Levels Rising... Please help!!

Tristan wrote:

Ok clue me in on this one Gill is being a "Bloke".... good or bad or
just different! I am slowly getting used to the various UK terms ;-)


Oh dear yet another American needing lessons on the finer use of the
English language by it's true owner - lol

OK - in the way I used it in the post it means what the other
guy/fella/dude/person said....it can be a bit derogatory in certain
contexts but not the one I used it in....if I said that you were display
"blokish behaviour" this would be equal to saying "laddish behaviour" -
again I'm sure another English phrase - but one that has also made it to
other English speaking countries - which basically would mean acting
like a lout or if a more gentle interpretation was put on it it would be
acting like "one of the lads/boys".....if I said you were just being a
bloke then again it could be taken as either a soft jibe/poke, a female
humouring a male or in worst case scenario (but rarely) as an insult/put
down....like all slang it is pretty much down to the context that it is
used in that gives the connatation and whether it would be construed as
an insult or compliment or merely a description of someones
gender.....Oh dear it all gets very complex....the context I used it in
means guy/fella/dude/person and nothing more or less.....I only
included the others just in case someone went did a google and construed
as an insult - which it wasn't....

Now I hope that is all clear as mud for you now :-) Further lessons on
English slang available on request - he, he

Gill