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...Oi, chillax. Don't go splashing your bust a grape mozzarella on Britneys, hench - pick up two new nang Richard Snaries. The dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West...
...naked - cavorted in the surf. It's thought that the missionaries convinced the chiefs that fanifo was corrupting Tongan youth and didn't belong in a budding Christian society, and that the chiefs placed on the sport a tapu, or ban. "This is, to some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc), "but it's more than likely what happened." (The banning of a sport has a more recent precedent in Tonga. In the 1920s authorities prohibited the playing of cricket, which had so gripped the local...
...played prior to his departure) stand out boldly throughout the album. “Crazy Beat,” whose repeated choruses of “Yeah yeah yeah yeah!” will undoubtedly recall their own parodic “Song 2.” And the Oi! cries in “We’ve Got a File On You” also recall Parklife closer...
...band’s music offers a rousing blend of oi!—a type of punk music—and Irish folk songs in a seemingly oil-and-water concoction that tastes surprisingly like a pint of Guinness. Their songs range from rowdy drinking anthems to rousing calls to arms...
...speaking, punk comes in two very similar flavors: British and American. British punk developed in the late 70’s as sort of disillusioned political outgrowth from lower-class neighborhoods, influenced by old-school rock n’ roll as well as reggae. Offshoots included ska, and later oi, music. American punk, taking its cue almost directly from the British punk sound and attitude, was formulated as a direct affront to the overly commercial arena rock scene of the preceding decade. Since that time, on either side of the Atlantic, punk has been an institution more than a musical...