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
2. where my missing sock is
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)
3. my PIN
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
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 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
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)
― 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
how odd that this link is about homophobia being rife in britain from april of this year
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)
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
― 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
― 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
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 15:23 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 topic100 post youtube links101 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)