Message from your Queen

[Donzo]

Wouldn't New York just go back to York?

I'd be ok with Tulsawick

No, it would go back to New Amsterdam. 

[Xasthur]

Hahaha. I love it! Great thread. Brits definitely have a better sense of humour... AH range channel is much more amusing when you're with a pack of Brits. ahaha

[Rich46yo]

I wouldn't want to find out about that.  Did you come out OK?

Les

I aint stupid, nor do I act in anyway other then a perfect guest when I visit a foreign country. But the first thing they tell you is, "DONT SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE ROYALS".

[Angus]

"5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not ready to shoot grouse. "
 

[mipoikel]

Finally a good thread. This is getting interesting.

[stroker71]

The Queen couldn't screw up the country any more that we did.  We have been ruled by 2 different famlies for the last 28 years...hell put a crown on someones head I don't care.

[hlbly]

"10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion." The only thing that is supposed to be warm brown and lumpy is diarrhea !

[SD67]

Yeah the Brits have funny ideas when it comes to Beer.

[Hangtime]

11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. The Queen has summoned the Geico Gecko to answer for high crimes and misdemeanors regarding incursion on British based Lloyds of London's Insurance treaties in the colonies. All remaining British Expats in the colonies will be expected to return and explain themselves to the Crown for treasonable acts relating to diet, dental work and clothing. 

[Toad]

1. Aluminum

Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish chemist, was the first to produce tiny amounts of aluminum. Two years later, Friedrich Wöhler, a German chemist, developed a different way to obtain the metal. Wöhler's method was improved in 1854 by Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, a French chemist. Then on April 2, 1889, Charles Martin Hall patented an inexpensive method for the production of aluminum, which brought the metal into wide commercial use. Charles Martin Hall had just graduated from Oberlin College (loacated in Oberlin, Ohio) in 1885 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, when he invented his method of manufacturing pure aluminum.

If I ever needed an expert on how to pronounce aluminum I'd first ask a Dane, then a German, then a Frenchman and finally ask the Americans since it was there the metal was brought into wide commercial use.

Not an Englishman in the bunch. 

[Xasthur]

Yeah.... don't bother asking the ENGLISH how to speak English.

 

In the UK and other countries using British spelling, only aluminium is used. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[31][32] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium. The spelling in virtually all other languages is analogous to the -ium ending.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both, but places aluminium first.

Sorry buddy, you Yanks have it wrong. 

[Hangtime]

A lot can be surmised about a culture from just considering it's slang and euphemisms.

banana.

For example.

Or maybe, Sod. As in 'Piss off, you sod.'

I'm just sayin...