Littler Britain

waterhogboy

waterhogboy

Tweedledum
Knight of the Noble Order
I have caved into internal pressure and decided to make this new thread based on the old one which has sadly disappeared into the ether :( This is devastating as it had so many classic conversations from many older members which will now never be seen again...

...anyway, all good things come to an end and so we must start a new beginning with the 'Littler Britain' thread!

Here, we can discuss anything and everything related to the glorious Brittanical Isle, the Greatest Kingdom in the World!!! You don't have to be British to post here, and feel free to ask any questions you've had about our culture, beliefs and celebreties etc...

Maybe we can end up matching the old thread for style!!!
 
Do you mostly drink tea without milk and sugar? I had a vague notion that you do, but I never checked. I always drink it with milk and sugar – though I have tried it straight. *cough* Only once!
 
The thing about tea is that a really nasty cup of tea is not a tenth as bad as a really nasty cup of coffee. I've had coffee that reminded me of furniture polish mixed with kaolin with a shot of WD-40. So tea is really a saving grace at times.
 
Tea is always drunk with milk and sugar is up to the person who drinks it. Now which English accent would that be. Surely you wouldn't want to talk like a Cornish person?
 
No. Hardly anyone drinks tea with honey. I've never met anyone who does. It's only with milk. Some people might have sugar and a very few people have it without milk but that's it. And Yorkshire Tea is the best - which Derny has tried and liked alot!!

I think I might go get a cup now. All this talk has made me thirsty...
 
Miss Freckles said:
are they those who talk like pirates? they are cool!! (but nothing beats scottish... as we all know...)
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Well large planks of wood beats scots but we're not really sposed to do that. So Miss Freckles did you say you are originally not English but now live in London?? If so - what do you think of English people :D be nice...
 
I would love to go to England! I have British relatives that I have never been able to meet :( But they send Christmas cards and such. One day I'm going to go to England, and I also want to go to Scotland!
 
It's fun to have an excuse like that! :D (I don't have family there, but my godfather, who I have never met, lives there. And I was born there. So I'm sure I'll get to go eventually! ;))
 
I've visited London, and Dublin. Both were wonderful cities. And I wouldn't mind seeing Big Ben again or riding a double-level bus=]
 
True, true, I cringe at the Cornish and their Corny accent. :D

It's the Geordie dialect that absolutely drives me up the wall, however. :eek:
 
Geordie accent!?!?!? Thats where I live right now?? My neighbours have Geordie accents, the shopkeepers - everywhere I go!! Here's an example:

Eee, am off ta tha toon'aday so y'ell nay see us till tha nait. Divna get yasel inna nay trubal laik!!

They're crazy, but very friendly!

Where were you born in England Derny?? You've prob told me already and Ive forgotten. I remember GC was born in Manchester (boooooo, hissssss) but she couldn't help it, poor lass!

Yes MF, we do have a very different humour (congrats for the correct spelling btw). In fact, I noticed this when I went to see I Robot in America. In Britain - that would not have been thought of as funny at all, yet at the cinema I went to, people were laughing out loud, clapping and talking to the screen!! Do that here and you'd g chucked out! Humour is a much higher level of intelligence here generally, prefering sarcasm and black, dry comedy to more slapstick in your face here. Though that is a generalisation.
 
Pirate Queen said:
Wow the Geordie accent is weird... I have no idea what you just said??? Does it sound a bit like Old English?
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No - although I am studying Old Eglish at uni. Geordie is spoken in Newcastle which is a city in North East England and is basically an accent of English that has been affected alot by Scottish. The above sentence said:

"Right, I'm going to town today so I won't see you till tonight. Don't get into any trouble."

It's a really interesting accent. Supposedly it's how George Washington would have spoken as his family came from this part of the country!!

I'm trying to find a clip of a geordie accent, but it's impossible to find a clean one... sorry
 
I would love to visit England someday... I want to soooooo bad. And since I can't go right now, I just read story that are in England, sad I know.
 
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