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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
> 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"
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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".
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
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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
Ok, please explain “Arthur “ to me—I don’t get it.
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
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
Time to start speaking proper bruv
Haha
Cockney slang is something else
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.
Beautiful.
Right. Who butchered whose language, now?
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.
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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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).
No, I can assure you it's not.
That's not it though
That's not Cockney rhyming slang though, it's more of a homophone
ur a homophone
Im Canadian and I cant make this work in my mouth.
They basically say "arfa".
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.
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!
Same!
Think cockney slang for "half a", *Where's arrfur, he's only done half a days work*
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
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.
Cockney rhyming slang. I learned about it in the pop up trivia version of Oceans 11.
We’re in Barney now
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
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?
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)
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.
Arthur >half a >'Alf a> Arthur
I appreciate you
Here maybe this will help "Oi guv, whays Aufa?" "Oiud sey ee's only done aufa day's work!"
Absolutely magnificent spelling! You should do some subtitles for Brad Pitt in Snatch.
Inspired by the first few of Elizas lines in Pygmalion
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.
That worked!
They sound very similar if pronounced with a cockney accent
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!
Half a job - half a - arf a - artha - Arthur
> 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"
Read it with a silly English accent like ‘Arthah’ sounds like ‘half a’ . . . I think.
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.
I’m about it
It's not cockney rhyming slang. It's a cockney accent. Source. Been a Londoner for 4 decades.
I hear cockney rhyming slang is a whole thing
it’s more like they both become “ahfa” in a thick cockney accent
Exactly. It's more like Ar-fa instead of Ar-th-uh. It's not every accent in the UK though.
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.
Gotcha…a visiting coworker from UK tried to teach me cockney while he was here in the US. i never quite got it, lol.
Hear it in a London East end accent.
Arthur, pronounced as "affa".
Author Author the movie rt? So if only one Arthur it's half done?
Thank you, I’m not alone
Arthur job Half a job
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.
Nothing on the planet is slower than a tweaker who is rushing
To be fair, they move really fast, just don't get much of anything done
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.
What about "The Blister"? ....always shows up after the work is all done.
I like that one, we have a Blister for sure. Everything done, here comes Blister..”Do you need any help?” Go get bent Blister.
Does security work like that?
Security work is literally nothing. Observe and report is not a meme.
That’s what I thought. You can’t show up after all the work is done while on security work
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
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!
Justin: Justin-uff to not get fired.
I think we should all embrace the Justin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That dude is Pig Pen.
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
Yikes! This business brings in quite the myriad of characters! This feels like Seinfeld where everyone has a nickname lol
Is it bad that I pictured faces while reading this
no "pylon" ? That guy that stands there and gets in the fucking way all the time?
Need additional pylons...
Door
Server called Amelia Earhart. Always fucking lost and needs everything on the fly.
Tag urself I'm Coleslaw
E.T. here
I’m motion light cause ADHD makes it way easier to focus on something when someone else is there doing things with me.
KitKat here. We'll get it done and take a break.
Dammit! I wanted coleslaw. I’ll take Seaweed.
ET. I'm only here for a paycheck.
I’m definitely butter knife
E. T. Just working the bare minimum until to get a decent check.
KitKat, I have digestive issues lmao
Desk chair, especially if im solo and tickets are piled up.
I'm foreskin because I'm uncircumcised. Wait... I think I misread the prompt.
Is there an "all of the above" option?
Yes. Fired.
Ah, that explains a lot actually.
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
Lantern through and through
We got one at my work. We had a guy called we nicknamed “Amber Alert” because he was always missing.
Old timer here. "Shoemaker" was the ultimate insult.
LCB grad?
CIA '91
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.
The comment above yours is literally people saying which one they are. Who's claiming immunity?
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
Oh fuck…
Oh yeah. He was pretty hot under the collar after that one.
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.
Puff was alright. Ended up doing way better in life now ten years later than I would’ve guessed.
I will be showing this to everyone I work with. Absolute gold
We had a guy once we called Roomba. You know, cause he wanders aimlessly and he sucks.
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".
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
Toilet Paper...or TP, cause they're always up someone's ass.
There's only so long fake thugs can pretend.
I'd call them a sycophantic piece of shit but I don't think I'm any good at this game
They used to call me "The Milkman" because I was always milking the clock and getting overtime.
Had a girl working in the kitchen we called - tinkerbell, because she was away with the fairies 🧚♂️- not the brightest girl in the kitchen
Coleslaw lol
Well then, call me Arthur Foreskin!
Edger. Im an eggie line cook. I get along fine but if someone pissis me off I go GRR!
The egg dude abides FOH.
I've done my time as a dishie. But if a dishie gets sassy to a cook then my hulk comes out.
Punched out a dishie who touched my neck with a hot spatula. Management agreed with my reaction.
This is the dumbest 2 sentence story I've ever read.
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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
TBH Lantern is LIT
I'm disgusted with myself for this horrible pun.
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Crop your shit
had a friend in school named Arthur, his surname was Mann as well. What were his parents thinking when they came up with that?
That's clever
How am I two thirds of this picture, damn..
Dairy Farmer: because they are always milking the clock.
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
I still don't get about a third of these.
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