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 reds8n wrote:
We steal shamelessly too.

My current favourite is "Alamo".

As in

" Heavens.. have you met Sebastians' new paramour ? One really doesn't know what he sees in her."
" Quite, mind you saying that bear in mind rumour has it that she's well Alamo."


WTF?

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She's ready to be invaded by Antonio López de Santa Anna?

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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
 Goliath wrote:
 Seaward wrote:
We won the war.
you say 'war', I say 'troubles in the colonies'.


Yes you seem to have a terrible track record with those "troubles" of any sort.


In the annuals of British military history, it's down as a minor skirmish

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I'm British... and I don't get the Alamo thing either.

I thought the Alamo was a US thing that you guys are supposed to always remember? I forget why. (...I kid, I know full well why...)

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 Super Ready wrote:
I'm British... and I don't get the Alamo thing either.

I thought the Alamo was a US thing that you guys are supposed to always remember? I forget why. (...I kid, I know full well why...)


Exactly.

Unless you mean "was run over by five thousand Mexicans" then I guess you could use it. Otherwise

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
 Goliath wrote:
 Seaward wrote:
We won the war.
you say 'war', I say 'troubles in the colonies'.


Yes you seem to have a terrible track record with those "troubles" of any sort.


In the annuals of British military history, it's down as a minor skirmish


Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?

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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?


Seems they've gone a little bit reverse 'Dad's Army'

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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
 Goliath wrote:
 Seaward wrote:
We won the war.
you say 'war', I say 'troubles in the colonies'.


Yes you seem to have a terrible track record with those "troubles" of any sort.


In the annuals of British military history, it's down as a minor skirmish


Same way Dunkirk was a "minor setback" as opposed to a "disastrous defeat" right? Ah well the British military has always preferred vastly inferior foes, preferably armed with slices of fruit eh Blackadder?

Actually at the time the US was the arse end of nowhere and the Empire was more interested in keeping control of the Caribbean islands or fighting one of the bunch of other global superpowers that was fighting them at the time...

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PredaKhaine wrote:
And what are silent 'P's for?


Not disturbing the residents of the house whos wall you are watering

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I think most of the words with a 'silent' p were greek in origin.

I know that in the original greek, the 'p's were pronounced - so psalm was pronounced as is, with a 'ps'. This is because they would be written with the first letter being 'psi' which was pronounced "psi" (short 'i', as in sit, fit, etc).

Now, language is a curious beast. When you filter greek through latin and french to get to English, you end up with letters all over the place and some of them no longer voiced.



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 Krellnus wrote:
That reminds me of the Shaw Alphabet, where George Bernarnd Shaw attempted to create a new alphabet that assigned each unique sound, shame the idea never really caught on, maybe then, we wouldn't have all of these endless flame wars over spelling on youtube...

You mean like IPA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

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Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?


Because everything is your fault! The troubles around Israel, the deaths of the Aborigines in Australia, the....etc etc. Seriously I pity British kids in primary school here, often you here things like 'the British settlers then killed all the Aborigines, it was horrible'. And as a 7 year old you think 'of course, it all makes sense, those settlers are different to Australians right? Because...we came later. Oh, and it must be that one British kid in 2B's fault!' then they suffer for a week or two till you learn something else. At least by higher primary/secondary we just rip on them for their accents/during the Ashes, but in lower primary we don't know any better!

That got OT fast.

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?


No no, Britain is to blame for the fall of Rome. Had only you been a supportive ally, they'd still be around. They were relying on you!

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No no no!

The default mode is to blame America for everything! That's how the world works!

If the postman is late, blame America. If I have no toilet paper left, blame America, and so it goes on!

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We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.

 Blacksails wrote:

Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
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PredaKhaine wrote:
We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.


Why? What did he say?

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
PredaKhaine wrote:
We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.


Why? What did he say?


it's more his use and pronunciation of various words (like saying nuke-you-leer, instead of nuclear), and also how he could apparently make up words, which then comedians have since made up even more words for impersonations of him.
   
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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
No no no!

The default mode is to blame America for everything! That's how the world works!

If the postman is late, blame America. If I have no toilet paper left, blame America, and so it goes on!


The propa term is "Blame Canada!"

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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
PredaKhaine wrote:
We definitely shouldn't mis-underestimate his use of language.


Why? What did he say?


Here's a list of the better known ones.

George Bush wrote:
Spoiler:

General[edit]I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.[10]
"They misunderestimated me."[11] — Bentonville, Arkansas; November 6, 2000
"I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."[12] -January 18, 2001
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."[13] — Saginaw, Michigan; September 29, 2000
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.'"[14] — Nashville, Tennessee; September 17, 2002
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."[15] — Poplar Bluff, Missouri; September 6, 2004
"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2001 [16]
"One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps." - CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo, October 24, 2006.[17]
"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened."[18] (Announcing he would write a book about "the 12 toughest decisions" he had to make. Presumably "authoritative" was intended.)
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." (dreams take wing) —La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000[19]
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other." Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, 2003 [20]
Human cloning[edit]"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."[21]

Spoonerisms[edit]"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." —January 2000[19]
Foreign affairs[edit]"I'm the commander, see. I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."[22]
"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction. Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit." — Addressing then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard at the APEC Summit, September 7, 2007. (Neither the USA nor Australia is a member of OPEC.)[23]
"Yesterday, you made note of my—the lack of my talent when it came to dancing. But nevertheless, I want you to know I danced with joy. And no question Liberia has gone through very difficult times"- Speaking with the president of Liberia, Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 2008 [24]
"Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso (who described himself as "slightly mulatto"), Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001 [25]
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." (missile launches?)[26]
Terrorism[edit]"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." - Washington, D.C., January 12, 2009[27]
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004[28]
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001[29]
Economics[edit]"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras—it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments." — Speaking at a private fundraiser and surreptitiously recorded by a reporter with the footage subsequently leaked on various news outlets, Houston, Texas, July 18, 2008[30]
"You bet I cut the taxes at the top. That encourages entrepreneurship. What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher."[31]
In January 2000, just before the New Hampshire primary, Bush challenged the members of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce to imagine themselves as a single mother "working hard to put food on your family."[32]
Education[edit]"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"[5] — Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000
"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." — On the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C.; September 26, 2007[12]
"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are [sic] appalling." —Washington, D.C.; January 23,


 Blacksails wrote:

Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
 
   
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 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France.


...we do? Last I checked, the blame lay with the French. Given their reputation, I wouldn't have blamed us for not even bothering and just waiting until the Germans turned up at our place instead.

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Eldercaveman wrote:
boyd wrote:
 Seaward wrote:
We won the war.


Back to back world war champs!


Saying America won the war, is kind of like me drinking 3/4 of a beer, an American turning up and necking the rest. And then claiming that he drank that beer.

But we are getting into a whole other topic now


yup,

at least us canucks crossed the pond right away.

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 motyak wrote:
 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Slightly OT, but I don't know why the British get the blame for the fall of France. We had what, 100,000 men compared to the French who had 1 million? and more tanks than the Germans including the Somua? and the Char B which were pretty decent if I recall?


Because everything is your fault! The troubles around Israel, the deaths of the Aborigines in Australia, the....etc etc. Seriously I pity British kids in primary school here, often you here things like 'the British settlers then killed all the Aborigines, it was horrible'. And as a 7 year old you think 'of course, it all makes sense, those settlers are different to Australians right? Because...we came later. Oh, and it must be that one British kid in 2B's fault!' then they suffer for a week or two till you learn something else. At least by higher primary/secondary we just rip on them for their accents/during the Ashes, but in lower primary we don't know any better!

That got OT fast.


"During the ashes" what-what, How so...... normaly it's the victor doing the ribbing.

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Maybe he was at school a long time ago?

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the queen might have invited english, but we corrected it!

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Not too pour fuel on the fire but technically you didn't win the Revolution !!!! You were one of our colonies, so we one that one too

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 ironicsilence wrote:
the queen might have invited english, but we corrected it!


The Queen would like a word about your use of her language...




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