Keeping India British: the non-Americacentric thread

[shereads]

In honor of gauche, I humbly (well, quasi-humbly) open this thread and donate posts number 2 through infinity to the citizens of Britain and its outposts, official and unofficial. I pledge that posts 2 through infinity will contain no mention - by me - of Bill Maher, Janet Jackson's breast, Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, George W. Bush, his breasts, George Herbert Walker Bush, Richard M. Nixon, George Clooney, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Howard Dean, Mrs. Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, the Bush twins' arrest(s), the Scott Petersen murder trial, Donald Trump, marmots or other rodent species unique to the North American continent. Pop culture references will be screened through a third party for relevance.

Btw, I'm a Baptist saint. There is no known procedure for getting rid of us short of shipping us off to the U.S., and I'm there already.



Have at it, British and international pornsters.

Your patron saint, in perpetuity,

SR

 

[minsue]

The accents. It's all about the accents.

 

[KillerMuffin]

The Best Parts of Britian are british men purring pretty much anything in my ear, breakfast tea, and Ghurkas. Not necessarily in that order.

 

[shereads]

Ghurkas. Those are little sweet pickles, right?

 

[minsue]

The Best Parts of Britian are british men purring pretty much anything in my ear, breakfast tea, and Ghurkas. Not necessarily in that order.

I've got the purring into your ear, but what do they purr to the tea and Ghurkas?

 

[whispering_surrender]

I guess everyone knows that I like that accent so much I had to import one.....

Whisp

 

[Dirt Man]

Having married the love child of a British war bride, I thought it strange that you didn't include WOMEN as a catagory. So I voted for the boiled meat instead.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[shereads]

I guess everyone knows that I like that accent so much I had to import one.....

Whisp

Were you able to have it authenticated?

Dirt, good save.

 

[snooper]

Ghurkas. Those are little sweet pickles, right?

Sage advice: should you ever be so lucky as to escape from the USA to the civilised parts of the world, avoid Church Crookham.

 

[Guest]

Sage advice: should you ever be so lucky as to escape from the USA to the civilised parts of the world, avoid Church Crookham.

And very sound advice, too. I know that place!

Originally posted by Dirt Man
Having married the love child of a British war bride, I thought it strange that you didn't include WOMEN as a catagory. So I voted for the boiled meat instead.

LOL!

I would've voted for "The Men", 'cause I love 'em, but I couldn't, so I didn't vote at all. How do I know what we're famous for away from these shores? I know what we are famous for over here, but that's a different matter.

Lou

 

[Icingsugar]

Beatles, football (the right kind), pints, coppers with funky helmets, more pints, tabloids, meta cuisine, a guy called William...

Accents? It's the rest of you who have accents.

/Ice

 

[Dirt Man]

And very sound advice, too. I know that place!




LOL!

I would've voted for "The Men", 'cause I love 'em, but I couldn't, so I didn't vote at all. How do I know what we're famous for away from these shores? I know what we are famous for over here, but that's a different matter.

Lou

Guiness, of course. Not to mention Harry Potter, the Queen Mother, Princess Di, and the rest of the royal family, Churchill, Mick Jaegar, and the Who, the Beatles, and Sir Paul. Obiwan, and Shakespear, Shepherd's Pie, fish and chips. The BBC, Monty Python, Benny Hill. British Petroleum, Spitfires, and Hurricanes, (Aircraft), British Airways, Big Ben, London Bridge, (even though it is now located here in America). The American Revolution, the war of 1812, (a rerun of the American Revolution), World War I, and II. King Arthur, and the legend of Excalibur, William Tell, and Robin Hood. And the hits just keep on rocking. I guess what I'm saying here is that our heritage is linked together, or at least we've had a trickle down effect over the centuries.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[Somme]

Mrs. H. Covington is my aunty.

 

[Somme]

Mrs. H. Covington is my aunty.

On my mothers side.

 

[whispering_surrender]

Were you able to have it authenticated?

How so?

Whisp

 

[shereads]

Sage advice: should you ever be so lucky as to escape from the USA to the civilised parts of the world, avoid Church Crookham.

I'm making a note to myself to do extensive online research of this topic, as soon as I return from my meeting.

 

[islandman]

The Best Parts of Britian are british men purring pretty much anything in my ear, breakfast tea, and Ghurkas. Not necessarily in that order.

I used to have a British accent, can still purr pretty things into your ear and make breakfast tea and crumpets. As for Ghurkas, I could rent a costumer, I suppose.

And I do a smashing Sean Connery.

 

[shereads]

And I do a smashing Sean Connery.

Sean Connery has done some smashing, or so he says.

 

[Guest]

The Best Parts of Britian are british men purring pretty much anything in my ear, breakfast tea, and Ghurkas. Not necessarily in that order.

I almost got trampled on by a Troop of Ghurkas when I was 14. I was in a military dance pageant, and they were displaying their marching. My, those guys can walk fast.

I take it you haven't ever been spoken to by someone from Swansea, or Norfolk, for that matter?

Now, Geordie, that one does it to me every time. (Hi Alex! )

Lou

 

[gauchecritic]

What's all the kerfuffle about Ghurkas? As far as I'm aware the troops that make up the Royal Ghurka Regiment are drawn almost exclusively from the Indian sub-continent.

And William Tell was Swiss. Like the Family Robinson.

As to why the famousosity to quote a guy on 'Chatterbox' (GTAIII). "They think they're all so clever with their funny accents. Well I got something for 'em. Speak English you Limey morons."

Guche

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Ghurka is spelled gurka in Swedish. It means cucumber.

 

[raphy]

Ghurkas. Those are little sweet pickles, right?

No, dear, they're gherkins.. Ghurkas are those scary badass indian assault troops.

And I do a great Sean Connery impersonation too (And David Bowie as well...)

 

[raphy]

I take it you haven't ever been spoken to by someone from Swansea, or Norfolk, for that matter?

Hey, I resemble that remark...

Raph, with authentic Welsh valleys accent.

 

[raphy]

And as for the accent .. I recall a time when I was living in London. My friends (true East End Londoners, with accompanying attitude) and I were walking past some tourist attraction -I think it was Madame Tussauds- one day on our way to somewhere. We're just walking, and talking, and having a laugh when these american tourists - A pair of elderly laides - came out of the place and said to us "Awww, can you say something for us in your cute english accent?"

My friend turned around to them and said, "Yeah. Fack orf."

I still laugh about that

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Why?

What was funny with your friend being rude to older women?