Study says alcohol-fueled mishaps = British culture

[terry78]

I guess Amazing Lee was pretty much doing it up right then.


http://news.yahoo.com/story//time/20080814/wl_time/agrowthexportforbritainboozing

 

[The Lizard]

That's what ended the British Empire. Cirrhosis of the liver.

 

[Nirvana]

Ha, no wonder my friends want to go to London so much.

 

[kane9321]

Hey lee

 

[04nbod]

absolute bull, only Doctor Who truly represents British Culture and has since the 60's.

I wish I were joking...but I'm not

 

[Hobgoblin]

Outrageous drunken behavior? Fighting? Casual sex? Add this (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...am-photographed-making-slit-eyed-gesture.html)
to the list of European behavior and it looks like they are more like the American stereotype than they would let on.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Okay, was searching alchohol on this forum to see if there were any threads about it.

Just have to say, as a british female who is well too aware of the problem my entire society has with booze... Yeah, whatever they say about us is true! We're a bunch of drunks!

 

[Manic]

Is this why you pronounce the letter H as "haitch" instead of "aitch"? Because you're all too drunk to remember the correct way?

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

America has 'MURICA!

What can Britain have?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Outrageous drunken behavior? Fighting? Casual sex? Add this (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...am-photographed-making-slit-eyed-gesture.html)
to the list of European British behavior and it looks like they are more like the American stereotype than they would let on.

Fixed.
You know Europe isn't one country.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Is this why you pronounce the letter H as "haitch" instead of "aitch"? Because you're all too drunk to remember the correct way?

The only people in Britain that do that are those that can't or choose not to, speak correctly.

Not everyone in England are Cockneys you know...
(Despite what Mary Poppins alludes to)

The best, or rather the one that gets on my proverbials the most, is when someone says "Arry" instead of "Harry" and this same person says "H" as "haitch"!!! Astounding.

Just don't get me started... t:

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Fixed.
You know Europe isn't one country.

I bet Germany wishes it was!



And yes, I'm here all week...

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Say what you want, but the German just don't give up. 100 years later and Germany has nearly conquered Europe.

 

[Number 6]

I was pretty amazed when I worked with some Brits with how much they fit this bill. Worse part of it was that they really couldn't hold it very well. Me and the Irish guys just laughed at the lads, flopping around in a drunken haze.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

The only people in Britain that do that are those that can't or choose not to, speak correctly.

I say 'haitch', and it's nothing to do with me choosing to or being unable to speak correctly.

Just how primary school teachers taught it when we were reciting the alphabet. The alphabet song, which is firmly planted in my brain, goes 'haitch, I, j, k' etc...

Not gonna suddenly start saying it differently now am I!

I was pretty amazed when I worked with some Brits with how much they fit this bill. Worse part of it was that they really couldn't hold it very well. Me and the Irish guys just laughed at the lads, flopping around in a drunken haze.

Too true. Standing outside of clubs at kick out time is pretty funny... Or scary... Depending how de sensitized you are to people fighting, vomiting in the street, sleeping in gutters, yelling at flower pots etc.

 

[Manic]

The only people in Britain that do that are those that can't or choose not to, speak correctly.

Not everyone in England are Cockneys you know...
(Despite what Mary Poppins alludes to)

The best, or rather the one that gets on my proverbials the most, is when someone says "Arry" instead of "Harry" and this same person says "H" as "haitch"!!! Astounding.

Just don't get me started... t:

and yet Americanisms are apparently the biggest threat to the English dialect.