Questions for our American friends

[Chaos]

We'd say "Set the table." here instead, I think. Isn't "Big girl's blouse" rhyming slang?...once you figure out that idea, it isn't hard to figure out that mouse is the word being rhymed. As for darn, it's a more polite alternative to damn...

Haha...girls blouse means basically 'you are a wimp and a coward and I pity you, you pathetic little man.' No-one kinda uses that anymore.
Big girls blouse is not rhyming slang.
Rhyming slang would be:
My old man fell down the apples and pairs on his way to the local to buy some three cheers. Now he's brown bread.'
Ie my dad fell down the stairs on the way to the pub to buy some beers. Now he's dead.
Ok, I made up some of that slang....but you get the gist.

Darn = to mend. Darning socks = mending socks.
Only Americans to my knowledge use darn as a form of Damn, although I could be wrong.

1.Why is David Beckham so overpaid jsut for kicking a ball accross the field? In comparison to some of your NBA stars and Football stars, David Beckham is poor...very poor. And in the beautiful game (football) it's not just kicking a ball across a field that counts. It's doing it well, which Becks' does. Anyway, can't you say the same about your sports stars. Why was Michael Jordan paid so much (and still is paid so much) for dribbling a ball up and down a court?
2.What is it like living on an island? Your continant is an island..just bigger than ours. No different than living on any other part of land, apart from you are always about 150 miles from the coast.
3.Why do you guys have such horrible teeth? That is just our royal family. In general, we have nice teeth.
4.Why do black british sound so weird I mean I'm american and black but I have a low pitch voice why are there voices in britain so dang high pitched!!!!!! *cough* Generalisation. I think you find many of your Black citizens have high voices too, just as many of our black citizens have low voices.

When I was in America the first house I saw had a big banner outside saying 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' and a picture of a flag. A badly drawn flag. That scared me.

Chaos

[DMKA]

When I was in America the first house I saw had a big banner outside saying 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' and a picture of a flag. A badly drawn flag. That scared me.

XD

[The Redneck]

the americans are selfish, petrol gusling, plant destroying hillbillies.

Have we met?

[DMKA]

Yes.

[Glendon]

When I was in America the first house I saw had a big banner outside saying 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' and a picture of a flag. A badly drawn flag. That scared me.

Where did you visit?

[lordblazer]

We'd say "Set the table." here instead, I think. Isn't "Big girl's blouse" rhyming slang?...once you figure out that idea, it isn't hard to figure out that mouse is the word being rhymed. As for darn, it's a more polite alternative to damn...

Haha...girls blouse means basically 'you are a wimp and a coward and I pity you, you pathetic little man.' No-one kinda uses that anymore.
Big girls blouse is not rhyming slang.
Rhyming slang would be:
My old man fell down the apples and pairs on his way to the local to buy some three cheers. Now he's brown bread.'
Ie my dad fell down the stairs on the way to the pub to buy some beers. Now he's dead.
Ok, I made up some of that slang....but you get the gist.

Darn = to mend. Darning socks = mending socks.
Only Americans to my knowledge use darn as a form of Damn, although I could be wrong.

1.Why is David Beckham so overpaid jsut for kicking a ball accross the field? In comparison to some of your NBA stars and Football stars, David Beckham is poor...very poor. And in the beautiful game (football) it's not just kicking a ball across a field that counts. It's doing it well, which Becks' does. Anyway, can't you say the same about your sports stars. Why was Michael Jordan paid so much (and still is paid so much) for dribbling a ball up and down a court?
2.What is it like living on an island? Your continant is an island..just bigger than ours. No different than living on any other part of land, apart from you are always about 150 miles from the coast.
3.Why do you guys have such horrible teeth? That is just our royal family. In general, we have nice teeth.
4.Why do black british sound so weird I mean I'm american and black but I have a low pitch voice why are there voices in britain so dang high pitched!!!!!! *cough* Generalisation. I think you find many of your Black citizens have high voices too, just as many of our black citizens have low voices.

When I was in America the first house I saw had a big banner outside saying 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' and a picture of a flag. A badly drawn flag. That scared me.

Chaos

There are players in the mexican league that are waaaaaaay better than beckham.Either beckham is investing or he is getting overpaid :P

another question

Why was the UK known as Albion?

[tomamar04]

Questions for the Brits:

1.Why is David Beckham so overpaid jsut for kicking a ball accross the field?
2.What is it like living on an island?
3.Why do you guys have such horrible teeth?
4.Why do black british sound so weird I mean I'm american and black but I have a low pitch voice why are there voices in britain so dang high pitched!!!!!!

1. Beckham is a God.
2. The island is pretty big, so I can't really say it makes any differance.
3. Stereotype, probably from Victorian times.
4. Not sure...can't say I've noticed.

[lordblazer]

Also one more question

Have any brits seen a F5 tornado causing massive destruction for only a few minutes?

[tomamar04]

No F5's, but in South East England, we get at least 2 tornado's a year. They never cause any damage though, not even to trees.

[lordblazer]

Wow lucky bastards i live inoklahoma we average over 200 a year and on bad thats it goes over that yearly average in just one day.

[The Redneck]

To take a leaf from someone's book means to use one of their tactics or techniques. If my roommate steals from me, then even though I don't normally steal I might "take a leaf from his book" and steal something from him... Except that I don't smoke weed, and that's the only thing of value he has.

And I'd really like to see some evidence behind the claim that more women are raped on Superbowl Sunday than any other day. NOW (the National Organization of Women) made a similar claim several years ago, that more women were admitted to hospitals because of domestic violence on SSS than any other day--and in case you didn't already grasp that this is because celebrating manhood and being masculine means abusing women and therefore a day when men basically sit around doing 'man' things means a day when women get beat down, they explained it for us. It turned out to be a load of crap, but it can only be a matter of time before they move on to a new trick.

And while I realize this doesn't refer to England or the US, I figger there's got to be an Aussie or two on the thread, so lemme ask--do all Australians really want to curb-stomp Paul Hogan?

Also, the reason our words are shorter and spelled/pronounced simpler than yours is because Americans tend to bastardize every word we have or borrow.

[lordblazer]

Yep us americans bastardize every single word oyu come up with.Really dude I guess.WE stolen a lot of words form other languages and intergrated them into english.Such as oklahoma,Tecumseh,Wyoming.You get what i mean but stiill I guess we are the only ones who bastardize english langauge becuase everyone other country that speaks english which BTW USA doesn't have a national langauge.

[Madame Adequate]

I've always wondered if like, the same way we hear British people talk different, and then when they sing we think they sound the same as us...does it work the same way for you guys when we talk and sing?

Actually, yes. I don't tend to hear a great deal of accents in singing, from either side of the Atlantic. Depends on who it is and their style, of course.

Edit: And Americans do not butcher the language. Don't make me get all Bill Bryson on you. If you really want to debate the various merits of the vast numbers of words America has given us, weighed up against the fact that they spell some things differently, then be my guest.

[Caspian]

I love everyone. Right now in the states I am drunk illegally, but if I were in Brtain I'd be legal as a cow.

[tomamar04]

Ha! You all have to wait until you're 21 to drink!!!