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Jonathan Yeah! posted:What's "hippy crack"? Nitrous? Yep
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dog days are over posted:'Home of the page 3 girl' = Page 3 traditionally has a large picture of a woman with her norks out, because y'know why not
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Jul 28, 2015 12:27
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I must admit I did quite enjoy the "We've decided to scrap Page 3... NOT!" thing from earlier in the year. I thought it was funny how it played out.
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Jul 28, 2015 12:53
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And yet I bet most Americans still subconsciously think that Brits are inherently classier and more sophisticated than we are. (This is why y'all are the villains in every Hollywood movie.)
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Jul 28, 2015 14:30
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Anywhere but Grozny is probably better and "classier" than the US
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Jul 28, 2015 14:38
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Kumaton posted:Oh, wow, I live in that county. I thought nothing cool ever happened here. You were right! No one cool lives there, either!
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pookel posted:And yet I bet most Americans still subconsciously think that Brits are inherently classier and more sophisticated than we are. (This is why y'all are the villains in every Hollywood movie.) There was a study a while back that found Americans tend to think that the British are more intelligent and refined than them. It correlated strongly with exposure to British people: the more they knew the less they believed it.
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Jul 29, 2015 05:59
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Is that the print version of the onion?
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Jul 29, 2015 06:12
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Reminds me somewhat of my Alma mater's pseudo-newspaper
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Killer robot posted:There was a study a while back that found Americans tend to think that the British are more intelligent and refined than them. It correlated strongly with exposure to British people: the more they knew the less they believed it. That was actually one of the causes of the American Revolution- during the French and Indian War, you had thousands of British troops encamped in the colonies. The rank and file were drunken, uneducated slobs picked up from the slums of London and the like, and commanded by aristocratic assholes who disciplined by flogging. The whole thing was such a cultural shock to colonial citizens that they began to stop thinking of themselves as British.
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Jul 29, 2015 12:45
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Kavak posted:That was actually one of the causes of the American Revolution- during the French and Indian War, you had thousands of British troops encamped in the colonies. The rank and file were drunken, uneducated slobs picked up from the slums of London and the like, and commanded by aristocratic assholes who disciplined by flogging. The whole thing was such a cultural shock to colonial citizens that they began to stop thinking of themselves as British. Thanks to Wellington, who was a big proponent of buying commissions, that didn't change much for a long rear end time. Maybe the flogging, which they probably called floggy-wogg or some poo poo
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Cacafuego posted:Thanks to Wellington, who was a big proponent of buying commissions, that didn't change much for a long rear end time. Maybe the flogging, which they probably called floggy-wogg or some poo poo I know it's apocryphal but "rum buggery and the lash" really sum things up for the English military. And this is coming from a someone who got all wet in the eyes during the scene in Amistad where the English captain or admiral ordered the slaver fort lit the gently caress up.
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Jul 29, 2015 18:21
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Cacafuego posted:Thanks to Wellington, who was a big proponent of buying commissions, that didn't change much for a long rear end time. Maybe the flogging, which they probably called floggy-wogg or some poo poo Stephen Fry's portrayal of Wellington in Blackadder 3 is probably the most accurate representation we've had. 
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Kavak posted:That was actually one of the causes of the American Revolution- during the French and Indian War, you had thousands of British troops encamped in the colonies. The rank and file were drunken, uneducated slobs picked up from the slums of London and the like, and commanded by aristocratic assholes who disciplined by flogging. The whole thing was such a cultural shock to colonial citizens that they began to stop thinking of themselves as British. It's something to do with the climate I think. We're mostly quiet at home apart from a tendency to think drinking ten pints and starting a fight is a good night out, but as soon as we leave the coastline there's a kind of moral degeneracy that sets in immediately. See: America; Cromwell's adventures in Ireland; stags in Prague; all football supporters between 18 and 45; expats in Spain eating fried breakfasts; the whole Empire thing. It's a bit embarrassing really, waking up hungover and realising you enslaved and genocided another South Asian territory last night. Blow up the chunnel, blockade all non-commercial shipping and keep us as a zoo for the tourists. It'd be a kindness really.
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darkwasthenight posted:Blow up the chunnel, blockade all non-commercial shipping and keep Nigel Farage goes Full Breitbart.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqD_1TFhJdw
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that's his name you loving racist
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Man with zipper down to cops: ‘There is no doubt that I am impaired’ A "Florida" Man strikes again doing more amazing things.
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Jul 31, 2015 15:16
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Some pretty, erm, interesting pictures in this article.
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Jul 31, 2015 15:24
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drgnwr1 posted:Man with zipper down to cops: ‘There is no doubt that I am impaired’ quote:started speeding in reverse, which is the opposite of forward ooooookay?
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Westie posted:ooooookay? Some top notch writing in the article.
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Man breaks tooth on over-crisped rasher, suesquote:A MAN who broke a tooth after he ate a rasher he described as being “hard like a brick” from a Swords restaurant has been awarded €4,250 at a civil sitting of Swords District Court.
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East Texas Man Shot After Bullet Ricochets Off Armadilloquote:The Cass County Sheriff’s Department is investigating “a possible accidental shooting that happened just before 3 a.m., Thursday in the 27,000 block of Highway 77. The man involved told deputies he was shooting at an armadillo and the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the head,” according to KRTE. Cass County is located just south of Texarkana.
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I swear I read about another incident like that within the past 6 months. People just love to shoot at one of the few naturally armored animals, I guess.
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I saw the word "rasher" and without ever having heard it before or even knowing what it was, I knew it must be British.
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Das Boo posted:I saw the word "rasher" and without ever having heard it before or even knowing what it was, I knew it must be British. Wait, so it's bacon? Insert joke about Brits having lovely teeth here.
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Das Boo posted:I saw the word "rasher" and without ever having heard it before or even knowing what it was, I knew it must be British. You don't use the word "rasher" ? Then what do you call a rasher of bacon ?
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Istari posted:You don't use the word "rasher" ? Then what do you call a rasher of bacon ? Just called a "strip" in the US.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I swear I read about another incident like that within the past 6 months. People just love to shoot at one of the few naturally armored animals, I guess. Happens a couple times a year in Texas. I swear I'm not joking. Once the bullet ricocheted and hit a mother in law.
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That sounds like a cover-up for attempted murder, honestly.
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Aug 2, 2015 02:05
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The preferable nomenclature in the US is "Bacon me, BITCH!"
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Istari posted:You don't use the word "rasher" ? Then what do you call a rasher of bacon ? Google tells me we evidently only eat "streaky" bacon in the US. But yeah, what Killer robot said about calling them "strips."
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I always thought "rasher" meant the whole package of bacon, for some reason. I would just say "a piece of bacon," normally. "Strip" works too.
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