What were you on when you wrote that?

January 17, 2013 — Laura

I don’t mean to be obtuse, but I can’t figure out what the writer was on when writing this for Yahoo! Movies:

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6 Responses to “What were you on when you wrote that?”

  1. Jonathan Humphreys Says:
    January 17, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    Wow. That’s a serious teenage chav error. :shock:

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    • Laura Says:
      January 17, 2013 at 3:47 pm

      Jonathan, I am hopelessly unhip. A virtual dinosaur when it comes to the slang of you young’uns. “Chav” is a new one for me.

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      • Jonathan Humphreys Says:
        January 17, 2013 at 4:01 pm

        D’oh, sorry. It’s a pejorative used against the worst of the working-class youth in the UK. The scum of the earth and bane of everyone’s existence, basically.

        If I’m honest, I’m not even sure it gets used on the regular basis now that it had been a few years back. :|

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  2. ericjbaker Says:
    January 17, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    Life immitating art:

    In the movie Hot Fuzz (2007), the character of Nick Angel is teased by his fellow cops when his name appears in the local rag as Nick “Angle.”

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