Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling Teach You Posh British Slang | Vanity Fair

hello i'm american actress mindy kaling and i'm british actress Emma Thompson I'm gonna learn some British slang with Emma Thompson bins I would assume this is like a garbage can nope say you were to go into the countryside you might take these with you like binoculars yes both on so British people are using binoculars so much that they need a shortened nickname for them yeah they love bird-watching so many are posh saying what binoculars takes hours everyone bands instead of a binocular it seems like an unnecessary nickname but okay yeah there you go jolly like generally like Santa Claus like jolly and music does it mean something I thought you don't know about hmm I don't think so do you feel a lot of pressure to be like yeah I feel a lot of pressure to be British and posh beastly like poorly behaved yes it can do yeah I'm Pleasant and can I can I you're being perfectly beastly Roger pushing that pepper mill up my bottom was a perfectly beastly thing to do Algernon for instance okay that was very so vivid I were absolutely and very posh I'm extremely British I like that you use Roger and how you're not pushing fundamentals what jolly hockey sticks Johnny hockey sticks refers to the girls from posh boarding schools who would be bouncing onto the field with a hockey stick and you know somehow your explanation did not make it say you were there I was like I get that it's sort of if you say someone's a bit jolly hockey sticks yes they're not cool they're the opposite of James Dean okay it just sounds like a Netflix show yes I'm just gonna okay next yonks is this the sound you make when you've discovered something yes young its oh my god Mindy I haven't seen you in yonks what yonks is like in an eternity yes okay I guess I'm fancier I'd like to use words like a turkey yes exactly or an e own Indian tight to me is like that's not as tight that means cool in our country it means mean mean with money he's very tight tight fisted tight fisted okay now I understand that oh it can also mean pissed drunk drunk versatile work I was is very very versatile because I can also mean you know tight I see okay blotto this is like a very dry very very drunk very very drunk something I know very little about I thought this is just something that English cartoon characters said is this something again nobody says that anymore pip pip is bye-bye through our like for instance when I was born junks ago on the BBC I'm on the world service I'm there would be the people Oh got it so that's the pips and you say pip pip when I was known as pip Emma because I was born once as the pips were sounding I like that nice that is nice old bean old bean is this like mr. bean no another famous English bean old bean is just like old chum it's nice I like it I think he's always but I don't know why we use it mean CD I think we have it here it means a little bit rundown Brenda Burley yes rundown also you can say if for instance you have been blotto in the recent past I feel a bit seedy today capital I think I know capital is like that's a capital idea yes that's a good it's a good thing ingenious idea okay poppycock this seems like another word that is just used in cartoons it's a real word yes I mean it is a slang word yeah can you use it in a sentence for me that's absolute poppycock poppycock not is nonsense okay rugger I don't know I don't know what this Leslie okay you're a wrecker here's someone who plays rim you know rugger yeah is the slang term for rugby football lots of men rush at each other violently and push each other about and it's fantastically homoerotic and every time I say that to anyone who enjoys rugby they get very angry I think proves my point brick hmm what is this well you're a brick Oh No mm-hmm yep what does that mean it means a really good sort you would say she's a brick and that means someone you can rely on someone you can trust and you would also refer to that same person as a good egg good ergo now mm-hmm brick I'm brick she's a brick he's a brick ma you're a brick mm-hmm I learned a lot good all of it completely erroneous but I'm glad we played and I think it was a good use of time yeah

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Length: 5min 2sec (302 seconds)

Published: Thu May 30 2019

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[u/Gerry1of1]

I saw the movie they did together, 'Late Night". It was really good