American questions for the Brits

[Mondy]

Originally Posted by Riff Addict

I would imagine that most Brits feel Americans have totally butchered the English language. I like listening to most Brits talk because everything sounds so proper and well pronounced. However I have heard a form of British English where you can't understand a damn thing they're saying. I forget what the name for this British slang is? Isn't that form isolated to a certain part of England?

Different regions, different accents...

You could be referring to Cockney (London), especially if you start adding the rhyming slang. Brummie (Birmingham), Geordie (Newcastle), Worzel (Somerset) etc., etc., etc...

Different regions have different accents. We don't all sound like the Queen you know. I'll have to get wahwah and me to post some dialogue to illustrate this...

[Riff Addict]

Originally Posted by mondola

You could be referring to Cockney (London), I'll have to get wahwah and me to post some dialogue to illustrate this...

Yeah, Cockney was the word I was looking for....but usually Brits speak so proper...at least it sounds that way to us since there is so much slang from many different cultures here all mixed together. Yo dude, know whut I'm talkin' 'bout?

[wahwah]

Originally Posted by Riff Addict

Chris I'm thinking you've been to American a time or two right? If so, what was your experience, was it a good visit, or bad?

I think driving on a different side of the road would be very hard to get used to?

Loved it but then it was vacation time and I've only really done The Keys and Florida...wanted to driver round the panhandle and get to New Orleans a few years ago but then Sam came along and we ain't been back since.

[wahwah]

Originally Posted by Riff Addict

For a long time I thought most British men looked like this:

DAD!

[wahwah]

Originally Posted by sweeps

Heres a question for you Brits.
How have your attitudes changed since the London Bombings?
Obviously our American reaction to 9/11 was lets blow them all up but has it created any stereotypes, racism for the UK?

We've been getting bombed by various factions for the last 40 years...I think we just moved on. There was a typical shortsighted knee jerk reaction from some people but, like the Muslim cleric who blamed the New orleans floodings on God because of the West being Anti-Islam, I'm sure he's gone very quiet now up to 200,000 poor souls of mainly Muslim faith lie dead in Pakistan. It doesn't take a lot of people to spoil the world.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by wahwah

What ever happened to Benny Hill? Is he alive?
No he popped it about 10 years ago.

Well, I "popped it" to those lovely "Hill's Angels" for many years growing up as a horny young dude.

OK, here's a question for you lads, and I don't mean to be offensive or rude:

Does everybody there really eat all the parts of an animal we consider "throw away parts" here in the states? If so, HOW???
I can't imagine eating tongues and brains, etc. Perhaps it is simply a matter of being resourceful and eliminating waste, but I don't think I could handle that.

[wahwah]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Well, I "popped it" to those lovely "Hill's Angels" for many years growing up as a horny young dude.

OK, here's a question for you lads, and I don't mean to be offensive or rude:

Does everybody there really eat all the parts of an animal we consider "throw away parts" here in the states? If so, HOW???
I can't imagine eating tongues and brains, etc. Perhaps it is simply a matter of being resourceful and eliminating waste, but I don't think I could handle that.

I think to a degree it's different areas that eat different things. The thing with the UK is it's a small island BUT change in people regarding accent, culture etc can occur within a 30 mile area. So for instance black pudding (pigs blood shaped into a 'black' or sometimes 'white' sausage) is loved in the North, feigned on by a lot of the South yet used in posh restaurants as something special.

Tripe (sheeps stomach) appears to be something more akin with old folk...maybe to do with rationing as a child during the war?

Liver and kidneys are again a delicacy and restaurants will feature stuff like this highly. About 8 miles away from me is a restaurant voted the 'Best In The World' where one of the dishes is a porridge made from snails!

In the end, our tastes vary depending on culture...you've gotta travel a long way from London to find a deep fried Mars Bar!!!!

[serpant]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Well, I "popped it" to those lovely "Hill's Angels" for many years growing up as a horny young dude.

OK, here's a question for you lads, and I don't mean to be offensive or rude:

Does everybody there really eat all the parts of an animal we consider "throw away parts" here in the states? If so, HOW???
I can't imagine eating tongues and brains, etc. Perhaps it is simply a matter of being resourceful and eliminating waste, but I don't think I could handle that.

Jane Leeves from Fraiser was a Benny hill gal! And you eat Mcdonalds dont you! thats just the same as Black pudding and tripe! lol

P.S We drive on the correct side of the road

[POD GOD]

Well, I'm Canadian but I'll ask anyway....

So you Brits get lots of American TV, but do you have trouble watching it? Is the accent easy to understand? I say this cause I love British humour, but can't keep up... they talk so damm fast I can't understand it, lol.

[serpant]

Originally Posted by POD GOD

Well, I'm Canadian but I'll ask anyway....

So you Brits get lots of American TV, but do you have trouble watching it? Is the accent easy to understand? I say this cause I love British humour, but can't keep up... they talk so damm fast I can't understand it, lol.

I have no trouble understanding, there are a few things that sound odd like Coffee is said in NY accent CAWFE, Trash and Garbage and Fawcett WTF is a FAWCETT.
In the UK we have trouble understanding ourselfs, i struggle with geordie (newcastle) and from the south Cornish.
If you hear me mondola and wah wah im sure we all sound totally different to you

[Mondy]

Originally Posted by POD GOD

Well, I'm Canadian but I'll ask anyway....

So you Brits get lots of American TV, but do you have trouble watching it? Is the accent easy to understand? I say this cause I love British humour, but can't keep up... they talk so damm fast I can't understand it, lol.

I don't tend to have to much trouble understanding the shows. The only time I am going is when the punchline of a joke refers to something inherent within American culture that you have to have lived in America or watched some American show in order to understand it.

But it's usually pretty obvious when it is one of those moments, cuz the Joke just goes right over your head, and they might as well be speaking Swahili for all the benefit you get from it.

An example is the episode from The Simpsons:

[spoiler]where Homer sees an Alien after drinking shit loads of beers at Moe's. Mulder and Scully turn up to investigate, and it ends up being Mr. Burns at the end. Funny scene is where Homer sees a sign saying DIE on it, he screams, and then the wind blows away some foliage that is covering the last letter and the word spells, DIET.

Anyway, he is testifying to Wiggum and he keeps saying something like, "Like Urkel...".[/spoiler]

I never understood what the fuck he was on about there, so just figure it must have been one of those American in joke moments. We must have them all the time in any UK comedy you get over there. I remember VanMan had to ask a few questions on the gags in The Young Ones...

[Riff Addict]

Originally Posted by mondola

I don't tend to have to much trouble understanding the shows. The only time I am going is when the punchline of a joke refers to something inherent within American culture that you have to have lived in America or watched some American show in order to understand it.

But it's usually pretty obvious when it is one of those moments, cuz the Joke just goes right over your head, and they might as well be speaking Swahili for all the benefit you get from it.

An example is the episode from The Simpsons:

[spoiler]where Homer sees an Alien after drinking shit loads of beers at Moe's. Mulder and Scully turn up to investigate, and it ends up being Mr. Burns at the end. Funny scene is where Homer sees a sign saying DIE on it, he screams, and then the wind blows away some foliage that is covering the last letter and the word spells, DIET.

Anyway, he is testifying to Wiggum and he keeps saying something like, "Like Urkel...".[/spoiler]

I never understood what the fuck he was on about there, so just figure it must have been one of those American in joke moments. We must have them all the time in any UK comedy you get over there. I remember VanMan had to ask a few questions on the gags in The Young Ones...

There was a nerdy kid on a popular TV show from the 80's who's name was Erkel. Maybe that's what he was referring to?

[Mondy]

Originally Posted by Riff Addict

There was a nerdy kid on a popular TV show from the 80's who's name was Erkel. Maybe that's what he was referring to?

Now would be an aprropriate time for me to ask eric for a "that-went-right-over-the-top-of-my-head" smiley...

[Riff Addict]

Originally Posted by mondola

Now would be an aprropriate time for me to ask eric for a "that-went-right-over-the-top-of-my-head" smiley...

Steve Erkel:

[Riff Addict]

Anyone in London live near where this 80's movie was filmed? I Love this movie: