True, but every Canadian I've known does say "aboot" instead of "about." Just throwing it out there...BlackWidower said:
Actually, we don't say that in Britain
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Oy, why don't ya put another shrimp on tha bahbie? (Because.. ha... I'm mistaking... hahaha... you for an Aus-... nevermind)GrinningManiac said:
I personally do my best Monty Python impression whenever I'm impersonating British people. I find that not only is it more accurate, but funnier, too.
But seriously, ALL THE BRITS doing horrible, ridiculous, borderline offensive American accents in movies over here, and the OT is getting upset about a FAMILY GUY EPISODE? News flash, every British actor ever: Your American accent sucks balls, and your Southern accent sucks underage animal balls, and we CAN tell. So stop it.
At least the Family Guy stereotypes are supposed to be offensively amusing. These ass-hats do their schpiel with a straight face and expect us to take it seriously. (I'm looking at you, almost every single member of the cast of Battlestar Galactica).
*Tentatively uncovers ears*GrinningManiac said:
Hey look! Brian Blessed has joined the escapist!
That's something about being British that is awesome - I am from the same country as Brian Blessed. Brian Blessed is thoroughly cool.
But... but what about Hugh Laurie? I mean I admit lots of English people doing US accents don't do it well (I'm thinking of Rachel Weiss actually) there are SOME.PhiMed said:
Slight sidenote here: not about Family guy, but those shows do sometimes get their stereotypes wrong by accident. I watched an episode of The Simpsons a few days ago, set in Brazil, and they were all speaking Spanish. They don't usually mess up that much, but it was sort of noticable because I don't think it was intentional...
To be fair, the only Irish accent I can do is the very stereotypical one. So I don't do Irish accents because it makes me look insensitive. But when people do for amusement of other I whole heartedly agree that it pisses me off.the idiot computer said:
i gotta jump in and say what about us Scot's? we get loads of crap about we all eat haggis (though some people do like the taste of it. myself included), we are all ginger, we all wear kilts (well i have to time to time cos i'm in a pipe band, but that and weddings are the only time i've seen any other Scot wear a kilt)and that we all live in castles in the highland with thick Scottish accents that no one understands and we have no electronic equipment (i've heard that from Americans on Xbox live before thats the only reason i brought it up)and just to throw it in there it was Scot's that 1.harnessed electricity 2. invented the T.V. and 3. invented the telephone. just though i'd throw a word in for the scot's
While were talking about incorrect stereotypes I wish to say that Canadians do not say aboot.
We do say eh though......sometimes.
We do say eh though......sometimes.
We had Twin Day a while back at my school, and my British friend and another friend dressed up as schoolgirls together. I saw her in the hall in the morning and was all like, "why are you dressed like that?" and she tells me "I'm a schoolgirl!" and my response to this was, "Wow, that's kinky..." and then she suddenly gets all dark and stalks off and I'm kind of left with my hands in the air wondering what I said.
I found her at lunch and apologized and explained it was a joke, and she accepted it, but I could tell she was still really angry. I finally realized that "kinky" probably meant something else in British vernacular, and asked. "Oh, it means like, the lowest of the low, like, a complete whore," she explained. "OHHHH. Here, it just means 'That's hot.'" "Glad we cleared that up! ._. I thought you were really insulting me..."
But still, I don't know why you would pick a schoolgirl costume... Then again, I was dressed as a traffic pylon, so...
I found her at lunch and apologized and explained it was a joke, and she accepted it, but I could tell she was still really angry. I finally realized that "kinky" probably meant something else in British vernacular, and asked. "Oh, it means like, the lowest of the low, like, a complete whore," she explained. "OHHHH. Here, it just means 'That's hot.'" "Glad we cleared that up! ._. I thought you were really insulting me..."
But still, I don't know why you would pick a schoolgirl costume... Then again, I was dressed as a traffic pylon, so...
In my twenty years of life in Britain I have honestly NEVER heard of the word "kinky" meaning anything other than what *you* thought it meant. How odd...Florion said:
I do believe I am in agreement, old chap - all this British stereotype nonsense is all 6's and 7's. Now I will eat a buttered scone while conversing with Her Majesty about the lovely weather. And then I will count the colours on the British flag.uncle-ellis said:
there's 7.
"In England last year, there were 14 hand gun deaths. 14. And those were probably American tourists, pissed off about the food." Oh why were you taken so soon, Bilbo Hicks?
BTW, my mom went to England a few years ago and said she loved the food.
BTW, my mom went to England a few years ago and said she loved the food.
