Actually, we don't say that in Britain

[Klepa]

Also don't forget Family Guy's British porn:
woman: "We could be having sex right about now."
man: "Yes, quite" *continues reading book by fire*.

And the follow up to that, in a later episode
I don't have much to contribute, being from neverheard-a-stan.

People outside the British Isles tend to lump them all into one single country, mainly because.. we don't really care that much.

 

[historybuff]

Spoiler

I felt this was appropriate.

Haha, that picture made me laugh.


Also, people getting so worked up about stereotypes--meh. Americans are used to getting utterly slammed by everyone else in the world. We love the English, even if y'all hate us. So we poke at you. It's our way of showing affection.

In the same vein, I am positively certain that English shows must make digs on American stereotypes.

 

[Dok Zombie]

Just remembered another funny example. Not really a result of language, but pronunciation. A friend of mine was travelling the world and stopped somewhere in America for a couple of months. He was telling us how when asking for a glass of "water", nobody understood what the hell he was on about until he said "wahder". When he got back, it took us at least a week to get him saying "water" again.

You don't have to leave the country for that mate, I moved from Teesside to Leicester and have been getting blank looks whenever I ask for a rum and coke for three years now.

I'm not even exaggerating for comedic values, like they take the piss out of how I pronounce, they genuinely don't know what I'm asking for and will just repeating "what?" until I give up and say "pepsi" instead.

There is no "w" in coke you fucking Chizits, it's not pronounced "cowk"!

Also I get a load of grief for how I pronounce "moor", let me ask you, are their any moors in the midlands? No? Well then I'll fucking well pronounce it how it should be pronounced then!

/anger.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

In the same vein, I am positively certain that English shows must make digs on American stereotypes.

Very rarely. There's enough american stuff on TV, we don't need to add any more in our own shows. It usually only crops up in comedy/satirical news programmes.

 

[Sgt Doom]

I seem to have a rather stubborn British accent, but my essential "Britishness", whatever that might be, has been lost with time in all but language. People at first sight tend to assume i'm Finnish, due in part to mannerisms and physical appearance, then act rather surprised when I reply in English about how I haven't got a bloody clue what they said.
Visiting England a year or so ago, I felt like I was in a completely foreign land, though considering I spent my childhood years in England on a military base which wasn't all that populated, that's not really surprising.

Where was I going with this? Ah yes, I no longer know what any part of Britain is like anymore, so most of my knowledge of all things British comes from other sources than personal experience, which is rather depressing.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

And why is every British hero not actually British?

it's cause Scots and Irishmen are that much cooler

Eh what? Scots are British and Wellington was still from the British Isles.

I think he was referring to people like St George (Greek, or at least from that area) and Richard the Lionheart (French, or at least from the area that is now France).

 

[Parallel Streaks]

I'm afraid I actually AM posh and have a cut-glass Queen's English accent, but the funny side of it is that I use it to utter profanities sufficient to make a Sailor with gonorrhea blush.

"If that woman made one more comment about my hair, I was going to kick her in the ****.." Imagine your precious Jeeves the Butler stereotype saying that, and you basically have me.

I don't care about stereotypes, we do it equally to them, god-damn bible waving gun-toting blood-pressure rising eagle-humping language-slaughtering yanks.

That was meant purely in irony, genuinely.

 

[Nevyrmoore]

I'm afraid I actually AM posh and have a cut-glass Queen's English accent, but the funny side of it is that I use it to utter profanities sufficient to make a Sailor with gonorrhea blush.

"If that woman made one more comment about my hair, I was going to kick her in the ****.." Imagine your precious Jeeves the Butler stereotype saying that, and you basically have me.

I'm terribly sorry to ask, but may I steal your voice?

 

[Parallel Streaks]

I'm afraid I actually AM posh and have a cut-glass Queen's English accent, but the funny side of it is that I use it to utter profanities sufficient to make a Sailor with gonorrhea blush.

"If that woman made one more comment about my hair, I was going to kick her in the ****.." Imagine your precious Jeeves the Butler stereotype saying that, and you basically have me.

I'm terribly sorry to ask, but may I steal your voice?

Well, I have grown attached to an extent, but I'm sure we can come to some sort of parlay. Would you settle for Yorkshire?

 

[Lexodus]

Doesn't Family Guy always rip at British stereotypes that were true 50 or so years ago? I think it's part of the joke.

I'm not sure about the question, but I realised that idioms are pretty funny recently when I was told a french one, which I think is "the little cabbage" or something to that effect. "Le petit choux" I believe. I just wish I remembered what it meant.

It directly translates to the little cabbage, but it's a term of endearment, like darling XP

 

[Zykon TheLich]

And why is every British hero not actually British?

it's cause Scots and Irishmen are that much cooler

Eh what? Scots are British and Wellington was still from the British Isles.

I think he was referring to people like St George (Greek, or at least from that area) and Richard the Lionheart (French, or at least from the area that is now France).

Yeah well Some would nowadays be Irish tho ><

Ummm....what?

 

[Zykon TheLich]

inventions military victories/commanders/soldiers from all across the timeline can be attributed to the irish yet they remain in english record

Really? Please enlighten me as to who, which etc. Sources required.

And I still don't quite understand what "Yeah well Some would nowadays be Irish tho ><" means and quite how it fits in as a response/comment on my post.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You don't have to leave the country for that mate, I moved from Teesside to Leicester and have been getting blank looks whenever I ask for a rum and coke for three years now.

Real Chizits drink Dog (Newcastle Brown) or Diesel(Lager/Cider and black)

The reason you get blank looks is that pubs that serve pepsi aren't allowed to call it coke because of the copyrights. It's also Cockney for "joke".

Also I get a load of grief for how I pronounce "moor", let me ask you, are their any moors in the midlands? No? Well then I'll fucking well pronounce it how it should be pronounced then!

wherethubleedinellyuhbinduk, we 'av Urdu, 'Chizit, Gujarati, Polish, Mandarin, French/German/Spanish (From Deemu) uptahn. We cahnt lurn Whalespeak 'swell, wy-ai.

/tongue_firmly_in_cheek.

 

[Dok Zombie]

wy-ai.

The midlanders think you're automatically a geordie.

Point proven.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

wy-ai.

The midlanders think you're automatically a geordie.

Point proven.

You call us Chizits, we're likely to respond that way

 

[Dok Zombie]

wy-ai.

The midlanders think you're automatically a geordie.

Point proven.

You call us Chizits, we're likely to respond that way

Fair point, but it was a Leicesterian(?) who told me what a "Chizit" was.

I suppose technically I'd be a "Smoggie" but that's almost as bad as being from mistaken for Newcastle... Barcode wearing numpties that they are.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Fair point, but it was a Leicesterian(?) who told me what a "Chizit" was.

I suppose technically I'd be a "Smoggie" but that's almost as bad as being from mistaken for Newcastle... Barcode wearing numpties that they are.

heheh. See, Americans? Leicester-Newcastle is only 264km. Teeside and Newcastle is only about 50 kM, but they're WORLDS apart.