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Hobohemian posted:On the whole they are not descended from British immigrants though. That's the point. Mostly Germans. We also like to eat Hamburgers. From Germany. And New York was called New Amsterdam. Pretty sure it was new york that was called new amsterdam but what do i know i'm only british oh wait i'm right though
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Quickscope420dad posted:Pretty sure it was new york that was called new amsterdam but what do i know i'm only british oh wait i'm right though You fuckers just showed up and took over and started renaming everything but that doesn't mean white Americans aren't from German descent on the whole. For what it's worth All signs point to me having very English ancestors but if I ask anyone white I know, if they know, they will say German. I know, because I live here, and I have asked such things.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:23
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american's aren't even white, they're all swarthy looking if you ask me.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:25
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hemophilia posted:You fuckers just showed up and took over and started renaming everything but that doesn't mean white Americans aren't from German descent on the whole. I thought it was primarily Dutch? hence why Obama recently described the Dutch as america's closest allies while doing his press release about the Ukraine-plane-shootdown?
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When people talk about UK history/old/blah blah, they're talking about the density of ancient crap everyone takes for granted. I live in the middle of nowhere and as well as all the various roman bits around here, all of these are within easy walking/cycling distance;    
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Jul 29, 2014 20:25
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ahh the deep fried penis, one of the finest examples of british cuisine
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Jul 29, 2014 20:33
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scotland is good. i can take or leave the rest and will hopefully be doing the latter soon
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Palpek posted:ahh the deep fried penis, one of the finest examples of british cuisine in britain we call it a willy
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Brits show that you can decent service in a restaurant without HI MY NAME'S STEVEN I'LL BE YOUR WAITER TODAY. All a waiter should do is: Ask me if I am ready to order, tell me what the specials are, and provide me with recommendation or detail IF ASKED. They should NOT ask me how I am or how my day went, that is not their business. Nor should they make smalltalk about the weather, whether I've been shopping, a recent sporting/cultural event. They should not grin like a loving retard. A small smile is fine. They also don't need to ask me every five loving minutes if 'everything is OK?'. Once about half way through is fine. This also goes for phone customer service. drat you Americans and your insistence on using my first name. It makes me so uncomfortable. On a related note, the train guards/drivers here make bog standard announcements during various parts of the journey. They normally have the blurb about what stops are coming up, what bit of the train you need to be in for particular stops, and the 'if you see anyone acting suspiciously' line. Today's guard on my commute home made a funny: 'If you see anyone on the train acting suspiciously, or even daring to smile, then please report this to a member of staff or a police officer immediately'. This sums us up entirely.
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has no brit here heard of a builders' whatever? odd i didnt know wtf it was when i was asked to make one but was told its simply that so whateva
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Jul 29, 2014 20:49
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the funniest british show is Father Ted, which is irish lol sorry brits
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I have never had a CSR call me by my first name. Waiters are like that state-side because of tipping and the fact that their wage not being somewhere near a Chinese factory worker relies on being a schmoozey dope.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:54
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hemophilia posted:I have never had a CSR call me by my first name. Pretty sure suckin' dicks in an alleyway for money is: 1. more profitable 2. less damaging to one's sense of integrity than piling on that schmooze
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Quickscope420dad posted:Pretty sure suckin' dicks in an alleyway for money is: Pretty much this, I've been in retail management for far too long (FML) and I take comfort in the fact that whilst the pay is poo poo if anyone is rude to me I can just feel free to be rude right back to them, in a very British passive aggressive way of course. And conversely I like the fact that I don't have to tip every single person who ever does any kind of service for me whatsoever no matter how inane the task whether it's drive me 1 mile or pour me a drink.
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Gypsum Fantastic posted:Strong men, also cry. Strong men. Also cry. That's a bummer, man.
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Gypsum Fantastic posted:Pretty much this, I've been in retail management for far too long (FML) and I take comfort in the fact that whilst the pay is poo poo if anyone is rude to me I can just feel free to be rude right back to them, in a very British passive aggressive way of course. And conversely I like the fact that I don't have to tip every single person who ever does any kind of service for me whatsoever no matter how inane the task whether it's drive me 1 mile or pour me a drink. I like tipping when the person has actually been frickin' cool though. Actually one time i had a taxi driver who was an ultimate badass and entertained the whole group of us for the journey by just being various kinds of funny, and then we all tried to tip him and he refused repeatedly, until we shoved the tip in his hand and ran out of the car. So he chased us in his taxi and threw our money back at us out the window. That deserves a tip.
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Quickscope420dad posted:Pretty sure suckin' dicks in an alleyway for money is: I don't disagree and it's one of the reasons most people don't enter the service industry if they can help it but usually they can't help it, and suddenly their income is an unreliable wage and one bad day of tips can mean serious financial problems. It's disgusting, and I only tip where expected because I'm not gonna be the guy that puts a hardship on someone because I want to end some systemic problem with American wage + labor laws.
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hemophilia posted:I don't disagree and it's one of the reasons most people don't enter the service industry if they can help it but usually they can't help it, and suddenly their income is an unreliable wage and one bad day of tips can mean serious financial problems. Yeah brits get a lot of stick for not tipping, especially when tourists in the USA. But I think it comes down to a kinda forgivable ignorance that most of them don't realize those workers are depending on tips, and that they're not receiving a moderate minimum wage at all. If i were tripping round the states I'd tip just because I know that the reason the drat service is so cheap is because the poor bastard isn't getting paid more than the price of a can of pepsi or whatever.
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also the dude who said "most people make BLTs" is talking absolute bollocks. A bacon sandwich (which some call a bacon sarnie, bacon buttie, or other names depending on regional slang) is normally just buttered white bread, with ketchup (more likely in south) or brown sauce (more likely north) and bacon. Remember our bacon is different from yours - it's cut from the back of the pig, giving a meatier rasher. Also, bacon sandwiches are a hot topic in our politics right now (note these are respected newspapers, not our tabloids or satire publications): This is the press mocking the leader of the opposition looking a bit awkward when eating a bacon sandwich: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ur-9409301.html This is him making a joke about it in the House of Commons (think House of Representatives) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nLG0sBsJ9c And this is our Deputy Prime Minister being given a bacon sandwich, partly in mockery of Ed Miliband. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg/10862185/Nick-Clegg-shows-Ed-Miliband-how-to-eat-a-bacon-sandwich.html On the sandwiches themselves, this is how NOT to make a bacon sandwich. http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Bacon-Sandwich Seriously, lovely streaky bacon, wtf is that plastic cheese, and where is the ketchup? It should use the type of bacon you see here on the bottom right (known in the UK as 'bacon' or 'back bacon', it's not easily available in the US (and no, it's not the same as what the US calls 'Canadian bacon'):  The end result looks something like this, although preferably with more ketchup oozing out of the side 
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Ewan posted:also the dude who said "most people make BLTs" is talking absolute bollocks. That's a bacon butty, i'm not talking bollocks.
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i think you'll find it's called a bacon sarnie also you call that a bacon sarnie where's the fried egg?
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Bacon buttie Bacon sarnie Brown sauce Rashers Telly Westfordshire how about you morons start talking like adults instead of retarded pigchildren
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Ewan posted:also the dude who said "most people make BLTs" is talking absolute bollocks. that actually looks dank as hell. i was picturing sometihng iwth those little american sticks of belly bacon that you eat for breakfast and i was all 'drat that's a poor sandwich'
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egg is optional, but that is a bacon and egg sandwich - we are talking about bacon sandwiches. and on BLTs - I have never known someone to make a BLT in their home. You might get it in a cafe or when you buy a lovely sandwich from a supermarket, but very rare for home made sandwiches (seriously, the whole point is that it's a junk sandwich, why would you ruin it with salad?)
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A Small Toilet posted:Bacon buttie Well there's no need to be such a big girl's blouse about it...
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A Small Toilet posted:Bacon buttie I think most people under the age of 30 don't say "telly" a "rasher" is a unit not slang brown sauce is sauce which has the primary characteristic of being brown, not sure what else to call it Bacon buttie implies butter, sarnie is mostly the same thing lol you call "handegg" "football"
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look at the little brits sperging about their garbage food
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lol when you people emigrate to america and get your diplomas from texas a&m
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Zzulu posted:look at the little brits sperging about their garbage food You'll never be taken seriously with that avatar though so it's cool
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oh, oh have the aussies turned up yet? the lsat ask/tell was pretty funny when it bascially got hijacked by the worlds most inferiority complexed country
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atal posted:oh, oh have the aussies turned up yet? the lsat ask/tell was pretty funny when it bascially got hijacked by the worlds most inferiority complexed country Not yet but i look forward to it
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au tz is in 12 hours so that's when it will probably start in earnest
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Oh cool yet another British/American thread I was waiting for today's instalment please someone tell me all about tipping
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concerned mom posted:Oh cool yet another British/American thread I was waiting for today's instalment please someone tell me all about tipping We already covered that so let's move onto football vs soccer yeah
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concerned mom posted:Oh cool yet another British/American thread I was waiting for today's instalment please someone tell me all about tipping Pretty much Mr. Pink's entire speech in Reservoir Dogs is completely correct as to why tipping automatically is wrong but as raised by Lady Gaga earlier that if someone makes a real effort then it's OK.
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I really like the term handegg and i hope it catches on
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hemophilia posted:I really like the term handegg and i hope it catches on Yeah i can definitely get behind it, it's really endearing
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Another good thing is that anyone in the British special forces i.e. the SAS could duff up pretty much anyone in the American special forces in a fight. They don't called them the Super Army Soldiers for nothing.
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Ewan posted:Brits show that you can decent service in a restaurant without HI MY NAME'S STEVEN I'LL BE YOUR WAITER TODAY. All a waiter should do is: Ask me if I am ready to order, tell me what the specials are, and provide me with recommendation or detail IF ASKED. They should NOT ask me how I am or how my day went, that is not their business. Nor should they make smalltalk about the weather, whether I've been shopping, a recent sporting/cultural event. They should not grin like a loving retard. A small smile is fine. They also don't need to ask me every five loving minutes if 'everything is OK?'. Once about half way through is fine. this kinda deteriorates the further you go east (in the EU) and its funny in that, in the UK its cool cause its just less fake-friendly but still efficient which the US is, you cant deny. but then when you hit france or germany the waitress wants you to choke on your food and die because they couldnt give a poo poo and you just WISH they'd act like they cared and hit your table up to see if you wanted another beer im sure it varies but if we're talkin stereotypes... hemophilia posted:I have never had a CSR call me by my first name. I like the UK threads even if you's brits are relentlessly harangued or vice versa so please continue to tell us about your strange hobbitland! i .. i want... to better understand you
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