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Picking on Brits a Bit
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and lukewarm (AKA "cellar temperature") ale vs. ice cold ale.Fries vs Chips or Football vs Soccer,
Armed vs Unarmed ,Trunk vs Boot, Truck vs Lorry and A Dental plan
you're one of those cunts who puts their guinness in the fridge aren't you...
edit for yanks: "cunt" doesn't pack the same punch in Scotland, it can be used to mean "person" in colloquial speech, e.g. "somecunt put this guinness in the fridge"
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yep. I'm 'Merikan!
Nah, we just lie bigger. That quarter pounder will often have a footnote stating the weight is before cooking. After cooking there's about 2 to 3 ounces left after the fat and water have fried off. We're like that about a lot of stuff. For example, "beef products" may have up to 30% fat, as well as fillers, "extenders" and other approved substances. How much actual beef is in it is anyone's guess.Not necessarily. You're American. Everything is bigger in America.
Even your quarter pounders contain half a pound of beef so I'm told on page 1 or 2 of this thread.
I worked with a number of Brits in the course of my career and cunt definitely had a different connotation, though not exactly complimentary. And, twat was definitely derogatory.
here's another one: cunt vs. a**hole or mofo.
I know: "Lyert-non". That's how the French pronounce it. As wrong as you lot, who make it sound as if you're talking about someone called Lou who rents a property.
I think it's maybe more often used in a derogatory way down south, up here it very much depends on your emphasis. As the comedian Kevin Bridges once noted, it is also used in a classic Scottish threat: "I'll kick your cunt in" which, though it might surprise you, is very much unisex
They don’t claim any - but Dickens, Doyle, Tennyson said to be regulars back in the day - it’s a labyrinth!
"Tiodfaidh ar la" - you mean Celtic topping the UEFA Champions League? Dream on ;-)It goes well beyond football and religion, those are just the mediums for the politics, as it were. Tiocfaidh ar la
I understood you the first time. But I liked the way you sorted it out, and apologized. Very EnglishLove this intro !
MisterBadger :Secondly, we like fresh eggs: a bit of poo and feather on the shell reassures us of their recent production
I believe England/Europe buy from farmer markets more than we do . Am I correct ? The vast majority of Americans buy their food from supermarkets/Walmart .
Friend , please , ya gotta let go of the colonies !
I didn't know this . What color are your lights ?
There is probably a reason for this , I just don't know what it is .
I wear a tie every Sunday (usher at my church) and didn't know this , either .
Trust me , the US has no shortage of jerks.........
Edit : Sorry I messed up my first post & didn't get it deleted..........
I just remember watching Bob Hoskins dressing down the co-directors of Super Mario Brothers in front of the crew,
"You cunts couldn't direct traffic!" The dressing down was richly deserved, BTW. People got injured due to their incompetence.
I don't even know what an electric kettle issomeone has been telling you porkies
is it true none of you yanks have electric kettles?
I'm in the British Midwest (if you can imagine a small island having a Midwest), and if someone here called you by either word to you, there would be trouble. But it's a fact that, the further north you go in UK, the more an insult in the south is regarded as amicable banter and nothing personal.
I've never heard of people not rinsing the dishes in water after they've been washed.
Carpet in bathrooms used to be a thing in the 1960's - 1970's but not anymore.
There's plenty of amazing British food. Try a good Cornish pasty, steak & kidney pudding or roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
Now, I'm off to my safe space as there's quite a few micro aggressions in this thread and i'm feeling triggered
Carpet in bathrooms used to be a thing in the 1960's - 1970's but not anymore.
There's plenty of amazing British food. Try a good Cornish pasty, steak & kidney pudding or roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
Now, I'm off to my safe space as there's quite a few micro aggressions in this thread and i'm feeling triggered
I’ve always heard that…
Americans think 100 years was a long time ago, and British people think 100 miles is really far away, ha ha.
Americans think 100 years was a long time ago, and British people think 100 miles is really far away, ha ha.
It's pretty funny that a thread titled "Picking on Brits a Bit" is only 5 hours old but is already 6 pages long.
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I'm laughing my ass off reading @MisterBadger and @SmokeyJock fight back. Boiling Gatorade and Mountain Dew .... I'm dying
Also, these two fighting back, while simultaneously trading barbs themselves is rapidly making this my new favorite thread
Also, these two fighting back, while simultaneously trading barbs themselves is rapidly making this my new favorite thread
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