Google Vs. The English
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and they honestly thought English people would be offended by this? Nobody does self deprivation half as well as English people. 'Alright ****' is a completely accepted form of greeting for many of my friends.
lol, americans as well. the brits aren't too popular here,RhombusHatesYou said:Australians have used that as the standard definition for the English for over a century.
As an Englishman I can say I found it pretty amusing, so did all my friends. The only one who didn't was an American friend who was shocked that we laughed at it.
We like self deprecation and the word **** doesn't mean much over here, we don't really have taboo words...
Not sure if they were trying to be offensive but they'll have to try a LOT harder than that, I use **** all the time amongst friends.
We like self deprecation and the word **** doesn't mean much over here, we don't really have taboo words...
Not sure if they were trying to be offensive but they'll have to try a LOT harder than that, I use **** all the time amongst friends.
TrilbyWill said:as a scotsman i feel i must say... no you arent. you're welsh. (i actually dont mind the welsh. i have aBrotherRool said:I'm glad I'm Welshblackwelsh friend.)
Now you're Scottish, it's pretty cool I appreciate that. You're not afraid to solve a problem(like someone else' nose) with your head. You're ax crazy, constantly drunk, cursed with ginger, unable to distinguish between gender appropriate clothing. Your gift to the world is making takeaway food more unhealthy and America was so impressed with that, and the your insistence on having a choking fit before saying someones name, that they dedicated a whole fast food chain to you. You think Barbie's boyfriend is the source of all wisdom and pioneered the idea that people are only worth trusting with bridges and engines and warp drives if they're pissed. You decided to live in the most uninhabitable part of Britain you could find because Scots can't get along with Scots never mind other people and when designing your flag you looked at the English flag and decided make on exactly the opposite of it. You chose a weed as your national flower and ritual torture as your national form of music.
I can appreciate all that. It's pretty impressive in a groundskeeper Willie sort of way.
But despite all that you're can't even comprehend the awesomeness of the Welsh, as your ill-thought remarks makes clear. I'm not angry, in a way I'm sorry for you, it's not your fault that you weren't born cwl enough to understand the brilliance of the Welsh. I even blame myself, quite clearly the sheer radiance of even the text I type, hundreds of miles away, filtered by the internet and a computer monitor, scrambles you're non-Welsh name and reduces you to incoherence.
But all the same, you are special in your own tiny tiny insignificant way.
This guy on the other hand
is clearly English, and we need say no more than thatRhombusHatesYou said:
Wait.. do you mean 'English' as in a **** or 'English' as in from England?BrotherRool said:
Calling me a **** is fair enough, most people do, but saying I'm from England is taking it all a step too far.
My honour has been impugned and I demand satisfaction with the Traditional Australian Duel - smacking each other in the face with King Brown Snakes... however, if you're scared of snakes we can use waterpistols filled with irukandji instead.
I don't understand why women find the word **** any more offensive than a man would find the word 'dick' or 'cock', because **** is simply a vulgar term for the female anatomy (though it is now rarely used in that context)
"Define" and "English" probably just brings up a definition of a word in the English language
and **** is probably just really popular
and **** is probably just really popular
Yeah, I've noticed we're not popular "down under". The weird thing about that is that AFAIK Australia is one of the few countries in the world with no particular historical reason to be pissed off at us.RhombusHatesYou said:Australians have used that as the standard definition for the English for over a century.
Actually, outside of sporting rivalries, most Aussies don't have a problem with Poms. Actually, that's not entirely true... Most Aussies don't have a problem with most Poms...Guy Jackson said:Yeah, I've noticed we're not popular "down under".RhombusHatesYou said:Australians have used that as the standard definition for the English for over a century.
The ones we tend to have a problem with are the fucks who are all "convicts this," "empire that," "culture the other" and "you can't get proper chips here." Whinging, complaining, negative fuckrags... and what's worse is they're not all tourists... some of the dipshits have actually migrated here. Of course, with people like that we don't care what country they come from, we just want them to fuck off back there if they hate it here so much.
(Protip - if you ever encounter an Aussie tourist bitching and whinging, tell them they 'sound like a pom at bondi'... that should pull the fucker up short... or possibly start a fist fight. Win-win.)
Other than that, we treat Poms pretty much the same as we treat everyone else.
Actually, Australia has several historical reasons but that's neither here nor there because most Aussies don't give a fuck, only fuckwit ultranationalists... or 4th generation 'Irish' who've just discovered their 'Irish Pride' (who you can ignore or set on fire).
Blimey. I'm English and 34 years old and I've yet to hear anyone talk about "the empire". And "convicts"? I can only assume that any English person who says something like that to an Australian is intentionally trying to wind them up.RhombusHatesYou said:Actually, outside of sporting rivalries, most Aussies don't have a problem with Poms. Actually, that's not entirely true... Most Aussies don't have a problem with most Poms...Guy Jackson said:Yeah, I've noticed we're not popular "down under".RhombusHatesYou said:Australians have used that as the standard definition for the English for over a century.
The ones we tend to have a problem with are the fucks who are all "convicts this," "empire that," "culture the other" and "you can't get proper chips here." Whinging, complaining, negative fuckrags... and what's worse is they're not all tourists... some of the dipshits have actually migrated here. Of course, with people like that we don't care what country they come from, we just want them to fuck off back there if they hate it here so much.
(Protip - if you ever encounter an Aussie tourist bitching and whinging, tell them they 'sound like a pom at bondi'... that should pull the fucker up short... or possibly start a fist fight. Win-win.)
Other than that, we treat Poms pretty much the same as we treat everyone else.
Actually, Australia has several historical reasons but that's neither here nor there because most Aussies don't give a fuck, only fuckwit ultranationalists... or 4th generation 'Irish' who've just discovered their 'Irish Pride' (who you can ignore or set on fire).
Also, thanks for the pro tip, it'll come in handy for sure (there's no shortage of Australians in London telling everyone how much they hate being in England and are only here for the money blah blah blah). One thing though... what's a bondi?
You're clearly drinking in the wrong pubs then o.o I can't count the number of times I've regaled with drunken soliloquies on the subject of empire. Maybe its because I'm an expat. Sometimes its misty-eyed nostalgia and sometimes its simply a history lesson, as if the teller expects me to have left school not understanding that Britain once had quite a bit of land under her sway.Guy Jackson said:
Ah... British tourists - making American tourists feel slightly better about their manners the world over.RhombusHatesYou said:
Some people just become idiotic fucks when taken out of their own culture... that's my theory, anyway.Guy Jackson said:
It's not about saying it a few times in a bit of mutual pisstaking (although it does lack imagination)... I've encountered fuckheads who've gone on and on and on about it until they were 'politely' asked to shut the fuck up and fuck off.
Bondi Beach, big tourist beach in Sydney.
American tourists used to be worse...mlooshka said:
They also learned to stop talking up how 'tough' where they come from is... see, despite an American saying something like "I grew up on the mean streets of Sacramento', what an Aussie hears is "Please put a dangerous animal in my bed and make me scream like a girl, you'll laugh until you shit."
Oh yeah, and the most important lesson any tourist to Australia can learn is "Don't talk shit if you can't take it in return." That almost as big a crime as skipping out on your round.
Or the right pubs!mlooshka said:
Actually TBH I don't really do pubs anymore, ever since they banned smoking...
These days I find American tourists to be quite pleasant. Maybe they're more self-conscious now than they used to be? British tourists are still twats though. We'll never learn.mlooshka said:
Guy Jackson said:Or the right pubs!mlooshka said:
Ok, fair play... Occasionally I learn something interesting - but mostly its just "Hey, remember when we ruled you? Good times, good times..." Then they wander off and forget that we've had any conversation at all