"blimey" - ?

 

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win...."

~ John F. Kennedy

September 12, 1962

President Kennedy gives the "moon speech" at Rice University.

July 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon.

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British people have some wild-and-crazy ways of speaking:  they kill me.

"spout the bollocks"

"the morons that Theresa May fancies"

"s--t on a stick"

"lovely heads of state chosen by the people"

"this pig's-trough of a series"

"rank rotten acting, bog rotten story..."

"blimey, you got out of bed the wrong side"

(from the La-Dee-Dah gallery) -- "The Guardian's rush to the cultural wasteland continues unabated."  (This sentence has to be said with the Tommy Lascelles accent from The Crown.)

"people who are keen to tell us..."

"Not my thing, but fair play to those that love it."

     And the commenter who mentions "the British living room" is immediately corrected below by someone asking, "Do you mean the drawing room or the sitting room?"

     To paraphrase Steve Martin -- "Well, ex-cuuuuuuuuse me!"

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blimey

1.  Used primarily in London, but now all across the UK, to express surprise, excitement, or alarm

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