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help me, english ta's! (pg. 2)
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| Tech0rz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Streakfury
Cucumber Sandwiches
Monicles
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lol...
You may be called dear, dearie, flower, love, chick, chuck, me duck, me duckie, mate, guv, son, ma'am, madam, miss, sir, or treacle, according to your sex, age and location.
We pay for drinks as we order them in pubs and bars.
When you bump into someone, THEY will often say sorry even if they were standing still and it was not their fault in the slightest.
Never eat off a knife when having a meal.
Foods that were invented in England:
The sandwich
Marmite
Mincemeat
HP Sauce
Worcester Sauce
Typical English Foods
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (roast meat, two vegetables and potatoes with Yorkshire Puddings).
Toad-in-the-Hole (sausages covered in batter and roasted.)
Fish and chips
Ploughman's Lunch (a piece of cheese, a bit of pickle and pickled onion, and a chunk of bread)
Hotpot - A stew, cooked slowly in the oven consisting of meat and vegetables.
Strange Customs and Traditions
Cheese Rolling
Tar Barrel Burning
Bread and Cheese Throwing...wtf
Swan Upping
Good Luck
1. Lucky to meet a black cat. Black Cats are featured on many Good Luck greetings cards and birthday cards in England.
2. Lucky to touch wood .
3. Lucky to find a clover plant with four leaves.
4. A horseshoe over the door brings good luck. But the horse shoe needs to be the right way up. The luck runs out of the horse shoe if it is upside down.
5. On the first day of the month it is lucky to say "white rabbits"
6. Catch falling leaves in Autumn and you're have good luck. Every leaf means a lucky month next year.
Bad Luck
1. Unlucky to walk underneath a ladder
2. Seven years bad luck to break a mirror.
3. Unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two, etc..
4. Unlucky to spill salt. If you do, you must throw it over your shoulder to counteract the bad luck.
5. Unlucky to open an umbrella in doors.
6. The number thirteen is unlucky. Friday the thirteenth is unlucky.
7. Unlucky to put new shoes on the table.
8. Unlucky to pass someone on the stairs.
Yep, we're just your normal country I suppose...:wtf: |
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| willson |
| quote: | Originally posted by A.J.
They drink their "warm" beer at room temperatue :crazy:
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No,we drink our 'proper beer' 'ice cold'.
We have proper beers over here, instead of your Budwei... oh wait sorry,it's not beer,is near frozen gnat urine.
In cities,there are alot of terrace houses still left from the early 1900's to after the world war,do some research on that,ooh and why you speak our language instead of making your own.
Theives.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Tech0rz
Good Luck
2. Lucky to touch wood .(counteracts jinx actually)
Bad Luck
3. Unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two, etc..(salute it and it counteracts the bad luck)
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| Prototrance |
Constant debate over which is correct:
To put the milk in before the water or after the water while making tea. Persoanlly I'm going for before.
We are either stupidly polite or absolute violent arseholes.
Beer comes in pints, not glasses. Until recent times All pubs and bars had to cease serving alcohol at 11:00PM unless they had a late licence. Now all establishments can apply for a 24 hr licence. I believe that the reason for the 11:00pm 'time at the bar' is a throw back from the 1st world war where the Government decided to control the serving of alcohol so the home front guys weren't too pissed to defend the country!!
We are obsessed with the weather. If ever we find ourselves in a difficult uneasy group situation, weather is the default 'ice-breaker' conversation.
me we complian about everything possible.
Biscuits are a national obsession - as is dipping certain varieties in tea. Rich teas are the best but you've got to be quick!
Current culture seems to be:
Binge drinking - teenagers to mid-30's
Cafe culture - People 20's & 30's who 'lunch' at continental style overpriced cafe.
Old people - Bingo |
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| Tech0rz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Prototrance
Constant debate over which is correct:
To put the milk in before the water or after the water while making tea. Persoanlly I'm going for before.
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Interesting! My dad, being the theorist that he is, always said that the milk clogs up the pores in the tea bag.
Whereas my friends Gran says always put the milk in first, but has no theory or proof to back it up...But then again, one might argue
"The proof is in the pudding (or brew)"... |
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| JakeC |
If you put the milk in first you run the risk of putting too much in.
Southerners dont like northerners and vice versa. |
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| Coup |
| if u try the uk forum u may get some more serious responses |
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| TiestoFanMatt |
| quote: | Originally posted by Prototrance
Biscuits are a national obsession - as is dipping certain varieties in tea. Rich teas are the best but you've got to be quick!
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Flash back of Peter Kay and his hob-nob marines:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by MarathonMan
There is a species unique to England called 'the chav'. www.chavscum.co.uk will help you out more.
These brethen are the scum of 21st society - forget our war on terror against Muslim extremists, its about fighting teenage deadbeats living off our taxes! :haha: |
Big +1.
We need to get rid of these pikies. |
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| Ian^ |
Food wise.
Sunday Roast used to be customary, fish & chips is the national meal, but now replacing them with curries etc as we get more cultures in the country. Can't beat a roast though :D
People Wise
Accents - there are umpteen accents in the UK. the BBC has recently done a project called 'voices' if you wanna google for that or search the bbc website, will give an idea of people from all over the country.
National Pasttimes = Football in winter, cricket in summer traditionally.
Seaside resorts, search skegness, blackpool, brighton, torquay, scarbrough amongst others.
Royal Family - tho they're scum
UKTV, own type of humour. Most shows don't pay people to laugh at the funny bits etc. |
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| Floorfiller |
ian^ likes spotted dick....
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
ian^ likes spotted dick....
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damn right I do, it's great with hot custard & lots of sultanas/currants in it :D |
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| JakeC |
Probaly no use but....
Main Newspaper:
(Tabloid)
Daily Mirror
The Sun
The Daily Mail
The Daily Express
The Daily Sport
(Sunday Tabloids)
Sunday Mirror
The News Of The World (made by the sun people)
The Mail on Sunday
The Express On Sunday
The Sunday Sport
The express are basically the same paper. same fonts, same style of being what the lower classes read to look posh.
(Broadsheets)
The Telegraph
The Times
The Observer
The Independent
(Sunday Broadsheets)
Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Times
The Independent On Sunday
I dont think the observer does sundays. the broadsheets are best for sports yet people buy the tabloids for sport :wtf: The broadsheets are purchased buy buisness people and the times does a few other publications for specific areas like a monthly teachers version (TTS)Times Teaching supplement and a finicial version (FT) the financial times. They also make mini versions for trains/ buses.
The Daily Sport/ Sunday Sport isnt really about sport its a sleezy publication full of breasts and sex stories, its 35p so its what all the 12 year olds buy to perv on :o
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