Hey English people

[apoweyn]

Originally posted by red5angel
I cant stand marmalade!

By the way Ap, hows the engagement coming along?

hey red5,

wedding is a week from saturday. so i guess it's going fine.

thanks for asking, mate.

[apoweyn]

Originally posted by TigerJaw
So you don't like marmalade but your do like Marmite. I'm afraid we're going to have to take this outside.

Then again I suppose somebody's got to eat the stuff it'd just pile up and start stinking up the place. Can you even get Marmite in America? It's a by-product of making beer, which I know isn't available stateside.

(Oh no, I've done it now!)

TigerJaw,

honestly, i didn't like marmalade as a kid. i'd probably like it just fine now. but i thought it was too tart back then. (of course, back then i lived on nutella, so... )

you can get marmite here, but only in small jars (unless you go to a special english shop, which i thankfully have right down the street from me). it's available in the local supermarkets though. problem is that they don't really know what it is, so you can never tell where they're going to stock it. sometimes, you'll find it in 'international' and sometimes it'll be in with the baking supplies (for reasons unknown).

the greatest thing about marmite, in my opinion, is that i never have to share it.


stuart b.

[rubthebuddha]

just as long as you folks lay off the chutney, we'll get along fine.

[red5angel]

Ap, no problem, I wish you the best of luck!

[Budokan]

I want to bang the Queen on her birthday right out in the open in Piccadilly Circus. Would you Limeys let me do that...?

[IronFist]

Originally posted by Frank Exchange
Yeah, we have always called them buses, a shortened form of the old word "Omnibus".

(breaks into song)

Don't you mean...

(breaks into song)

"Ich fahr Omnibus."

Haha.

I thought you guys had a different word for bus. Maybe it was a different word for "trunk" or something. I forgot.

IronFist

[Dercetuas]

"rubthebuddha, that's not nice. Just because they make up different words for elevator, apartment and bus is no reason to make fun of them"

Make up words? You might be suprised to find this out, but the English Language actually comes from England and so its the Americans that make up different words.

Any Welsh on this forum? I lived in Wales for a few years and they're very underrepresented on MA forums and thier language is very interesting.

[apoweyn]

I thought you guys had a different word for bus. Maybe it was a different word for "trunk" or something. I forgot.

IronFist

you're probably thinking of trucks. or 'lorries' as they're called in england.


stuart b.

[apoweyn]

Any Welsh on this forum? I lived in Wales for a few years and they're very underrepresented on MA forums and thier language is very interesting.

one of the administrators at cyberkwoon is welsh. he's the only one that jumps to mind. shaolinmonkey, i think his name is.


stuart b.

[Azure]

Marmite? Nah.

Vegimite is King.

[Andrew]

I've been to the U.S and the phrase two countries divided by a
language is so true. Especially all those people who think its funny to do ****ney accents, as the all sound like sh*t and
everyone sounds like **** van dyke.

'Cor luv a duke Mary Poppins' W.T.F is that.

If you want to sound like you're from the east end you need
to say:

'facking caunts', master this and you could fit in.

The best ryhming slang ever:

Claires. As in ' Nice claires'

Claries -> Claire rayner (Agony aunt) -> trainer.

For our american cousins

trainers are sneakers.

So

'Nice Claires' => 'I like your sneakers'

I thank you. Off to uncle ted.

[Stone Monkey]

http://www.aldertons.com/english-.htm

[rubthebuddha]

question for all you limeys:

is this the general impression you have of us yanks?

typical american

[joedoe]

The whole world has that impression

[cogg]

that BK link is the funniest thing i have ever seen will e singing all day long now. i gotta bun, would you like an apple pie da da da