What don't the British know? (a list thread)

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what do the british know that we don't?

(must not post obvious joke here...stop typing now...)

What don't WE know...

(dammit)

― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:19 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

1. how to make awesome apple pie

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

2. where my missing sock is

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

3. my PIN

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

4. how to make awesome pies in general that don't involve meat

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

5. the Cupid Shuffle

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

How funny they are.

Venga, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

7. how to cook Mexican food.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

^^^actually a friend of mine can do this

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

8. Electric slide

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

9. I Love Lucy plotlines

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

10. jai a'lai

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

Alfonso Gomez?
x-post

Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

11. What an awesome quartermaster Chep "Starburst" O'Daskovitz was for the Oklahoma Prefabs in the 06 semi-period

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

xpost Also apple pie is British, stupid Americans.

12. How to stop drinking.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

13. What exactly is so awesome about a corn dog.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

14. What exactly is so awesome about schoolyard massarces

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

14. How to speak English properly

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

15. what is "don't-ask-don't-tell"? /brit

― caek, Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:29 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

so yeah 15. ingrained cultural homophobia

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

Why can't the British cook Mexican, Matt? I'm not saying I can (far from it), I'm just intrigued as to what's missing or wrong generally, and if you know how to fix it...

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

Also I know Dan's PIN I've just never been close enough to him to get his fucking card.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

Why can't the British cook Mexican, Matt? I'm not saying I can (far from it), I'm just intrigued as to what's missing or wrong generally, and if you know how to fix it...

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:40 (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Might have something to do with there being 0 Mexicans in the UK

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

16. http://music.ccpblogs.com/files/2007/07/hootie1_resized.jpg

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

Nick - the people I know who've thought abut this say that it's a lot to do with it being v hard and expensive to get the proper ingredients (like, try finding a tomatillo at anything like a sensible price).

I think it has something to do with it being possible to flog Britishers dreadful, horrible cheapo piles of low-grade meat and nasty cheese with a few tortilla chips as "Mexican food", so why not eh?

Tim, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

aint no ingrained cultural homophobia in the UK, no sirree

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

aint no ingrained cultural homophobia in the UK, no sirree

― max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:44 (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

morelike ingrained cultural homoeroticism

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

17. How to do well in international football tournaments (or indeed qualifying much of the time)

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/01/equality.gayrights

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

oh whoops i seem to have tripped and pasted a link by mistake

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

how odd that this link is about homophobia being rife in britain from april of this year

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

perhaps things have improved markedly in the last half-year

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

18. The importance and virtues of good service culture in tandem with strong work ethic (or we do know but it's just not appreciated highly enough)

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, we aren't too keen on the gays but we love a man in a dress.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

What exactly is so awesome about schoolyard massarces

Man I can't believe someone came in and did my bit while I was off doing actual work

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

19. that tobacco does not belong in a joint

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

20. Whatever T.I. was on about in that song he did.

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

breakfast, eh? well just a bowl of feathers for me. do you mind if i pay for my victuals with little copper spoons? i believe i'll go bury some doll heads now thank you.

^^this is how british people live, imho. so, how to operate in a normal society

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

4. how to make awesome pies in general that don't involve meat

Except Banoffi pie, fish pie, Lemon meringue pie, homity pie…

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

*makes popcorn, sits back, settles in for what is sure to be a pleasant diversion*

Doghouse O RLY (G00blar), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

fish pie is illegal

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

21. How to make exciting yet reasonably popular music (anymore)

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

Fish pie is not actually a pie as proven by pie science many times.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

also fish is meat, basically

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

pie science, i shoulda majored in that

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

21. How to make exciting yet reasonably popular music (anymore)

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:50 (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Someone hasn't heard (subs please insert joke here)

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

what the chuzzlewits is homity pie?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

ewwwww

http://www.colouritgreen.co.uk/recipepics/homity.jpg

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

1. how to make awesome apple pie

― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:21 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I fight you with guns, perry, with guns.

7. how to cook Mexican food.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:23 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^actually a friend of mine can do this

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:25 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LJ you are so very wrong.

Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

i suggest only British people contribute to this list because nobody knows what we're crap at better than us plus self-deprecation is what keeps this utopian paradiso glimmering at the end of the 46 hour working week

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.septicisle.info/uploaded_images/20060912205814_7-usmanov-1-703027.jpg

22. what 'Lishy Baby get up to in spare time

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

Going by that Guardian piece^, the British do not know the difference between actual prejudice and anticipation of prejudice

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

Fish pie is not actually a pie as proven by pie science many times.

also fish is meat, basically

LALALALALALA, can't hear you.

what the chuzzlewits is homity pie?

Potato mashed with butter, sour cream and garlic - mixed with peas and onions, with a nice layer of cheese on the top. Num Num.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

How to adequately maintain a railway infrastructure.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

24. How racist Ronaldinho bottle openers be

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

25. How to make good drummers anymore.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

26. HOW TO PROPERLY "BRO DOWN" WITH SOME BEERZ AND BUFFALO WINGS WRAPPED IN BACON

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

Correct, Ed. I have never tasted food made by my talented foodie Spaniophile friend who spent a year living in Central America. Also, Ismael Klata is correct: that article does not demonstrate "ingrained cultural homophobia", it demonstrates "lol faith schools"

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

27. How to Eurovision

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

How to adequately maintain a railway infrastructure.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:56 AM (5 minutes ago)

yeah we've totally marked your card on that one

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

I can get behind the Mexican food statement. Probably has something to do with the sour cream being of the wrong consistency.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

28. how to hold on to an empire

metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

(It is irking me that I should have put the emphasis on the DON'T rather than the WE in the original post. And now it is too late.)

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

29. How to contribute effectively and clearly to a list thread

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

I can get behind the Mexican food statement. Probably has something to do with the sour cream being of the wrong consistency.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:05 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Might also have something to do with there being about three Mexicans in the entire country

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

the mexican population seems to be increasing rapidly though:

Might have something to do with there being 0 Mexicans in the UK

― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:40 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

Alert the Mail!

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

well Rodrigo Y Gabriela are in town for a few days, with their manager Teotihuacan Sanchez

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

According to the 2001 UK Census, 5,049 Mexican-born people were living in the UK

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

I have never tasted food made by my talented foodie Spaniophile friend who spent a year living in Central America.

http://maps.google.com/

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

Although Lawrie Sanchez's father was from Ecuador, not Mexico.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.sportinglife.com/07/12/330/Allsport_Giovani_Dos_Santos_Goal_Barca_v_Stut_610076.jpg

c'mon now there's a Mexican at the heart of the greatest sporting institution in the country

Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

What do you mean I haven't had good Italian food?! I've eaten many meals prepared by my Francophile friend who spent a year in Austria.

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

The United Nations considers Mexico to be part of Central America.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

let's move on

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

I love Louis but that was proper random.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

mexico isnt part of central america

max, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

30. what nations make up Central America

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

31. Geography

xpost dammit

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

haha

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

32. my deceased grandmothers

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

The UN geoscheme defines the region as all states of North America south of the United States; conversely, the European Union excludes Belize and Mexico from its definition of the region.[11][12]

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

13. What exactly is so awesome about a corn dog.

btw I kind of want to start a thread about this and thus complete my transformation into Black Seinfeld

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

33. Seinfeld tropes that weren't later stolenadapted for UK use by Ricky Gervais and Linehan and Matthews

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

dare i say tipping

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

wait wouldn't Black Seinfeld be asking questions about a corn dog, i.e. "What's the deal with corn dogs?" rather than articulating what is so great about them?

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

"what's the deal with corn, dogs?"

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

because all the best foods are deep fried an phallic, right?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2801056222_a590ec1742_b.jpg

xpost

Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

wait wouldn't Black Seinfeld be asking questions about a corn dog, i.e. "What's the deal with corn dogs?" rather than articulating what is so great about them?

well yeah, so thread would go like this:

http://www.w4t3r.com/images/Punk%20Jerry.JPG

"What exactly is so awesome about a corn dog? Is it the corn? Is it the dog? Who knows?"

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

35. The offside rule, ever since Sepp Blatter and his cronies went and made a mockery of it, Gary.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

36. how to make a proper cup of tea

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

37. the magic of JENGA!

Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

37 vetoed.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

i have higher hopes for you dan--i feel like not only can you ask questions about corn dogs, but you can answer them as well.

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

how to win TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

And for that matter 36. The British do not generally know how to make a proper cup of coffee, however.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

38. how to find the source of the nile

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know if I can handle the respondibility, Que, but I appreciate the vote of confidence!

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

(ps I have a cold)

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

How to make good lager?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^correct

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah no arguments there

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

39. How to make decent chili.

40. How to give concise directions.

Bedframes and Broomsticks (suzy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

True dat. My theory is it's someting to do with the water, but we make the best ale, so that makes up for it.

36. how to make a proper cup of tea

Sadly, very true. We used to though.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

WTF with this tea thing

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

41. how to agree about tea

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

42. i'm guessing that the british don't know nothing about a good hoppy pale ale.

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

43. jazz

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

i have higher hopes for you dan--i feel like not only can you ask questions about corn dogs, but you can answer them as well.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:30 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

"What is it with airline corndogs?"

Neil S, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

Actually Matt DC has my back on this one: there's a local microbrewery pizza joint that does excellent hoppy pale ale.

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

Jordan you don't like what's called Bitter here then?

mind is boggling...

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

44. how to rinse off dishes

metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

While I wont claim to be able to cook 'proper Mexican' (I've never tried), I myself make a good chili, and I know many other people who do too. Dark chocolate and everything.

Also I disagree with the jazz thing.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

How to make good lager?

Broadly right although...

http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/acatalog/meantimepilsner.jpg
http://www.meantimebrewing.com/

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

well, that's good

xp

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

what does bitter mean exactly?

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

43. jazz

― Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:37 (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Someone needs to listen to a little artist called "Mr Acker Bilk" imo

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

yeah Meantime stuff is alright but it's not widely available or popular xp

Jordan see pale ale page on wiki

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

lololol at the dishes entry, I'd forgotten about that thread

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

I'm intrigued; my girlfriend can't wash up AND she leaves the dishes all sudsy; does my head in.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

fucks sake...

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

Someone needs to listen to a little artist called "Mr Acker Bilk" imo

is this serious

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

45. fair school system

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

46. Good rap production.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

is this serious

― Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:43 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/03/12/humph460.jpg
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/025MELLY1_468x741.jpg

Fallen soldiers :-(

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

Matt, see 21

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

42. i'm guessing that the british don't know nothing about a good hoppy pale ale.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:37 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you folks overhop your beers, however the answer is deuchars.

Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

47. how to be funny

lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

applies equally to british comedians & to british people on this thread

lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.freddywarren.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jazz/t-z/imgs/Stan%20Tracy.jpg

Still going and Monk really rated him.

Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

48. the joys of buying in bulk

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

Jordan:

http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/images/brands/lrg/deuchars.gif

xpost mindmeld with Ed

ailsa, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

lex bringing the CHALLOPS as ever

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

would love to know what lex finds genuinely funny

also ya deuchars is nice

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

bitter is fucking great, i don't know what some of you are on about

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

i guess with the tea-making thing people just meant in cafes?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

Loads of great pale ales in Britain. Without getting into CAMRA territory: Summer Lightning.

Neil S, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

49. their neighbours

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

I'm still boggling at Melly's suit. GIS does nothing to help.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

w/r/t overhopped ales in america: that's like an american thing now, tho, innit? American Pale Ale = overhopped by definition

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

okay, i officially take back the pale ale thing

(not yet convinced about jazz)

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

50. the desert

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

51. majestic animals native to their island

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

52. the warmth of the sun
53. how to maintain a pier

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

54. "real" seasons

xp

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

lol @ 53

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

55. why being from NoDak is just sorta sad :(

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

56. Mr Rogers

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

57. trunk junk

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

mmmmm summer lightning

also refutation to 51: the red deer

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

57. What it's like to drive in a straight line for more than 8 hours straight

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

59. Mr. Robinson

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

LJ: the red deer is decent, but deer aren't majestic animals, they are irritating pests that run in front of your car

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

ffs we have BEARS

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

/minnesota

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

we once had bears and wolves and wild boar y'know ;_;

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

oh my.

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

xp true! but deer are a problem in like New Jersey, too!

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

we've still got a couple of griffins in Cornwall

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

AND WE ALL HAD DINOSAURS

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

until the vikings killed dem all booyaa!

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

*H5*

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

loooool

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

60. the true meaning of barbeque

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

61. forest fires

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

62. how to make soap operas about people with even an ounce of glamour, style, or fun in their lives

allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

63. jokes about their dim neighbors to the north

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

j/k

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

64. Christian Rock

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

re 64: Lucky. Fucking. BITCH.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

65. Nu-metal

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

66. METH

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

67. crack epidemics

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

You killed your giant prehistoric red deer and lynxes along with all your old-growth forests, don't come crying to ME about charismatic megafauna now.

Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

68. how to sing along to God Save The Queen at the same tempo as the band playing it on the pitch at the time

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

62. how to make soap operas about people with even an ounce of glamour, style, or fun in their lives

god so otm. not limited to soaps either

lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

oh we know nu-metal

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

69. how to follow the office
70. that potato chip flavours can't just be comprised of randomly-chosen condiments, farm animals, root vegetables. there has to be some method to it! and they should taste good.

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

we still have old-growth forests

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

71. Decent Pretzls

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

72. How to spell Pretzel

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

73. vietnamese food (probably)

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

totally wrong

rent wtf are "potato chips"?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

64. Christian Rock

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:08 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Mezzamorphis.jpeg

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

I can firmly state the 73 is not true. mmmmmmmmm

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

74. hockey

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

glad to be proven wrong! i just figured the states had a larger vietnamese population

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

re 73, no way! there are like a gazillion awesome vietnamese restaurants (vietnamese-run too) just 15 mins walk from my house, i am a regular

lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

OK 73 is totally wrong only if you live near enough to Hackney...

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

your godless "crisps" xps

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

oh duh i forgot about london

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

I FORMALLY RETRACT 73

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

ha, well it may still apply to most of the land to be honest

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

anyway, 75. truckers

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

"lorry-drivers" do not count

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

ha, well it may still apply to most of the land to be honest

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:15 (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not to Sheffield, very good vietnamese there, a tamrind crab I haven't had matched in London at least.

Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

very very nice vietnamese restaurant in cambridge, a bit pricey mind

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

yes i'm sure

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

75. Truckers

http://www.davesimages.net/users/www.davesimages.net/upload/stobart_hanna_1768..jpg

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

I've eaten at that Cambridge restaurant, it is awesome and yes a little pricey.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/9/1/Alan-Rogers-Long-Distance-Clara-91963.jpg

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

that chef is pleased because his delivery of mentalist pizza toppings just arrived

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

oh man if anyone suggests pizza

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

76. how to keep teeth whiter and straighter than Mother Nature originally intended

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

I have two linkin park albums.

I wrote Stryper on my school bag (though I'd never heard them)[I was trying to get the attention of this Christian girl] {I was at high school, ffs}

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

76. this is achieved by dentistry. There is a known knowable.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

77. pizza

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

Britain is mostly crap at pizza, but American pizza is worse. Proper Italian or nothing.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

poll

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

clusterfuck

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

Is food of a country only of the place if you eat it in that country?

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think so... but we're a lot nearer to Italy.

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

no but it has to have been prepared and cooked by someone of that country, in their traditional national dress

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

78. What their national dress is.

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

in their traditional national dress

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/06/03/images/2004060300710102.jpg

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

Traditional dress of (part of) Britain

http://hdh247.co.uk/acatalog/traditional_180.jpg

ailsa, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

and at weekends:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Thompson&Thomson.png

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

79. how to conquer Sealand

rent, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

80. the magic of a good kegger
+
80.a) how to play beer pong/flip cup and the point of doing so

senator which fanta girl u blap? (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

fwiw, max/lj, I don't think me being ignorant of a bit of colloquial American English used to describe an American law proves much about the level of homophobia in either country.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

omg keggers

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

do they have wop parties in UK?

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

do ppl chew tobacco?

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

80. the magic of a good kegger

81. The obvious logic of not being able to legally drink till you're 21 :b

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

we know of keggers, we have seen teen comedies/slasher films.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

do they have wop parties in UK?

we're not THAT racist

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

wop parties, flummoxed.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

ya but i was making a related point (namely that we don't have an equivalent phrase, or to expand the point such a touchy-feely culture of diplomatic homphobia) xp to caek

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

a "wop party" -- i don't know why it's called that -- was this thing i remember from college, it's basically like to go buy a new big garbage can at a hardware store, then make like this HUGE alcohol/fruit punch/fruit thing, like poor hawaiian punch and shitloads of cut up oranges and LOTS of everclear vodka, then charge money like a keg party

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

we just called it "punch"

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

Then someone has to drink it all, and run around with the bin on their head?

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

(that's what would probably happen here)

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

no you could never drink it all, the thing of the wop is because of all the everclear, it's the classic like you have 2 glasses and yr fine, then you have that third glass and pretty soon yr staggering around.

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

xpost, it's basically just spiked punch, but for some reason they called it a wop down in mankato...the garbage can thing seemed to be what made it a "wop party"....

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

did anyone ever line a toilet with plastic and put the punch in it? because we did

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

:-/

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

pee pee punch

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, surely someone got drunk and added a new 'ingredient' to the mix?

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

what could you possibly mean by that

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

no that did not generally happen

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

"generally"?

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

i'm certain you could do some kind of epidemiology business on the outbreaks of nasty colds and mono and shit on campus a few days after a wop party

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

if it was going to be *that* kind of party, people just stuck their dicks in the mashed potatoes

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

bangers and mash.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

yeah the whole wop thing makes me wanna puke in retrospect. but somehow at 19 drinking 80 proof koolaid out of a garbage can seemed like a glittering door into adulthood

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

80. the magic of a good kegger

http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/keg_bitter/Double_Diamond_Works_Wonders.gif

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/keg_bitter/Double_Diamond_Works_Wonders.gif

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

82. what ("mono" and) "cooties" are

CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

goole: the NEJM did a study on an outbreak of pink-eye on my campus while i was in school! public computer terminals + conjunctivitis = uhoh!

on the kegger tip: brits don't know about getting drunk in a cornfield

the valves of houston (gbx), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

mono is when you can only use one syllable words.

cooties is slang for breasts.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

girls liked it, girls came to party, dudes came to party en masse, drank keg beer anyway. it's a loss-leader really. i'm pretty sure there were wop fake-outs, on this basis. "oh yeah uh we had a bucket or two but it's gone now. you want a busch lite?"

xps you don't have mono in the uk?? you probably just call it throatswoddle or a touch of gampsie or some shit

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

83. What "moxie" is

Treblekicker, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

this is more a small town MN thing, but I remember driving around so many times with beers up on the defroster vent on the dashboard...cuz we would have to hide our beer in the trunk, so they froze solid, so then we would drive around with like 5 beers on defrost, i remember some one would have to keep rotating them like those hot dog things at a convenience store

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

well, if you'd be so kind as to tell me what mono is, then i'll happily tell you if we have it (i'm sure we do).

CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

plz plz plz tell me you call it "Pfeiffer's disease":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis

glandular fever, luv?

xp lol

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

It's gampsie, duh.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

84. muddin'

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

85. QVC (sucks to be you)

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

what, the shopping channel? even if you don't HAVE sky you know what that is

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

not the same thing

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

oh, right. that's a lot less glamorous and troubled than i was hoping - i though it'd be Death In Venice territory.

yeah, we called it "glangie" at school, with the middle g pronounced like dsch i.e. like the g in Germany.

CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

86. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/uh.jpg

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, we called it "glangie" at school, with the middle g pronounced like dsch i.e. like the g in Germany.

looool

Jordan, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

what's QVC if not the shopping channel?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

goole you were so close!!

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

87. whippin' shitties

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

We have QVC here.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

:D

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

88. that 'Paper Planes' should be a top 5 hit

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

ya but i was making a related point (namely that we don't have an equivalent phrase, or to expand the point such a touchy-feely culture of diplomatic homphobia) xp to caek

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:51 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

Good grief.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

its not the same! QVC requires uber fake nicey hosts--I just don't think QVC UK can provide the same experience as the OG QVC

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

Has nobody actually explained what "don't ask, don't tell" is?

nabisco, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, it has been covered.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

It's just like American QVC! (I have seen both!)

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

I'm missing it, but I'll take your word that this is a poor opportunity to make LouJagg feel wrong about something

nabisco, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

British QVC:

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

QVC is nothing like "don't ask, don't tell" most of the time.

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

do they "get" seinfeld over in England? Doesn't seem like the kind-of thing they'd like.

burt_stanton, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

DADT came up on the general election thread, nabisco.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

xp, generally, no, we don't. i think curb your enthusiasm is almost as popular.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

British Brits don't "get" Seinfeld but American Brits do.

senator which fanta girl u blap? (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

yes, we have seinfeld, it is droll.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

homosexual II, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

we like it burt, but not as much as How I Met Your Mother and Big Fucking Pile Of Shit Bang Theory

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

Tons of people in the UK barely know what Sienfeld is!

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

90. How to hug

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

91. How to make bacon on the beach

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

I have never seen an episode of Seinfeld.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

I think hugging and knowing your neighbours is the most OTM...I am cold and distant, like any true born son of England.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

What's that show with the girl who is in the Big Bang Theory?

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

I avoided both Seinfeld and Frasier for years because they seemed so smarmy :(

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

I get Seinfeld, I know my neighbours, and hug people frequently. I'm not English though.

ailsa, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

8 simple rules.

Question: do all american people live in gigantic houses/apartments, even if they aren't that well-off? This is something I assume.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

Some live in trailers (see "My Name Is Earl")

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

yeah but the camera and crew take up so much room

goole, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

Dawn Porter on encountering a trailer in her 'documentary' on polygamists - "it's like a tardis inside!".

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

Surely your question is about the relative meanings of the word "gigantic."

nabisco, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

Question: do all american people live in gigantic houses/apartments, even if they aren't that well-off? This is something I assume.

No. We chillax in gigantic houses/apartments. Plural is correct, as we all own multiple properties, which we can't hardly keep track of.

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

quite a lot bigger than my living roon = gigantic. Say more than 20ft by 20ft.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

What's that show with the girl who is in the Big Bang Theory?

Roseanne?

Oh no wait, that's Scrubs. Oh no wait...

CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

92. How to drive while drunk. French people are terrifyingly used to doing this, seemingly.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

Scottish people also quite good at this, based on circumstantial evidence based on having worked in a hotel in the West Highlands in the arse end of nowhere where taxis do not exist.

ailsa, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

93. that nothing called aquacrunk can possibly exist.

ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

The british do make some good ales but for pale ales I have to say the US is preferable - overhopped and all

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

I cannot agree, there are fine beers from from the USA and the UK (and most of europe actually) - I wouldn't say one was better than any other.

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

8 simple rules xp

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

Is where that girl from BBT is from...

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

most beer is awesome because it is beer

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

I LOVE ALL THE BBERS

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

94. What the sun looks like

2. Atheists incorrectly believe that they are not a religion. (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

wow, i really have sobered up in the last 14 minutes.

caek, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

95. uk radio never plays led zep

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:16 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Jordan, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

96. can't say 'cock' on BBC1, unless it's educational or informative

2. Atheists incorrectly believe that they are not a religion. (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

"you're a cock" is informative

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

quite a lot bigger than my living roon = gigantic. Say more than 20ft by 20ft.

Hahaha Jel, if you are asking whether the average American home is bigger than your living room, then yes. I would hope that your home is bigger than just your living room, too, if only so you don't have to poop in front of guests!

nabisco, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

95. uk radio never plays led zep

RONG!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_ledzeppelin.shtml

Was on a couple of weeks ago.

ailsa, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

How to make a tasty pecan pie.
How not to be smug about the cleverness of their regional brand of humor.

pork cheops, Friday, 24 October 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

96. That bigger refrigerators, washing machine and driers make life easier.

Chelvis, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:13 (seventeen years ago)

How not to be smug about the cleverness of their regional brand of humor.

― pork cheops, Friday, 24 October 2008 02:29 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pretty sure the only people who go on about the supposed superiority of British humour are American liberal arts grads.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 24 October 2008 13:14 (seventeen years ago)

And Ricky Gervais.

ailsa, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

(not really)

ailsa, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

Pretty sure the only people who go on about the supposed superiority of British humour are American liberal arts grads.

And the likes of James Brown and Paul Ross on list shows patiently explaining how Americans don't get irony.

caek, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

97. the funky cold medina

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 24 October 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

98. Sheena is a man

Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Friday, 24 October 2008 14:12 (seventeen years ago)

S'Mores.

Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 24 October 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

10 pin bowling

Annoying Display Name (ken c), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

9 ball pool

ledge, Friday, 24 October 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

8 maids a-milking

Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

7. how to poop in front of guests

BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

44. Sir Mix-A-Lot.

Eric in the East Neuk of Anglia (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

savoury biscuits that you eat with fried chicken rather than sweet biscuits you eat with tea.

what U cry 4 (jim), Friday, 24 October 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

9 ball pool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Davis#Pool

He has taken notable victories in his pool career, including his "shock" winning streak at the 2000 World Pool Championship, where he came back from an 8–2 deficit to take 9–8 win over then-reigning world champion Efren Reyes, following it up with victories over 1997 world champion Ralf Souquet and 1998 champion Takahashi Kunihiko

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

See also "spanking the Yanks" as Oor Sid called it in the 2002 Mosconi Cup.

Alex Higgins can't even hold a cigarette and he can play 9-ball.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

In short: not even real pool.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

That quote suggests another list thread, something like "fields of human endeavor in which no Japanese person has distinguished him- or herself"

nabisco, Friday, 24 October 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

(I know Higgins isn't British btw)

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

I think I'm a bit drunk.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

(That probably sounds more stereotype-based than I mean it)

nabisco, Friday, 24 October 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

xpost. He's from Belfast.

what U cry 4 (jim), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

I lost a sentence somewhere, I meant to point out that Steve Davis isn't even a pool player and he's still getting notable victories or something.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

xpost oh aye for some reason I had him pegged as from the Republic.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

From a loyalist area as well. Shows what I know. Legend in his day all the same.

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Ridic 69 break

who needs position when you can do this?

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

seems to have two commentaries

99 Stay on topic
100 post youtube links
101 when to stfu

Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

one of the better moments in televised sport tbh xpost

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

i don't get it

my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

Hurricane Higgins > all Americans ever imo

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

also Ronnie for SPOTY just for "anyone fancy a nosh" tbqfh

(and maybe for winning the WC too)

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

102? a classless society

squeaky fromm where? (jessie monster), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

Hands up anyone in the world who knows a classless society.

Rooty Hill v Licking Valley (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

that doesn't make it not true about the british

squeaky fromme where? (jessie monster), Friday, 24 October 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)


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