Picking on Brits a Bit
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and then there's a place like the Virgin Islands.....Left side of the road with Left side steering wheels.It seems that most of the world agrees with US on which side to drive on. The only places where they drive on the left are countries where the British forced them to... and Japan. Everyone else just uses common sense.
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Next thread in line will be "Picking on the Dutch" ?
it's the worst combo. I almost hit a stray cow on a sharp left curve since you sit tight to the left shoulder that creates poor left hand visibility.
That would be a gouda topic for the forums.
Gem of a thread but I don't have time to look through it all now.
I lived in the UK for 12 years, ~8 of them in shared student accommodation. Most Brits would soap the dishes and then wipe them with a towel and put back in the cupboard. That's disgusting. One guy used to have conversations while doing it, swinging foam around the room, down his arms and then stepping on it. I cringed seeing it and once commented that perhaps rinsing them is more hygienic given we all used the same dishes and he got offended that a bloody foreigner from third world Greece dared question the proud LION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
And here I was excited to find out via Ancestry dna that I have some English heritage.
If you do, you will likely owe tax on it.
First criticism that comes to mind: not enough immigration here !
No Michael, we have humour, only illiterate Americans have humor
"Too much of it, and you'll dry out your skin and worse, you could darken your urine and can lead to dizziness and fainting...".
Wrong again Michael, that would be the chlorine wash you keep ingesting.
Oh, and my bathroom has cork tiles, no carpet in there chum.
Jay.
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whu r u collen imitirittt ?No Michael, we have humour, only illiterate Americans have humor
Jay.
@Kobold you can console yourself with the thought that DNA profiling only means that a significant percentage of folks with the same DNA on the same company's database, is common to a significant percentage of the population of England who are also customers on that same company's database. At least, that's how I comforted Mrs. Badger when she found out her DNA wasn't entirely Welsh and Scottish, as she had expected.
And here we are now, communicating in a loanword-expanded obscure Frisian/northwest German dialect spoken only by a few thousand people 2,000 years ago...
There have been a few suggestions in previous posts about why we drive on what you perceive to be "the wrong side of the road".
The answer is really quite simple.
If you drive on the other side, you are likely to hit the cars coming the other way.
The answer is really quite simple.
If you drive on the other side, you are likely to hit the cars coming the other way.
But then again, you Brits have "innit" instead of isn't it, and "Egit" instead of idiot. Granted, most countries are largely populated by Egits, but still...No Michael, we have humour, only illiterate Americans have humor
"Too much of it, and you'll dry out your skin and worse, you could darken your urine and can lead to dizziness and fainting...".
Wrong again Michael, that would be the chlorine wash you keep ingesting.
Oh, and my bathroom has cork tiles, no carpet in there chum.
Jay.
And what's with "Awight ya wee bawbag"? Greeting people by describing their ball sacks? What's up with that? How does that work with women?
That would be 'Londonspeak' and Irish respectively.
For some reason Americans have a problem with the letter 'T'.
Internet becomes innernet, duty become doody etc. I'd love to hear an American say "...yes, it's a metal medal he was awarded..."
I once saw a Y/T video of the Tudor Pelagos watch and the guy kept saying 'too-door'. Another Y/T clip only the other day regards a Dual turntable and he kept saying 'doo-ell'.
I blame Noah Webster myself.
Jay.
We don't use 'eejit' or 'bawbag' in England. Except Scots, when they're in England. Or Scotland, of course. Or, indeed, anywhere else. Our northern neighbours are peculiar, like yours.
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