What is the most British thread on ILX?

Anything by Ed.

"the pinnacle of the "lol britpop" crew's zing culture."

whoever originally posted that really needs to do some suicide

Firework Fun!!!

Football Manager 2007: The Thread

heave ho habitually heaves a heavenly haul

dom also has a point

The Guy Fawkes one is good.

although Will M was a poster to the football manager thread and he's Canadian

i don't really like this question. would we discuss which thread was 'most American'? <- this could just be a very (stereotypical) British response tho. i don't like dwelling on notions of Britishness and cultural traits here even tho I may come across as a bit patriotic in arguments at times. this is mainly because it feels really played out tho - and we don't get a big enough range of perspectives from both in and outside GB/UK/whatever.

sports (not just football but also the rugby, cricket, snooker and darts tournament threads) and the more trivial UK politics threads spring to mind tho, if nothing specific.

looking at US-UK cultural divides is cool but in recent times the anglophobic sentiment on ILX has seemed less good-natured/jokey and more reactionary/negative, yet still expressed openly. i am curious about it as a 'meme' or running joke. are there far fewer Brits on ILX now than there were 5 years ago? it feels like it but maybe it's marginal reduction or about the same, and lots of veterans still read but hardly ever post.

and why BritishERS anyway, AmericanERS?

(sub-question: am i just turning into the pinefox?)

would we discuss which thread was 'most American'?

yes, we probably would

at length and annoyingly

and it would end in tears

from the eyes of a bald eagle

We could easily discuss which thread was the most American. I think that would be interesting, too. Sorry, Steve, this wasn't meant to be an antagonistic thread.

i agree it would be lengthy and annoying but i don't agree it would happen

xp do not sweat it, jaymc

This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

who put the sand in DG's vajayjay?

I don't know about threads but anytime Dom posts something to the excelsior thread I'm just like "buh?"

Dom is Italian

and I'm Irish

oh

I'm American.

An Italian, yesterday:

http://members.chello.nl/~h.vogels1/images/avatars/100x100/misc/bertorelli100x100_01.jpg

Am i the pinnacle of Britishness?

No.

I saw you eat barbecue.

I was wondering what the longest thread is on which not a single American has posted.

I really want to know this too now. XLS BROS

I was wondering what the longest thread is on which not a single American raggett has posted.

"the pinnacle of the "lol britpop" crew's zing culture."

i mean FFS where do you start?

Maybe with the opening speech mark? Or perhaps the word "the".

http://www.davidsumberg.com/images/britis2.jpg

Who is more bendable: Ned or DG?

^^^ the thread that had to be made

lol dom you funny

sorry typo there lol etc

most American thread is the gun control debacle with Roger Adultery

I had DG's back when he was all "lol richard hammond gonna be a vegetable", and this is the thanks I get?

otm xp

heh ok then i take it back, you are not lol funny haha

^^^genius you see

Boris Johnson hasn't been to Fratton Park this season

Fee-paying schools: classic or dud

Is an interesting one - there are Americans and Australians on there, but the most passionate and intense arguments on either side were from British (or Irish) posters. And maybe the battle line that was drawn there is unique to these isles.

(sub-question: am i just turning into the pinefox?)

lol

Morrisons down South - the biggest British social revolution since the fall of Thatcher?

in a sense:

OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

no fucking way

well ok yes but arrrrgh whyyyyy

but you could argue that as the most American thread too perhaps

trudat

It's definitely my number one Americans vs. British peeples thread.

Plus, it inspired this:

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE WE SUM UP ILX CLUSTERFUCK THREADS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM.

so what's not to love?

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no wai

I was thinking about that Ronaldinho bottle opener thread the other day, and remembering some 'Who Do You Fancy?' thread from about three years ago which kind of mirrored it. Oops posted various pictures of semi-clad black women and said "I've got a serious case of jungle fever" - all the Britishes were like "you can't fucking say that!" and the response from the US posters was "hey, what's the problem?"

Admittedly it petered out after about 15 posts of outrage, as opposed to a thousand.

some quality, quality zings on that ronaldinho thread, mostly at the expense of yours truly. hence, mixed feelings. humour won even as i lost.

what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer

-- ghost rider, Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:59 PM (Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:59 PM) Bookmark Link

^^^^ still funny

everything ghost rider posted on that thread was the best ever.

The punchline to the Ronaldinho thread (ie, it was made by and solely for black Brazilians) makes it even better, tbh. Although the American who's all "he is known for his skills with his legs" runs it close.

Alas, that punchline came far, far too late. For some of us.

"he is known for his skills with his legs"

omg *goes back to check if this is a verbatim quote*

aha: And all I'm saying is that we should be celebrating Ronaldinho's legs and feet - since he is such a great football player - and pay less attention to his teeth -which is stupid because the guy is very handsome!

thanks for that, aimurchie

I just imagine Louis as perpetually on stage with a crook around his neck dragging him toward the curtain, going "c'mon, that was funny, is this thing on?, FUCK ALL OF YOU BASTARDS, hey c'mon guys, that was funny, I WILL KILL YOUR PETS, you've been a great audience, is this thing on?"

-- nabisco, Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:59 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

fuck that thread was funny

also terrible!

"The punchline to the Ronaldinho thread (ie, it was made by and solely for black Brazilians) makes it even better, tbh. "

Fixed.

technically it's a sippy cup, not a baby's bottle. I don't really know what else to say.

-- horseshoe, Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:24 PM (Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:24 PM) Bookmark Link

Order of magnitude funnier than the thread about Gear's couch.

we were all afraid to nominate it

No, it's funny because it is awful and super fucked up, not because it is gr8.

thus, no noms.

I guess. I certainly wasn't gonna nominate it (for painfully obvious reasons).

I totally should have nominated it, if only for the horrifying baby bottle.

OH JESUS NOW I REMEMBER THE BABY BOTTLE UGH

As a humerous aside, I gave my wife the following background:

"Do you know the soccer player Ronaldinho? He's a Brazilian hero, probably one of the best to ever play the game and a national hero, but he has fucked-up teeth."

My wife instantly began busting on his teeth, most notably around the theme "If he's that famous and he has that much money, why doesn't he fix them? If they're that big, why haven't they been knocked out yet?"

I continued: "So anyway, someone decided to make a bottle opener based on him."

My wife: "Oh no! His teeth are that fucked up that he looks like he's been opening bottles with them? ROFFLE ROFFLE"

Me: "This is what it looks like." (I show her the picture at the beginning of this thread.)

My wife: "ROFFLE ROFFLE ROFFLE ROFFLE ROFFLE OH MY GOD THAT IS INCREDIBLY RACIST I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT SHIT ROFFLE ROFFLE OH NO WOW HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT ROFFLE ROFFLE WOW, that's just like that Darkie Toothpaste they sold in Japan"

Me: "ROFFLE ROFFLE DARKIE TOOTHPASTE WAS THE SECOND RESPONSE"

My wife: "ROFFLE ROFFLE ROFFLE"

-- HI DERE, Friday, March 23, 2007 2:28 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

lolololol

the baby bottle moment was like...it was like an audible gasp fell over the thread.

The Most SCOTTISH thread for sure

fair dos

Any Pavement thread. Particularly the ones where people argue which is the best album.

Oh wait..

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It's a global game though Fred - I saw a load of people wearing Spurs shirts in India.

Admittedly of minimal interest to Americans but since when were they the world eh?

1985

Mondeo Pop only has one american post, i think.

but Tim F is lovin' it

He's Australian though!

as in non-British aye

Part of the Commonwealth! Home of Crowded House (Are they from NZ?)! Also he's a fan of made up genres, so has an advantage of sorts.

as in non-British aye

As House once said to ex-Neighbours bloke: If you've got the Queen on your money, you're as good as British.

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NZ (Split ENZ)

No American tears were shed when old Bernard got booked for a permanent gig at the big Working Men's Club in the sky: Bernard Manning Has Died

Which is a shame, for all the Americans turning up on the Top Gear thread going "Oh, Jeremy Clarkson's just doing SCHTICK", maybe they could have shown a little love for the fat dead Manc cunt.

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