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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 192 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Translation:

It is hard to explain my friend.

It is as if one day you'll be with your friends, browsing in JD Sports (sports shop) and you fancy a curry from the "curry club" menu at Wetherspoons (a nationwide chain of drinking establishments that serve "pub" style food).

However your friend who is male, called Callum, who is also an absolute legend and the epitome of banter (friendly and humerous conversation of a non-serious manner) will say "Brethren (an old fashioned way of referring to a friend you consider a brother) let's have a naughty Nandos (a chain restaurant that specialises in Peri Peri style chicken) instead"

Consequently you will think "Most excellent, let's go there and excel at the process of ordering and eating food"

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unsolicited peer review time...

browsing in JD Sports (sports shop)

*trainer shop, let's be realistic

from the "curry club" menu

The Thursday specials, to be specific.

called Callum

*Calum

Brethren (an old fashioned way of referring to a friend you consider a brother)

This comes from Jamaican Patois, it's not just a memetic imitation of Early Modern English.

No further notes.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, now you're just writing random strings of letters...

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mandem's basically in American English as well, we just say it a little different. It's a shortening of man and them, as in your boys. As Vince Staples says "know a change gone come like Obama 'n them say, but they're shooting every day round my mama 'n them way".

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I need to re-read this when I wake up tomorrow, after coffee.

Right now my brain just shut off in the middle of the quote.

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Here's the song, to go with the coffee tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I need you to do the subtitles when I watch British shows.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hit me up fam, I'll do you a solid.

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago
[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

what the hell does this say

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Realistically though JD sports is to a sports shop what Curries is to a PC store.

Sure they sell trainers but their selection is strictly fashion related, if you want actual quality you're better off going literally anywhere else, even Clarks.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Clarks are ace.

[–] insight06@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 12 points 2 days ago

It is as if one day you're in the mall, and you feel a little hungry for tikka masala, but your friend who is an absolute legend and your brother, asks if you want chicken tandoori instead and you say "haan let us eat it"

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You've translated but original question of what a cheeky Nandos is remains. So cheeky translates to naughty? And naughty is a type of Nandos food? Is there non-naughty Nandos? Or are they eating it in a naughty way? Or is Nandos somehow naughtier than curry from Wetherspoons?

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My apologies no it isn't a type of food there, it is naughty in the terms of being indulgent or impulsive and is more of a turn of phrase that is often used in "lad culture" over here, which is sort of like a parallel to a "frat bro" in US culture. Think obnoxious, loud sometimes aggressive groups of guys.

Cheeky in this sense was in the past more often used in terms of alcoholic beverages so often people would use it to say things like "Do you fancy getting a cheeky pint after work". More modern usage it is often used to refer to food as well as drink and in the case of "cheeky nandos" will quite often be used by aforementioned "lads" when they have already had a few drinks and want to go and indulge in some chicken before going out and getting shit faced for the night.

Tldr: It is a turn of phrase used to mean indulging in an impulsive meal from the restaurant chain "Nandos"

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's like kebab, something solid to fill you fast so you can get properly shitfaced.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really hate this menu. Decimals should never be implied. I'm not paying £149 for a chicken.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That isn't an English menu, the prices are in R which I think is South African Rand and not Pounds. It was more to illustrate the type of food available.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

It is in fact Rand, and TIL .za is the TLD for South Africa

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Is there some kind of spice level:naughtiness correlation?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Dam, I really thought naughty nandos was day drinking (or drinking at a otherwise less than appropriate time).