What is the current stereotype of British people?

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sethnintendo said:

Bristow9091 said:

sethnintendo said:

Bristow9091 said:

sethnintendo said:

Basically the only thing that gets to me is trying to understand English people in movies. I pretty much have to put subtitles on to understand it fully. It is just the way the words slur together that it seems like gibberish to me.

... You're retarded -.-"

If you show most Americans movies like Snatch then I can assume most would probably have difficult time knowing exactly what was said during certain scenes.  Thanks for calling me a retard you douche.

No, I feel offended by what you've said, you're saying you can't understand the British accent, which is dumb and you said we slur words together when we clearly don't, especially not those you see in the films, they're all southeners who have posh accents and use words properly unless they're using slang, which still isn't slurring words together, that's what the Americans do, not to mention the umm... you know, when you umm... do that thing when you umm... have to umm... pause before you can umm... think of what you're umm... going to umm... say, I've heard that so many times when there's interviews with Americans or whatever, it's so funny how you can comment on an accent, saying you don't understand it, and then not realise how dumb most American commoners sound... and I love how you assume "most" would probably have a difficult time understanding what was being said...

 

It really annoys me how people (The majority I know of seem to be Americans too... ) think of British people as if we're a whole different species or something, and even go as far as to insult us, based on popular American cartoons (Such as Nigel from Family Guy...), yet they've never even stepped foot in England, which is a good thing, because if they did their fat weight would probably tip us over... derp, stereotype, right? -.-"

You can find faults in any country's dialect.  Most people from England I can understand, however ones with very deep accent I tend to have a little trouble with.  I seem to have the most problem with Guy Ritchie movies apparently.  I can watch the entire RocknRolla movie without subtitles and understand almost everything.  However, there are a few scenes that I can't understand every word. Anyways, a few months back I met some British that were staying at the same resort.  Most of them I understood every word.  However, I bumped into one while near the beach and we had a decent conversation about politics.  I could understand him for the most part but there were times I'd just shake my head because I didn't understand fully.  To put it simple I can understand most British people.  It is just the other variations in British accent (perhaps the northern British accent) that trips me up sometimes.

Don't worry about stereotypes because American stereotypes are far worse than English stereotypes.  Also, sorry for calling you a douche but I was a little offended from being called a retard (plus I had a couple beers in me).

Don't worry - not even people from England can understand the Birmingham accent :P