That seems about right. :)

This is true! I like the Olive Ball / Chinese term.

:1orglaugh yeah PE at school in the summer = game of rounders lol.

It's a load of Pony, nobody cares about the wedding.

:1orglaugh

satin, five inch heels, messy runway hair and faux Mongolian wool in the comfort of my living room

Most Brits don't care about the Royals :upsidedow

I know I don't :1orglaugh

Thought so :thumbsup

sounds hot.
wait, what? hah, nice try but i ain't falling for that! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm serious!

Maybe not "most" but a fair amount of people don't give a shit.

Nobody cares about the wedding.

See! :1orglaugh

Everyone I dealt with in the biz from UK has been nice

I think its really spunky of all the Americans who have commented here...

Excellent breakdown! I have a handful of very good friends who are Scottish and have found once you get used to the accent, the translation is pretty obvious. "Taking the piss" is a phrase that always makes me giggle, though.

Gooooo Celtics! :) :)

Now this!!!!
This confused the life out of me when i first watched it!

What people forget is that the UK is extremely cosmopolitan so none of the cliches are really that relevant...... there are lot of people with strong values, education, culture and history.

i bet you otto will secretly tune in! :1orglaugh that's how y'all handle these things- nonplussed but inside counting down the days.............. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Just when you think have gotten used to the accents in the UK, another one will jump out at you and totally throw you. Scottish is probably one of the hardest to understand.

If you can find it online you might enjoy Still Game which is a comedy about scottish pensioners. If you can understand that you will probably love it!

Cornish can be tricky aswell.

I remember when I was young my parents used to love watching Jethro (a comedian from cornwall) and I could never understand it. But after a while I could. I think you learn it as you become more exposed/aware of the changes.

There is so many accents though for such a small place.

:1orglaugh I used to watch it on setanta sports but haven't got it anymore. Interesting game! takes a while to get use to the rules etc.

I agree!

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ghIoPLyJ-k

I've been introduced to "The Inbetweeners" and got hooked ever since :)

Despite the newspapers devoting endless pages to it either in an attempt to artificially create interest or because someone out there actually cares i really am not interesyed and couldn't actually tell you when it is.

@Elli
Try "Celebrity Juice" its a panel show but fucking hilarious. I find Inbetweeners can be a bit over-written in a desperate for it all to be funny sort of way.

Im sure you have heard many of our other slang such as "Pissed as a Newt" and "Knackered".

If you get into cockney rhyming slang it really gets confusing, for example

Plates of meat = FEET
North and South = MOUTH
Apples and Pears = STAIRS
Boat Race = FACE
Adam and Eve =BELIEVE Would you Adam and Eve it?
Alligator = LATER See you later alligator.
Army and Navy =GRAVY Pass the army, will you?
Bacon and Eggs =LEGS She has such long bacons.
Barnet Fair =HAIR I'm going to have my barnet cut.
Bees and Honey =MONEY Hand over the bees.

good stuff right there.

i guess we will have to deal with pastries at some point too, i mean what the hell is a crisp? and why do y'all call cookies bisquits? and don't even get me going on muffin.

Cookies and biscuits are different.

Yeah that is pretty funny! Shame they only done 3 series but they are making a film aswell I think.

Teachers is pretty similar, but obviously rather than following the students it focuses on the teachers. :thumbsup

can dr. who be explained in this thread or will that require a dedicated topic?

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

Some of my favourites are:

Almond Rocks (almonds) : socks Pass me a pair of Almonds
Rythm and Blues (rythms) : shoes Got to put my Rythms on
Davina McCalls : Balls He got kicked in the Davina McCalls
James Blunt : Cunt That bloke is such a James Blunt
Hank Marvin : Starving (hungry) I'm Hank Marvin, need some fish and chips

Holy shit the brits are idiots. I didn't want to say anything but honestly am glad someone else noticed.

What a bunch of old hens.

Yeah, but in US/Canada a biscuit is what we would call a Scone.

And they don't just have them with tea/coffee they use them for like a side with meals. Or in Tim Hortons (cafe/fast food) They do breakfast bisuits with like sausage/egg/cheese or bacon/egg/cheese. I think McDonalds do them now aswell.

I don't think a thread would do either. Need an entire forum to explain that :1orglaugh

thank god, i thought it was just me! :1orglaugh

I'd like to clarify that a bit. A scone in Canada is a scone. Big dry biscuit lumpy thing. They can pose as breakfast or a big snack.

A biscuit in Canada is a biscuit - preferably buttermilk. They are flat and usually cut in half to make a mini-sandwich. Like for a mcmuffin style egg-on-muffin idea. Not to be confused with an English muffin, which is a usually sourdough biscuit full of air bubbles that toasts up deliciously.

I will never catch on to that, I'm afraid. My brain is too slow sometimes. :)

what do the english call an english muffin?

muffin = puffin. "i need some butter for my puffin."

I only hate Wolverhampton.

Morph

Just a muffin, or breakfast muffin.

But then a muffin could be like a chocolate one or whatever. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I think it depends on the context, if you was in a cafe and you wanted a full breakfast or whatever and someone asked "do you want a muffin with that?" you wouldn't expect a chocolate cake.

If you wanted a coffee/tea and someone asked "do you want a muffin with that?" you would probably expect them to mean a cake.

Not 100% but that is how I would see it.

Really? I've never seen the word "scone" used in Canada.

Anyway.... Let's clear up "biscuits/cookies/scone/muffins/english muffins" (if we can lol)

These are biscuits:

http://eurekasophie.unblog.fr/files/...9/biscuits.jpg

link: http://eurekasophie.unblog.fr/files/...9/biscuits.jpg

Cookies (which we see as a specific type of biscuit)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nIqrDPD-Np...0-R/COOKIE.gif

link: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nIqrDPD-Np...0-R/COOKIE.gif

These are muffins:

http://images2.makefive.com/images/e...y-muffin-7.jpg

link: http://images2.makefive.com/images/e...y-muffin-7.jpg

But these are muffins aswell (I don't how/why this happened that they share a name, but maybe I will figure that out because I don't know):

http://www.thekneadforbread.com/wp-c...ish_muffin.jpg

link: http://www.thekneadforbread.com/wp-c...ish_muffin.jpg

Scone:

http://www.longorshortcapital.com/GJ%2520Scone.jpg

link: http://www.longorshortcapital.com/GJ%2520Scone.jpg

Potato scone (Scottish)

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/recipe...o%20Scones.jpg

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/recipe...o%20Scones.jpg

:1orglaugh

But people from Wolverhampton probably don't like anyone that isn't from Wolverhampton :winkwink:

This is England!

I do, if we was to have another civil war then i would be on the side of the Cavaliers.
I love tradition.

The Royal Family are really just a tourist attraction they have long since lost any real power in the UK. I will say that they are a great help to the UK's economy especially with this upcoming wedding which im sure will generate millions of £.

They are like ambassadors who travel the world doing PR for England

I'm hungry now.

Morph

Re the accents, there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING as scary as a 6ft 4 Glaswegian staring down at you and with his broad accent "Are you taking the piss?" (erh yoo taekin thae pass) --<< lol translation...

(hint: that's where you shit yourself and run)

The WORST thing about being a Brit?

25 centilitres!

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Corrected your post mate.

Not many of them about now, I'd go for something a bit more up to date like a Mondeo if I was you.

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Should we try to explain what "crumpets" are now?

WRONG ; the Royals have real power although it is well hidden...



Domestic Affairs
The appointment and dismissal of ministers;
The summoning, prorogation and dissolution of Parliament;
Royal assent to bills;
The appointment and regulation of the civil service;
The commissioning of officers in the armed forces;
Directing the disposition of the armed forces in the UK;
Appointment of Queen's Counsel;
Issue and withdrawal of passports;
Prerogative of mercy. (Used to apply in capital punishment cases. Still used, eg to remedy errors in sentence calculation)
Granting honours;
Creation of corporations by Charter;

Foreign Affairs
The making of treaties;
Declaration of war;
Deployment of armed forces overseas;
Recognition of foreign states;
Accreditation and reception of diplomats.

She also has £17,000,000,000 in wealth....

In a moment of crisis she will use her power to support the rich. She quite often changes laws. At the moment when our governments bend over backwards to blow the rich the role of the Queen is not seen. If we ever have a radical government representing the working people, the poor and the great unwashed you will she this cunt in action for the rich.

Citation needed.

Apparently the legal defenition of a cake (for vat purposes) is that it goes hard when stale and a biscuit goes soft. (QI)