View Full Version : british people- I need your help!
Hooahguy
06-11-2010, 19:18
ok so for anyone who has been following my AAR, i draw on British customs and practices for my jokes that i include. but because i am not british myself, i know very little about british culture.
now heres my problem:
there is only so much that i can get from monty python and blackadder, and google only goes so far. so i need people who are from britian or know a lot about british culture to please send me some little known or quirky facts/customs.
any help will be much appreciated!
seireikhaan
06-11-2010, 20:27
Cheese rolling.
Hooahguy
06-11-2010, 20:40
Cheese rolling.
already got that. :book:
Crazed Rabbit
06-11-2010, 20:41
Dwile flonking.
CR
Veho Nex
06-11-2010, 20:46
Dwile flonking.
CR
I thought they couldn't do that any more? I remember reading an article about it getting banned because of some uptight politician/
The British Class system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DUsGSMwZY)
Hooahguy
06-11-2010, 20:48
Dwile flonking.
CR
now THAT is something i can use!
thanks CR!
Spartan198
06-11-2010, 21:07
What's dwile flonking?
IncubusDragon
06-11-2010, 21:23
What's dwile flonking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kxQ-osmKQ&feature=related
Rhyfelwyr
06-11-2010, 22:48
Is this for the Casse AAR in your sig?
Centurion1
06-11-2010, 23:06
Understatement.......
gaelic cowboy
06-11-2010, 23:09
What sort of british people are ye when an Irish man has to tell ye TEA TEA TEA
Hooahguy
06-11-2010, 23:26
Is this for the Casse AAR in your sig?
yes it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kxQ-osmKQ&feature=related
This seems like something I'd play in college when I'm really really really hammered.
InsaneApache
06-12-2010, 10:01
Depends which part of Britain you're looking for. Remember there are three nations and one province. For the sake of arguement I'll assume (since your a yank) that you probably mean English.
My, my, where to start.
Bowler hats, that's derbys to you. Google John Steed for the look.
Not being a southern poofty I'll throw in some northern customs.
Pie and peas. Black pudding (bludwurst). Black peas. Yorkshire pudding. Real Ale (not that weak as nats piss southern pop they sell darn sarf) Cricket at Headingly. Rugby League. Cricket at Old Trafford. Football (soccer) Dominoes. Darts. Parkin. Meat puddings. Flat caps and whippets (stereotype)
Accents.
Yorkshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmKmkhF3Vo
Manchester. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqbypui6tc&feature=related
Scouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vxN9vP3mg
Geordie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHHbfY6MVc
Si thee.
Shieldmaiden
06-12-2010, 12:55
What sort of british people are ye when an Irish man has to tell ye TEA TEA TEA
Fightin' teh Irish! :idea2:
But yeah tea, as in drinking and afternoon tea. Fancy a scone?
Banquo's Ghost
06-12-2010, 13:25
But yeah tea, as in drinking and afternoon tea. Fancy a scone?
The endless argument about how to pronounce scone. :wink:
tibilicus
06-12-2010, 13:48
Morris dancing.
What sort of british people are ye when an Irish man has to tell ye TEA TEA TEA The Irish drink more tea per capita than the English. A certain Nietzsche quote comes to mind:
"Be careful when fighting monsters, lest you become one. For when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you."
Not being a southern poofty I'll throw in some northern customs.
Pie and peas. Black pudding (bludwurst). Black peas. Yorkshire pudding. Real Ale (not that weak as nats piss southern pop they sell darn sarf) Cricket at Headingly. Rugby League. Cricket at Old Trafford. Football (soccer) Dominoes. Darts. Parkin. Meat puddings. Flat caps and whippets (stereotype)
Accents.
Yorkshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmKmkhF3Vo
Manchester. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klqbypui6tc&feature=related
Scouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4vxN9vP3mg
Geordie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHHbfY6MVc
Si thee.
:2thumbsup:
gaelic cowboy
06-12-2010, 17:33
I have checked it on a few websites and the claim for tea is that per capita is about 2.3kg per person in UK and 1.5kg per person in Ireland. Our consumption is down mainly because the Irish drink about 13.5L of alcohol per person where UK only gets through 11.2L only France and Luxemburg beat the Irish on alcohol consumption.
I have a suspicion the statistic may be old though even though they claim to be current there amazingly similar to the 2004 statistics on wikipedia
Rhyfelwyr
06-12-2010, 17:40
Remember to apologise when someone steps on your toes.
I honestly can't remember where I got the statistic from, so I'm probably wrong :shrug:
gaelic cowboy
06-12-2010, 22:25
@Subotan
I did a bit more rooting and it seems that no one really knows who drinks the most tea. Ireland tops Britain in caffeine from tea which most likely means Ireland drinks stronger tea, hence the anecdote of Ireland drinking more tea likely comes from the fact you can drink more cups from the same amount of tea.
Ireland (127 mg of caffeine from tea per day!)
Kuwait (112 mg)
United Kingdom (96 mg)
So yes Ireland does indeed drink more tea than UK which means an entire pillar of your society has crumbled no wonder ye lost the empire. :beam:
Louis VI the Fat
06-12-2010, 23:19
English - a love for such middle class pastimes as: costume drama, gardening, China with flower patterns, colourful wallpaper, local history, walks in the countryside, watching quaint music festivals in the Royal Albert Hall or some military tattoo.
It's all rather lovely, quite endearing to behold. Dreams of a little Hobbitshire.
InsaneApache
06-13-2010, 01:17
There again you could think of morris dancers, pissed up and wanting to batter anyone not as 'morris' as them.
@Subotan
I did a bit more rooting and it seems that no one really knows who drinks the most tea. Ireland tops Britain in caffeine from tea which most likely means Ireland drinks stronger tea, hence the anecdote of Ireland drinking more tea likely comes from the fact you can drink more cups from the same amount of tea.
Ireland (127 mg of caffeine from tea per day!)
Kuwait (112 mg)
United Kingdom (96 mg)
So yes Ireland does indeed drink more tea than UK which means an entire pillar of your society has crumbled no wonder ye lost the empire. :beam:
Excellent. Seeing as I'm half Irish, my traitorous activities have undermined my adopted civilisation! Mwahaha
seireikhaan
06-13-2010, 17:51
The British soccer/football team demands a joke be made in their honor.
InsaneApache
06-13-2010, 18:43
One of the advantages that we British have is the knowledge that the British don't have a football team. Not soccer anyroad. :laugh4:
Philippus Flavius Homovallumus
06-14-2010, 20:37
English - a love for such middle class pastimes as: costume drama, gardening, China with flower patterns, colourful wallpaper, local history, walks in the countryside, watching quaint music festivals in the Royal Albert Hall or some military tattoo.
It's all rather lovely, quite endearing to behold. Dreams of a little Hobbitshire.
Beating up the French and making fun of them for being wusses.
Hooahguy
06-16-2010, 20:41
thank ya'll for the input. for those interested, the latest chapter of my AAR is up: click here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?127373-Casey-the-Casse-a-%28humorous%29-Casse-AAR&p=2507702&viewfull=1#post2507702).
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Justiciar
06-16-2010, 20:42
Beating up the French and making fun of them for being wusses.
Or alternatively, having our arses handed to us by the French, and then doggedly ignoring the fact.
I wish we had a British football team.
Theyre serios about the queen. So a alternative to "Yo mama so fat" or "yo mama so black" jokes is "yo queen so fat/black". Trust me on this one.
emotion_name
07-09-2010, 11:02
Theyre serios about the queen. So a alternative to "Yo mama so fat" or "yo mama so black" jokes is "yo queen so fat/black". Trust me on this one.
Hmmm, not really! Infact, we Brits rip the **** out of all the royal family, regularly! Harry for being a pot smoking Nazi dresser, William for using RAF Helicopters to fly his mates to parties, Charles for not being King yet (and prob gonna die before his mother and not get chance either), Andrew for his laziness and amount he uses taxpayers money for flying to golf, Phillip for his rascism and amount of puns he makes!
Why has no-one mentioned moaning? British people can moan about absolutely ANYTHING, and moan better than all others!
Multi-culturism! The horrible "New Labour" buzzword that means, to most people "lack of identity or sense of community"!
What about how we love a good ole scrap, and im not talking about pulling a gun or a knife and there you go, im talking about we literally enjoy throwing and taking punches. Look at terrorist attacks in Glasgow, the terrorist got out of his car, on fire, and the first thing that some Scottish guy did to him was floor him with a punch!
What about how we contribute more than any other G8 country to Africa and other places where help is needed?
Binge drinking, we were topping Europe for Women, Men and even Teenagers at one point, and this was alongside highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe also! Obvious what the kids are doing these days, and its not the PS3, its little suzie from next door!
Another thing that is ripe in discussion all over UK is our troops, and the friendly fire incidents, and especially Matty Hull and the handling his widow received from both US defense and MoD. Iraq and especially Afghanistan are driving our culture, as we see generations growing up thinking that war is "normal".
Cant be bothered thinking of anymore right now, might swing by again when i do, thats if ya still need anymore!
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