English Stereotypes
Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:28 pm
I enjoyed the Australian one, so what about the English?
Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:33 pm
You eat crumpets and tea for breakfast.
No one is poor in England, everyone is rich (Thank television for this one).
You have the best manners.
English men are sissy's.
You say "Tralalalalala"
No one is poor in England, everyone is rich (Thank television for this one).
You have the best manners.
English men are sissy's.
You say "Tralalalalala"
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:00 pm
O.o
THAT'S SOME ENGLISH STEREOTYPES?!?!?!?!?!?!?! *Faints*
I think I'm going to be reading this topic ALOT!
THAT'S SOME ENGLISH STEREOTYPES?!?!?!?!?!?!?! *Faints*
I think I'm going to be reading this topic ALOT!
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:09 pm
Ammer wrote:You eat crumpets and tea for breakfast.
No one is poor in England, everyone is rich (Thank television for this one).
You have the best manners.
English men are sissy's.
You say "Tralalalalala"
I do sometimes
Lol, unfortuantly not =)
I'm a slob...
That they are...
It is embedded into my brain.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:15 pm
-The teeth.
-Everyone who's not on the BBC speaks unintelligible blather.
-English men apologize all of the time for no reason. Like Hugh Grant, only worse.
-You're so formal that "Pip, pip, cheerio!" is practically a battle cry, or you're so dirty and scoundrely that ripping a man's fingers off to stir your coffee wouldn't be given a second thought. There is no middle ground.
-If it's not a pudding, it's not food.
-You drop everything you're doing for afternoon tea. Thusly, no surgeries are scheduled between 3:30 and 5:00 PM. Even the trauma patients stop bleeding between those times.
-Everyone who's not on the BBC speaks unintelligible blather.
-English men apologize all of the time for no reason. Like Hugh Grant, only worse.
-You're so formal that "Pip, pip, cheerio!" is practically a battle cry, or you're so dirty and scoundrely that ripping a man's fingers off to stir your coffee wouldn't be given a second thought. There is no middle ground.
-If it's not a pudding, it's not food.
-You drop everything you're doing for afternoon tea. Thusly, no surgeries are scheduled between 3:30 and 5:00 PM. Even the trauma patients stop bleeding between those times.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:23 pm
From up here most English generalisations refer to Southerners as Northerners are a) practically Scottish anyway 
and b) a lot of people move between N. England and Scotland so most people know some Northerners anyway and you all seem normal 
Northerners & Southerners don't like each other
Eastenders
...or alternatively, Coronation Street (no one believes in Emmerdale)
A lot talk rather loudly
A love of cricket and complaining about your (better) weather
Majority are exceedingly polite and patient but you do have yahs (yahs being based on how annoying they are rather than how rich as I'm fair like that )
When abroad many decide to "speak foreign" by talking loudly in English with a foreign accent
Tea!
Ones I know non-UK people I have known had:
English people will use long words where short ones suffice
English people fry/boil everything and thus are fat
English people look down their noses at others and the whole stiff upper lip thing
and b) a lot of people move between N. England and Scotland so most people know some Northerners anyway and you all seem normal
Northerners & Southerners don't like each other
Eastenders
...or alternatively, Coronation Street (no one believes in Emmerdale)
A lot talk rather loudly
A love of cricket and complaining about your (better) weather
Majority are exceedingly polite and patient but you do have yahs (yahs being based on how annoying they are rather than how rich as I'm fair like that
)
When abroad many decide to "speak foreign" by talking loudly in English with a foreign accent
Tea!
Ones I know non-UK people I have known had:
English people will use long words where short ones suffice
English people fry/boil everything and thus are fat
English people look down their noses at others and the whole stiff upper lip thing
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:25 pm
Tea, crumpets, sticking u's in where they don't belong....
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:29 pm
I'm a Northerner, Trick. I live about an hour South of the border.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:31 pm
Amethyst wrote:sticking u's in where they don't belong....
That's a good point. And any word that ends in "a" automatically has to have an "r" added to it, too.
India -> Indier, for example.
And everybody who has a nickname has one that ends in "S." Becks, Wills, and so on and so forth.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:34 pm
Oh, poor Paul gets me on his case about the British stereotypes all the time.
But the sweet kid sometimes says, "Cheerio!" just for my amusement.
But the sweet kid sometimes says, "Cheerio!" just for my amusement.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:35 pm
shapu wrote:That's a good point. And any word that ends in "a" automatically has to have an "r" added to it, too.
That's because we say it right and everyone else doesn't
Southerners also add imaginary r's in the middle
Graph -> Grarph
Plaster -> Plarster
Cheerio!!
Pip pip
Tea? - and the holding the little finger out
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:38 pm
Igg wrote:I'm a Northerner, Trick. I live about an hour South of the border.
Ah then you wouldn't count to most people I know as being stereotypically English. Even the most patriotic Scotsman likes spending his holidays in the likes of Cumbria, Northumberland and N. Yorkshire
Pretty places and great people...just like here 
Where do u's get added though? I think I'm being thick and missing the obvious, heh
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:41 pm
Bno wrote:shapu wrote:That's a good point. And any word that ends in "a" automatically has to have an "r" added to it, too.
That's because we say it right and everyone else doesn't
Southerners also add imaginary r's in the middle
Graph -> Grarph
Plaster -> Plarster
Emmar...*twitch* *scream*
I hope you're satisfied.
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:45 pm
Trick wrote:Where do u's get added though? I think I'm being thick and missing the obvious, heh
ColoUr, FavoUr.
this is not spam
Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:48 pm
yeah, we southeners (or "suvners" if you ask us ) do have a habit with the R's dont we.
tell that to the germans
and the french.
spanish.
russians.
errr, yeah.
pretty much everyone thats looked at us in the last thousand years or so really.
and even with a severly reduced force, we still gave the american revolutionaries a run for thei money.
shoulda just sent the 6th army, that wouldve shown you.
) do have a habit with the R's dont we.
English men are sissy's.
tell that to the germans
and the french.
spanish.
russians.
errr, yeah.
pretty much everyone thats looked at us in the last thousand years or so really.
and even with a severly reduced force, we still gave the american revolutionaries a run for thei money.
shoulda just sent the 6th army, that wouldve shown you.