As I understand it, and please bear in mind that I'm not a native speaker, "banter" is a term used by Londoners
when they mean friendly conversation, jokes and jibes. However, the chap from Acton next to me uses the term "top banter" whenever I call him a cunt, which is frequently. I think perhaps my understanding is a little shaky.
( Kroney, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 14:34, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

Can somebody furnish me with an idea of how Acton places in the London villages pecking order?
I need to know whether I can treat him as an equal, or whether he's only deserving of the sort of patronising praise you'd deliver to one of your cotton picking indentured sambos out on the plantation.
( Kroney, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 14:36, Reply)

Acton means "oak farm" or "farm by oak trees", and is derived from the Anglo-Saxon ac (oak) and tun (farm).

So he's probably a bit of a plank.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 14:48, Reply)

Must be, I haven't seen a farm within miles of Acton.

( Kroney, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 14:50, Reply)

South Acton is the site of actual housing estate featured in long running BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses - although the script described the Trotters as living in Peckham. The tower block where Rodney and Delboy were supposed to be living is the real life Harlech Tower
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 14:53, Reply)

Acton was the birthplace of The Who, of which all members except Keith Moon went to Acton High School (then named Acton County Grammar School).
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:00, Reply)

Wow you know so much about Acton, Stunned!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:01, Reply)

Calm down wikipediaboy.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:01, Reply)

Hahahaha.
I am moving to Acton!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:02, Reply)

this can never be true
you're sarf lundun born and bred
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:07, Reply)

I used to live in Hammersmith and I lived in Hounslow for a bit.
Hampstead for a year.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:08, Reply)

this is all a bit close for comfort

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:22, Reply)

it was when you moved in that he fled across the river

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:58, Reply)

On a playground he spent most of his days

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:19, Reply)

Enjoy the A40
It's murder round there.
( Kroney, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:14, Reply)

Bit racist.
Pete Townshend's 1982 solo album, All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, contained the track "Stardom in Acton" in reference to his home town, while the accompanying video was filmed on and around Acton High Street.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:00, Reply)

Bit racist
In the episode of Alan Partridge Towering Alan, the character Mike Sampson is from Acton. He is a socially inept character who describes Acton as having "a few too many blacks."
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:01, Reply)

Keeping the riff raff out.
The first Waitrose store in the UK was in Acton. Originally called "Waite, Rose and Taylor", it opened in 1904, at number 263 Acton Hill.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 6 Jan 2014, 15:11, Reply)