The Brits Only Thread

Arix

what about 'blimey'?

Dys

Blimey is still used by some people who don't swear. My mum says blimey.

Karlach

Ordassa said:

what about "jolly good"?

Only sarcastically where we mean the absolute opposite.

And Versa, watch their version of Dad's army, it's atrocious.

Ushaara

Let's not forget how they ruined The IT crowd and The Inbetweeners too.

Arix

You forgot Red Dwarf

Arix

Then again I saw some of the recent attemps at rebooting shows like Are You Being Served, and was disappointed. I mean the references were all there and it had a decent sense of continuity, but the attempt at copying the original show's sense of humor weemed like it was trying too hard

Versalean

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's back up a little bit. An AMERICAN version of:

Red Dwarf?
Dad's Army!?!

wtf?

Arix

Red Dwarf had a single pilot episode, starring Jane Leeves as Holly. It was excruciating

Arix

Dads Army also had a 2016 movie

Versalean

Arix

The movie was not American made

Versalean

I'm literally confused as to how you could translate that specific story about the home guard into... Murica?

Arix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rear_Guard

Deichtine

Kistan said:

Next question should be:

Eating a sausage sandwich:
Brown sauce
Red sauce
No sauce at all

If they ask what brown sauce is, boot them

Sausage square or standard sausage?

Versalean

Wtf is a sausage square? 

Deichtine

Southerners :P

Arix

Are you talking about HP sauce?

Yasei

why is this thread everything i thought it'd be

Yasei

Portius said:

Fyler said:

It's ingrained in American culture to instinctively rebel when anyone from Britain tells us what to do and make fun of their hats/accents/teeth (pick one).

You forgot their spelling. Definitely have to mock their excessive vowels and whatnot. It's important.

You fourgout their spelling. Definitely have to mouck their excessive vuowels and whatnout. It's impourtant.

ftfy

Karlach

Not the movie, which was also terrible, but yes there was an American version of Dad's Army.

It sucked, awfully.

Thyelleia

Do people who lived there for 6 months, plan to return after they're finished with their studies, are masters of the self-check-out at Tesco and regularly import large quantities of Twinings since not all of their blends are sold in Germany count as well?

Karlach

Anyone who's ever been able to navigate "unexpected item in the bagging area!" without needing staff assistance counts.

Kerith

Karlach said:

Anyone who's ever been able to navigate "unexpected item in the bagging area!" without needing staff assistance counts.

Just so you know, American stores have that too. 

Arix

Oh goodness yes

Deichtine

Thyelleia said:

are masters of the self-check-out at Tesco

I would just assume your a dirty liar.

Kistan

Veyils said:

Thyelleia said:

are masters of the self-check-out at Tesco

I would just assume your a dirty liar.

Soon she will claim to be able to put up a deckchair without trapping her thumb or that when she drops butteres bread, it lands butter side up.

May as well say she walks on water

Thyelleia

I define master as 'it likes me so much that it constantly wants to talk to me' :P

Karlach

True story, she's so good at it she was helping other people at the last UK lusternia meet.

She's a master.

Karlach

Kerith said:

Karlach said:

Anyone who's ever been able to navigate "unexpected item in the bagging area!" without needing staff assistance counts.

Just so you know, American stores have that too. 

Does it come with the same condescending female voice in a Queen's English accent though?

Ianir

... I just had a British company with no US presence whatsoever send me an email with the subject "Independence Day Whiskies" with the tagline "Celebrate the 4th of July with our great selection of whiskies" - I'm not sure if they're taking the piss, they're targeting their advertising very well, or you all are just that glad to be rid of the colonies. Either way, there's a 21-year Glen Grant for less than £90 I'm tempted to grab.