I just sent this to a couple of British friends of mine to translate
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Genuine question, is this hard to understand as an American? I'm a non native English speaker who's met British people before and there's, like, 2 references in there I didn't catch, but otherwise, you can figure, no?
I had trouble with the references to JD, 'Spoons, and Nandos because I'm not familiar with UK retail and restaurant chains.
I mean, the context tells you that the latter two are places where you can get food, that's about all that's relevant
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why is his mate an arch bishop?
Cuz he’s an absolute ledge, brevs.
got is bants pants on
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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 had some colleagues from UK, who talked like that from time to time between themselves. God knows how many cheeky beers we had.
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.
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.
I love peri peri chicken but Nando’s is among the worst I’ve had. I don’t understand it, either.