The Onion on U.K. slang

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

I'm not British, but I can use the Internet.  Most of the slang terms mean
argument or altercation  So unless there is an actual hierarchy of intensity
in the meanings beyond my ken, it is all pretty redundant.
According to Wikipedia, "Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith,
2nd Baron Strathclyde, PC (born 22 February 1960, Glasgow, Scotland) is a
United Kingdom politician and the leader of the Conservative Party in the
House of Lords" and "Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, PC, née
Middleweek (born 26 March 1949 in Wolverhampton) is Lord Speaker of the
House of Lords in the United Kingdom".

The nightly Ten O'Clock News program on Great Britain's BBC One channel
upgraded a minor flap [disturbance; contretemps] in Parliament's House of
Lords to an all-out row Tuesday after Conservative Party leader Thomas
Galbraith, 2nd
Baron Strathclyde, told the Lord Speaker to sod off [depart; beat it]. "The
fortnight-old handbags [bitchy arguments] suddenly exploded into a proper
barney [loud argument; brouhaha] when Lord Strathclyde had an eppy [episode
(?of dementia, hysteria); epileptic fit ] and called Baroness Hayman a 'dozy
[a little sluggish in understanding things] slag [slut]' and then buggered
off [departed; beat a hasty retreat] for a Jack Dash [rhyming slang:
"slash", i.e., urinate] in the bog [restroom; toilet]," BBC political
correspondent Basil Islington said. "Needless to say, the other geezers went
chicken oriental [r.s.:  "mental", i.e., crazy]." The BBC said if the
tossers [drunkards; onanists] don't jam their tarts [?? (occurred on UK
"Office", but possibly made up)] by late afto [afternoon], they will be
forced to classify the bull and cow [r.s.:  "row"] as a paddy [? Argument
?<= Irish quarrelsomeness] though they haven't ruled out the possibility of
a total fucking pagger [fight].

Seán Fitzpatrick
It’s a Gnostic thing. You wouldn't understand.
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