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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:35 am
by Earwicker_Archive
Without going into the details (largely because I do not possess them) this H'angus, immediately after being voted in as Mayor became a serious joe and apparently has been doing a very fine job of it.
Giving bananas to school children sounds like a far better idea to me than let's hand the health service and the education system over to the private sector.
Maybe that's just cause I'm from near Hartlepool.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:36 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
I'd rather have a monkey mayor than an ex-pig-dodgy-bastard.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:37 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Chapter Two wrote:I'd rather have a monkey mayor than an ex-pig-dodgy-bastard.
Is Robocop Ray Mallon still in charge like?
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:53 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
chairman_hall wrote:Chapter Two wrote:I'd rather have a monkey mayor than an ex-pig-dodgy-bastard.
Is Robocop Ray Mallon still in charge like?
Yes he is.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:14 pm
by chairman_hall_Archive
Chapter Two wrote:chairman_hall wrote:Chapter Two wrote:I'd rather have a monkey mayor than an ex-pig-dodgy-bastard.
Is Robocop Ray Mallon still in charge like?
Yes he is.
Shocking, he's a right rotter. I remember his manifesto being all this zero tolerance and tough on crime hogwash. And then about 6 months after he came to power there were all them corruption scandals about him. To be honest, i though that would have been the end of him, but it must be a good few years he has been mayor now.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:30 pm
by Chapter Two_Archive
chairman_hall wrote:Chapter Two wrote:chairman_hall wrote:Chapter Two wrote:I'd rather have a monkey mayor than an ex-pig-dodgy-bastard.
Is Robocop Ray Mallon still in charge like?
Yes he is.
Shocking, he's a right rotter. I remember his manifesto being all this zero tolerance and tough on crime hogwash. And then about 6 months after he came to power there were all them corruption scandals about him. To be honest, i though that would have been the end of him, but it must be a good few years he has been mayor now.
That's the masons for you.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:35 pm
by mrdfnle_Archive
I met a guy. He was called Kevin. Dont know where he was from but he was from over there he kept telling me " Now get on the other side." He was waiting for someone or something.
Is this code?
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:37 pm
by Chapter Two_Archive
mrdfnle wrote:I met a guy. He was called Kevin. Dont know where he was from but he was from over there he kept telling me " Now get on the other side." He was waiting for someone or something.
Is this code?
That's the masons for you.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:26 pm
by night_tools_Archive
Chapter Two wrote:
That there town was Hartlepool, just up the road from me, northernmost town of the ancient county of Cleveland. If you are cheeky you might say to a Hartlepoolian, "who hung the monkey?" Although if you're from Middlesbrough you may get the reply, "Who fucked the kids?"
Salut! John - if I'd been drinking milk just now it would have been all over the monitor!
re: "Bugger me gently" - I suppose the opposite would be the Australian exclamation "Fuck me dead!"
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:41 pm
by Lemuel Gulliver_Archive
I'm sure it's mentioned above, but "shed-yule" for schedule always blows my mind. Do brits pass over the "C" in 'scale.' What about the "K" sound in 'cough'?
Different strokes.