RE: Understanding the British.
June 24, 2010 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2010 at 3:27 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
(June 17, 2010 at 9:27 pm)padraic Wrote: Padraic Wrote: Sounds like he attended an English public school.
Quote:Nah. I just have a strange sense of humour.
Obviously you have yet to acquire the oblique British sense of humour.
--It was a joke,a reference to buggery as a time honoured tradition in English public ( IE private) schools.
Ah, yes, I remember back at Harrow when the prefects used to brutally beat us, before having carnal relations in the showers. A fine British tradition if ever there was one. We're also very good at queueing and understatement. In Britain, you'll often hear people say, 'My, this queue is long,' which translates as, 'If I have to stand any more in this @$££&** queue, I'll go insane, run around screaming dementedly, beating people to death with the nearest large implement!' The fact that this rarely happens shows just how good at queueing we are (I've only done it twice).
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
