BritSpags, Explain your fucked up language

[Aufenthatt]

I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.

WWI was a family fight that we should have stayed out of.

And we helped in WWII, but we billed our friends for it.  

To start with America sold goods to Germany as well.

And at the start of WW1 the British soldiers all wore German made uniforms, which is slightly better than German maid uniforms, which is what I wrote the first time I tried to convey this information.

[hooplala]

As a double threadjack, they're re-running "Band of Brothers" on HBO, and I am completely floored by what those guys went through, even if some parts took some license.

And while they were doing that, the Nazis took over back home.   

Or should I say Dr VON Scott???

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, they're all dead now, and no one remembers how to fight anymore.

My uncle Bill is still alive (barely).  He sits at home under a pile of blankets and snarls a lot.  I think he keeps a trench knife under those blankets.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.

WWI was a family fight that we should have stayed out of.

And we helped in WWII, but we billed our friends for it.  

To start with America sold goods to Germany as well.

And at the start of WW1 the British soldiers all wore German made uniforms, which is slightly better than German maid uniforms, which is what I wrote the first time I tried to convey this information.

Yes, yes, fuck off.  Seriously.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

(I would point out that The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)

Is Rod Liddle the editor there yet?

Aww, it's gonna be something special, eh?

[BluTakDuck]

just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.

And to be fair, the english language has a lot of bits of random european words mixed in. But it's alright because we owned it all when the language was invented.

And to those who would bring up the argument...YES OF COURSE YOU HELPED IN WWII. YOUR COUNTRY IS 50 TIMES THE FUCKING SIZE. Not to mention that you only helped because you didn't want to have to learn a whole new language if you had lost. You weren't that bothered if we'd have been speaking German. It was the nagging fear that you'd have to learn German if "The Allies" had lost.

[Nast]

I should like to point out that English was never "invented".

[Dysnomia]

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS FOR THE AMERICANSPAGS.


THE REST OF YOU CAN SPAG OFF!

[BluTakDuck]

I should like to point out that English was never "invented".

Of course it was. It was invented by The Queen. Hence the phrase "the queens english"

[NotPublished]

Go back to Russia 

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.

From what I've observed, both Irish and British English speakers have slightly different usage of "bollocks". In Irish English it's used as an insult and a verb, for example, in Father Ted Bishop Brennan once called some one "Ya little bollocks"; and Chief O'Brien (of Star Trek) once referred to something broken as being "bollocksed" (got cut from UK broadcasts) --- although in both cases "bollix" might be the correct spelling. In British English "bollocks" strictly means "testicles" (cf. "the dog's bollocks", "stark-bollock-naked") although it is a commonly used interjection, with "bollocking" meaning "severe reprimand".

"Bollocks" is a great word, and once of these days I'll get the Office American to pronounce it correctly.

[Cain]

(I would point out that The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)

Is Rod Liddle the editor there yet?

Aww, it's gonna be something special, eh?

I can hardly wait.  Xenophobic, tabloid style racism and soft apologism for the BNP is a really under-achieving market in the UK currently.  Its not like there aren't already several other papers devoted to bringing across the exact same viewpoint.  Rod Liddle, while a disagreeable man, will clearly be bringing a fresh view and perspective to the debate...
































 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.

And to be fair, the english language has a lot of bits of random european words mixed in. But it's alright because we owned it all when the language was invented.

And to those who would bring up the argument...YES OF COURSE YOU HELPED IN WWII. YOUR COUNTRY IS 50 TIMES THE FUCKING SIZE. Not to mention that you only helped because you didn't want to have to learn a whole new language if you had lost. You weren't that bothered if we'd have been speaking German. It was the nagging fear that you'd have to learn German if "The Allies" had lost.

I thought about your comment a bit, and the most appropriate response is "fuck you".

[Elder Iptuous]

 
Roger, isn't that essentially correct, though? apart from whatever he's trying to say with the 50 time the size thing?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Roger, isn't that essentially correct, though? apart from whatever he's trying to say with the 50 time the size thing?

No, it's fucking ridiculous.  Germany had precisely ZERO chance of invading America, and everyone at the time knew it...same goes for Japan.  They simply didn't have the population to pull it off.

So it's kind of insulting, you know?  It's intentionally dishonest.  America does plenty of things that you could say horrible shit about and be correct, so naturally a fucked up hippie like BluTakDuck has to extend that to the ONE good thing we ever did, foreign policy-wise.

So fuck him.  In his ear.

TGRR,
Has no time for fashionable psuedo-intellectualism.