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Do I act British?
Yes 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
No 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
Sometimes 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
How does a British person act? 47%  47%  [ 9 ]
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06 Jan 2007, 2:51 pm

I want you to tell me the truth about the way that I ask, and the reasons why.

I know that I've asked this, once before.



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06 Jan 2007, 2:57 pm

well, you don't use a lot of british phrases(though britains on here don't either)
though you seem to speak fondly of routemasters constantly

it's almost like you live in canada with routemasters


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06 Jan 2007, 3:08 pm

It's like being in some netherworld. Even many people from the United Kingdom aren't very 'British' - a lot of culture here has been Americanised over the years.



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06 Jan 2007, 3:23 pm

your as cockney as dick van dyke



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06 Jan 2007, 3:29 pm

Well,sometimes British people have a tendency to apologise when they might not have
done anything wrong,so that might apply to yourself.
My apologies if you don't think it does.
Nowadays I think every country is embracing other cultures.The UK is currenly expecting more immigrants from Bulgaria,who traditionally nod for 'No' and shake their heads for 'Yes',so that will be interesting.



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06 Jan 2007, 3:46 pm

Of course you do!


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06 Jan 2007, 4:18 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I want you to tell me the truth about the way that I ask, and the reasons why.

I know that I've asked this, once before.

Well, I've noticed you've used "bloody" as an expletive attributive here in the past. That's a jolly good indicator of Britishness.



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06 Jan 2007, 4:25 pm

Yeah.



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06 Jan 2007, 4:27 pm

No, I don't think so, because you express excitement like an American.


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06 Jan 2007, 8:51 pm

I'll go with "sometimes". YOu like British stuff. You capitalize more nouns than in proper (so to speak) American English, as if you were replicating an aged English legal document. But you don't seem to be as lovably argumentative or humorously arrogant as the average brit I've met on the net, either.



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06 Jan 2007, 9:28 pm

I know that Britons use the word "bloody" as a curseword but what is the British way of life like? Do they eat healthy like many Europeans? Or what?



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06 Jan 2007, 10:08 pm

i know that they eat their dinner/large meal during lunch because you're more likely to work off the food you eat during the course of the day than eating 6 or 7 hours before you sleep. or maybe that's the french...


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07 Jan 2007, 1:41 am

Not in northern England. That sounds like something the French might do. No, here we have a small breakfast, bit of dinner but the main meal of the day and the most exciting one is tea.



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07 Jan 2007, 4:02 am

Tequila wrote:
Not in northern England. That sounds like something the French might do. No, here we have a small breakfast, bit of dinner but the main meal of the day and the most exciting one is tea.
haha i was going to say something about how the english (is that politically correct?) love tea :lol:



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07 Jan 2007, 10:29 pm

ascan wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I want you to tell me the truth about the way that I ask, and the reasons why.

I know that I've asked this, once before.

Well, I've noticed you've used "bloody" as an expletive attributive here in the past. That's a jolly good indicator of Britishness.


I have, back in my earlier days, haven't I?



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07 Jan 2007, 10:43 pm

I don't know, do I act American?


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