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!?

Oh my! My dad say's that and he hates swearing! Not going to be too happy when I tell him this..

The the news reader/presenter Michael Burke is really Michael Cunt?

Well I never!

Treacle Tart = sweetheart

Is berk not a disablist term then?

YANBU Going to go with 'silly berk' at next passive aggressive opportunity

Berk isn't a disabilst term Rebel - if you call someone a berk it means that you think they're a cunt.

Tell someone they're talking pony ('fucking pony, mate') and it means they're talking crap - pony & trap.

I like a bit of Cockney rhyming slang: butcher's, syrup, barnet, adam & eve, and a ruby murray

Is treacle tart - Fart?

Let's have a butcher's (hook) - look
He looked like a berk in that syrup (of figs) - wig
Nice barnet (fair) - hair
Would you adam and eve it - believe it
Let's have a ruby (murray) - curry.

I never got the rhyming thing, why rhyme when you can say it straight. Some people have to much time on their hands, say it straight saves time.

'Come 'ere me old treacle' - treacle tart = sweetheart
'That horse was a bit whiffy' horse & cart = fart

My Mum used to refer to us as "me old china". It only recently occurred to me that china = china plate = mate. I was so chuffed when I worked that out

I always thought it came from Burke & Hare.

They were grave robbers, selling corpses for dissection in the 1820s, who turned to murder as being less hassle & providing a fresher, 'to order' product.

After they were caught, Hare was offered a deal to testify against his partner, who was hanged - so a 'burke' is a mug, someone easily taken advantage of, a fallguy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders

Burke and hare? No, tis Berkley Hunt. You must pronouce the Berkley bit as it is written, not in some poncetastic way.

DH speaks in rhyming slang all the time - it doesn't even register that he's doing it now when he says "oh she's a bit of a treac" or "let's order a ruby" or "what's the Harry?"

When I first met him I was this face all the time

I love a bit of rhyming slang. It's all a bit of fun snippy!

YANBU. I only learnt it when I read notes from a small island. Thanks Bill Bryson!

I told my Mum this a few years ago and she swiftly stopped calling people berks!

I too have learnt something new today then!

Someone told me a couple of years back that the fart noise is called a raspberry cos of raspberry tart - never would've worked that out either

I love it.

It's my learn something new to try out today.

I remember the day someone told me twat was a fishes fanny. Is that actually true? scared to google

eh?

A fishes fanny?

just googled "do fish have fannies" just for the crack you know? (no pun intended) and was met with toothed vaginas!!! Remind me not to do silly things like that again :o

This may be helpful.

I particularly like definition 2.3