Edgar Allen Ho posted:

spag bol sounds like a derogatory nickname for a bad dick pic.

Shibawanko posted:

the british have an odd obsession with "mums" that other nations do not have to the same extent

thetoughestbean posted:

The brits call people named Jeremy “Jezza”, it’s just… it’s just not right

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Theresa May's sex appeal to the common briton is something that simultaneously does and doesn't shock me. I've got no ground to stand on in mocking foreigners, but nevertheless, fix your weird island you queen-fuckers.

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

If it has sausage in it, do you say "banger my spag bol!"? Or is it just "bang me spag bol"? It certainly sounds like an opening scene of porn: "Banger me spag bol and spot me dick, mum!".

(It's clear all I know came from movies.)

alexandriao posted:

90% of the media you get about British people is actually just about English people.

The only media that anyone outside of Wales (actually, often including Welsh media) protrays like 3 or 4 racial stereotypes of Welsh folks or is just literally no different from English folks. Despite like an entirely different history and centuries of repression and a reasonably large cultural gap.

It just pisses me off subtly.

JollyBoyJohn posted:

I feel lucky to be born in Scotland, it's probably in the top 5 countries to be from in the world and tbh if we legalised weed it'd be number 1 with a bullet

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Eagerly awaiting the EU's newest member state the Scottish Republic

3D Megadoodoo posted:

English people fighting with other English people is always so loving dreary. "OOH OOH YOU CALL A STICK A WOODY-LONGY AND DO PEDOPHILIA!" "OH WELL YOU ARE DONALD TRUMP IN PERSON!' meanwhile they are exactly the same to real people.

doverhog posted:

The difference between Scotland and England is kinda like the same between Finland and Sweden

Josef bugman posted:

You don't put sausage into spag bol. The only time I've heard bangers used sincerely is "bangers and mash" and that isn't really common.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Wales-erasure always seemed weird to me. The direct heir is called the Prince of Wales but Wales doesn't even get to be in the flag?

Charles Lamb posted:

The Triumph Of The Whale


Io! Paean! Io! sing
To the funny people's King.
Not a mightier whale than this
In the vast Atlantic is;
Not a fatter fish than he
Flounders round the polar sea.
See his blubbers--at his gills
What a world of drink he swills,
From his trunk, as from a spout,
Which next moment he pours out.
Such his person--next declare,
Muse, who his companions are.--
Every fish of generous kind
Scuds aside, or slinks behind;
But about his presence keep
All the Monsters of the Deep;
Mermaids, with their tails and singing
His delighted fancy stinging;
Crooked Dolphins, they surround him,
Dog-like Seals, they fawn around him.
Following hard, the progress mark
Of the intolerant salt sea shark.
For his solace and relief,
Flat fish are his courtiers chief.
Last and lowest in his train,
Ink-fish (libellers of the main)
Their black liquor shed in spite:
(Such on earth the things _that write_.)
In his stomach, some do say,
No good thing can ever stay.
Had it been the fortune of it
To have swallowed that old Prophet,
Three days there he'd not have dwell'd,
But in one have been expell'd.
Hapless mariners are they,
Who beguil'd (as seamen say),
Deeming him some rock or island,
Footing sure, safe spot, and dry land,
Anchor in his scaly rind;
Soon the difference they find;
Sudden plumb, he sinks beneath them;
Does to ruthless seas bequeath them.


Name or title what has he?
Is he Regent of the Sea?
From this difficulty free us,
Buffon, Banks or sage Linnaeus.
With his wondrous attributes
Say what appellation suits.
By his bulk, and by his size,
By his oily qualities,
This (or else my eyesight fails),
This should be the PRINCE OF WHALES.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Wales-erasure always seemed weird to me. The direct heir is called the Prince of Wales but Wales doesn't even get to be in the flag?

Eagerly awaiting the EU's newest member state the Scottish Republic

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

But no sausage with spaghetti?

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

Thank you for answering without foaming at the mouth. I was kinda actually curious. But no sausage with spaghetti?

Bangers and mash might now be just an American idea of an Irish thing. The Irish pub two blocks away doesn't have it, just shepherd's pie, but there's a pub 2mi away / 6min that has both.

Tiggum posted:

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

"Bang on food".

Guyver posted:

Oh no how will we ever know about dirt farmers and petty tyrants.

Guyver posted:

Oh no how will we ever know about dirt farmers and petty tyrants.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

We use satellite images of the USA.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

That’s not fair. The dirt thing was fixed in dubya dubya 2. It grows corn and soy now. You can even have some for a very modest price. Would you also perhaps like an F-35 or a few thousand MANPADS?

Guyver posted:

Nothing of value to current human society was lost with the burning of Alexandra or any other ancient library.

Oh no the birth records of some kingdom are gone forever. Oh no we'll never know about that one empire that got genocided by the hittites that no one but some monk gave a poo poo about. Thousands of epic tales that were some variation of the gods did something and man hosed it up are no more.

Guyver posted:

Nothing of value to current human society was lost with the burning of Alexandra or any other ancient library.

Oh no the birth records of some kingdom are gone forever. Oh no we'll never know about that one empire that got genocided by the hittites that no one but some monk gave a poo poo about. Thousands of epic tales that were some variation of the gods did something and man hosed it up are no more.

Gaius Marius posted:

Eat poo poo. Ancient history is cool

Shibawanko posted:

id trade the entirety of post-2000 culture

Gaius Marius posted:

Eat poo poo. Ancient history is cool