A 'true' Cockney is traditionally born within the sound of Bow bells - the church bells of St Mary-le-Bow. I've always thought of it as being a pretty undefined, nebulous concept. After all, one person's hearing abilities are different to someone else's. But it's true to say, "all Cockneys are Londoners, but not all Londoners are Cockneys."
The Elephant and Castle is the same distance from the Bow Bells as Shadwell, so both would have been able to hear the Bells until the advent of taller buildings being built in the 70's. The funny thing is that I try hard not to type colloquialisms in comments to Septics because they can barely understand English let alone a smuttering of cockney. Septics can call a young lady a Chick but are totally confused when we call her a bird! They say we drive on the wrong side but if we do, why have Yank motorbikes got the sidestand on the same side as us, the left, so that it leans to the pavement (sidewalk) but in the US it leans into the road and with the curve of the road into the gutter, as on a shedload of Yank roads, the bike can easily fall over!
I'm about the same age as Mickey and grew up in the east end and there were so many guys that were funny like Mickey. It was just the humour of the area. Everything seemed to revolve around having a good giggle at everything. His humour really reminds me of my younger years in the pubs and clubs.
It doesn't matter how many times I see this extract, it always cracks me up. And Jodi, your reactions make it even funnier, god bless you. Hope you understood the ''homeowner'' reference. In the UK we get a lot of anonymous junk mail addressed like that. Straight in the bin normally.
I'm Cockney, was born and still live in East London (people that still live here are called Cockney Sparrows, because Sparrows don't leave their nest to go elsewhere) To be a Cockney, it used to have to be either you or your ancestors need to be born within the sound of the Bow bells at St Mary-Le-Bow church in the area of Cheapside in East London, but now it's just recognised as working class people from London. We're famous for rhyming slang (we still use this in my house), Pie (minced beef), mash, liquor (parsely sauce) and stewed eels, Jack the Ripper and Victorian music Hall (if you're interested in music, the original stuff would be 'Harry Champion' and the more modern version would be a duo called 'Chas and Dave') Famous Cockneys would be Micky obviously, Michael Caine, Steve Harris from Iron Maiden, Ray Winston, Bob Hoskins, Russell Brand, Honour blackman and Adele - we'll give Dick Van Dyke honourary Cockney status because of his role as the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins but the accent wasn't great hahaha P.S The one night stand thing is NOT neccessarily a Cockney thing, we don't all have loose morals, just Mickey hahaha
@@SvenTviking 'Ave you got a trouble and strife? A nice clean jam jar, not as two thirty as mine? 'ow often do you go to the rub a dub for a cuff link. I don't know if cockneys still use it, but a true to the bone cockney would know what I said without looking it up.
I'm from Hampshire and we speak the Queen/Kings English. We always thought the "crafty cockneys " had special needs or some kind of tourette's syndrome.
As a 69-year-old Londoner, allow me to say that a genuine Cockney is born within the "Bow Bells" Church in East London but the term "Cockney" is used by everyone else to mean a Londoner, irrespective of whether they are from North, South, East or West London. That little swaggering walk that Micky did is quite typical. Sadly, there are few "Cockneys" left in London after a mass exodus from The 1970s, in particular, and the overwhelming majority, like me, live in The Outer London Suburbs which are not only Outer London Boroughs but their postal address is one of the surrounding "Home Counties" that surround London. Generally, East Londoners move to Essex.SOUTH East Londers to Kent or Surrey. South West Londoners to Surrey or East or West Sussex.North Londoners to Hertfordshire and West Londoners to Middlesex and Berkshire. If you want to hear a long-standing London accent then these are the areas where you are likely to hear it most, not the 16 Inner London Boroughs but the 16 Outer London Boroughs.
@@dennismills6887 I should have said the area within earshot of the bells changes with the wind, but there is a correlation between the two geographic definitions under the typical prevailing wind conditions.
Also isn't a true cockney someone born within earshot of the bow bells, but also moves to the outer boroughs of London once their own self started business earns enough? You could even push it as far as Kent or Essex? I'm asking for a friend.
@@monkeyslovewand Firstly, it is very kind of you to take the time and trouble to ask on behalf of your friend. I hope he gets better. I have a friend who started his own Business and moved to The Kent Suburbs, where he, also, started another one, and, funnily enough, he has the same name and birth fate, as me. Small World.
Nick is so right about sleeping over at a friend's house. Once all the fun has been had, you really just wanna go home. I've watched more Micky Flanagan on this channel than I ever have before. I know him well from panel shows but he really does nail his stand up. He so relatable. Except that I talk posher.
@@BoringReviews As a 69-year-old Londoner, allow me to say that a genuine Cockney is born within the "Bow Bells" Church in East London but the term "Cockney" is used by everyone else to mean a Londoner, irrespective of whether they are from North, South, East or West London. That little swaggering walk that Micky did is quite typical. Sadly, there are few "Cockneys" left in London after a mass exodus from The 1970s, in particular, and the overwhelming majority, like me, live in The Outer London Suburbs which are not only Outer London Boroughs but their postal address is one of the surrounding "Home Counties" that surround London. Generally, East Londoners move to Essex.SOUTH East Londers to Kent or Surrey. South West Londoners to Surrey or East or West Sussex.North Londoners to Hertfordshire and West Londoners to Middlesex and Berkshire. If you want to hear a long-standing London accent then these are the areas where you are likely to hear it most, not the 16 Inner London Boroughs but the 16 Outer London Boroughs.
@@Isleofskye- Much of that is true. I was born and grew up in southwest London, and I know Surrey and the Sussexes best. Berkshire and Oxfordshire too. London is such a big city and difficult to drive across that I've hardly ever been to north and northeast London, or Hertfordshire and Essex. No need. I mean, what's Walthamstow got that Twickenham hasn't? 😁
@@renejean2523 " . I mean, what's Walthamstow got that Twickenham hasn't? 😁"....well a few years ago,I would have said the best Greyhound Stadium in the Country since White City closed in 1984 but you are right. I am 69 and have tried to see all of London and filed miserably. lol
@@Isleofskye- Yeah, I did think of the dog track when I randomly picked Walthamstow, but I didn't think anyone would remember it. There's a pretty decent stadium in Twickers, of course. From where in London do you hail?
Nice reaction you two. There is a comment that describes where a cockney is from in london. They have a particular accent and also are responsible for cockney rhyming slang which is also worth checking out how and why it was used.
I'm a northerner, but my dad is a cockney. He can't stand mickey flanagan, says he's a plastic cockney(??!!) 😂😂 I however, find him hilarious. My dad doesn't find peter kay funny either, which goes to show his sense of humour is rubbish 😂😂😂
To be called an official cockney you have to be born within the sounds of the bow bells A church in London called St Mary-le-bow. I’m terrible at remembering names and that’s happened to me you wake up. The trick is say good morning babe or good morning girl I’ve been with a girl three weeks and still couldn’t remember her name so I got her to put her number on my telephone with her name then I could look at the phone before going in the her house, or when I met her eventually, I remembered it dumped her a week later so that was a waste of time
The bells were finally augmented to twelve in 1881 and in 1926 they were declared unringable and not rung again. The silence of Bow bells became a matter of national concern.
@@paulbromley6687 Very philosophical Paul. As Aris of Totle said Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. He also said that. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. and went on to further say that excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Clever geezer that Aris..
A Cockney is basically someone who was born in London, traditionally within the sound of Bow Bells, which is a church near central/East London (Mary Le Bow). Generally working class people, famous for their strong London (Cockney) accent and cockney rhyming slang. Eg: apples and pairs = stairs, jam jar = car, boat race = face, plates of meat = feet, carving knife = wife, etc, etc. Rhyming slang supposedly came from old London criminals, which was used as a code so other people/the police could not understand what they were talking about.
In the most general terms a Cockney is generally the traditional working class, blue collar communities who were born, lived and worked in the traditional industries of central London. Many worked in the well known markets in the city, on the docks, on the river (my grandad was a Lighterman operating operating barges that moved freight on the river, a specialised technical and respected job - he also served in the Merchant Navy). As these industries went into decline after the war many Cockneys moved out to the suburbs - and many moved to Essex, but many didn’t. From the 1960s onwards improved social mobility alongside the increase of government investment in social housing (‘projects’ to use the American term) saw the traditional cockney communities decline. My grandparents moved to the South of England in the 1970s, set up his own business and did very well - but remained a proud cockney. Culturally Cockneys are regarded as street wise and savvy, often fashionable working class - usually a ‘jack the lad stereotype’ and of course all the criminal associations that go with most working class stereotypes, dodgy duckers and divers! But generally its simply because these communities and jobs could be tough, so you had to be tough growing up in that area. Famous cockneys include; Michael Caine, Adele, Charlie Chaplin, the Kray Twins, Amy Winehouse and many more. The Cockney can be traced right back to when London was a walled city around AD 200 Roman times, although the term was first recorded in the 1300s.
A cockney is a person born within the sound of the bow church bell...back in the day...now considered to be an east Londoner (east of the city of London) but the culture of the "cockney" has and is expanding east and northeast of London for decades now.
Have you ever done Dara O'Briain? He was the host of Mock The Week. He's Irish. He speaks very fast and has a bit of a lisp so you might have trouble understanding fully but you seem fine with Micky and Sarah Millican's accents
Multiple times I've been referred to as a "cockney" when I go up north. Especially Liverpool. But I can't be arsed to correct then and explain I'm from WEST London and what the difference is.
To everyone outside London someone from inside the m25 is a cockney. I live in Devon so anyone further north than Bristol is a northerner . I call my mate from Preston a Scouser. It’s from the same sort of area . Some of its ignorance but mostly its to piss him off
A true cockney is from East London, specifically areas like Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Hackney etc.... I love that you guys really enjoy Mickey and his humour. Great channel guys, not long until 100k subs I see 👀. 👊🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Micky spaces out his comedy at a reasonable pace, but these small cuts don't always capture it. He's not there to bowl you over, just to keep you nice and warm and happy.
To call yourself Cockney you have to be born within earshot of St Mary-le-Bow Church in The East End, the sounds of the bells to be more exact...........it's quite a bragging right if you were!
Today yes, but originally no. Due to buildings getting taller the further you go back the further the sound of the bells travelled which included lambeth, south London.
Cockneys are rare now. They're working class people born in parts of East and South East London. London is mostly inhabited by foreign born people and the wealthy today. To hear the accent nowadays,you have to go to parts of Essex and Kent. There are some in outer London,but most of them in central London are elderly. It also has its own dialect and slang. The slang is a rhyming slang. My favourite I heard from my Dad and his friends was,"Ice cream freezer" meaning Geezer/man. Another favourite was Aris,Aristotle=bottle=bottle and glass=arse/ass. Its a dying culture unfortunately.
My father was born within the sound of the bells of Mary-le-Bow church which made him a cockney. This term has been hijacked and liberally used by non-Londoners to mean someone from London or someone with a broad London accent.
Not entirely true. Guys and St thomas hospital are in South London and are in distance within the sounds of the bells. The East London thing is based on the bow Bells are in East London
Traditionally a Cockney is a working class person from East London born in earshot of the bow bells. Most actual cockneys have left London now though. 2 movies you could watch are Green Street Hooligans and Legend. Neither are that great (although GSH is a cult classic) but both focus on Cockney characters.
A Cockney is a person born within the sound of the bells of St.Mary le Bow Church, (which is nearer the City of London area.)....just slightly outside the East End of London. Otherwise you are a Londoner. x
if you want to see another side of hugh grant totally different to the usual character he plays you should watch the guy richie movie " the gentleman " he doesn't play the gentleman by the way. as for a cockney, i'm not one but was born in south east london . if the wind was blowing from the north you could probably hear bow bells.
In these current times there are only 3 hospitals in London from the 330 that are in distance of the bow bells... Guys in South London St thomas in south London The Royal London hospital in Eas London. If you are born in any of these like myself, then you are s genuine Cockney.
"Cockneys" officially come from a quite small area in East London. But the Cockney accent and way of talking is widespread across the whole of N.E. and S.E. London. It's associated with working class, and less well educated folk. "Cockney" characters are often portrayed in the media as "salt of the earth" folk, with a cheery disposition and old fashioned values, and frequently on the wrong side of the law - (Cockney rhyming slang originally evolved to stop the cops from knowing what you were talking about).
Nope, within the sound of Bow Bells which is just over the Thames from Southwark Bridge Road and the Borough Market, which are closer than Whitechaple and Limehouse. The Church is basically in the City. The area where Charles Dickens set some of his works. The Clink in Clink Street,. Shakespeare's Globe, Crucifix Lane, Leathermarket, Dorrit Street, Little Dorrit Court, Beak Alley!
There ya go (4:20) 'If you've _trumped_ on someone's carpet' = if you've _farted_ in their house. Rememember that, America: Trump = Fart Worth keeping in mind.
TBH - Sadly, the size of the 'cockney area' has shrunk since WW2 because of all the 'new buildings' and 'noise pollution' ! To be an official (proper) cockney, you MUST be born within the SOUND of the Bow Bells. The Church of 'St Mary-le-Bow' (on Cheapside, London) is now surrounded by SO MANY new (tall) buildings, and with the added noise of traffic and similar, very few TRUE cockneys now are being born (also because few 'residential' places exist within the SOUND of the church bells anymore.
I went to same school as Micky I'm from the east end of London that's just we talk in the east end I can go to other parts of the the country soon as I start talking people ask are cockney my partner some time still don't understand me when I talk she's not from the east end we been together over 30 years
To be a true cockney it my bit a myth but you’ve gotta be born within the sound of the Bow Bells. Now is a place in London but east London. A lot I think the rhyming slang was to do with criminals not wanting people know they really saying. Might be wrong but I think I’m right
A 'true' Cockney is traditionally born within the sound of Bow bells - the church bells of St Mary-le-Bow. I've always thought of it as being a pretty undefined, nebulous concept. After all, one person's hearing abilities are different to someone else's. But it's true to say, "all Cockneys are Londoners, but not all Londoners are Cockneys."
Nowadays you've got to be born within eyeshot of the taj mahal 😂😂😂
@@martinburke362 Taj Mahal St Pancras . . . Do a cracking Chicken Tikka 😊
The Elephant and Castle is the same distance from the Bow Bells as Shadwell, so both would have been able to hear the Bells until the advent of taller buildings being built in the 70's.
The funny thing is that I try hard not to type colloquialisms in comments to Septics because they can barely understand English let alone a smuttering of cockney.
Septics can call a young lady a Chick but are totally confused when we call her a bird! They say we drive on the wrong side but if we do, why have Yank motorbikes got the sidestand on the same side as us, the left, so that it leans to the pavement (sidewalk) but in the US it leans into the road and with the curve of the road into the gutter, as on a shedload of Yank roads, the bike can easily fall over!
Unfortunately now lots of Essex twats that support West Ham United think they too are cockneys 😂
@@martinburke362or brick lane
I'm about the same age as Mickey and grew up in the east end and there were so many guys that were funny like Mickey. It was just the humour of the area. Everything seemed to revolve around having a good giggle at everything. His humour really reminds me of my younger years in the pubs and clubs.
It doesn't matter how many times I see this extract, it always cracks me up. And Jodi, your reactions make it even funnier, god bless you. Hope you understood the ''homeowner'' reference. In the UK we get a lot of anonymous junk mail addressed like that. Straight in the bin normally.
I'm Cockney, was born and still live in East London (people that still live here are called Cockney Sparrows, because Sparrows don't leave their nest to go elsewhere) To be a Cockney, it used to have to be either you or your ancestors need to be born within the sound of the Bow bells at St Mary-Le-Bow church in the area of Cheapside in East London, but now it's just recognised as working class people from London. We're famous for rhyming slang (we still use this in my house), Pie (minced beef), mash, liquor (parsely sauce) and stewed eels, Jack the Ripper and Victorian music Hall (if you're interested in music, the original stuff would be 'Harry Champion' and the more modern version would be a duo called 'Chas and Dave') Famous Cockneys would be Micky obviously, Michael Caine, Steve Harris from Iron Maiden, Ray Winston, Bob Hoskins, Russell Brand, Honour blackman and Adele - we'll give Dick Van Dyke honourary Cockney status because of his role as the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins but the accent wasn't great hahaha P.S The one night stand thing is NOT neccessarily a Cockney thing, we don't all have loose morals, just Mickey hahaha
“Sparra”.
@@SvenTviking 'Ave you got a trouble and strife? A nice clean jam jar, not as two thirty as mine? 'ow often do you go to the rub a dub for a cuff link.
I don't know if cockneys still use it, but a true to the bone cockney would know what I said without looking it up.
@@ZargonUSA Indeed - nice titfa, whistle, barnet, hackney marshes, dog and bone, Micky Bliss, brown bread, syrup. I could go on ...
I'm from Hampshire and we speak the Queen/Kings English.
We always thought the "crafty cockneys " had special needs or some kind of tourette's syndrome.
As a 69-year-old Londoner, allow me to say that a genuine Cockney is born within the "Bow Bells" Church in East London but the term "Cockney" is used by everyone else to mean a Londoner, irrespective of whether they are from North, South, East or West London. That little swaggering walk that Micky did is quite typical. Sadly, there are few "Cockneys" left in London after a mass exodus from The 1970s, in particular, and the overwhelming majority, like me, live in The Outer London Suburbs which are not only Outer London Boroughs but their postal address is one of the surrounding "Home Counties" that surround London.
Generally, East Londoners move to Essex.SOUTH East Londers to Kent or Surrey. South West Londoners to Surrey or East or West Sussex.North Londoners to Hertfordshire and West Londoners to Middlesex and Berkshire.
If you want to hear a long-standing London accent then these are the areas where you are likely to hear it most, not the 16 Inner London Boroughs but the 16 Outer London Boroughs.
Bow bells isn’t in the east end, it’s in between queen Victoria street and cheapside. City of London not the east end, there is a difference
@@dennismills6887 I should have said the area within earshot of the bells changes with the wind, but there is a correlation between the two geographic definitions under the typical prevailing wind conditions.
Also isn't a true cockney someone born within earshot of the bow bells, but also moves to the outer boroughs of London once their own self started business earns enough? You could even push it as far as Kent or Essex? I'm asking for a friend.
@@monkeyslovewand Firstly, it is very kind of you to take the time and trouble to ask on behalf of your friend. I hope he gets better.
I have a friend who started his own Business and moved to The Kent Suburbs, where he, also, started another one, and, funnily enough, he has the same name and birth fate, as me. Small World.
Nick is so right about sleeping over at a friend's house. Once all the fun has been had, you really just wanna go home.
I've watched more Micky Flanagan on this channel than I ever have before. I know him well from panel shows but he really does nail his stand up. He so relatable. Except that I talk posher.
Appreciate the agreement and the kindness
@@BoringReviews As a 69-year-old Londoner, allow me to say that a genuine Cockney is born within the "Bow Bells" Church in East London but the term "Cockney" is used by everyone else to mean a Londoner, irrespective of whether they are from North, South, East or West London. That little swaggering walk that Micky did is quite typical. Sadly, there are few "Cockneys" left in London after a mass exodus from The 1970s, in particular, and the overwhelming majority, like me, live in The Outer London Suburbs which are not only Outer London Boroughs but their postal address is one of the surrounding "Home Counties" that surround London.
Generally, East Londoners move to Essex.SOUTH East Londers to Kent or Surrey. South West Londoners to Surrey or East or West Sussex.North Londoners to Hertfordshire and West Londoners to Middlesex and Berkshire.
If you want to hear a long-standing London accent then these are the areas where you are likely to hear it most, not the 16 Inner London Boroughs but the 16 Outer London Boroughs.
@@Isleofskye- Much of that is true. I was born and grew up in southwest London, and I know Surrey and the Sussexes best. Berkshire and Oxfordshire too. London is such a big city and difficult to drive across that I've hardly ever been to north and northeast London, or Hertfordshire and Essex. No need. I mean, what's Walthamstow got that Twickenham hasn't? 😁
@@renejean2523 " . I mean, what's Walthamstow got that Twickenham hasn't? 😁"....well a few years ago,I would have said the best Greyhound Stadium in the Country since White City closed in 1984 but you are right.
I am 69 and have tried to see all of London and filed miserably. lol
@@Isleofskye- Yeah, I did think of the dog track when I randomly picked Walthamstow, but I didn't think anyone would remember it. There's a pretty decent stadium in Twickers, of course.
From where in London do you hail?
Bloody hell, "pulling a runner" is a right of passage. You wake up in a strange room see a bush pig beside you and leg it for the hills
No better way to start the day! Thank you ❤
Nice reaction you two. There is a comment that describes where a cockney is from in london.
They have a particular accent and also are responsible for cockney rhyming slang which is also worth checking out how and why it was used.
Love this clip and not seen it for years. Watch his clip about saga holidays its hilarious. Saga holidays are aimed at the older generation.
I'm a northerner, but my dad is a cockney. He can't stand mickey flanagan, says he's a plastic cockney(??!!) 😂😂 I however, find him hilarious. My dad doesn't find peter kay funny either, which goes to show his sense of humour is rubbish 😂😂😂
Mickey grew up in Bethnal green around Columbia road East London yes it is the East End.I use to know it but moved from there 1987
Just in case Americans don't understand. If you get post in the UK and they don't know your name, they either print "the occupier" or "Homeowner." 😂
To be called an official cockney you have to be born within the sounds of the bow bells
A church in London called St Mary-le-bow. I’m terrible at remembering names and that’s happened to me you wake up. The trick is say good morning babe or good morning girl
I’ve been with a girl three weeks and still couldn’t remember her name so I got her to put her number on my telephone with her name then I could look at the phone before going in the her house, or when I met her eventually, I remembered it dumped her a week later so that was a waste of time
The bells were finally augmented to twelve in 1881 and in 1926 they were declared unringable and not rung again. The silence of Bow bells became a matter of national concern.
How sad is an unringable bell, better I suppose to an unknockable door.
@@paulbromley6687 Very philosophical Paul. As Aris of Totle said Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. He also said that. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. and went on to further say that excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Clever geezer that Aris..
Jodi hitting it with the BURN
Chomped on someone’s carpet!! 😂
Always enjoy your reviews and Micky is one of the greatest. Please react to his set about women loving cards - very funny 😂
A Cockney is basically someone who was born in London, traditionally within the sound of Bow Bells, which is a church near central/East London (Mary Le Bow). Generally working class people, famous for their strong London (Cockney) accent and cockney rhyming slang.
Eg: apples and pairs = stairs, jam jar = car, boat race = face, plates of meat = feet, carving knife = wife, etc, etc. Rhyming slang supposedly came from old London criminals, which was used as a code so other people/the police could not understand what they were talking about.
In the most general terms a Cockney is generally the traditional working class, blue collar communities who were born, lived and worked in the traditional industries of central London. Many worked in the well known markets in the city, on the docks, on the river (my grandad was a Lighterman operating operating barges that moved freight on the river, a specialised technical and respected job - he also served in the Merchant Navy). As these industries went into decline after the war many Cockneys moved out to the suburbs - and many moved to Essex, but many didn’t. From the 1960s onwards improved social mobility alongside the increase of government investment in social housing (‘projects’ to use the American term) saw the traditional cockney communities decline. My grandparents moved to the South of England in the 1970s, set up his own business and did very well - but remained a proud cockney. Culturally Cockneys are regarded as street wise and savvy, often fashionable working class - usually a ‘jack the lad stereotype’ and of course all the criminal associations that go with most working class stereotypes, dodgy duckers and divers! But generally its simply because these communities and jobs could be tough, so you had to be tough growing up in that area. Famous cockneys include; Michael Caine, Adele, Charlie Chaplin, the Kray Twins, Amy Winehouse and many more. The Cockney can be traced right back to when London was a walled city around AD 200 Roman times, although the term was first recorded in the 1300s.
I'm A Cockney!! East End of London ❤
A cockney is a person born within the sound of the bow church bell...back in the day...now considered to be an east Londoner (east of the city of London) but the culture of the "cockney" has and is expanding east and northeast of London for decades now.
Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins are good examples of well known cockneys the story is that both of their dads worked at the Billingsgate fish market.
i think bob hoskins was born outside london.
Have you ever done Dara O'Briain? He was the host of Mock The Week.
He's Irish. He speaks very fast and has a bit of a lisp so you might have trouble understanding fully but you seem fine with Micky and Sarah Millican's accents
You had a mid section of his stand up there I’m sure I’ve seen more of that set in the past and it is a lot longer with a zinger or two to come.
Multiple times I've been referred to as a "cockney" when I go up north. Especially Liverpool. But I can't be arsed to correct then and explain I'm from WEST London and what the difference is.
You probably think all people from Merseyside and the Wirral are scousers and they can't be bothered telling you the difference 😂...just sayin!!! 😉
I am a cockney and you're both correct lol
@@glastonbury4304 No. They're all just Northerners 😄
To everyone outside London someone from inside the m25 is a cockney. I live in Devon so anyone further north than Bristol is a northerner .
I call my mate from Preston a Scouser. It’s from the same sort of area . Some of its ignorance but mostly its to piss him off
@@barrywhite5899 Anyone outside of London is a northerner. Powering the South 👍
My dad would drive Eric around on his dart tours lol
I'm a cockney and talk the same way Micky went to the same has me
We are born in a small area of east London, in ear shot of the church st mary-le-boes's bells. 👍
And most of you had families that originated in Bangladesh
I was working on the Roman road the other day , the east end has changed .
U gotta do micky flanagen talking about france reaction
A true cockney is from East London, specifically areas like Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Hackney etc....
I love that you guys really enjoy Mickey and his humour.
Great channel guys, not long until 100k subs I see 👀.
👊🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
As far as lambeth they were heard, as time went on and the buildings got taller the sound travelled less distance.
Micky spaces out his comedy at a reasonable pace, but these small cuts don't always capture it. He's not there to bowl you over, just to keep you nice and warm and happy.
To call yourself Cockney you have to be born within earshot of St Mary-le-Bow Church in The East End, the sounds of the bells to be more exact...........it's quite a bragging right if you were!
Mary-le-Bow is in Cheapside in the City, not the East End.
You need to try watching Micky Flanagan: "leaving it in."
Not any more I’m afraid, it’s long gone.
Please do mickys guide to impressing women, from the Apollo. It’s the best!
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A cockney is a person born within the sound of Bow bells (east London). So if one is born in north, west or south London they are not cockneys.
Today yes, but originally no. Due to buildings getting taller the further you go back the further the sound of the bells travelled which included lambeth, south London.
I was Born in Mile End , Lived in Bow then Basildon , Plaistow , Elephant and Castle and now Bromley - Am I a Cockney or Just Common ?
Cockneys are rare now.
They're working class people born in parts of East and South East London.
London is mostly inhabited by foreign born people and the wealthy today.
To hear the accent nowadays,you have to go to parts of Essex and Kent.
There are some in outer London,but most of them in central London are elderly.
It also has its own dialect and slang.
The slang is a rhyming slang.
My favourite I heard from my Dad and his friends was,"Ice cream freezer" meaning Geezer/man.
Another favourite was Aris,Aristotle=bottle=bottle and glass=arse/ass.
Its a dying culture unfortunately.
My father was born within the sound of the bells of Mary-le-Bow church which made him a cockney.
This term has been hijacked and liberally used by non-Londoners to mean someone from London or someone with a broad London accent.
From LONDON east end,,,, born within the area of the above Bells
Not entirely true.
Guys and St thomas hospital are in South London and are in distance within the sounds of the bells.
The East London thing is based on the bow Bells are in East London
Traditionally a Cockney is a working class person from East London born in earshot of the bow bells. Most actual cockneys have left London now though.
2 movies you could watch are Green Street Hooligans and Legend.
Neither are that great (although GSH is a cult classic) but both focus on Cockney characters.
if oyu stream the whole show, he does go on more about the date
A Cockney is a person born within the sound of the bells of St.Mary le Bow Church, (which is nearer the City of London area.)....just slightly outside the East End of London. Otherwise you are a Londoner. x
if you want to see another side of hugh grant totally different to the usual character he plays you should watch the guy richie movie " the gentleman " he doesn't play the gentleman by the way. as for a cockney, i'm not one but was born in south east london . if the wind was blowing from the north you could probably hear bow bells.
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In these current times there are only 3 hospitals in London from the 330 that are in distance of the bow bells...
Guys in South London
St thomas in south London
The Royal London hospital in Eas London.
If you are born in any of these like myself, then you are s genuine Cockney.
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"Cockneys" officially come from a quite small area in East London. But the Cockney accent and way of talking is widespread across the whole of N.E. and S.E. London. It's associated with working class, and less well educated folk. "Cockney" characters are often portrayed in the media as "salt of the earth" folk, with a cheery disposition and old fashioned values, and frequently on the wrong side of the law - (Cockney rhyming slang originally evolved to stop the cops from knowing what you were talking about).
Nope, within the sound of Bow Bells which is just over the Thames from Southwark Bridge Road and the Borough Market, which are closer than Whitechaple and Limehouse.
The Church is basically in the City.
The area where Charles Dickens set some of his works. The Clink in Clink Street,.
Shakespeare's Globe, Crucifix Lane, Leathermarket, Dorrit Street, Little Dorrit Court, Beak Alley!
You forgot COCKNEY BACK SLANG.
8:25 read her face, she has.
There ya go (4:20) 'If you've _trumped_ on someone's carpet' = if you've _farted_ in their house.
Rememember that, America: Trump = Fart
Worth keeping in mind.
Leave it out! What are you talking about farts for?
Chomped on someone's carpet.
A cockney is a specific part of London.
Nope. A cockney is a PERSON FROM a specific part of London
TBH - Sadly, the size of the 'cockney area' has shrunk since WW2 because of all the 'new buildings' and 'noise pollution' ! To be an official (proper) cockney, you MUST be born within the SOUND of the Bow Bells. The Church of 'St Mary-le-Bow' (on Cheapside, London) is now surrounded by SO MANY new (tall) buildings, and with the added noise of traffic and similar, very few TRUE cockneys now are being born (also because few 'residential' places exist within the SOUND of the church bells anymore.
I went to same school as Micky I'm from the east end of London that's just we talk in the east end I can go to other parts of the the country soon as I start talking people ask are cockney my partner some time still don't understand me when I talk she's not from the east end we been together over 30 years
To be a true cockney it my bit a myth but you’ve gotta be born within the sound of the Bow Bells. Now is a place in London but east London. A lot I think the rhyming slang was to do with criminals not wanting people know they really saying. Might be wrong but I think I’m right
I'm a cockney
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