just how important is the Royal Family?

[nfe]

Yeah, but why do the Irish, Scots and Welsh hate the English and vice versa?  

English Sports commentators.

[Philly Q]

Re Dave and Dmoney's comments about accents:  personally, I love the sound of all the regional accents from these islands (I daren't say "British", do I?  :P  :roll: )

It's just a shame they seem to be dying out as all teenagers call each other "blood" and talk in an idiotic accent that seems to be a hybrid of mockney, Kingston Jamaica and South Central LA.  :x

[Dmoney]

ive noticed this... scouser using the phrase 'get me'... which to me is pretty south london, and probably originates from somewhere in the US.

I was playing around with merch ideas today, and i thought about this whole 'lets pretend to be american' thing... what gets me, is when you go to gigs in london in the MIDDLE of winter, and its FREEZING, and some chump turns up in mesh shorts, and a tshirt, and a trucker cap... it just makes me die a little inside.

so i drew up this shirt when i messing about with ideas....

[shobet]

Yeah, but why do the Irish, Scots and Welsh hate the English and vice versa? 

English Sports commentators.

That made me chuckle!

[dave_mc]

I'm not English, I'm Welsh.  I only live here.  


Anyway, I think this is one of those topics it's very difficult to discuss on a forum without sounding all pompous and misunderstanding each other.  We'd be much better off getting rat-arsed and shouting at each other in a pub.  :P

haha, excellent. But yeah, as I said, only some of the English have it, nowhere near all. Plenty of people were really nice any time I've been in England (or anywhere, really). I think stereotypes persist because you remember the one person who conforms to them, and forget the 10 who don't.

What I find really funny is the supposed animosity between the english and the french or germans... mainly because the reasons given for why the french or germans are annoying (which are ridiculous stereotypes, anyway) are the exact same stereotypes given by non-english people to the english... :lol:

What actually does annoy me, and for which there's no real excuse, is the amount of english people who don't seem to realise that NI is part of the UK, it's not that hard to figure out which provinces (whatever you want to call them) are part of your country. I dunno how many people on forums ask me what it's like using the euro... :lol:

English Sports commentators.

yes

Re Dave and Dmoney's comments about accents:  personally, I love the sound of all the regional accents from these islands (I daren't say "British", do I?  :P  :roll: )

It's just a shame they seem to be dying out as all teenagers call each other "blood" and talk in an idiotic accent that seems to be a hybrid of mockney, Kingston Jamaica and South Central LA.  :x

i haven't noticed any real difference with our accent, but then our accent is halfway to american anyway, so it might be less noticeable... I have wandering accent syndrome anyway, it gets annoying.

[Johnny Mac]

Re Dave and Dmoney's comments about accents:  personally, I love the sound of all the regional accents from these islands (I daren't say "British", do I?  :P  :roll: )

It's just a shame they seem to be dying out as all teenagers call each other "blood" and talk in an idiotic accent that seems to be a hybrid of mockney, Kingston Jamaica and South Central LA.  :x

Armstrong And Miller do a great job of mocking the afflicted teen misplaced fools, which is on later.



My mates in Glasgow love taking the piss out of Jimmy Hill!  :lol:


All this regional rivalry goes on in other countrys too, the Aussies thrive on it. Its part of our nature, which is probably why borders came about in the first place.
As for the royals, years ago i wasn't too keen but these days I think its probably best things are left as they are. There's a lot worse around than them.