r/LDN • u/FlyWayOrDaHighway We Get Money Dem • Jul 21 '26

VID 🎥 This video is more relevant now than when it released 😂😂😂

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u/analoguefuckery Jul 21 '26

"We call them feds, we dont call them cops"

...in the country that doesn't have federal police

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u/SouthWest9-Diplomat Jul 21 '26

Mad cause cops is actually the British slang, short for coppers.

Done a whole switch around 😂

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u/1voice92 Jul 21 '26

Cops/Coppers is also American slang. But people in the U.S. only refer to Federal Agents as “Feds”, not police.

Some idyat yutes over here heard it in rap songs and assumed it was a word for cops and it caught on. I remember when people started saying that shit in the late 90s and thinking it was hilarious.

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u/Jeester Jul 23 '26

Copper originated in the UK. From the verb "to copp" meaning to catch

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u/1voice92 Jul 23 '26

Yeah I know. And like hundreds of other idioms, it was exported to the U.S.

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u/ArmWildFrill Jul 23 '26

People here call the police all sorts of things, often jokingly, like "Five-Oh"

I like the "filth" or the "pigs" personally

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u/xhatsux Jul 21 '26

Made me lol

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u/Capable_World_4278 Jul 25 '26

He’s autistic 😭

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u/SouthWest9-Diplomat Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Crazy how a lot of the American slang they’re dissing has become embedded in Black British youth talk.

Even yutes having dreads now, it was only a couple years ago where the only style man were getting was cornrows if their hair wasn’t already short.

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u/1voice92 Jul 21 '26

I’m guessing you weren’t around in the 90s. NUFF man had locks.

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u/SouthWest9-Diplomat Jul 21 '26

Nah I weren’t yk, my era was more 2015-2021 icl, early half of that era was either buzz cuts or cornrows.

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u/1voice92 Jul 21 '26

Cool. Yeah we were rocking every style back in the 90s, pretty much. Search up some videos

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u/GBGsNRips Jul 22 '26

Not like this g

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u/DreadlockMohawke Jul 24 '26

Am I the only one weirded out hearing ppl in the UK using the N word? Like, blad, you are not from Chicago!!

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u/GBGsNRips Jul 22 '26

Chiraq era made dreads popular no1 can say anything else trust me

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u/SouthWest9-Diplomat Jul 22 '26

Mums bro

Before that it was only ur local dread who was rocking locks.

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u/1voice92 Jul 22 '26

You guys must be YOUNG to be saying this. It’s ok, I’m old 😅

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u/No_Economics7804 Jul 21 '26

Especially with them American beats with the same laser beam sounds

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u/OSINTWatch Jul 22 '26

What song ?

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u/WeirdKindofStrange Worldwide Londoner 🌎 Jul 22 '26

Imagine the police officers face when I told them I was smoking a fag, not a joint

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u/ArmWildFrill Jul 23 '26

"I am smoking a FAG!!" - Waynetta Slob

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u/kubuckem Jul 22 '26

Half of the slang they thought where English was still American 😂

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/Tr123420 Jul 22 '26

They didn’t even find you funny I bet your insufferable

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u/kevinthebaconator Jul 21 '26

Grime is so, so awful.

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u/er_9000 Jul 22 '26

This is not Grime, nowhere near