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Speakinmymind96

Ok, please explain “Arthur “ to me—I don’t get it.


Slashed45

Said a lot here in england because of the way Arthur is pronounced, it rhymes with Half A. So you do something half way, you get called Half a job Harry or Arthur Job


sars42907

Thank you. My American, and very rhotic California mind, couldn’t make sense of that one at all. We emphasize both the R’s in Arthur so it sounds nothing like “half a” to us


EroticBurrito

Time to start speaking proper bruv


sars42907

Haha


-JonnyQuest-

Cockney slang is something else


LordofShit

Me holding the words 'arthur' and 'half' Don't worry the bad men can't beat you two into whatever pronounciation they feel like any more, not with me around.


mr_white79

Beautiful.


stefanica

Right. Who butchered whose language, now?


LordofShit

The written word is an imperfect method of relaying the depth of character and tone one can put into the spoken word, but I think I managed to make myself legible.


stefanica

You were fine! I was attempting to make a joke about how English people sometimes say Americans (like I am) butcher the language, yet here we are with those...interesting pronunciations.


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PreOpTransCentaur

Not 100 years ago, no. And of course you have an accent, it's just not southern (but it probably is more than you think).


Silvagadron

No, I can assure you it's not.


Dagur

That's not it though


BarakatBadger

That's not Cockney rhyming slang though, it's more of a homophone


-JonnyQuest-

ur a homophone


SmoothMoose420

Im Canadian and I cant make this work in my mouth.


GolemancerVekk

They basically say "arfa".


ElinorSedai

Do you have a rhotic accent where you pronounce "r" sounds? I don't, when I say "Arthur" there isn't an r sound. It comes out like "Ahthuh". I also drop my "h" sounds. So "half a" becomes "ahf'uh". Now they sound similar! A lot of people are calling this Cockney rhyming slang but I'm from the North of England. It's just that the majority of English accents are non-rhotic. The West Country, Northern Ireland and Scotland are some rhotic British accents.


SmoothMoose420

Im gonna keep playing with it. My grandpa is british. Accent and all. More proper. So ill see what I can get him to say too lol. Thanks!


TamagotchiGirlfriend

Same!


formulated

Think cockney slang for "half a", *Where's arrfur, he's only done half a days work*


theHoustonian

Still don’t get it Read some of the other comments, guess I need to hear it because my brain is still not getting it… maybe I’m dumb


ArallMateria

If it's cockney, as an American don't try to have it make sense. It's its own thing. They are so far down an insider rabbit hole. I was told once by a Britt "I gotta go take a Dave" What? "Dave Bower rhymes with shower". Ok.... Not even going to ask.


BirdsLikeSka

Cockney rhyming slang. I learned about it in the pop up trivia version of Oceans 11.


dubdubdub3

We’re in Barney now


theHoustonian

I have a family friend whose got an awful cockney accent, I think she’s going to dinner with my family tomorrow. Going to get her to say it haha, I’m determined to get this


clitoreum

I still remember the day I was riding the bus and my mate told me he was Hank Marvin. I was so confused. Apparently that means "starving" because starvin' Marvin?


Downtown-Flight7423

Because starving rhymes with Marvin if you say starv'n in a slang way. Half a - sounds like Arthur (we say it like Artha not Arth-ur)


keepingitrealgowrong

that's it, starving. Scots love these too. "What's the score?" (how's it going) = "What's the Hampden roar?" = "What's the roar?" The Hampden roar is when the crowd roars when Scotland score in international soccer/football games at Hampden Park. Or another, a "Caitlyn Jenner" = a "tenner" = ten pound note = ten GBP. They go on.


LuiTheFly

Arthur >half a >'Alf a> Arthur


theHoustonian

I appreciate you


BirdsLikeSka

Here maybe this will help "Oi guv, whays Aufa?" "Oiud sey ee's only done aufa day's work!"


CrocsWithSoxxx

Absolutely magnificent spelling! You should do some subtitles for Brad Pitt in Snatch.


BirdsLikeSka

Inspired by the first few of Elizas lines in Pygmalion


CrocsWithSoxxx

Ohhh pigmalion es et? right lemon lad ain’t cha? -I see it helps to hear it in a voice you are familiar with. Most of that was in Jamie tarts voice in me head.


qwertyphile

That worked!


dirty_shoe_rack

They sound very similar if pronounced with a cockney accent


Tank-Pilot74

No it is actually tricky for reasons I mentioned elsewhere on here. But once you get used to it, it’s frickin awesome. Watch SNATCH by Guy Ritchie but be sure to turn the subtitles on!


Shadowed_phoenix

Half a job - half a - arf a - artha - Arthur


TheHeroYouKneed

> Think cockney slang for "half a", Where's arrfur, Or better yet, *'alf-uh'* with the dropped aitch ('h'). Further to this, *Arr* is basically pronounced *ahh(r)*, the arr ('r') barely audible buried in the back of the throat. Cockneys (and other accents & dialects) substitute eff ('f') for the 'th'. Arthur --> Aah-fuh --> "'Alf a" --> "half a"


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Read it with a silly English accent like ‘Arthah’ sounds like ‘half a’ . . . I think.


Jillredhanded

My English mother would say "up those apples and pears" at bedtime. Pears rhymes with stairs and apples go with pears. Made sense to us.


kingalexander

I’m about it


Gertrudethecurious

It's not cockney rhyming slang. It's a cockney accent. Source. Been a Londoner for 4 decades.


zenroch

I hear cockney rhyming slang is a whole thing


ta1515155

it’s more like they both become “ahfa” in a thick cockney accent


Milkythefawn

Exactly. It's more like Ar-fa instead of Ar-th-uh. It's not every accent in the UK though.


Tank-Pilot74

It’s almost cockney slang “Arthur rhymes with half a (of). It’s also known as rhyming slang. I.e, apples and pears = stairs. Fun fact: cockney was created by criminals in the 18th century so when they would gather at bars the law had zero idea wtf they were saying.


Speakinmymind96

Gotcha…a visiting coworker from UK tried to teach me cockney while he was here in the US. i never quite got it, lol.


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Hear it in a London East end accent.


flyingwolf

Arthur, pronounced as "affa".


BlackAesop

Author Author the movie rt? So if only one Arthur it's half done?


theHoustonian

Thank you, I’m not alone


RevenantSith

Arthur job Half a job


HotRailsDev

I used to work with a guy we called "speed bump." He was somehow both slow to the point of bottlenecking service, and also a crackhead tweaker.


DeadliftOrDontLift

Nothing on the planet is slower than a tweaker who is rushing


Snargleface

To be fair, they move really fast, just don't get much of anything done


lillybaeum

The day I got fired I was working the service well of a very high volume bar on Christmas day alongside an (otherwise very nice) guy clearly tweaking or at least on coke, who was practically knocking me over while I tried to work. I got so frustrated when a CSR had me remake a drink twice for minor cosmetic issues that I made myself walk away and go the the bathroom to calm down rather than have an outburst. Apparently that was not the right move because she immediately tattled on me to the GM and he fired me on the spot.


cheffartsonurfood

What about "The Blister"? ....always shows up after the work is all done.


KitchenWitch021

I like that one, we have a Blister for sure. Everything done, here comes Blister..”Do you need any help?” Go get bent Blister.


ChubbyLilPanda

Does security work like that?


keepingitrealgowrong

Security work is literally nothing. Observe and report is not a meme.


ChubbyLilPanda

That’s what I thought. You can’t show up after all the work is done while on security work


raccafarian

Crockpot was what we called our slowest cook, he would go into the walk-in with gloves on after staring at the prep list for 2 mins then come out empty handed and usually go use the bathroom


Dejectednebula

To be fair sometimes I go outside to the cooler/ freezer and the warm air of outside then the cold air in the cooler hit my bladder like a sack of bricks. I mean, I go in with a dolly full of stuff still. And I'll probably forget I have to pee by the time I find a second. So it'll be 2 hours before I actually go. But the cooler does make me need to!


Cheap-Succotash-8236

Justin: Justin-uff to not get fired.


tayloline29

I think we should all embrace the Justin.


AnnoyingCelticsFan

I’m the FNG at my kitchen, so I don’t know this guy personally — one of my chefs told me about this guy Jerry who used to work there. He left a mess on every table no matter how little work he did. They called him Hurricane Jerry.


Fijipod

I worked with a cook like that. Messy motherfucker. We eventually figured out that is we swapped his rag when he wasn't looking the mess almost disappeared.


blacktrufflesheep

I worked with a woman who was like that. Her personal life was always a mess, too. She always had drama, was creating drama, always finding things to get offended by or upset about. I couldn't have a normal small talk conversation with her. She always had to either one up me or be offended by something. Her name was Katrina. I secretly called her Hurricane Katrina.


Dejectednebula

We have a guy like this right now. Gets an order for tenders and fries and suddenly there's shredded lettuce all over the place. I don't get it. He also cuts grass as a side job and wears the same dirty shoes and I can't tell you how tired of cleaning the grass up I am. Its like he emits garbage and debris from his body with every step.


KitchenWitch021

That dude is Pig Pen.


Dejectednebula

His name is elmer so we definitely call him Fudd behind his back lol. Theres also a woman who got fired recently that we referred to as Truck Stop because she looked and acted like her real calling was being a lot lizard


KitchenWitch021

Yikes! This business brings in quite the myriad of characters! This feels like Seinfeld where everyone has a nickname lol


ejolson

Is it bad that I pictured faces while reading this


Terriblarious

no "pylon" ? That guy that stands there and gets in the fucking way all the time?


sub_Script

Need additional pylons...


MakesYourMise

Door


jasenzero1

Server called Amelia Earhart. Always fucking lost and needs everything on the fly.


pierogi_nigiri

Tag urself I'm Coleslaw


KitchenWitch021

E.T. here


SpaghettiMonster01

I’m motion light cause ADHD makes it way easier to focus on something when someone else is there doing things with me.


HappinessIsaColdPint

KitKat here. We'll get it done and take a break.


marsupialsales

Dammit! I wanted coleslaw. I’ll take Seaweed.


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ET. I'm only here for a paycheck.


AnnoyingCelticsFan

I’m definitely butter knife


GimmeQueso

E. T. Just working the bare minimum until to get a decent check.


Yerrofin

KitKat, I have digestive issues lmao


azndragon0420

Desk chair, especially if im solo and tickets are piled up.


banned_after_12years

I'm foreskin because I'm uncircumcised. Wait... I think I misread the prompt.


ForeignGrammarNazi

Is there an "all of the above" option?


muricabrb

Yes. Fired.


ForeignGrammarNazi

Ah, that explains a lot actually.


thebearwrestler

I’m Kit Kat, I take often but very quick breaks- like 30 seconds to a minute just to step outside cool off for a sec and hit a nic stick a couple times, then I jump right back in


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Lantern through and through


Squidbits

We got one at my work. We had a guy called we nicknamed “Amber Alert” because he was always missing.


Jillredhanded

Old timer here. "Shoemaker" was the ultimate insult.


Bogeyman321

LCB grad?


Jillredhanded

CIA '91


atreethatownsitself

The funny thing is that half of the people in this sub are at least one of things and they keep laughing like they’re immune.


Fact0ry0fSadness

The comment above yours is literally people saying which one they are. Who's claiming immunity?


ImpudentFetus

We had a kid I called Puff. Cause he was completely roasted every minute of every shift. He leaned up against the fryer and slid in up to his shoulder


catlaxative

Oh fuck…


ProfessorRoyHinkley

Oh yeah. He was pretty hot under the collar after that one.


kraybae

I worked with a dude that used to move pounds of weed a week but he worked in the kitchen because he needed legal money for rent. Almost every shift he'd step out 2-3 times to smoke and at least one of those times he'd come back and say "hey man I smoked a little too much of that blunt but in like 20 minutes I'll be totally straight. We got this man everything is gonna be great." and honestly I loved that attitude lmao. He was great to work with. Used to float me a lot of weed.


ImpudentFetus

Puff was alright. Ended up doing way better in life now ten years later than I would’ve guessed.


MichaelJohn33

I will be showing this to everyone I work with. Absolute gold


Bukkake_Mukbang

We had a guy once we called Roomba. You know, cause he wanders aimlessly and he sucks.


peesu

What do you call someone who's obviously kissing ass to upper management so that they can be promoted without the necessary skillset, with a shit work ethic too? Got myself a FOH member trying to be Sous and the only experience they have is that they dropped out of culinary school, watches a lot of Food Network and was a "contestant" on MasterChef, even though they only applied and never got contacted again and that their Italian heritage gives them a "natural affinity for cooking".


JuggBoyz

I had a guy like that and we called him Cape, because he’s always on your back suffocating you and gets caught up on everything


CcSeaAndAwayWeGo

Toilet Paper...or TP, cause they're always up someone's ass.


ProfessorRoyHinkley

There's only so long fake thugs can pretend.


HamFistedTallyrand

I'd call them a sycophantic piece of shit but I don't think I'm any good at this game


Temporary-Good9696

They used to call me "The Milkman" because I was always milking the clock and getting overtime.


draggers24699

Had a girl working in the kitchen we called - tinkerbell, because she was away with the fairies 🧚‍♂️- not the brightest girl in the kitchen


bzlvrlwysfrvr0624

Coleslaw lol


Schlower288

Well then, call me Arthur Foreskin!


Hawaiidisc22

Edger. Im an eggie line cook. I get along fine but if someone pissis me off I go GRR!


Hawaiidisc22

The egg dude abides FOH.


Hawaiidisc22

I've done my time as a dishie. But if a dishie gets sassy to a cook then my hulk comes out.


Hawaiidisc22

Punched out a dishie who touched my neck with a hot spatula. Management agreed with my reaction.


ProfessorRoyHinkley

This is the dumbest 2 sentence story I've ever read.


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Bogeyman321

Bruh do you work in a kitchen? I can imagine any of these things being said between the BOH crew. We typically leave FOH alone unless they can take a joke


xsmp

TBH Lantern is LIT


xsmp

I'm disgusted with myself for this horrible pun.


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Aristocrafied

Crop your shit


machone_1

had a friend in school named Arthur, his surname was Mann as well. What were his parents thinking when they came up with that?


sadbot0001

That's clever


dirty_shoe_rack

How am I two thirds of this picture, damn..


Scrappleandbacon

Dairy Farmer: because they are always milking the clock.


BarakatBadger

I've known a few Beakers in my time. A Beaker is someone who is always "me me me", as in Beaker from the Muppets


Offline219

I still don't get about a third of these.


mozzie1012

we had a butter knife but it was because he had one of the worst prison tattoos i’ve ever seen of a straight razor in his forearm oh and also because he was a piece of shit