You crazy British folk... Sometimes you just crack people up;)

[rjensen11]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2327327.stm

 

[f1king]

Brits are not funny, the are BLoody borrrrrrrrrrrrring.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by f1king
Brits are not funny, the are BLoody borrrrrrrrrrrrring.

Hmmm.

Not necessarily true.

 

[Talentless]

No, Brits are hyper sarcastic and have high opinions of themselves, and like many Europeans, though some Brit may contest being defined as European, some they think themselves superior to Yanks. But nevermind that, how can you not love arrogance and sarcasm.? Why smart-mouthed analogies abound! Hell, even when I can't make sense of what one of them is saying, I know that it is sarcastic and about an observed irony which is not actually funny. Oh, and I want to sleep with that chick Hugh Grant used to get.

My comments were not sarcastic or crude, they were actually quite nice, depending on how much scotch one has had.

 

[f1king]

Well there sarcasm is very very VERY DRY!! and I still cant understan why someone would have cucumber and bread with tea in the middle of the after noon please do tell.

 

[Talentless]

Because Brits have defective pallets and guts of steel??

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Talentless
No, Brits are hyper sarcastic and have high opinions of themselves, and like many Europeans, though some Brit may contest being defined as European, some they think themselves superior to Yanks. But nevermind that, how can you not love arrogance and sarcasm.? Why smart-mouthed analogies abound! Hell, even when I can't make sense of what one of them is saying, I know that it is sarcastic and about an observed irony which is not actually funny. Oh, and I want to sleep with that chick Hugh Grant used to get.

My comments were not sarcastic or crude, they were actually quite nice, depending on how much scotch one has had.

Well, the more Scotch the better. And Liz Hurley is kinda cute...

Of course, the "observed irony" may not be considered to be funny, but that is the art of black humour, which only one person here has truly grasped.

 

[Talentless]

Maybe, but do you know that on more than one occasion someone on the net has thought me a Brit?

 

[f1king]

Well I hope to live there once, soon may be in london. I guess I will find out what all this dark humour.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by f1king
Well there sarcasm is very very VERY DRY!! and I still cant understan why someone would have cucumber and bread with tea in the middle of the after noon please do tell.

[sarcasm]Well, obviously it's "their" sarcasm, which comes to the fore when the damn colonials murder the language.[/sarcasm]

Cucumber sandwiches can be quite nice, but they're very much war-time food, from when meat was expensive, rationed, or otherwise unobtainable. I don't know of anyone who eats them nowadays. I myself haven't had one for at least 15 years.

Oh, and Talentless, there's nothing wrong with our palettes, and our guts are "of steel" because of all the Indian food we eat!!

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Talentless
Maybe, but do you know that on more than one occasion someone on the net has thought me a Brit?

Your brevity certainly has a British quality to it. Although I never really had you figured for a Brit, even before I noticed the Virginia location.

 

[Talentless]

Mind if I test how literal that claim is?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Talentless
Mind if I test how literal that claim is?

Which claim?

 

[Talentless]

Oh, ok. That come with a prize or plaque?

 

[Talentless]

The steel gut one.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Talentless
The steel gut one.

Oh yeah, bring it on.

My guts can stand any kind of curry, food that's out of date, poorly cleaned dishes and utensils, whatever. I am Giles "Guts of steel" Guthrie!

 

[Talentless]

um, i was talking about the .44 test.

 

[Clown Shoe]

you pommy bastards really do crack me up.

 

[rjensen11]

no offense to anybody, but I'd rather live in Austria or southern Germany than England. It's something about how most of the people there share the same religion as me, and the fact that there's mountains near-by(depending on where you are in those countries, of course.) But there can be something said about not having as much snow as here(in Minnesota,) but then again, Austria and Germany don't get too much snow unless you're in the mountains, right?

Oh, and dry humour? Watch some Monty Python, great stuff. Especially the Life of Brian, the Holy Grail, How to Be Invisible, and the Dead Parrot scene8^b) or is it 8^B)?

 

[Kelly]

Originally posted by f1king
Brits are not funny, the are BLoody borrrrrrrrrrrrring.

We are boring! that is so not true!

Maybe you're the bore :sleep: And as for our humour we have the best around, you're just to thick to understand our dark,dry and sarcastic side, a unique quality I am proud to be British for

Guts of steel, defective pallets T you love us Brits don't you

Yeah and like rjensen says

Watch some Monty Python, great stuff. Especially the Life of Brian, the Holy Grail, How to Be Invisible, and the Dead Parrot scene

Now where's that cucumber sarnie ? 😈

 

[Meglomaniac]

Yeah, what do you yanks have against us brits, our humours rocks, u americans just don't understand it at all monty python is the best, maybe you will find the capacity to think about jokes during a comedy of britains high caliber!

oh wait wait i got another BRITISH classic, the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy! that was amazingly funny.

we know how to make folk laugh!!!!
We brits have the hardest men in the world, we are as tough as steel!!

 

[keeno_uk]

hey f1king you havent been to england so your perception of england is based on what you see on tv which is nuthin more than an american stereotype kinda like with chinese people yanks think that all of them kung fu

 

[keeno_uk]

harry enfield and chums

 

[Talentless]

They don't?! Garsh . . .

 

[Meglomaniac]

yeah, i have seen american TV shows and they are sooo bloomin stereo typical, they think we all speak in the same accent, WELL BIG NEWS, WE DON'T!!!! They all seem to think we speak like prince charles, it really get on my nerves.

Harry enfield and chums, that is a CLASS comedy, great stuff!
I like the older episodes, where the palace of righteous justice were on, that was a good sketch.
And kevin and Perry was excellent!

 

[keeno_uk]

do you watch the league of gentleman that is weird wid its local stuff heh local forum

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by keeno_uk
do you watch the league of gentleman that is weird wid its local stuff heh local forum

I don't get that show at all. Its humour completely passes me by.

I like megalomaniac's suggestion Hitch-hikers though, that's the funniest book I've ever read.

 

[keeno_uk]

god it gets on my case all the time about americans perception of the "real" world they truly have no clue they thing we speak wid a victorian accent and we all drink tea and be all snoody and love soccer (real name football) believe I got this a lot when I went to florida trust i was about ready to flaw the next person who said "hey dood to me" the good thing about my accent in the states was being able to pull any bird pretty much on my accent I just gave them the "phil michell" and I could snogg them

 

[Talentless]

I r havs learnnd dat most Brits on wine, I mean on line, dunno speek wid da good grammar and fit da sterweeotype, like saying mumsy darling ans sush. Dood, really.

Should I dump my belief that all of you are as charming as jame's bond and smart as issac newton??

 

[vat_man]

I definitely think there is are American and British styles of humour - a good example is the UK series 'Men Behaving Badly', which became 'It's a Man's World' for everywhere that saw the original UK series - a lot of stuff that went on in theUK series didn't get into the US series, and the producers of the US series admitted that people in the US wouldn't accept a lot of the material.

British humour does seem a lot darker, and I think it's because it's not afraid to explore those personal, 'squirming' places of people's lives, whereas US humour would tend to be a lot more 'general' or, for want of a better phrase, 'superficial' in its approach.

League of Gentlemen was good - my favourite recently was 'Big Train' with the World Staring Championships, and that brilliant skit they did with Ming the Merciless at Home, stuck in the National Health system because there was a stuff up in the paperwork!