'What It's Like To Be British'

[monsterxmonster]

I could never really sit through them either. But I used to watch the shit outta ...

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Ha, I forgot about that show. It was like a live action Striker.

 

[ralphc1]

I honestly don't know. I don't think they'd leave you with your leg hanging off, but I think it's actually illegal now if you're gainfully employed to not have health insurance. Please correct me, Murricans.

Hospitals are required to treat you in the emergency room whether you can pay or not. It's one of the reasons for requiring people to carry health insurance. Those that don't have it get treated in emergency rooms where it costs much more and they don't pay. Supposedly close to a third of medical costs in the US is from billing, collection services and non payment for services rendered.

 

[Hyperglide]

lol as a Canadian I'm guilty of most of these, especially the friend at supermarket one. Of course that's more applicable to co-workers.

Oh and replace all the tea ones in the OP with Tim Hortons Coffee and this would totally be applicable.

Oh and we don't say Right nearly as as often as you guys. Not enough "brilliant" in the OP either. you brits love to say brilliant a lot. So it's all lies. I call shenanigans.

 

[Hyperglide]

Fuck, does that annoy me. Gordon Ramsay does it all the time. Pacifically rather than specifically. Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh.

"Right so, Pacifically that Aluminium on the lorrie following that Coo-pay from the flat brilliant, that's brilliant. Right oh, so tea? Oi can I also bum a m8? Cheers, that's brilliant."

 

[MaureenCretis]

As a Brit, I find it humorous when someone tells me that Brits are arrogant, as if there's nothing arrogant about claiming to know how 70M people think and behave.

 

[Coffee79]

This. For Srs, British men are beta as fuck. Also, most Brits I know that love here seem very unhappy with their life situations and always play the victim card.

I know it's not all Brits, but in the sample I see refularily, there's a lot of this.

 

[Max Power]

The Brits are the greatest, specifically the Welsh

They have a fantastic language.

I could never really sit through them either. But I used to watch the shit outta ...

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Woah... blast from the past.

If you're British how often are you required to have tea and crumpets?

From what I understand David Cameron wants people to replace time spent jerking it to porn with tea and crumpets.

 

[Clippys Mom]

Serious answer...Worked with a brit in Canada and can tell you that the accent allows for latitude in everything they do. Jokes are funner, observations are wiser and more credible, comments are wittier.

Also hung out with a Englishmen who was a representative for his company at an business awards ceremony that I attended as a nominee. The guy was a rude self indulgent boring wanker that if spoke in Canadian English would have been ostracized from the group otherwise. People just went with it, he was far from a social craftsmen. If I wasn't so detached that night, I may have been rustled enough to derail him for the lutz.

That's just really speaking to the effect of accents really. For the most part where I live has a well established English culture and is full of multi-generational expats.

Right then...

 

[blokeybloke]

 

[aus101]

As an Aussie I do a fair share of these. Not all, and certainly not the tea related shenanigans, but most.

 

[Loiosh]

That was incredibly funny, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

Quality satire, nicely done.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Wait do English people not like good dentition?

 

[blokeybloke]

Wait do English people not like good dentition?

Hi Flemmy, long time no speak.

Have you come out yet, mate ?

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

Hi Flemmy, long time no speak.

Have you come out yet, mate ?

Of the closet? Not yet.

 

[TenderLoving]

Went to england and head to a restaurant for some food. There I noticed that my watch was still set to my hometowns timezone. Asked the waiter what time is. "TOYME? WOTS THAT?". To my suprise I noticed he didnt have a watch. Actually it looked like no one in england had a watch. Just then Big Ben started to chime. Everyone stopped what they were doing to count the bongs on their fingers. A guy on the street crashed his car while he were trying to count the bongs. The waiter dropped my order on the floor to count his fingers. A guy ran down the street yelling "OI ITS 7 BONG"

 

[antithetic]

I actually hate tea.
Does my head in when people over here saying they are dying of thirst and could murder a cup of tea.