RE: Chiches you want to bitch slap.
August 28, 2012 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 6:00 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 28, 2012 at 5:38 pm)Tobie Wrote: Calling someone British can be correct. For example, I have Welsh, Irish and English ancestors.
Correct maybe, but (at least to me personally) not very flattering and almost certainly arguable. It's rather like lumping Canadians, Mexicans and everyone south of the Panama Canal all together with US citizens under the generic label of 'Americans'. This might not be a strictly accurate comparison but there can be a strong, if not all that serious, territorial instinct among we Brits. Just don't call us Europeans, that's all. Nothing personal against our EU neighbours, but we've been at war with most of you for the greater part of the past two thousand years and your cruel, vindictive revenge has been the Eurovision Song Contest, a.k.a. the "Let's All Laugh At Britain" show.
I genuinely hope nobody takes me seriously on any of this stuff..!(August 28, 2012 at 5:48 pm)EscapingDelusion Wrote: ...Stimbo, points for:
Buggy
Flip-flops
Pop
How's come
Tin-foil
Whenever
Yel'low
Hoagie
Punkin
Encouraging to see I got some of those right, especially since one or two were guesses (the yel'low in particular).
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
