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    Quote Originally Posted by English assassin View Post
    And a completely infallable test: if someone treads on your toe, do YOU apologise?
    Oh my God - I am British.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    Oh my God - I am British.

    This is like a mid life crisis. At 18.
    Oh dear, just go have another Fosters.

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    And a completely infallable test: if someone treads on your toe, do YOU apologise?

    Of course! how unreasonable for my foot to have been in this persons way and given them an uneven walking surface
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    Oh my God - I am British.
    No, this reaction is entirely English. A Scot, for example, would respond with a Glasgow kiss.

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    a) yikes!
    b) I puff them all the time.
    An understandable mistake for a foreigner, but the answers to this question do not indicate a gentleman but a person of trade.

    The correct response for a gentleman is:

    c) I used to have them, but now I have a butler

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    The correct response for a gentleman is:

    c) I used to have them, but now I have a butler
    That could be taken several ways Banquo
    When did you last have your butler and was it satisfying ?

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    You're beginning to remind me of Flashman BQ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman View Post
    That could be taken several ways Banquo
    When did you last have your butler and was it satisfying ?
    The double entendre was entirely intentional, old fruit. And there's only one way to take one's butler, but postillions are more flexible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    The double entendre was entirely intentional, old fruit. And there's only one way to take one's butler, but postillions are more flexible.
    Everyone knows that poms only call people Old Bean. I question your Britishness!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    Everyone knows that poms only call people Old Bean. I question your Britishness!
    And I for one, sir, believe that you are mistaken...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    No, this reaction is entirely English. A Scot, for example, would respond with a Glasgow kiss.
    I can assure you that is not true. You would only get a Glasgow kiss if there was a pack of neds (chavs), since they always have to outnumber you at least 5 to 1. Plus most people (including me) say sorry. In fact both people in the incident would say sorry as a natural reaction.

    I am very Scottish. All Scottish family tree, a teuchter parent so I roll my r's, with a part Northern Irish side of the family that originally came from Govan. I'm some sort of Calvinist stereotype. Even in my personality. I am dull, stoic, and manage to avoid having fun, and tell myself off when I do. And I support Rangers as well as my local team, in the Scottish tradition.
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