Understanding the British.

[downbeatplumb]

Do come down for a visit. Ignore the stories you may have heard about our so-called dangerous fauna .We have plenty of anti venom for the snakes, spiders and octopi. The crocodiles live 2000 miles up north and only eat the odd Japanese tourist who tries to pet them. You won't get eaten by a shark if you don't go swimming in the sea.There are no sharks in our estuaries up north,the salt water crocodiles kill them.

The only way I'm going to visit Australia is if its moved closer.

A whole day in a plane is far too long.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Padraic Wrote: Sounds like he attended an English public school.

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.

[Pippy]

We call people hosers in Canada, but no one actually knows what it means anymore. May be the guy stuck hosing the hockey rink (an irritable chore)...

The 'eh' thing gets around. It replaces 'huh' from down south, and 'eh' is far more refined than 'huh'.

Aren't we like, still half British anyways? You're Queen (spit) is on my money in my pocket in a sovereign and powerful nation. Don't get me started.

I was in Vermont this morning, it was greener and more mountainous than you would think. I love that state.

There, I feel better.
-Pip

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Aren't we like, still half British anyways?

You mean Canadians?

Think you may find a few million Quebecois taking issue with that claim.


The US will have an Hispanic majority within 50 years.

Here in Oz there are a few millions of us of Irish descent who would a take umbrage if you suggested we might have ANY Brit in us. We are Celts man, an entirely different ethnic group and traditional blood enemies of England for a thousand years.

[Ashendant]

The US will have an Hispanic majority within 50 years.

Isn't that little exaggerated it's like saying that islam will take over europe in 50 years which has been proven to take far more time than that, also hispanic is not a race

[Dotard]

Isn't that little exaggerated it's like saying that islam will take over europe in 50 years which has been proven to take far more time than that,...

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[Samson]

I don't know who wrote this before, but they were correct on the Texas English pretty much raping the English language.

However, do not leave out the rest of the South. Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North/South Carolina and the Southern region of Ohio all have red neck slang'ed the English Language.

Example:

I would like to leave for the market in a couple of hours and purchase a few items for dinner tonight.

Red Neck: (Which of course every state I listed will have their own way of saying it)

Id liik (stress the "I") to gedon' don tooda stur an buyme sum shit fer supper taniight.....

[Dotard]

Geidete yet? (Did you eat yet?)

Yantoo? (Do you want to?)

Essgo. (Let's go.)

Simmadonnow. (Simmer down now./ Calm down)

Kikyaz. (Kick your ass)

Sheet. (Shit)

Pik'emup. (Pick them up./ Also used to describe the type of vehicle you own.)

Howdy. (How do you do?)

Yezir. (Yes sir.)

I's fixin' to gowon to the kerner and grabs me sum vittles. (I would like to leave for the market in a couple of hours and purchase a few items for dinner tonight.)

Hope that helps.

[Samson]

Dotard, you must live in Texas.....LOLOL

Here in Louisiana we would never say Howdy or Simmadonnow..... The rest you had right though....

[The Omnissiunt One]

Padraic Wrote: Sounds like he attended an English public school.

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).