!

[@limeygaynor]

Chuffed means really pleased.

[@NikkiCox81]

@@limeygaynor I don’t know why it always makes me think of someone being mad. Maybe because it reminds me of “miffed”? 🤷🏼‍♀️😄

[@JJ-006]

Jamaica has had such a huge impact in english culture 🇬🇧🤍🇯🇲

[@AstralStef]

On world culture

[@iwi2042]

@@AstralStef literally

[@Emileee420]

From lake Charles, Louisiana! Always love the office blokes 😍

[@danielbcurtis]

me too!

[@Guy_de_Loimbard]

"Gretchen, stop trying to make 'Peng' happen. It's not going to happen."

[@MoeDavinci]

10:56 Drake used to term Wasteman on the song Blem back in 2017

[@ramonw9430]

Fam is American, The rapper Camron was the first say it in a song in the 90s. Also, piff is used in certain hip hop circles in the US. There's an American website for mixtapes called Dat Piff. It basically means that high quality thing, in this case it would be mixtapes. I'm not sure if it was a Jamaican term first but it definitely sounds like it could be as we get some influences from Jamaica as well being in such close proximity to the island.

[@JJ-006]

12:14Mike: is that like Harry Potter or something 😂😂😂 bless him

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

That chick in the pink seems like a really cool person.

[@TimpossibleOne]

Fam came from urban American slang

[@JoeyDaPal]

I know this video is from a while back but I felt it would be the most appropriate. I thought you guys would want to check out a mini-series Achievement Hunter has in one of their old shows "Ready Set Show" where Gavin Free of the Slow Mo Guys gives the hosts Trevor and Jeremy 3 pieces of British slang and makes them guess which one is the fake.

[@ashtontaylor9187]

A lotta that was Jamaican patois mixing of cultures

[@lancewilson7736]

Top Boy is the show blokes. Great vid per usual. No🧢💯

[@robwebnoid5763]

I'm in the US & just as the the Blokes were commenting, slang is not only locational (UK, US, etc) but also generational. We rarely use slang today that was common among young people in the 1950's-1960's, including the hippie/beatnik days, such as "square", "groovy" or "far out". We still remember what they mean though, but we dare not say them for it might look like I be "trippin'" & then be considered a "drab" or a "dweeb". If the 1960's seems far away, think about the slang back during Victorian times in the late 1800's, which is twice farther back than the 60's. I would think not many of those Victorian terms have survived to this day, although you will sometimes hear phrases such as "what in tarnation" or "what in the blazes", etc.

[@kkandola9072]

The term square is still used, as in somebody who is boring and timid.

[@robwebnoid5763]

@@kkandola9072 ... Yes it is, but not commonly as it was in the 1940's to 1960's. I think the modern versions would be something like lame, flat, dead, dull, bore, etc.

[@kkandola9072]

@@robwebnoid5763 I’m 21 and live in California, and I heard square very often growing up. It is still very common. It could be regional too.

[@robwebnoid5763]

​@@kkandola9072 ... Yes, probably there are pockets of places where it's still used, such as in Cali. But when I mean common, I mean like the whole nation or something that big. And also in the media. You don't hear "square" in movies that often today, it will be more like "he's dull" or "he's boring". Granted, I'm sure there were pockets of places (in the U.S.) in the 1960's where not many had a clue what "square" meant, like maybe folks in rural or mountain areas. Now they were truly "squares", heh. But again, it's generational, those old folks in the 1960's probably remember the slang they knew as teens during their Victorian times more than the slang that came out in the 1950's when they were senior citizens.

[@2436golden]

Also, slang can be different based on race and your economical background. For instance, an inner-city teen will use different slang than teens growing up in the suburbs.

[@rukus9585]

Top Boy is the Netflix series you were alluding to. Excellent show.

[@gacaptain]

Young Brits aren’t good at coming up with their own slang apparently. They just wholesale copy Jamaican slang. Now older Brits, they’re a different story.

[@TreyMessiah95]

Carribeans are more interwined with UK than we have in the sates lol Carribean culture isnt an thing down here lol im an Black American, and i can tell you we dont normally be into carribean culture like that lol

[@TreyMessiah95]

@@awarbeduhi5309 Not all. and just because they are in the northeast dont mean they inspired the united states. Every carribean american and the rappers are model themselves after black americans lol. Show me any carribean that wanna be like "CARRIBEAN rappers" there none. Biggie and African Bamboda wore inspired by black americans. Black americans, we wore not inspired by carribeans. lol

[@sportreelz7025]

In New York, there is a lot of Jamaican influence, and when i visit Florida

[@sleepyheadluke]

Piff the magic dragon

[@Paul_Waller]

That was a bear good episode!! :P

[@DaGoonR]

50% of Americans couldn't guess American slang.

[@SMOOVKILL1]

This is all West Indian / Carribean slang. Nice video!

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

I'm pretty sure "bredrin" is from the Caribbean not the UK!

[@richienomura425]

"She's bad" like Michael Jackson bad at the end of his life..

[@acslater017]

Extent of my knowledge of UK street slang: “Smoke trees, quack quack”

[@MsXlr8urself]

🦆

[@halicarnassus834]

8:20, am I the only American confused that Dave did not know that this was from the UK slang and that the Americas in the Video are supposed to know about?

[@HBC423]

Piff is an American slang I thought. Meaning good weed. The biggest mixtape website is Dat piff

[@StatusQuo001]

Bro, dude in beenie giving too much credit to UK, I’ve never heard one person in America ever use the word bredrin…most of these words come from Jamaican culture that did not originate in the UK. Words like bollocks or cheeky are UK slang words that belong to UK that u won’t hear here in America…unless you are around someone that comes from that culture We do not incorporate any Uk slang into our culture lol…not in American Black culture that is…which drives America culture I might add…there’s no debating this, for those who might want to try because they’re denier’s

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

people in the US most definitely say bredrin... I've heard a long time ago, growing up in the South.

[@StatusQuo001]

@@kikibigbangfan3540 from who, what ppl? saying u heard this word a long time ago doesn’t really help your case…I heard a white dude say bollocks a long time ago, doesn’t mean I’ve heard since or it’s all around me

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

@@StatusQuo001 and your point being, you heard a word a long time ago, but don't hear it all around you? I've heard bredrin from family from the Caribbean and from old school cats talking. Just because YOU don't hear something where you live or who you hang around doesn't mean others don't use these words. The world isn't just what you want it to be.

[@kalinin._]

@@kikibigbangfan3540 do you know the population size of Jamaicans in the south cause this is actually interesting. Many of us don’t go out of NY and Florida because those are the only states we know before we come out of Jamaica 😂 But yes Bredin is commonly apart of Jamaican patwa

[@StatusQuo001]

@@kikibigbangfan3540 lol my point is, it’s not in American black culture…the Caribbean ppl, sure, of course! But that population in America is small so your culture sticks within your community…it’s not culture in America…AMERICAN NOR AMERICAN BLACK CULTURE

[@benheninger]

great shirt, dave

[@MyBigMouth]

I was also thinking Piff was smoke, probably cause I'm an old fart and remember Geoffrey "The Great Soprendo" Durham, the magician using it as his catchprhase piff paff puff, therefore a puff of smoke. But agree with most of the comments here, most of these are Jamaican based slang.

[@andirandolph8830]

This should be fun.

[@arandomhandsomeman7725]

These aren't really british slangs. They're jamaican. It was brought to UK by Jamaican immigrants.

[@lisasmythe3826]

You guys should react to "British People Try Popeye's Chicken For The First time."

[@morganwillis9554]

You should watch from the same channel when they blind taste test foods they are hilarious 😂

[@slimreaper...skinnyman5467]

Youre talking about TOP BOY WITH NOEL CLARKE

[@AcousticGString]

Hello everyone

[@pepintheshort7913]

Half of the British slang I know comes from listening to Lawnmower Deth in the 90s. So outdated at this point.

[@everythingdana9322]

Yo is a word that comes from the UK, but we don't how we (black people) picked it up. It was a greeting in Europe I want to say in the 1600s or 1700s.

[@peterortiz1160]

Grimace @3:44

[@wonkothesane8691]

Goddamnit! Will y'all quit changing shit! I'm too fuckin' old to keep up! Lol!

[@williambintzer8128]

Alternate title: Can Brits Guess British Slang?

[@GlobalTee]

All of these(except Piff) are Jamaican slangs brought to the UK

[@Nekotaku_TV]

You ought to tell us what Dave's example meant. orz Love these language videos though.

[@loveit7484]

Its hard tp read the yellow on yellow.

[@brettpenning]

Can't wait to see Mario Kart.

[@StormyWeather21]

why do they just copy Jamaican slang lol They act like they are all jamacian. Bring back the English slang jolly Rodger 😂🤣

[@StackRunItUp]

Daz is fucking hilarious

[@k9tyy227]

🔥🔥Can you guys take a look at Katt Williams - Kattpacalypse🔥🔥

[@friedit7862]

this is so not british slang, this is Jamaican slangs lol

[@qwedahu873]

I think you blokes need to react to Caribbean music videos

[@Zaydaas]

I highly recommend eric andre show.

[@TheArbiterOfTruth]

None of my UK friends have ever said any of that 😂 they say things like: Nackered - tired Lashed - drunk Vom - vomit Chunder - vomit Litrally Cheeky nandos - still no clue what this is 😂 Meant to - supposed to I’m sat - I’m sitting Brill - brilliant - awesome

[@kkandola9072]

Cheeky Nandos is slang?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I used to hear a friend of mine say that in middle school but I always thought it was some inside joke that I didn’t know lmaooo( I’m in cali btw)

[@TheArbiterOfTruth]

@@kkandola9072 maybe it’s just an inside joke 😂

[@officeblokedaz]

Cheeky Nandos isn’t really slang. Simply means getting a nandos takeaway.

[@KMI0588]

Mint is definitely used here in the US. It's short for mint condition it's a super common term for anyone who does anything with collectibles.

[@kiddzillastar]

Thumbs up

[@everythingdana9322]

The Blokes doing Only Fans.... I think it would be the funniest thing ever.

[@kirkschabatka1999]

Mike, why do you put up with those kids? Swear man, stand up for the older you tubers

[@ForEverHeeel]

React to rudest drill disses uk vs us

[@Nipponing]

No it doesn't mean the world to you. Hoping it was sarcasm.

[@AstralStef]

Bare to me seems to come from pure being used in an exxageraded sense from a Jamaican perspective