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Eating in the Britainlands.; What?
Topic Started: Mar 23 2012, 01:36 PM (6,954 Views)
Dantos4
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Kagurodraven
Mar 28 2012, 01:24 PM
If you would indulge my insane curiosity.
Is it true that every day at 'tea time' all English citizens drop whatever they are doing to have tea?
Why does almost every form of fiction involveing England take place in London?
Do the Scots and English still hold old grudges?
How does it feel knowing your 'largest empire in the world' fell around your ears?
Why is there so much hate for the Irish?
Why do you drive on the wrong side of the road?
Is it true that all English citizens are expected to own a top-hat and monocle?
Why do you like Football(soccer) so much?
And finally, why do almost all evil masterminds have some variation of English accents?
Haha sure, I'm free to dispel any myths and indulge any trolls (where's my favourite, Greysoul? :P)

'Tea time' is more like... "lunch time" or "dinner time", it's just our term for an evening meal around 5/6/78pm... not sure why!

Honestly? Because compared to everywhere else in England, London is HUGE. Everywhere else either has little history, or has history but is smaller and less 'cultured'/'refined'/'interesting' in comparison to London (E.g. Birmingham/Manchester/Liverpool).

It depends where you go for the Scots thing. The English generally don't, no idea about the Scots. The Welsh however... ;)

Pretty bad, haha. I'm not surprised considering how incompetent they are these days!

The Irish is sort of grey. Particularly where I live, there is LOTS of love for the Irish because of all the Irish immigrants to Liverpool during the potato famine. However, the IRA (an Irish terrorist organisation) caused a lot of problems in the last 40 years with bombs and stuff in England so they are disliked a little for that.

Yes, haha. Except on the road of "The Savoy" in London. They drive on the other side.

Generally because of the culture of it. I know there are a lot of sports in America, but in England it is generally confined to "football" and "other sports". Some places are more into Rugby, but most are Football. For example in Liverpool there are only 500,000 people, yet there are 2 professional football clubs in the top league. Football is a massive part in this city alone, never mind the tonnes of clubs in London, the 2 ones in Manchester etc etc. One of the first questions two Scousers (people from Liverpool) will ask each other is whether they are of one team or another. There's also the pub culture here, people will go out with their friends on a Saturday afternoon for a pint of lager and to watch the match(es) in the pub. It's kind of like a sports bar for Football. All of that, and how the best of Europe get to play each other in the Champions/UEFA leagues & there is also the World Cup & Euro's :P

Because can you imagine an evil genius with Squee's accent? :P But no, on accents: most "English accents" you hear on TV are a variation of the higher class accents. "Prim and proper" and all that. A cockney/Scouse/Mancunian/Geordie accent are as different to each other as Texan is to... an Alabama accent?
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Thank you for indulgeing my mostly made up on the spot questions. Though just to clairify I did know the part about the accents and how varied they are as opposed to what the american media presents. And the football answer was actuilly very interesting.
Still a high class British accent sounds infinately more evil than any form of American accent. Well unless you count stupidity as evil,then a New Jersey accent just might be the most evil one. >.> <.< *runs to hide from anyone form Jersey*
Also,one last question. Why are cockney accents so much fun to immitate?
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Kagurodraven
Mar 28 2012, 01:55 PM
Thank you for indulgeing my mostly made up on the spot questions. Though just to clairify I did know the part about the accents and how varied they are as opposed to what the american media presents. And the football answer was actuilly very interesting.
Still a high class British accent sounds infinately more evil than any form of American accent. Well unless you count stupidity as evil,then a New Jersey accent just might be the most evil one. >.> <.< *runs to hide from anyone form Jersey*
Also,one last question. Why are cockney accents so much fun to immitate?
You're welcome. And good to know! :P Football is ingrained in most English men's lives who have grown up in a city with a football club (which is most).

Haha true, although I have never heard a New Jersey accent :P Hahaha, it seems that each section of England loves to imitate each other's accents. If I meet a cockney, he will find my accent as funny as I find his. The north and south of England do have a bit of a grudge too. As do many cities in England (usually because of football :P)
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Funny stereotypes are funny. :P

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Yes, haha. Except on the road of "The Savoy" in London. They drive on the other side.


Ah yes the road to the Savoy's hostel right?

I have a question actually.

Have you ever eaten this ?

That was my first meal when I visited London. I laughed. Hard.
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Dende
Mar 28 2012, 02:04 PM
Funny stereotypes are funny. :P

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Yes, haha. Except on the road of "The Savoy" in London. They drive on the other side.


Ah yes the road to the Savoy's hostel right?

I have a question actually.

Have you ever eaten this ?

That was my first meal when I visited London. I laughed. Hard.
Haha yes. Although they may be offended if you call them a "hostel" :)

Lmao, Sandwiches and crisps? Sure, I just had a crisp sandwich 30 minutes ago! Although it is true that if you asked for "chips" here, you would get "fries" or "fat chips" specifically :P
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I forgot about the polish and their brilliant tactics of mechine guns and skis that was good.
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Thanks for correcting me, I used hostel without thinking. Indeed it's more like a palace from what I've seen.

And yeah I actually wanted fries/ french chips, thus my surprise when they gave me that... horror. I have to say it was awful and I've mostly sticked with chinese/italian food from that moment.^^

I don't mind your heavy breakfasts once in a while though.
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Nice to have you back. :)

I has questions for the lime

Are there as many stereotypical Americans in your media?

Is there as much hatred for the French as stereotypes show?

Is this hatred why you don't call them "french fries"?

Why are the Canadians so much more popular then us? :P
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Dende
Mar 28 2012, 02:22 PM
Thanks for correcting me, I used hostel without thinking. Indeed it's more like a palace from what I've seen.

And yeah I actually wanted fries/ french chips, thus my surprise when they gave me that... horror. I have to say it was awful and I've mostly sticked with chinese/italian food from that moment.^^

I don't mind your heavy breakfasts once in a while though.
Haha, i can see why you would have been rather shocked to find our "chips" to be incredibly thin and wafer-y :P
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Greysoul
Mar 28 2012, 02:42 PM
Nice to have you back. :)

I has questions for the lime

Are there as many stereotypical Americans in your media?

Is there as much hatred for the French as stereotypes show?

Is this hatred why you don't call them "french fries"?

Why are the Canadians so much more popular then us? :P
Haha! Got this one first :P

Not really, at least not in what i watch. You would probably get them in comedies and such, but otherwise we tend to be as politically correct as possible. At least on the BBC :P

Because of an AGE old rivalry :P We have been at war with France for at least hundreds of years in total. They've invaded us (William the Conquerer), we've invaded them (Henry V, Battle of Agincourt), we've both had pretty damn big empires at roughly the same time, and we are only a few miles of water apart :) Imagine local sports team rivalries, and then times it by about 100 :D

Maybe, I suppose that could be a reason. We do have french fries around in our shops, but we still tend to call them chips :)

Because the were good, loyal subjects :P Didnt get any silly ideas about independance :P
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