Do You Think British Warriors Are Serious Enough About Business?

[Kim Standerline]

As if I would

Originally Posted by p1a1u1l1

Worst still, before Kim Standerline turns up and calls us all plonkers



-paul

[ShayRockhold]

I never thought I would need a translator to read English....but I was wrong....

This thread has added to my vocabulary immensely...

[PatriciaJ]

Pubs shut so on to this forum for a laugh before I hit my pillow and blimey I find this thread – enough to sober me up again.

Originally Posted by The 13 th Warrior

I rarely rent British/UK videos because I can't understand the accents, especially some dialects of brits, although they speak english.

Even worse videos to rent are those deep irish and scottish accents.

The Raza got nothin on the Scotts if there was a rolling of the "R's" contest.

Its like listening to someone from deep Oklahoma , Virgina up in the hills,where instead of saying "come here", they say "cohlm ch'eer"...., or Wins'CAN-SAN(winsconson), or BORE'AS-ton/BORSS-ton(boston),they speak english but damn if I understand'em.

Can't tell an Aussie from a Brit, 'till he says "cheers" at the end.

Then, I don't know whether he's an New Zealander or Aussie.

I'm baffled, "mate".

"Cheerio" and "no worries".

The 13 th Warrior

Ee bah gum you want to try renting a film made in Yorkshire cos we speak all proper like. I don't like American films because Americans can't pronounce English words like tomatoes properly. Subtitles are no good because they can't spell proper.

Originally Posted by The 13 th Warrior

By the way, are Brits willing to PAY for a decent meal?

I would think with that kinda food, one of the biggest imports would be chefs, or anybody that can take you guys grub, and simply cook it differently with different spices.

Unless UK'ers don't really care that much about taste of food, just long as it fills up yer belly.

We have that ,too.

It's called the 99 cent menu at our local fast food joints.

You REALLY gots to be hungry and BROKE to eat that dog food.

It's about 3/4 levels above eating outright garbage out the garbage can.

Even the Monosodium Glutamine barely saves it.

The 13 th Warrior

Here what about the unhealthy fatty burgers we've inherited from across the pond and the pallid lumpy stuff posing as gravy that they served me in California – it wasn't even the right colour and tasted as bad as it looked.

There's nowt wrong with Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with roast taties, veg and proper gravy. Fish and chips and curries - better than burgers and especially if you eat them together after the pub!

[robocallaghan]

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Pubs shut so on to this forum for a laugh before I hit my pillow and blimey I find this thread – enough to sober me up again.

Just back from a lock in myself - was the governors birthday again :-)

Rob.

[Martin Luxton]

Eeh, Patricia lass,

'appen reckon we ought to share our recipe for chip butties with our American cousins.

Martin

[ShayRockhold]

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

Eeh, Patricia lass,

'appen reckon we ought to share our recipe for chip butties with our American cousins.

Martin

Um.....what?

[Martin Luxton]

Patrica, my girl.

I think we ought to share our recipe for french fry sandwiches with the Americans.

Martin

[Tenzo]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

lol red rag to a bull

We're the ones who spell properly, it's you gys who decided to change it for some weird reason

I really didn't want to keep on the same subject all day, but this is to good to pass up. "Guys" does have a "u" in it, Kim. I appreciate that you are trying, but you can't disregard the letter all together.

In regards to the food, I've had the hono<u>r of working with a couple of British chefs, and they were incredible. To be fair, they may have learned to cook to defend against what they were used to eating, but until I know for sure I will never disparage British cooking.

Warmly,
Kevin

[Lee McIntyre]

Originally Posted by The 13 th Warrior

By the way, are Brits willing to PAY for a decent meal?

I would think with that kinda food, one of the biggest imports would be chefs, or anybody that can take you guys grub, and simply cook it differently with different spices.

Unless UK'ers don't really care that much about taste of food, just long as it fills up yer belly.

We have that ,too.

It's called the 99 cent menu at our local fast food joints.

You REALLY gots to be hungry and BROKE to eat that dog food.

It's about 3/4 levels above eating outright garbage out the garbage can.

Even the Monosodium Glutamine barely saves it.

The 13 th Warrior

Well you're an agreeable and friendly kind of chap aren't you?!

If you don't like the food I suggest that maybe you're eating in the wrong places. To claim that a country of 60 million people serves nothing but bad food on the basis of your (assumed) limited experience seems a bit knee jerk to me.

Cheers

Lee McIntyre

P.S Clearly you've not been to Sam's Chop House in Manchester and enjoyed their incredible Lancashire Hotpot or Fish and Chips. Now that's what I call food!

[Diana Lane]

We take our businesses very seriously here in the UK, which is indeed a nation of fine cooks. Nobody makes better slices of gravy than I do. As well as being filling, packed with charcoal and other nutritious goodies, they're great for propping up wonky coffee tables and concussing husbands who return late from the pub without bringing home any beer. Good food should be functional

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

We're the ones who spell properly, it's you gys who decided to change it for some weird reason

To turn some traditions over on its ear, good and bad, its the American way.

Maybe if the "royalty" did'nt have such a grip on the wee folk, we would still being saying tOE-M'A-TOES instead of tWO-MAY-TOES. :-)

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Ee bah gum you want to try renting a film made in Yorkshire cos we speak all proper like.

There are some brits that do speak with a much clearer accent, it may be the Yorks, like you said. They usually seem to pick very clear Brit speakers on PBS channel when showing Brit movies, just maybe 70%-80% less accent, although entire film is Brit.

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Here what about the unhealthy fatty burgers we've inherited from across the pond and the pallid lumpy stuff posing as gravy that they served me in California – it wasn't even the right colour and tasted as bad as it looked.

Yea, if you not paying over $70 per plate, enjoy the "imitation" food. I've noticed lately only when I was somewhat on a health food diet, and when I ate homemade, chemical free, real organic ingredients, its worlds apart.

After eating like that, and go back to eating regular stuff, ALL you taste is chemicals, until you get used to it again.

Like chicken flavored plastic.

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

There's nowt wrong with Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with roast taties, veg and proper gravy. Fish and chips and curries - better than burgers and especially if you eat them together after the pub!

Gonna have to look for some of that Yorkshire pudding and Brit sandwich. The only way you get "proper" gravy over here is unless you go to the deep south for southern cookin or pay over $70 for high class food, stuff made from REAL scratch and all.

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

I think we ought to share our recipe for french fry sandwiches with the Americans.

I'm curious as hell of what comprises a french fry sandwich.

Potatoes in a sandwich, interesting.

Guess its not that much different than people over here putting hash browns in the egg muffin sandwich.

You guys can keep the french fries dipped in mayonaise, though.

The 13 th Warrior

[Bev Clement]

Lee talks on his newsletters about crisp butties which I'm sure the American readers have no idea what he's talking about.

If we're talking about food, how about faggots, grandma's buns just to confuse the septics.

Chip butties now you're talking.

[Bev Clement]

A decent chip butty

Take 2 slices of bread known as a doorstep because it is thick, very thick. Butter with real butter.
Fill with chips/french fries which should be thick cut and made from real potatoes.
Use HP sauce or Tomato if like me
Result a 6" sandwich
Eat

[danielmcclure]

Originally Posted by The 13 th Warrior

I'm curious as hell of what comprises a french fry sandwich.

Potatoes in a sandwich, interesting.

Guess its not that much different than people over here putting hash browns in the egg muffin sandwich.

You guys can keep the french fries dipped in mayonaise, though.

The 13 th Warrior

Holland wins that battle with ease. They have the best tasting mayonnaise that money can buy. I've even been known to bring some home with me

There is both the good and the bad depending on where you look for food here.

The thing that gets me from learning HTML and talking online is I'm now left with a mixture of both British and American spelling. It's not uncommon for me to look back at something I've written and notice both in the same article.

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Tenzo

Generally, I have no problems with British humor. I even watch some BBC comedies.

Hey, I liked Benny Hill, man, he made me crack up as much as The Three Stooges or The Carol Burnett show when I first saw them.

Only "The Simpsons" now have that kind of bust your gut humor. It's mostly gone in American tv and film.

Can't think of any British stand-up comedians.

That guy with the funny mustache and gapped front teeth in the old "Around the World in 80 days" made me laugh. A proper english chap to a comedic fault.

And let's not forget about Dr. Bombay on the t.v. series "Bewitched", that guy was a riot and ALWAYS had me in stitches. Sure miss that guy and that show.

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Lee McIntyre

P.S Clearly you've not been to Sam's Chop House in Manchester and enjoyed their incredible Lancashire Hotpot or Fish and Chips. Now that's what I call food!

Educate me, brother, I'm in.

"Lancashire Hotpot", start preachin, what is that, is there a consensus that its good stuff?

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Bev Clement

A decent chip butty

Take 2 slices of bread known as a doorstep because it is thick, very thick. Butter with real butter.
Fill with chips/french fries which should be thick cut and made from real potatoes.
Use HP sauce or Tomato if like me
Result a 6" sandwich
Eat

Hey, our version over here is mashed potatoes and biscuits.

You put the potatoes IN the biscuit/doorstop, thats all.

No tomatoes, and the sauce would be "gravy" on the mashed chips.

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by danielmcclure

Holland wins that battle with ease. They have the best tasting mayonnaise that money can buy. I've even been known to bring some home with me

Probably true. Some guy from India said that our sugar and his sugar are worlds apart.

I told him America has the most processed food in the world. He most likely has the REAL stuff, less chemicals and processing.

I would not be suprised to find out what REAL mayonaise with less processing taste like....REAL(copyright) Mayonaise brand over here, yeah, right, REAL my arse.

The 13 th Warrior

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by The 13 th Warrior

There are some brits that do speak with a much clearer accent, it may be the Yorks, like you said. They usually seem to pick very clear Brit speakers on PBS channel when showing Brit movies, just maybe 70%-80% less accent, although entire film is Brit.

You can be VERY sure they're not from Yorkshire, or anywhere in the north of England.

Even other Brits don't know what they're saying...

YouTube - Michael McIntyre on Mock The Week:...

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by Thomas

You can be VERY sure they're not from Yorkshire, or anywhere in the north of England.

Even other Brits don't know what they're saying...

LLLOOOL, nice.

Sorry,Lee McIntyre , your cards may have been called here, biased FOR the Yorks, ain't ya?

These guys accents are what I usually can understand.

They way this dude explains the North, he makes it sounds like a cross between a Brit, touch of Scotts and Irish accents combined.

Nice, Thomas.

The 13 th Warrior

[ExRat]

Hi 13th,

For current (recent) British comedy, if you like it really dry, there's a series called 'Extras' (2 blocks of six episodes & one Christmas special) by Ricky Gervais/Steven Merchant.

They're the guys who wrote 'the office'.

I didn't really like the office. But Extras wags my tail.

He became so popular after the office, that apparently, superstars were queueing up to be the featured 'superstar' that each extras episode is written around, including the fact that some of them had to do a little self-ridicule.

I'm talking Bowie, De Niro, and good ole Harry Potter lol.

Seriously, if you can handle uncomfortable, ultra-dry Brit humour that DVD set is worth the outlay and you will never feel like 'all the bad sh*t in the world seems to happen to me' again. It doesn't. It happens to 'Andy Millman'.

If you're not sure, try and get to see the Bowie, Harry Potter or Chris Martin (Coldplay) ones first. That should get you hooked.

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by ExRat

Hi 13th,

For current (recent) British comedy, if you like it really dry, there's a series called 'Extras' (2 blocks of six episodes & one Christmas special) by Ricky Gervais/Steven Merchant.

They're the guys who wrote 'the office'.

I didn't really like the office. But Extras wags my tail.

He became so popular after the office, that apparently, superstars were queueing up to be the featured 'superstar' that each extras episode is written around, including the fact that some of them had to do a little self-ridicule.

I'm talking Bowie, De Niro, and good ole Harry Potter lol.

Seriously, if you can handle uncomfortable, ultra-dry Brit humour that DVD set is worth the outlay and you will never feel like 'all the bad sh*t in the world seems to happen to me' again. It doesn't. It happens to 'Andy Millman'.

If you're not sure, try and get to see the Bowie, Harry Potter or Chris Martin (Coldplay) ones first. That should get you hooked.

Thanks for the heads up. Going to check YouTube for some of this stuff.

Now that I think about, I loved Barney Miller when it was on t.v. , here.

The "dryness" of that humor made me laugh my azz off.

You got to be real good to pull that off. Because its almost like a real life reaction, almost.

Like reactions from the cast around ,something completly un-planned and predicted, at least, thats the way it supposed to appear, completly organic in reaction.

The Office has some of that, but you can tell its forced not a natural-like reaction to situations like Barney Miller, reactions REAL folks might have.

Barney Miller, seem to have that UK "feel" in a t.v. series as far as cadence,mood and flow.

And even lighting, only talk shows, game shows and news cast now use that type of lighting or the way it looks on t.v. , if thats what its called.

The 13 th Warrior

[The 13th Warrior]

Originally Posted by robocallaghan

For some recentish Brit TV how about

Couping
The IT Crowd

Rob.

Putting that on the "to do" list.

The 13 th Warrior

[SKWeaver]

All the Brits I know have a great sense of humor... probably because they're laughing all the way to the bank and it carries over into everything else. Would that I were smiling so big!

[Harvey Segal]

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

Help!!

Admin, please delete this thread before Harvey Segal joins in.

Martin

Too late.

The Segal has landed.


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[Alan Cheng]

Originally Posted by Thomas

You can be VERY sure they're not from Yorkshire, or anywhere in the north of England.

Even other Brits don't know what they're saying...

Apart from Geordies. They've got the coolest accent in the whole of England hands down.

[Fabian Tan]

I hang out at British football (soccer) forums. Brits are cool people

Fabian

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Bev Clement

Chip butties now you're talking.

Bev, your making me hungry....Thanks a bunch!

I have to go take a buttie break now


-paul

[John Taylor]

Originally Posted by Alan Cheng

Apart from Geordies. They've got the coolest accent in the whole of England hands down.

Way aye man hinny. ;-)

John

[Kunle Olomofe]

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

It got me wondering how people from other countries regard the Brits here. Do you think we joke too much for a business forum? Or do you think humour is an important asset in building relationships and a business?

For me, taking the piss and bantering is a natural part of the British work environment.

Martin

That's what makes the british so much fun, one reason I love you brits