Euro (mostly British) Phrases that are catching on in the U.S.?

[AJW]

Guv’nor kind of belongs to an older generation it shows deference to the person it’s applied to.
The only places I know of that it is still living on are the Police who use it as an informal greeting to direct superiors and football players who refer to the Manager as guv'nor.
Gaffers a more informal version that’s used in the building trade to refer to the Forman and in the film industry for a particular skilled trade I can’t remember which.

[Oki-Oki]

Gaffers move lights they are def not skilled

[Jay Riall]

Do you guys use tw*t atall? This thread makes me realize how much you suck at swear words! Be creative!

[Kimbell175113]

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Do you guys use tw*t atall? This thread makes me realize how much you suck at swear words! Be creative!

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that's another one I got from Mike Skinner

[Vavavoom]

Yeti,

How is t*at and another term (for male genitalia/slang term for male chicken) profanity and yet the word wanker is openly used on this forum !

Apologies for the circumvent of filter, but I didn't consider those words to be obscene...

It definitely is a US thing and not a UK thing...

[Yeti]

I don't know, I don't make the profanity filter. The t word is pretty rude imo, the male chicken word is not.

[AlexM]

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Yeti,

How is t*at and another term (for male genitalia/slang term for male chicken) profanity and yet the word wanker is openly used on this forum !

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Because wanker isn't a curse word in the U.S. unlike those other two.

[cbloom]

Oh yeah, at my last job "Boffin" was catching on, presumably because we all read TheRegister way too much; great semi-perjorative word for intellectuals. As in "The boffins at Intel are giving us a 16-way core whether we want it or not"

[ChipStorm]

"Bob's your uncle", another vote
"Brilliant"
"Splendid"
"Good show"
"Indeed"
"Quite"
"Cheers"
"Bollocks the penguin"

[React1oN]

Touche.