11-16-2011, 02:39 AM
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Failed Birthday Elf
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: London
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If there is one thing I can say with confidence about Britain it is that we like having several and/or confusing names for our country/countries/ flag/flags.
We still have the best looking flag in my opinion though!  PROTIP: I found a good way to tell if someone is actually British the other day. I downloaded a podcast hosted by an American guy with an American accent who, when talking about Britain said "I'm actually a Brit myself". That sentence is an oxymoron as using the word "Brit" is cast iron proof that the user is not British. It is like me saying "actually I am a USAian", no American would say that. There may be many names for the British, but we get to make them up, our language, our rules!
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11-16-2011, 10:32 AM
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Stalker of Britain
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Missouri, US
Posts: 4,535
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...England, how I love you...<3
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"And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes |
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11-16-2011, 11:09 AM
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Playing character
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Wait until you've been there. You will be sad you can't marry it
 .Lame joke, I know... but do you know this song by Kate Bush? Last edited by tsa; 11-16-2011 at 11:17 AM. |
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11-16-2011, 11:19 AM
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Stalker of Britain
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Missouri, US
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Hey, my family always jokes that I'll be happy even if I'm getting my money robbed from me...as long as he speaks in an English accent.
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"And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes |
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11-16-2011, 11:28 AM
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Filmfreak
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Belgium
Posts: 1,049
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Are you trying to take credit away from the Poles? [/end]
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11-17-2011, 02:00 AM
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Failed Birthday Elf
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: London
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However, refusal to acknowledge other ancestry, whether Saxon or even Celtic is a mark of the true Englishman I would say! Another point of note is that when you hear well spoken and well off British people speaking about "Britain", what they actually mean is "England", and by England they actually mean London and the Home Counties, and by London and the Home Counties, they actually mean the posher parts of West London and the surrounding counties. Living on the east side of London rules me firmly out of being Posh, well spoken or well off! Although for the reassurance of any Americans, I can confirm this means I speak like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, regularly see the Queen and know all of your relatives from Lands End to John O'Groats!
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11-17-2011, 05:56 AM
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Life and times of...
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Up there in the mist
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How many people actually speak in the kind of country style you hear in all those daytime dramas set in a small village, or better yet, a village hospital in the English countryside (or generally in lower middle class settings)?
You know, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks (that's a show, right? Never seen it, so I guess I can't say if they speak like that), dozens of the aforementioned hospital shows. (Those are all shows that run/have run in Finland) 'Cause, no offence (in case someone here speaks like that), but man, that's awful to listen to  (so good thing I couldn't stand to watch those shows anyways)
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11-17-2011, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
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I also love the way many older women end every senteces (they address someone else) with luv'. It makes you feel so.....loved. 
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11-17-2011, 09:40 AM
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Failed Birthday Elf
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: London
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The range of accents in England (let alone Britain) is almost ridiculous, with accent/dialect/pronunciation changing sometimes almost beyond recognition from one town to the next! And I don't mean slight variations (which there are even more of) but massively different! So when you say "a lot" of people this is somewhat difficult to calculate. For instance, the cities of Liverpool and Manchester are pretty much next door to each other (maybe 30 miles from one city centre to the other) but the accents are really different.
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11-17-2011, 05:53 PM
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Creepy Father Figure
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Texas Dammit!
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I hate when I'm gone and have to play catchup.(Insert joke here)
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11-18-2011, 07:27 AM
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Stalker of Britain
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Missouri, US
Posts: 4,535
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I'm feeling a bit Myst-y lately...time to pull out the old favorites, and the books to go along with it. <3
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"And everyone's favourite anglophile, Fantasy!"-Intense Favorite Adventure Games-Lost Crown/Dark Fall 1&2, Longest Journey games, Myst games, Barrow Hill Favorite Other Games-King's Bounty, Sims 2, Fable, Disciples 2 Gold Currently Playing-Trine 2 Games I Want-Kings Bounty: Warriors of the North!!!, Asylum, Last Crown, Braken Tor, Testament of Sherlock Holmes Last edited by Fantasysci5; 11-18-2011 at 07:34 AM. |
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11-18-2011, 02:31 PM
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The Thread™ will die.
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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I completely missed the birthday well-wishes on here. Thanks people, and sorry for being so late in spotting them.
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11-19-2011, 05:40 AM
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Creepy Father Figure
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Texas Dammit!
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(Insert overused pun here)
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