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Interesting thread, so many stereotypes. Seems most the world think we don't own toothbrushes or something.



Hmm, pie.

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- Britons wear top hats

- Britons drink tea at least five times per day

- Britons are extremely generous

- Britons are ugly

- Britons keep watches in their pockets

- Britons eat fish and ships rather than pizza

- Britons truly love themselves

- Britons are intelligent



Or at least my television says so.



The Fury said:
Interesting thread, so many stereotypes. Seems most the world think we don't own toothbrushes or something.


No, it's just that your teeth are awfully placed.



ASStronaut said:
spurgeonryan said:
Kantor said:
I would say the stereotypes Americans have about us aren't half as bad as those we have about them.

They think we're posh and have bad teeth, and many of us seem to think they're all evangelical illiterate hicks who shoot everything they see and hate black people and gays.


I love African American People. Which is the term I believe.

 

Kind of harsh I think. But you are sort of right when you are dealing with some states. The same could probably be said for what we think.

Yeah, Americans call any black person "African American".

Nelson Mandela = African American

David Haye = African American

Idris Elba = African American

To the average American (USA) the rest of the world does not exist or is of no importance.

To make things worse I recommend changing these terms to Sub-Saharan African American or Black Africa African American.

Much more accurate to describe someone who's plainly black with ancestry in Africa.



IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
The Fury said:
Interesting thread, so many stereotypes. Seems most the world think we don't own toothbrushes or something.


No, it's just that your teeth are awfully placed.

... in our mouths?

 

 

btw, I do know what you mean, stereotype or not.



Hmm, pie.

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The Fury said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
The Fury said:
Interesting thread, so many stereotypes. Seems most the world think we don't own toothbrushes or something.


No, it's just that your teeth are awfully placed.

... in our mouths?

 

 

Nope, outside.



IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
- Britons wear top hats

- Britons drink tea at least five times per day

- Britons are extremely generous

- Britons are ugly

- Britons keep watches in their pockets

- Britons eat fish and ships rather than pizza

- Britons truly love themselves

- Britons are intelligent



Or at least my television says so.

- Britons are naughty

My porn collection says so. (Can't say we Germans are any better though)



Tea drinking is true- Britain consumes an insane amount of tea; I know I do :)
Fish and chips is brilliant, but I only eat it about once /2 months
Most British children seem to get braces as they get older, so I'm not really sure about the bad teeth thing. London drivers are crazy because everyone has a place to get to, and they need to get there fast- Britain's roads are some of the safest in the world as far as deaths go, however.
The poorer areas tend to have a lot more overweight, uneducated people than the more wealthy areas. Inner city regions have terrible schools, and people are always getting stabbed there
It's impossible to live in Britain without hearing about football all the time- even as somebody who hates it- especially during competition seasons (which I swear is all the time).
Lots of smaller cars are popular in the UK, what with fuel costs being so high and other taxes put on larger vehicles.
Most of the newspapers are pretty bias and generally a bit rubbish, but the BBC still produces good stuff.
There are a lot of ugly British people, but again these seem to be in the poorer areas - these are the people that we can watch on Jeremy Kyle, a show pretty much designed for us to laugh at/shout at society's failures
British people seem quite reserved in general, but there is still a fair quantity of idiot youths who do their best to ruin our reputation while travelling abroad
At least from what I've seen, Britain is Xbox land as far as consoles go - although everyone seems to own a Wii too. Most of the Xbox Live stereotypes probably originate from British kids shouting on their mics
Believe it or not, it doesn't rain all the time in Britain - well, at least not in the south, we're currently experiencing drought-like conditions. It always seems to rain in the summer though, and the north is always wet



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Barozi said:
TWRoO said:

6. Given that 'pommes frites' translates as apple fries when seperated I think chips is a more meaningful word (as the chips are chipped from the whole potato) As for crisps, well normal crisps are kind of chipped from the potato so chips works, though I would descibe them as slices... however they are called crisps because they are crisp, as in crunchy. And I have never heard anyone call crisps 'crispies'.

It's pommes (de terre) frites actually, meaning potato fries.

Yes I know that pomme de terre is a potato... it happens to mean apple of the earth, so without 'de terre' pomme just means apple.



I've actually got a cracking set of straight teeth and brush twice a day and use mouthwash twice a day, people think I look Italian