Ask a British Person.......

[Artimus]

Also, if it's all one Great Britain, why is there such dislike for the English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh?

Personally, I think it's all overblown BS. I've got family in Scotland. The ties that bind us are as strong as they've ever been in my opinion. The SNP may scream all it wants about independence, but the people themselves will always vote to remain united.

A little rivalry between the home nations doesn't hurt. Kinda like the whole California - New York thing.

 

[gunslingingbird]

I suppose for the same reason that I hate people from Idaho, Delaware and Nebraska.

Is it Idaho, or Udaho?

 

[senob44]

Is it Idaho, or Udaho?

Idaho, Udacustomer.

 

[dave_rhino]

Why do Brits say "holiday" instead of saying "vacation"?

Why do Americans say "vacation" instead of "holiday"?


Probably shouldn't bother questioning us on our language. After all, it's called "English"... We started it, and then Americans fucked it up.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Why do Americans say "vacation" instead of "holiday"?


Probably shouldn't bother questioning us on our language. After all, it's called "English"... We started it, and then Americans fucked it up.

Um... I think that's what the point of the thread is. Go back to the first post, and you'll see that that's what the guy who opened the thread had in mind.

 

[dave_rhino]

I understand if people wanna question our slang, but question the actual spelling :

Why do British people add extra letters at the end of words? Shoppe instead of shop, programme instead of program, etc.

We didn't add random letters, you took them away.

 

[senob44]

We didn't add random letters, you took them away.

Not only that, but we send the unused letters back, embedded in beef shipments.

And why do we do that, you ask? Here it comes!!!!!

To make you eat your words! :rofl: :rofl2: :1orglaugh


But seriously, Dave has a point, the spellings were one way, then Americans changed them for their own convenience. It's not like the Brits added any letters at all.

 

[dave_rhino]

Not only that, but we send the unused letters back, embedded in beef shipments.

And why do we do that, you ask? Here it comes!!!!!

To make you eat your words! :rofl: :rofl2: :1orglaugh

I bet you got all excited when you thought of that one haha :tongue:

 

[senob44]

I bet you got all excited when you thought of that one haha :tongue:

Sometimes when I think I've got a real good one cooked up, it nearly brings me to a humorgasm. Of course, the original British spelling for that term was "humorgasmme".

 

[Fresno]

Bloody hell mates this a bloody good thread.

 

[dave_rhino]

Spiffing, indeed.

 

[loverofboob]

Will any of you be celebrating the Fourth of July with the no good rebels?

 

[Member2019]

Will any of you be celebrating the Fourth of July with the no good rebels?

Who says you Brits didn't let us think we rebelled when it was your master plan?
To push English on everyone, while we take the blame for it?

 

[loverofboob]

Who says you Brits didn't let us think we rebelled when it was your master plan?
To push English on everyone, while we take the blame for it?

I'm American too,I'm asking them

(not really seriously though)

 

[gunslingingbird]

Not really. Just by some. If America is the land of the free, why do your blacks, latinos, and immigrants get treated like second class citizens? Yeah.

I wasn't talking about equal rights. I meant, why do the Irish dislike the English, the English dislike the Scottish, and so on?

 

[gunslingingbird]

And like I said, why do *some of* the whites dislike the blacks, latinos, immigrants, and vice versa.

It's the exact same thing. There is no real reason for those things, and it's only some dumbasses that still think in those stupid hateful terms. Not the rest of us. The Muslim-nonmuslim tension is probably the biggest issue in England right now. The Scots-Irish-English-Welsh thing is near nonexistant these days. BTW North-South traditionally can't stand each other either, and even Manchester-Liverpool, Manchester-Leeds, Newcastle-Sunderland, Oxford-Cambridge, and so on, traditionally can't stand each other.

There's also the sick, omnipresent working class-middle class-upper class bullshit that still reigns supreme - we invented it, we are asses...

I see. I didn't understand that you meant that the dislike of other Britons was comparable to the discrimination of minorities in the US.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Britons! Very good! You are knowledgeable.

Not really. I just went to a British school for about 3 years when I lived in Mexico City. Some of that stuff rubs off. :1orglaugh Of course, when I was 13 and my teachers were marking me down for writing "color," "center," and "pajamas" I hated Brits.

 

[senob44]

You do? There are nice people from Idaho and Nebraska. Anyway, aren't you from Jersey? (joke, I love Jersey)

Nah, I don't hate folks from other states or even countries, that's not the way to go. Just makin' a joke and trying to fire people up a little. lol

 

[jumbo_jim]

How do you (the English) feel about having to be the only ones who are "British" while Welsh and Scots can be Welsh and Scots?

Get what I mean?

That's not a problem for the English. At least they don't get claimed as another British country.
As a British/Scot I have no problem getting called either of those but I do not like being referred to as English.
Many Scot's feel the same. Also we Scot's don't like our celebs/World Class athletes being classed as English.

 

[dave_rhino]

why do the Irish dislike the English, the English dislike the Scottish, and so on?

We don't really dislike them, it's kind of like sibling rivalry.

I might say I hate them, because that's just just the way it is. But I don't really.

I have Scottish and Irish friends and we all take the piss out of each other, but we love doing it.


Wales on the other hand, bah, don't get me started on those sheep-shaggers...