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by withahip » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:52 pm
Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:Sounds like your average American am afraid. I remember sitting in a bar in New York and on 3 occasions I was asked where I was from, when I said "Scotland" they all replied wow you speak really good English for a second language !!!!!!
Mind you that was before Braveheart............
I think they were mocking you and your country.
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by Grumpy_Jimbo » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:58 pm
withahip wrote:I think they were mocking you and your country.
To be honest I doubt the average American has the wit and intelligence to try and mock anybody..... I think am happy in my knowledge that they were thick and ignorant also misguided that the world stops at the US Border.........
Rant over..........
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by black francis » Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:50 pm
Is Scotland a continent or a country?
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by black francis » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:05 pm
Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:To be honest I doubt the average American has the wit and intelligence to try and mock anybody..... I think am happy in my knowledge that they were thick and ignorant also misguided that the world stops at the US Border.........
Rant over..........
This coming from a land where the residents wanted independence after watching Braveheart a few times too many?
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by In The Margins » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:13 pm
Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:To be honest I doubt the average American has the wit and intelligence to try and mock anybody..... I think am happy in my knowledge that they were thick and ignorant also misguided that the world stops at the US Border.........
Rant over..........
They weren't mocking you, Jimbo, they were flirting. Americans love British and Scottish accents. You were too "thick and ignorant" to get it.
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by withahip » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:46 pm
Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:To be honest I doubt the average American has the wit and intelligence to try and mock anybody..... I think am happy in my knowledge that they were thick and ignorant also misguided that the world stops at the US Border.........
Rant over..........
Yeah, that's why our comedies are funny and yours suck.
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by Grumpy_Jimbo » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:49 pm
withahip wrote:Yeah, that's why our comedies are funny and yours suck.
Erm................ Do you mean Friends ?
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by black francis » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:53 pm
What's not to like about Friends besides it not being funny?
Try again.
Try again.
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by Grumpy_Jimbo » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:07 pm
withahip wrote:ok Mr Bean.
Without wishing to sound pedantic Rowan Atkinson is actually English, I thought you were having a go at the Scots................
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by withahip » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:22 pm
Grumpy_Jimbo wrote:Without wishing to sound pedantic Rowan Atkinson is actually English, I thought you were having a go at the Scots................
Well, if I only talk about the Scots and humor there wouldn't be anything to talk about now would there?
Billy Connolly? Danny Bhoy? Pffft.
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by black francis » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:25 pm
According to Wikipedia, Rowan Atkinson was first noticed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1976 so I'm afraid you get the blame. I didn't make the rules.
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by JackT » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:58 pm
black francis wrote:What's not to like about Friends besides it not being funny?
Try again.
oh no you did not just say that about Friends.
"He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits."
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