My friend Lucia is Irish and has a great way of phrasing things. Even if you have never heard Irish slang, it is pretty easy to follow what they mean.

Today she told me her older boy “cracked the sads leaving his mammy in the morning but as soon as i was gone he would be grand again.” Another favorite Lucia-ism: “we had a good craic.”

And then your typical odds and ends (”bits and bobs” as they might call them) always includes “lads,” “shite,” and “loads.”

Not Irish, but across the water, here is a comparison of the severity of two of my favorite UK slang words that I could never use myself without sounding like a “wanker.”

Bugger vs Bollocks - Bugger seems to be more mild than Bollocks.
Bugger and Bollocks in Britain