BRITISH PEOPLE IN HOT WEATHER

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Fill green envelopes and send them to ya
On train ride, read Marx tracts
Play walkmans loud behind ya
Demonstrate on Oxford Street
About what the Hell they couldn't tell ya
British people in hot weather
Have a heart-to-heart with your sister
People in shorts drunk before ya
Beached whale in Wapping
His armpit hairs are sprouting
Serpentine ah.... Serpentine grrr...
British people in hot weather

Press hot houses waste tree statements
Compare your pearls before the King of Monks
I'm telling ya, oh
Do they know they can get cancer?
Designer tramp goes grrr...
Looking jolly from Stoke
As he walks through and makes up
Titles like this, to order
They're well off their trolley
Smoking like a chimney
Bespectacled stare-out
British people in hot weather

I was a candidate for club 18-30
but I've been through all that shit before
British people in hot weather
That's it, I'm looking straight for the car
If that's how you feel, let's go
British people in hot weather

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Saw a gaggle of them dizzly wandering around a few minutes ago.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_music/cap266.JPG

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Looking Jolly, right!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Designer tramp goes "grrr..."

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Beached whale on WAPPING

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

well off their trolley

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

i'm telling ya

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/3431/plasticman9pg.jpg
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/Lookup/kano2x08x02x05xmc/$file/kano2x08x02x05xmc.jpg

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I was in England in August in 1990 and it was hot and I remember being on a bus trip and people were drinking big cans of warm Guiness. Room temperature drinks cool you down more than cold drinks - ergo, British people know what the fuck they're doin'.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

STRAIGHT OUTTA UXBRIDGE

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you saw my wife. She's possibly about to start a new job in the building right next door to yours.

xp thanks, Tim. Unlike gygax, you will not have to protect ya neck next time you roll up in da 510

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I was in the 510 last night!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

You think you were, but you have no idea.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

ive been to wapping and ive been to stoke, i wasnt suppin on gin and juice at the time though,

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

BTW: ARL, was the 120 second field recording of the contents of your pocket intentional? Or not? This was last night, love.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm into WAPPING

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I've been to Stoke, for a conference on video editing systems. It was in the football stadium and I got to wear a nametag.

BTW: ARL, was the 120 second field recording of the contents of your pocket intentional? Or not? This was last night, love.
Fuck, not again.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

There were two I think.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Double fuck.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I was in Emeryville, then Albany.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Both vital communities.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I was sort of reminiscing about how I haven't been back to Emeryville since working there, but then what's the point really? Ikea?

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Trader Joes on the way to dinner.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Dinner in Albany. Solano?

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Near there, it was at friends'.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh crap, I can't remember what it was but I came across a pattern name of something called UXBRIDGE, and thought, gygax!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

oh, i remember!

http://www.berroco.com/images/uxbridge/uxbridge_ball_500.jpg

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

When British people talk like this:

She is a wall-assed white girl, innshe?
Fit pins and cute titties tho...

-- Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (Mod...), August 21st, 2004.

...is it alluring or repulsive?

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

That is not a British person and those are not British words.

Sorry.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe "pins".

No Englishman who isn't already a prick would say "titties".

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

IIRC ModJ is from NYC.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Exactly.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I don't know these ILM people. I just assumed from the "Towne"...

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Assume nothing when the cursed anglophilia has its slimy tentacles wrapped so firmly around the earth.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

WHY WON'T THEY LET US LISTEN TO BADFINGER???? :''''''''''''''(

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

But I mean a Brit could potentially have spoken those words. Say a Brit has spoken them or is speaking them at this very moment...

In this case would other Britons be drawn to such an individual? This is a mere survey in Urban-Virtual-Anglo Anthropology.

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I would not be drawn to him because he is using suspiciously un-British words and has thus outed himself as a poseur or "ponce".

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

And I don't need the competition.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Dude.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

So the British are specifically drawn to British colloquialisms? This makes sense, but sometimes people are into the "exotic." Now if I were British that quotation mark would've appeared inside the period.

Also do the British address each other as "bro"? I doubt this but thought I'd ask.

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

They do not, though "mate" would probably suffice. Though there are many British people that do not use this term. In Britain it is good not to be exotic but also not to be too British, just remain kind of faceless. To assume any kind of identity is to invite enemies.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Here's a real question, though: if I had switched those punctuations would I have outed myself as a poseur or "ponce"? Poser, I should say.

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Are we talking about "quutation style"? I prefer putting punctuation outside quotes unless the punctuation is part of the quote.

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Monday, 27 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I agree.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm changing majors.

― SMELLY MY... (Thor), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

i would never say bro. or titties. or faggot

i have said mate on occasion. i have regretted it

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I can imagine you saying mate. Filthy with booze.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Picturing Gareth saying "titties" is hilarious!

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

HUMP

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

"titties"
http://photos15.flickr.com/21086931_712d3a23e7_m.jpg

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

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