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brendude13 on 25 August 2011
Lostplanet22 said:
Depends who you ask, their is ofcourse stuff that can get you banned (guess that accounts for every country)...

Overall I hear the most 'Grumpy and boring'..

Grumpy because every British wakes up full with energy to have a great time at the beach but one feet outside and they remember that they live in the UK where you already may be happy that it doesn't rain for a day and the temperature reach +20 degrees so he goes back in home complaining while drinking his tea and watching some BBC show full with actors who are playing stereotypes of an other country that he already saw a hundred of times. Going out means getting some fish ships and have a fight because someone said something wrong about your team! Overall British are grumpy because of the to cold summers and the to warm winters (think Gordon Ramsay)

Boring because UK(britain) gets associated with boring stuff, drinking Tea, Museums, Buckinham Palace, Big Ben, Oxford while the rest of the world wants hot weather, beaches and women who wear whole day their swimsuit...

Not that I agree ofcourse but their is probably some truth in it people being grumpy during the winter is a worldwide phenomenon.

You honestly need to re-check the British weather forecast.

Where I live, during the summer months the temperature averages in the mid twenties, it doesn't rain very often and during winter there is normally 1-3 snow days.

I love the British climate, it has the right balance of sun, rain and snow.



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brendude13 on 25 August 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
brendude13 said:

Chillax Kowenicki, there is no reason to be insulted.

And yes, the Spanish people are lazy, you have a sleep during the day.

When I say "you", I actually mean "we", my dad lives there and I have plenty of family there too.

As for British stereotypes at the moment, it's annoying accents, bad teeth, drink tea, old ladies, chavs, snooty rich people who have tea parties with the Queen, apparently we have technology from the 1980's and we are all bad guys who want to steal the Decleration of Independance (National treasure, what a stupid fucking movie).

Sure. But we sleep less at night

Haha, that's true actually, we end up eating dinner so late that I can't comfortably get to sleep until past midnight.



TadpoleJackson on 25 August 2011
brendude13 said:

As for British stereotypes at the moment, it's annoying accents, bad teeth, drink tea, old ladies, chavs, snooty rich people who have tea parties with the Queen, apparently we have technology from the 1980's and we are all bad guys who want to steal the Decleration of Independance (National treasure, what a stupid fucking movie).


What? O.o 

That's not what that movie was about



Lostplanet22 on 25 August 2011
brendude13 said:
Lostplanet22 said:
Depends who you ask, their is ofcourse stuff that can get you banned (guess that accounts for every country)...

Overall I hear the most 'Grumpy and boring'..

Grumpy because every British wakes up full with energy to have a great time at the beach but one feet outside and they remember that they live in the UK where you already may be happy that it doesn't rain for a day and the temperature reach +20 degrees so he goes back in home complaining while drinking his tea and watching some BBC show full with actors who are playing stereotypes of an other country that he already saw a hundred of times. Going out means getting some fish ships and have a fight because someone said something wrong about your team! Overall British are grumpy because of the to cold summers and the to warm winters (think Gordon Ramsay)

Boring because UK(britain) gets associated with boring stuff, drinking Tea, Museums, Buckinham Palace, Big Ben, Oxford while the rest of the world wants hot weather, beaches and women who wear whole day their swimsuit...

Not that I agree ofcourse but their is probably some truth in it people being grumpy during the winter is a worldwide phenomenon.

You honestly need to re-check the British weather forecast.

Where I live, during the summer months the temperature averages in the mid twenties, it doesn't rain very often and during winter there is normally 1-3 snow days.

I love the British climate, it has the right balance of sun, rain and snow.

It is about stereotypes not facts.  Most people even when they never havebeen in the UK have an idea that UK is an rainy region with no cold weather like Austria/Switzerland Scandinavia where you can do awesome winter sports or hot weather where you have awesome beach parties. 

About the british Accent:  For me it was easier to understand someone from the UK then USA....Even in class we always hoped that during dictations and listening tests it was spoken by British.  The class average got a hit when it was spoken by Americans.



 

huaxiong90 on 25 August 2011
kowenicki said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
TBH Britain is famous for hooliganism and having bad teeth. Not saying I agree with it but that is the stereotype.

do you know how insulting that is?

I died reading this.



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SecondWar on 25 August 2011
dany612 said:

But I actually see British people as polite, with funny accents, and with a weird laughter .


From watching a load of american cartoons, I am fed up of that stereotype. Basically, they think we're all aristocrats. What really bugged me were all the 'british' characters in live-action shows who have bizarre accents and claimed to be British. Like hell they were. They need to visit the UK and see how wrong they are.

Until then I'll just sit here and mock those super-fat rednecks.   ...................... What? 



NiKKoM on 25 August 2011

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brendude13 on 25 August 2011
Lostplanet22 said:
brendude13 said:

You honestly need to re-check the British weather forecast.

Where I live, during the summer months the temperature averages in the mid twenties, it doesn't rain very often and during winter there is normally 1-3 snow days.

I love the British climate, it has the right balance of sun, rain and snow.

It is about stereotypes not facts.  Most people even when they never havebeen in the UK have an idea that UK is an rainy region with no cold weather like Austria/Switzerland Scandinavia where you can do awesome winter sports or hot weather where you have awesome beach parties. 

About the british Accent:  For me it was easier to understand someone from the UK then USA....Even in class we always hoped that during dictations and listening tests it was spoken by British.  The class average got a hit when it was spoken by Americans.

Oooh, my bad xD

And I would say an original English accent (like Pierce Brosnan when he was in James Bond) is the easiest accent to understand when it comes to the English language.



Signalstar on 25 August 2011
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 -.-"

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dany612 on 25 August 2011
SecondWar said:
dany612 said:

But I actually see British people as polite, with funny accents, and with a weird laughter .


From watching a load of american cartoons, I am fed up of that stereotype. Basically, they think we're all aristocrats. What really bugged me were all the 'british' characters in live-action shows who have bizarre accents and claimed to be British. Like hell they were. They need to visit the UK and see how wrong they are.

Until then I'll just sit here and mock those super-fat rednecks.   ...................... What? 

I hate those rednecks!...lol

 

But yeah American cartoons love to feed people with those stereotypes. Not only for Britians but for Latinos and other minorities. 

They don't realize how gullible these teenagers that watch their show are and tend into taking that perspective.