What don't you "get"?

[theVikingR]

I don't find it confusing but then again I am the only English person in London. In fact driving on the left is the only thing unique about England now. Thanks to globalisation an entire cultural institute or innovation and common sense has been replaced by Starbucks and Blockbuster Video.

Pubs and chippies? I know what you mean though, it seems even our trademark rain has disappeared of late.

Most Americans who come to London expect to find us all wearing bowler hats having tea parties on the ceiling in old Westminster saying things like 'jolly good old chap' or perhaps proletariat cockneys up chimneys covered in smog, 'step in time Mary Bloomin Poppins'. The only culture the English have left is football hooliganism and singing the old 'one world cup,two world wars' song to any Germans passing by.

haha

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

When you say that you’re not really into the Beatles/Stones they'll look at you like you just burst into their house on Christmas day and pissed on the turkey.

Man... I'm cool with the Beatles I guess, but I HATE the Stones!! And that is exactly the reaction you get when you tell people that.

It just sounds so earth shatteringly ordinary to me (read pop music) and everybody else thinks it's come from the celestial mind of god. Now Zep on the other hand, fucking legends and no mistake govnor.

Dude... after driving across the country with guys who like oldies pop and rock (so I listened to a LOT of that stuff), I can see why the Beatles were fucking Earth-shattering at the time. Up until them, all pop and rock music was the same song with different words. Literally.
And yes, Zep fucking rules.

 

[1by4by9]

Allegedly the reason we drive on the left is that in days of yore, highwaymen would stand in the middle of the road and since most people are right handed, riding your horse on the left meant having your dextrous arm in line with the centre of the road and thus a cleaner shot with your pistol or stronger blow with your sword.

I had a discussion with my friend from England about the subject. He told the same story about highwaymen and the better hand. I didn't buy it, my opinion was that Brits do it to annoy other European countries.

 

[shanky]

I don't get why americans put the month before the day in dates, i.e

mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy

We don't in Canada, but if we did, my birthday would be 6/7/89.

And how sweet is that?

 

[Jax]

I don't get why americans put the month before the day in dates, i.e

mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy

Because we traditionally call a date "month/date"..like today is August 2nd, thereby it makes sense to refer to it as 8/2.

 

[War_Blade]

Most Americans who come to London expect to find us all wearing bowler hats having tea parties on the ceiling in old Westminster saying things like 'jolly good old chap' or perhaps proletariat cockneys up chimneys covered in smog, 'step in time Mary Bloomin Poppins'. The only culture the English have left is football hooliganism and singing the old 'one world cup,two world wars' song to any Germans passing by.

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stop fucking stereotyping us.... were not as dumb as you fucking think.... Jesus, the rest of the world acts like were a bunch of belligerent idiots. Really... were not..

 

[Tubbs]

Jesus, the rest of the world acts like were a bunch of belligerent idiots. Really... were not..

Actually... yeah. Many of us are. (Not all, just most)

 

[Yngvai X]

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stop fucking stereotyping us.... were not as dumb as you fucking think.... Jesus, the rest of the world acts like were a bunch of belligerent idiots. Really... were not..

hahaha lighten up man, that was fuckin' funny. If anything he was making fun of the Londoner stereotype that Americans expect to find.

 

[theVikingR]

I had a discussion with my friend from England about the subject. He told the same story about highwaymen and the better hand. I didn't buy it, my opinion was that Brits do it to annoy other European countries.

How did you find out the truth?!? That's also the reason we refuse to adopt the euro

As for the date thing, I'm biased since I'm from England, but the day-month-year method seems more logical to me because it's ordered by magnitude of unit of time rather than how you render it in speech. I think the Japanese go one better though with year-month-day which is far more sensible.

 

[Horus]

Here's something I don't get. I don't feel like putting it into words, so I'll just post a link to the thread where I made the 2nd most epic post of my life:

What the hell is up with Ghettoness?!?!?!?!

My brain is still dead from writing that.

 

[HackerX]

Because we traditionally call a date "month/date"..like today is August 2nd, thereby it makes sense to refer to it as 8/2.

I do know that Jax, I would go so far to say that that doesn't make sense either

 

[Horus]

It saves us 2 syllables to say "August 2nd", instead of "The 2nd of August"

 

[War_Blade]

i actually read that whole thing and agree with every word. Well said Ptah.

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

My point though, is that this whole African American Culture doesn't even have anybody that does any actual thinking!!

... ... Generalize much?

(Edit: The quote is from another thread, linked above.)

 

[Androz]

Here is what I don't get: I don't get why I have been so long without owning Bumblefoot's Normal

 

[Beelzebub]

Most Americans who come to London expect to find us all wearing bowler hats having tea parties on the ceiling in old Westminster saying things like 'jolly good old chap' or perhaps proletariat cockneys up chimneys covered in smog, 'step in time Mary Bloomin Poppins'. The only culture the English have left is football hooliganism and singing the old 'one world cup,two world wars' song to any Germans passing by.

My parents are from what used to be a British colony, my mother tells me stories of how she used to sing God Save The Queen in school.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Here is what I don't get: I don't get why I have been so long without owning Bumblefoot's Normal

GREAT cd Androz!!!!!!!! HIGHLY recommended!

J-Dubya

 

[Sabin17]

I don't get MTV. For the first time in a very long time, I was bored enough to watch something on MTV called "Room Raiders" yesterday. My goodness, is my generation that superficial about relationships?! Materialism wins the day with the MTV crowd...

 

[Jaen]

i dont get why no one likes Poison...*ducks*

 

[Aglaia]

I don't get why we haven't been back to the moon.