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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:48 pm
by reminisco
Gareth Keenan's Homepage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/gareth/
^a perfect example of the English Gentleman^
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:20 pm
by Neoteny
suggs wrote:It means we get to eat fried egg sandwiches.
God Save The Egg.
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Can I join? Where are the applications?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:22 pm
by suggs
Neoteny wrote:suggs wrote:It means we get to eat fried egg sandwiches.
God Save The Egg.
\
Can I join? Where are the applications?
I'm fraid you have to lose yourself an empire first.
Only then do the fried egg sanies bring the solace they surely can
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:27 pm
by Fruitcake
suggs wrote:Neoteny wrote:suggs wrote:It means we get to eat fried egg sandwiches.
God Save The Egg.
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Can I join? Where are the applications?
I'm fraid you have to lose yourself an empire first.
Only then do the fried egg sanies bring the solace they surely can
Of course losing an Empire presupposes you have created one in the first place...
As for egg sarnies, no one can make them like June who runs the mobile cafe on the A34 outside Didcot, but then she is british.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:31 pm
by reminisco
Fruitcake wrote:As for egg sarnies, no one can make them like June who runs the mobile cafe on the A34 outside Didcot, but then she is british.
can't comment on your sandwiches, but an egg and cheese on an Amoroso (South Philly Italian bread) long roll -- from a food truck in Philadelphia is pretty clutch.
only about $2.50, too. perfect for a hangover, or breakfast on the go.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:31 pm
by reminisco
also, here is a rock and roll band dedicated to describing life as a British Person:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cb50eNYL1DY
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:36 pm
by reminisco
here is another song about the importance of Butlers (to British People):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PViMbn9b1nU
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:39 pm
by suggs
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:41 pm
by suggs
Fruitcake wrote:suggs wrote:Neoteny wrote:suggs wrote:It means we get to eat fried egg sandwiches.
God Save The Egg.
\
Can I join? Where are the applications?
I'm fraid you have to lose yourself an empire first.
Only then do the fried egg sanies bring the solace they surely can
Of course losing an Empire presupposes you have created one in the first place...
Er...The Empire of the USA c.1898-present day.
Or whenever it was you grabbed the phillipnes. or ws it cuba.
Or was it the middle east?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:45 pm
by Fruitcake
reminisco wrote:Fruitcake wrote:As for egg sarnies, no one can make them like June who runs the mobile cafe on the A34 outside Didcot, but then she is british.
can't comment on your sandwiches, but an egg and cheese on an Amoroso (South Philly Italian bread) long roll -- from a food truck in Philadelphia is pretty clutch.
only about $2.50, too. perfect for a hangover, or breakfast on the go.
Nooo...an egg sarnie has to be thus:
The white is cooked, but the yolk is runny. It should be fried in dripping, not hideous low colestrol oil. The bread should be white thick sliced and spread with butter that is of a temperature that makes it start to melt quickly, but not fully, when the hot egg is placed on it. Salt can be added to taste. You should never cut the sarnie as this causes the yolk to run on the placement, and not down your fingers, as you bite into it. There should be plentiful supply of harsh paper napkins to hand as they will be required. This should be washed down with a mug (not a pansy cup) of strong tea (sugar to taste).
To eat, use both hands, to hold the uncut sarmie, holding in such a way that the yolk is, mostly, held within the sarmie as you bite (this can be helped by eating that part at a slight angle causing the yolk to run back into the sarmie)
Enjoy when hungry or not hungry (although on a cold winters day by the A34 it does seem to have a special flavour and fulfills one greatly)
Enjoy.
A particularly British snack, well done suggs for bringing to the attention of this thread.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:47 pm
by Fruitcake
suggs wrote:Fruitcake wrote:suggs wrote:Neoteny wrote:suggs wrote:It means we get to eat fried egg sandwiches.
God Save The Egg.
\
Can I join? Where are the applications?
I'm fraid you have to lose yourself an empire first.
Only then do the fried egg sanies bring the solace they surely can
Of course losing an Empire presupposes you have created one in the first place...
Er...The Empire of the USA c.1898-present day.
Or whenever it was you grabbed the phillipnes. or ws it cuba.
Or was it the middle east?
Goodness...I didn't know the USA had an empire suggs?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:50 pm
by reminisco
Fruitcake wrote:Goodness...I didn't know the USA had an empire suggs?
hegemony, not an empire.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:53 pm
by Minister Masket
One word:
Crumpets
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:54 pm
by ignotus
Football!!!
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:59 pm
by Fruitcake
Minister Masket wrote:One word:
Crumpets
Hot with butter and, of course,...tea
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:05 pm
by Audax
Advocado coloured bathroom suites in old B&Bs
Re: So what does it mean to be British!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:59 am
by Jenos Ridan
Fruitcake wrote:GREAT BRITAIN!
One of the British national daily newspaper is asking readers
'What it means to be British?' Some of the emails are hilarious but
this is one from a chap in Switzerland...
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a
Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a
Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch
American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of
all?
Suspicion of anything foreign.
Only in Britain... can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.
Only in Britain... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way
to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries,
and a DIET coke.
Only in Britain... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens
to the counters.
Only in Britain... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the
drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
Only in Britain... do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't
want to talk to in the first place.
Only in Britain... are there disabled parking places in front of a
skating rink.
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new
shirts.
58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers.
31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while
the fairy lights were plugged in.
19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas
decorations were chocolate.
British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker
pulling accidents.
101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out
of the soles of their feet.
18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Brits were admitted to AandE in the last two years after
opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of Control
Scalextric cars.
And finally.... In 2000, eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.
RULE BRITANNIA!!!!!
I guess this goes to show that the US and UK really are not that different after all.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:01 pm
by Minister Masket
You can pick your friends.
You can pick your nose.
But you can't really pick your friend's nose.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:31 pm
by Fruitcake
Jenos Ridan wrote:I guess this goes to show that the US and UK really are not that different after all.
They're not. as George Bernard Shaw said...England and America are two countries separated by the same language...
Previously, none other than Oscar Wilde ("I have nothing to declare but my genius") said in The Canterville Ghost ..."We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language" and this was written as far back as 1887...not much has changed it seems.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:57 pm
by DAZMCFC
my wife usually does me a bacon,egg and sausage butty(toasted) at the weekends.
being British is having Scottish parents and born and raised in England. supporting Scotland in all sports and singing "god save the Queen" when England play. being shit at most sports that we introduced to he world, i.e. Football(real),Rugby,Cricket and Tennis(may of been invented in France). we are good at Darts and Snooker,because you can sit drinking pints of beer when it is not your go.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:29 pm
by firth4eva
Being britih means supporting a fotbal club that's won the Premiership even if it's atthe otherend of the country. So many Arsenal and Chelsea fans near me it'sunbelievable.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:33 pm
by brooksieb
Golf (which is scottish is british) so you can include that in british sports, also scotland are world champs of elephant polo, HOORAY!!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:17 pm
by DAZMCFC
brooksieb wrote:Golf (which is scottish is british) so you can include that in british sports, also scotland are world champs of elephant polo, HOORAY!!
good one Brooksie i forgot about golf. we need our European friends to help whoop the American arses.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:19 pm
by Fruitcake
Pastimes such as:
Cheese rolling...a great day out among the six fingered down in darkest glos.
Having some of the most absurd laws on the planet such as:
It is illegal to stick a stamp bearing Her Maj's head upside down on an envelope (this is, in fact, an act of treason.)
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (I checked this out, it is because anyone dieing in the Palace is entitled to a state funeral, so they cart you out sharpish if you look a bit sick...makes you wonder about the House of M'Luds).
A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, (including in a policeman's helmet)
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:37 pm
by khazalid
here ye here ye my southern friends.
it doesnt mean anything to be british anymore, the union will dissolve within the next 12 years and you can take your nuclear submarines back t'cornwall.