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Liverpool, and Merseyside generally, has a very high percentage of people of Irish origin in its population - in the bad days of the Irish famine in the 1840s onwards very many thousands of starving Irish people escaped either to the closest port in England - Liverpool, then the busiest port in the entire world - or, in even larger numbers, to the United States, settling in large numbers in the north east of the US. Liverpool has, after London, and then Glasgow, the highest proportion of Roman Catholics in the UK.
So the character and the humour of Liverpudlians is very heavily influenced by their Irish roots. Paddy's bars, complete with the full craic, are ten a penny in Scouseland.
"You've have fair hair" in Scouse comes out something like "Youse got fur huh". Police officers in Liverpool are called "busies" and criminals are called "scallies" and that lady's "roasties" in that YT clip were her roast potatoes in the oven, cooking for her Sunday lunch. But "roasties" is used more or less everywhere in the uK.
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As to whether Brits "understand" American slang I'd have to say they remotely "understand" it but are not sure how to "use" is. Most foreigners think all us Americans run around saying "Dawg, boi, hood, tight, fly ect." obsessively and then over use all the slang’s like they saw on t.v.
Ex: Yeah Dawg me and the homies are riding fly to the shop to trick out my tight ride, holla yall!
they know that "Dawg" means person, friend and "fly" means cool or good looking, "trick out" means to makeover or add something cool to something, "tight" means cool, ect. But they don't know that to use all that slang in one sentence is not the real way to use slang. While, admittedly, some people think it's "cool" to use all these slang’s at once, it really isn't. The correct way to use slang is as follows
Ex: Me and my friends are headed to the shop to trick out my ride, see you later!
This is how average everyday younger Americans speak. We DO NOT over use slang and other cultures don't seem to grasp that we aren't all "Fellas from da hood" or "people who think they are way cooler than they are" so in this case, Brits understand it, but do not know how to use it.
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Nobody in the US says "trick out my ride yall!!!" You'd get your ass laughed at if you said something like that.
Note to foreigners: nobody speaks with all those stupid slangs and phrases you hear on TV. It's the complete invention of writing staffs. At one point, yeah, people said it, but by the time it shows up on TV nobody talks like that unless they're trying to be tongue in cheek.
So to sum it up, by the time you guys know of any slangs, not only do people no longer use them, but if they do they're making fun of something for being outdated and lame.
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I would have to really agree with such, honestly. And even for the forms that are actually used in parts of the US, such as "dude" and like, these are very commonly actually highly regional in nature. One must remember that California and New York City are only small parts of the US, and yet in much of the media content that the rest of the world sees these are the primary parts of the US which are visible (even if things are supposedly set elsewhere). For instance, here in the Upper Midwest, AAVE aside, the slang used is often quite different from that one would be exposed to in much media content; honestly, what I hear being used in many TV shows quite foreign to me here.
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