Are British people really as mean as the stereotype suggests?

The UK is kind of like that, and I hate it.

Have you seen the state the place was in when we took them? The locals were burning the stuff to make lime and before that the Turks had managed to blow the place up by putting gunpowder in it. If Elgin hadn't "stolen" them they'd most likely be gone by now, which goes for a lot of the foreign art in the British Museum. Rule Britannia.

Also, common heritage of mankind etc etc no one nation etc.

edited 4th Sep '14 7:18:37 AM by Achaemenid

Yeah, the Greeks couldn't care less at the time; I mean look what they did to the Parthenon. Maybe we're just going to hang on to them until the Greeks can show they can go at least one full century without burning their country down.

edited 4th Sep '14 7:16:32 AM by InverurieJones

Looting is a grand old British tradition!

Well, we differ on that. I still believe it is a pretty asshole move. But. You know. Politics and stuff. I am not comfortable getting into that argument since it might invite flamey stuff, I think.

But seriously, they were pretty cool. Those I did get the chance to speak with and hear. I cannot describe my personal experience as them being mean.

I prefer grabbing and pinching girls' cheeks all day! (wink wink, nudge nudge, gets his balls beaten up with a cricket bat, etc. etc.)

Also, women's English and Scottish accents...hot!

edited 4th Sep '14 2:52:25 PM by Quag15

I mostly meant "you guys'" just in general :P

Not that I am opposed to it

the british are a cruel people, OP

@The One Who Tropes

I see your point as high stressful jobs require to be focused and disciplined. Also, I guess it is somewhat justified that Ramsay would do that as it is not easy and it is not for everyone. Still, it is surprising that Ramsay is actually human really nice.

Every British person looks, sounds and acts exactly like Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday. Even the women. ESPECIALLY the women. Trust me, I'm an expert on this.

If that were the case, then what would we watch on TV?

Well, we don't really like filler. Some of us can talk and talk, and only get one point across. We call most of them "stupid". As a whole, we don't like beating around the bush except for things that you don't want to talk about in public. (And, as it happens, I actually AM a prefect. It doesn't help that the lad in the video has an almost identical uniform to me).

Sometimes it's nice to prove people right.

edited 16th Sep '14 4:03:46 PM by MisterKingdom

I truly loathe people who won't shut up. People who laugh too loudly too. Or worse, at their own jokes. Just one such individual is enough to ruin an evening.

And worst of all, people who don't get to the point:

edited 16th Sep '14 4:07:01 PM by Achaemenid

As a fellow Portuguese person, I would like to apologize for this shit book he wrote about the British. Even if a couple of things are fine, he apparently wrote it without any Rule of Funny or Sarcasm Mode.

There was cooking show where the chef in questionw as acutaly a former Navy drill sergeant(?) and he had to work a low bidget in order to help a few resterants. I forg ot what it was called...

You get used to it after a while, but thank you, Quag.

I've had people stereotype me as being a poncy upper class twit of a woman who owns several farms in Africa which grow something, and who rolls around in money daily.

Lol Portugal thinks its relevant

edited 20th Sep '14 9:19:03 AM by Achaemenid

An unfair and untrue stereotype, indeed.

I know, right? Someone needs to make a Polandball of this. Last time we were relevant was when Timor got its independence. Since then, it has been just sad to see our country looking the way it is currently looking (though we're not as shitty as we used to be in the 70's/80's).

Rachel: I thought you were super rich.

MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE

Portugal's legacy to the rest of the world is Brazil, with its "hues" and "Br?". I mean. Who puts a country right in the middle of a whole spanish speaking continent and makes them talk portuguese? That's not right!

How closely related are the two languages? Can a speaker of one understand a speaker of the other?

Trololololo.

Well, the legacy goes beyond that (Macau, Angola, Goa, anyone?), but I see your point.

We understand each other when it comes to the most basic things (after all, our languages descend from Latin, with a little bit of Arabic here and there), but it might get confusing to understand, depending on the place and the speakers from specific nations or regions.

edited 22nd Sep '14 10:00:42 AM by Quag15

Brazil cannot actually say "hue"◊ any more.

The Treaty of Tordesillas.◊

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Of course, the funniest nation in South America is Bolivia, due to their amusing lack of sea.

edited 22nd Sep '14 10:06:35 AM by Achaemenid

Portuguese and spanish are rather similar. If both speak very slowly sometimes you can understand the other. Sometimes.

Also, there's plenty of latin american countries which care funny. There's "watching a car crash in slow motion" funny Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia's leaders, Argentina's Falkland Islands thing, and certainly Bolivia's waters too.

No silly dictators in Britain to laugh at. I mean, sure, every now and then their politicans are funny, like Gordon brown being so boring it was funny (after you woke up from the nap). But nothing like Chavez repeatedly calling Bush "Mr. Danger" funny

Yeah, but there's nothing quite as sad as watching Bolivia's constant attempts to pretend to be a maritime power.