To have only just learned that when you call someone a Berk, you're actually calling them a

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cunt! Genius. Never realised it was rhyming slang, was I being very thick!?

Doesn't rhyme though

really?!!

What?

How does that one work?

And how have you found this out?

oh yes it rhymes in the way as perk and hunt do

you silly old thing, you

[slaps FS playfully on the hand with closed fan]

Yes, comes from berkeley hunt. Cunt. :) this amuses me...that's very childish of me I realise.

Oh ok

Berkshire hunt

wasn't it something to do with the Berkley Hunt = cunt?

Or is that an urban myth

oh I type soooooo slowly!!

Berkshire Hunt...
I love it cos there aren't too many people who know what it really means whereas I do actually know what I'm calling somebody

I used to go around calling people twats as a child. Thought it was along the lines of twit or twerp. Only discovered the true meaning in my early twenties

Ah, discovered when trying to prove to dh that whistle and toot was suit. Obviously I was wrong on that one though as it's whistle and flute. Good old google.

Well I never. You learn something new every day.

Berk.

Cunt.

Just as easy to say as to type.

Works for me !

this kind of doesn't work because of course one pronounces Berkeley as Barkley

Its not whistle and toot, its whistle and flute.

Im a cockney!

Eh?!?
As in berk, berkin, merkin, as in pubic wig there for cunt?!?!

You berk! So delightfully passive aggressive.

Oh, that's brilliant. My dad uses 'berk' a lot and I bet he doesn't know that, he goes a bit pale when I say 'cunt' (which I do try not to do in front of him, before you ask!).

Fabby

I bet you go up the apples and pears to Bedford-shire, don't you ?!

I know that now fabby, I was being a berk.

oh I love a bit of ole cockerney rhyme

plates of meat, currant bun, joanna

never got what treacle was all about though

oh lord i have just remembered my nanny used to say burk, she would call my granddad a silly old berk

:( there is no way my nanny would have used a word that means the c word, she was just to nannyish and sweet or so i thought