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Post all British stuff here about why britain is cool or bad it's okay to say stuff about what you think about britain here don't be afraid Britain is waiting for your opinions, internet wizards. 
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Jul 29, 2014 17:28
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Bitter Mushroom posted:this is the op, he is scared to walk england's mean streets it's even scarier because my age isn't listed on that advert so i can't even get the insurance
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Jul 29, 2014 17:37
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Bloody Penguin posted:I'm in britain right now, and goddamnit do i hate the newspapers here! It's the worst yellow journalism i have ever seen. "Immigrants abusing welfare", "fat people costing the NHS money". It's always a mixture of rasism, sexism, classisim and downright hatred for other human beings. Yeah you wanna avoid basically any paper except maybe the independent.
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Jul 29, 2014 17:43
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dontcareaboutname posted:my sister is living in the UK right now she said its depressing, and the selection and cost of goods makes her feel like she is behind the iron curtain. Lol London?
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Jul 29, 2014 18:22
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dontcareaboutname posted:real question you guys always say americans don't know what old means, so what do you count as old? is the queen old or just young till after she is buried for a couple hundred years? Not sure what you mean tbh, never heard anyone say americans don't know what old means. Except maaaybe in the context of like, how ridiculously young your country is
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Jul 29, 2014 18:23
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Titty Warlord posted:quick scope... 420... d-da-da-dad...!!!?!?! are we dating now or what?
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Jul 29, 2014 19:07
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yeah brown sauce is kinda hard to describe. It has a pretty much identical consistency to ketchup. It goes kinda well with sausages, potatoes fried in the "cut up into kind of disks and fried in a regular frying pan" manner, basically it's like alternative ketchup with a more bitter taste? i like to put it in bacon sandwiches, just a little bit.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:22
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Fandyien posted:is a bacon sandwich just bacon between bread? that seems sort lovely. also nobody ever answered me about whether you can get good tacos in britain You can get good tacos if you make them yourself, you can get enchilladas and stuff. But we don't have like, Taco Bell, as far as i know. I think it's "coming soon". And as for bacon sandwiches, it CAN be bacon just between bread with maybe some butter and brown sauce yeah but i guess most people do BLTs
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Jul 29, 2014 19:24
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Drunk & Ugly posted:yeah they call it a builders sandwich or something stupid like that, its retarded. bacon and brown sauce. not actually bad its just kind of lackluster wheres the egg and cheese and mcgrease Never heard it called a "builder's sandwich", but a "bacon butty" is more likely.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:28
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Fandyien posted:the brits dont even have the right names for chips/fries theres no way you're good at them Fries are one thing, chips are another! Chips can be oven-cooked, fries by definition cannot.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:04
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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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Jul 29, 2014 20:20
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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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Jul 29, 2014 20:25
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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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Jul 29, 2014 20:56
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:01
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:08
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:13
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:17
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:19
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:20
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:23
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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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Jul 29, 2014 21:26
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tada.wav posted:No wait, let me smugly tell everyone I'm superior for driving a manual car oh yeah nice! personally i prefer driving a manual because i guess i am a control freak and like to tell the car when to change gear rather than having it decide to do it for me. I am also not an Apple user, go figure
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Jul 29, 2014 21:41
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I'm not sure how i should feel about the fact this thread has a 1:10 posts to viewcount ratio. Are people that loving keen to say bad stuff about Britain? I knew Gypsum would be here obviously but still
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Jul 29, 2014 21:46
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Drunk & Ugly posted:perhaps what the english want is more representation on this forum, or threads closer to their social issues. like the maddie thread, what happened to that the latest i heard was they figured they were gunna find the body under the cement across the road from the apartment building or something. I don't follow the news very closely though.
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Jul 29, 2014 21:53
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Fandyien posted:thats the first song i've heard where someone managed to retain their british accent while singing somehow Wait you haven't heard Dark Side of The Moon? Dave Gilmour manages to stay pretty drat british the whole way through imo also the Wall i guess even though that's more Waters
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Jul 29, 2014 22:24
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