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Brokerman Dan translates Manchester Slum language for me - he's going to "rip me"

Tom Winnifrith
Monday 14 September 2015

As you know I try to gain a real cultural understanding of life in the grim Northern post-industrial welfare safaris by watching Corrie. But even after this crash course I am still sometimes at a loss.

And so today my pal the convicted bank robber Dan Levi tweeted that he was going to “rip me”. I wondered what exactly the Lord of the Manchester slums meant by this. Apparently in the slums of Manchester this means to “laugh at” me. 

In common or garden English the slum boy is going to be ‘avin’ a bubble at me. Now why could he have not put it this way so that we could all understand?

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