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**RealSNR** · 10-12-2014, 07:03 AM

Yes, I know standard American English isn't perfect. And by "talk like idiots" I'm not talking about stupid people who speak English. I'm talking about how normally intelligent British people CHOOSE to talk like idiots.

For example, here's what one of my Facebook friends from London said in a status: "Gods, tonight's 'Doctor Who' was patchy twaddle."

Patchy twaddle, eh? I'm pretty sure you just made that crap up, as if there aren't hundreds of words you could use to mean "bad." It's the words they choose, as well. They seem to fancy themselves as a literary culture, so they choose words that sound fun. All the baby talk crap we use in Standard American English like "wibbly-wobbly" and "bibbity-boppity" had to have come from the brains of these ****ing weirdos.

And yes, I'm aware that Shakespeare invented hundreds of words used by all speakers of English to this very day. But I don't think he went around using all the new words he invented on the street. They were adapted into the daily use over time.

They didn't zoomy-woomy so quackadilly that before they could say "Bob's your uncle!" that people couldn't bloody cochleante a blimey word they was articulating!

Braincase · 10-12-2014, 11:42 AM

Bullocks.

**Baby Lee** · 10-12-2014, 11:55 AM

The AluminIum thing, and the Top Gear thing, reminds me.

I can't figure why they pluralize torque when talking about force, unless it's to hide that they still calculate it [and horsepower] in English units.

ie, if we said a Mustang had 500 ft/lbs of torque, Top Gear would say it 'generates 500 torques.'

To our more cosmopolitan posters, are there places that have actually totally gone metric, that is do any countries advertise power figures for cars in Newtons and Kilowatts?

Demonpenz · 10-12-2014, 11:59 AM

English people are horrible. Hugh Grant.

GloucesterChief · 10-12-2014, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

The AluminIum thing, and the Top Gear thing, reminds me.

I can't figure why they pluralize torque when talking about force, unless it's to hide that they still calculate it [and horsepower] in English units.

ie, if we said a Mustang had 500 ft/lbs of torque, Top Gear would say it 'generates 500 torques.'

To our more cosmopolitan posters, are there places that have actually totally gone metric, that is do any countries advertise power figures for cars in Newtons and Kilowatts?

There are somethings that didn't change. Pints for example are still used in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland when measuring beers and ciders.

**Baby Lee** · 10-12-2014, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

There are somethings that didn't change. Pints for example are still used in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland when measuring beers and ciders.

Well as you well know; a pint is a pound, the world around.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 10-12-2014, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DaFace

Really? Have you paid attention to all the stupid shit we say in this country lately?

Don't be hatin on us, bae.

splatbass · 10-12-2014, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Demonpenz

English people are horrible. Hugh Grant.

The whole country is horrible because of Hugh Grant?

kc rush · 10-12-2014, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

The Brits are pretty easy to figure out for the meaning for the most part. Some of the Northern dialects sound like a foreign language though.

aturnis · 10-12-2014, 02:20 PM

Watch The Inbetweeners. You'll love it, ya bell-end.

kc rush · 10-12-2014, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by aturnis

Watch The Inbetweeners. You'll love it, ya bell-end.

Waiting for the second movie to come out.

UK_Chief · 10-13-2014, 01:44 AM

Ok so Brits love word play. Why tweet "Dr Who was shit" when you can use more interesting language? After all there were probably 100,000 tweets saying it was shit so why tweet the same thing as every other fool? English has one of, if not the most number of words of any language so you have plenty to choose from.

And if you don't like it, it's called ENGLISH not American, so whatever we say is right, it's our fricking language...

UK_Chief · 10-13-2014, 01:49 AM

P.S. it is Aluminium not aluminum. Almost every damn element ends in -ium so it's not fricking hard to work out!!!

**Baby Lee** · 10-13-2014, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by aturnis

Watch The Inbetweeners. You'll love it, ya bell-end.

The faux replacement license plates Top Gear had made up when people in Argentina were offended by Jeremy Clarkson driving around in a Porsche with existing plates H982 FLK.

**Baby Lee** · 10-13-2014, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by UK_Chief

P.S. it is Aluminium not aluminum. Almost every damn element ends in -ium so it's not fricking hard to work out!!!

It isn't one or the other

http://chemistry.about.com/b/2014/05...-aluminium.htm

'Hamas' Jenkins · 10-13-2014, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

The only one the truly befuddles me is pronouncing aluminum 'Al-U-Minny-um.'

I guess they hang their hats on the periodic nomenclature, Thorium, Rhobidium, Plutonium, etc.

You kind of have to do that with the extra "i" in there.

Otherwise you'd be left with alum'ih'nee'um

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UK_Chief Veteran Join Date: Nov 2012 Casino cash: $6856512	Ok so Brits love word play. Why tweet "Dr Who was shit" when you can use more interesting language? After all there were probably 100,000 tweets saying it was shit so why tweet the same thing as every other fool? English has one of, if not the most number of words of any language so you have plenty to choose from. And if you don't like it, it's called ENGLISH not American, so whatever we say is right, it's our fricking language...
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UK_Chief Veteran Join Date: Nov 2012 Casino cash: $6856512	P.S. it is Aluminium not aluminum. Almost every damn element ends in -ium so it's not fricking hard to work out!!!
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