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Sorry for the influx of posts but I found this hilarious.

BBC America have posted a guide to our British colloquialism (read: slang)

Source: http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/328/glossary.jsp

Ace - excellent, brilliant
Ballsed-up - ruined, obliterated, screwed up
Bangers - sausages, often served with mashed potatoes
Bollocks - literaly, testicles; nonsense - a general term used for something viewed in a negative light. ("That is bollocks!")
Bugger - a vulgar term for a person who participates in sodomy; loosely used to replace the f-word
Couldn’t be arsed - couldn’t be bothered, apathetic
Fag - a cigarette
Get (one’s) leg over - to have sex
Pillock- an inadvertently stupid person, an idiot
Pissed - drunk, inebriated
Safe! - cool; also used to signify agreement; equivalent to "OK!," "Cool!," or "Agreed!"
Shag - to have sex
Skins - rolling paper used for a joint.
Sodding - an intensive, equivalent to "damn" or "f**king"
Spliff - a cigarette rolled with half tobacco and half marijuana.
Spliffed - to become high off of marijuana
Stroppy - ill-tempered
Tosser - an idiot or a moron; a slang reference to a masturbator.
Wanker - a disparaging term for a jerk, idiot, a jerk-off. Literally, one who masturbates.

It says they are from episodes one and two so I will keep you updated as the American’s learn our lingo.

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