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Favourite British Quirk
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You take that back right now, marmite on crumpets is the best.
As a Welsh dude, it's ta ra, or if your shouting at someone as they're leaving it's traaaa. I also think it's also a northern English thing because Cilla Black used to say it a lot, and I've heard it used a lot in different regions.
I work in a Welsh town that's known for using the word "cont" towards everyone in all situations. The English translation is Cunt.
Examples, "Iawn cont" translates into, "Are you ok cunt."
Another example," Ty weld y cont dros y strydd? Mae cont gwirion yn mynd allan hevor mam chi."
Translation, "You see that cunt across the street? That stupid cunt is going out with your mum."
It's crazy how often the word is used and its only used regularly if you are from that area.
Wut. So you can boil enough water to make tea for all the people who have just turned up at once, or so you can boil water for cooking and make a cuppa at the same time, or because it's inadvisable to put your teapot in one.
Or not even trying. Like people who call a baguette a 'French stick'.
I've actually been mocked as a grown ass man for pronouncing croissant correctly
Hey that's not unique to Britain at all. It's been a thing in Oslo for ages. I don't know about other places in Europe, but in inner city Oslo it's super common.
It's harder to spread jam on clotted cream.Why would someone put jam first?
The Lunch/ Dinner / Tea confusion, example having lunch at dinner time and dinner at teat time. etc
Not so much a thing anymore what with the advent of the internet, but leaving porn under hedgerows for other people to find? It was bizarrely ubiquitous when I was younger.
I don't think that's uniquely British.
Taught me to climb a drainpipe and balcony edges on more than one occasion lol.
Electric kettles are up to 3000w whereas microwaves are usually only 800w.
I've also met quite a few people who don't have a microwave!
Memory etched into my brain from a teen is being on holiday in France and another (English) tourist being in the queue in front at a bakery, asking for a "choc-lit croy-sunt".
I didn't have a microwave for a decade. I couldn't survive without a kettle though.
also leaving porn at the back of the top deck of a bus
Ah, the area reserved exclusively for the final-years on the school run.
either way, I don't understand it, why go through the trouble of picking it up and leave it hanging on a tree? Just leave the shit there if you can't be bothered
I'll take them for sure. Never drink the remainder though. Soups are bundled into that mantra. Only decent when you have a load of bread and butter to use them as an accessory for lol.
Haha yes,
Speaking of school kids, isn't the complete disregard for school property another British thing? When i was in school anything not nailed down was either destroyed, stolen or thrown across the classroom. But then again my school was fairly awful.
Yes. Has to be thick like that, none of this thin sliced crap!
Likely lol. Me and a friend when in the younger years had fun with the acrylic paint bottles in art class. Satisfying fart sounds when squeezed. We used to refer to it as "Bessy the paint cow" and, no joke, flushed tens and tens of paint bottles down the sink over the course of the year when the teacher wasn't looking. Would occasionally get blocked (who would have thought?) and the teacher would then unclog it and whew.. that was some vile stuff. Murky brown-turquoise sludge.
Whenever a window was open in History – on the fourth floor of the building – people used to take it in turns to lug stationary out the window when the teacher was looking at the board. Came to a stop when someone tried a stapler and cracked the window mind.
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I feel scandalised just looking at those.
yeah, West Midlands thing too. "ta-ra-a bit" is the variation here.
Jam has no business being on a scone at all, never mind with something else. I eat them dry.
Eating what we call a pattie (Battered mashed potato, sage and onion) along with chips in a sandwich/breadcake. I have an American friend who couldn't get his head around why we don't just eat the chips (aka fries) on their own.
It's cold and we're Northern was my response (And it's damn good).
It's cold and we're Northern was my response (And it's damn good).
People calling other people duck as a a term of endearment. It's extremely common where I'm from in the Midlands but dunno if its just us. I dont use it, for some reason its never crept into my language, but I do find it endearing when I hear it.
Also, I love all the reasons we make people a brew for.
As a polite gesture
If someone is upset/stressed out
If someone is working
If you're having a good chat
If its your turn
Can't go wrong with a cuppa.
Also, I love all the reasons we make people a brew for.
As a polite gesture
If someone is upset/stressed out
If someone is working
If you're having a good chat
If its your turn
Can't go wrong with a cuppa.