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ORIGINAL: JWE
Bless you Mike, and all who will sail with you.ORIGINAL: USS America
About 1 hour to go until a week of vacation - Tithe. [&o][8D]
Any of you blokes see the movie "What About Bob?" I'm going to be Bill Murray from that movie next week. "I'm sailing!!!" [:D]
Hey .. hey .. hey .. Mars boy. That Martian atmosphere has dulled your thinking.ORIGINAL: Mynok
Well....mostly because the Brits shipped a huge number of their nastier Irishmen to Oz...it was a sort of penal colony.
We should get Raverdave to come in here, and I'll spring my "You put the Queen on your money, you're British" quote on him...[:D]ORIGINAL: Mynok
Well I was trying to stick up fer ya....never met an Aussie who claimed to be British. [:'(]
That's ok. I'm not Aussie, and I'm sure neither of us would claim to be Brits; we just remember from whence the penal ships originated.ORIGINAL: Mynok
Well I was trying to stick up fer ya....never met an Aussie who claimed to be British. [:'(]
nope but it's annoying when you hear it and i'm not even british.ORIGINAL: Dixie
Seeing as most of you guys are foreign... Does anyone know why foreigners feel the need to try and talk to British people in an (poor) impression of a British accent? [&:]
no people try to talk like texans and try to have a texan accent and people from texas just look at them with a puzzled look. we really don't have that much of an accent the only thing we do different is use the word yall. and actors trying to do a texas accent are the worst. james vander(&#*(& in varsity blues is a prime example of this.ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Dixie
ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Hi all,
What do you mean MArtin?
BTW, I was always told that I speak with American accent (and not British) in all accoasions... [:D]
Leo "Apollo11"
Every time I go away (mostly to North America it has to be said) there is always at least one person who hears us talking and wanders over with what seems to be either an impression of Dick Van Dyke circa Mary Poppins or Queen Victoria circa 1900. [:D] And did I mention they are terrible attempts. [;)]
Don't feel bad, every Brit I've known here either thinks North Americans talk like Texans, Californians or , God Forbid, Archie Bunker style New Yorkers. Even they don't say "Turdy-turd street". Only Brits trying to be NYers do. Your lot has never heard of Canada , or even discovered that there ARE other parts of the USA. On the other hand , it's easy to sound like a Londoner....Just sound like you are from somewhere else! [:D]
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
ugg weight loss plus not drinking as much really effects your alcohol tolerance.
yeah and of course my state decided to perpetuate the cowboy thing some more.[8|]ORIGINAL: Dixie
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Dixie
Seeing as most of you guys are foreign... Does anyone know why foreigners feel the need to try and talk to British people in an (poor) impression of a British accent? [&:]
Of course part of the the problem might be that the British themselves not knowing what a British accent sounds like. With all your British actors doing American accents, and your country over run by foreignors, it's not wonder you are confused. At King Alfred's I was always being asked "what part of England are you from" by Brits. When I would reply "New England" , I acutally had people ask me "Is that near Wales?", and "Oh , that's near Devon isn't it?'. Needless to say , I quicly realized that Americans were not the only people poor at geography. [:D]
Poor is not the word [:D] I'll admit I wouldn't know most regional US accents from each other, but I do know that you don't just come in New York Gangster or Texan Cowboy varieties [:D] I wouldn't try to talk with the accent either, apparently I have a bad enough one already although I disagree. [:'(]
if i could stand up without my head hurting i would punch you[:'(]ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
ugg weight loss plus not drinking as much really effects your alcohol tolerance.
Oh, boohoo...[:'(]
see most of the brits i know like to use a 4 letter word that describes the female anatamy and starts with a c. they like it a lot better than wanker.ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
I think it's both. Wanker at least is GB . . . i think.
ehhh to much work i think i need another beer.ORIGINAL: Terminus
And if you had the upper-body strength. And arms thousands of miles long.[:'(]
Texan weiner...[:'(]
ORIGINAL: JWE
All I'm saying is that one man's "nasty, thieving, Irish transportee" is another man's ancestor, who founded polities that are frankly superior to those expressed by their purported jailors.
ORIGINAL: bobogoboom
if i could stand up without my head hurting i would punch you[:'(]
ORIGINAL: Mynok
ORIGINAL: JWE
All I'm saying is that one man's "nasty, thieving, Irish transportee" is another man's ancestor, who founded polities that are frankly superior to those expressed by their purported jailors.
I hear ya. I am Irish by extraction (and a bunch of other things).[:'(]
