THE BRITISH THREAD II

Or "a chocolate teapot"

My dad was fond of saying "like a whore at a christening".

pronounced "hoor" of course.

Queenie wrote-



Which comparable nation (?) would you suggest is the standard for "not horrible".

I hardly think a British person would say-



and then proceed to intrude. One has obviously told a bare faced lie by claiming to be sorry and that's objective horrible. It's having it both ways.
And has missed the point that I was defending British football fans from unjustified attacks on a British thread and, in the process, have discovered who we can rely on when things get a bit sticky, as they will if this vulgar lower-middle class takeover of the country's affairs goes on much longer.

Still- what can one expect from a country that bats 47 overs and then starts digging the pitch up in the last 3 as a gift to their sporting rivals and does it on TV where everyone can see it and does it again after being caught a let off with an admonishment.

What does lower middle class mean?

Meanwhile as Prince Bandar (him of "harm and cash" er sorry correction that should be "charm and dash") pockets hundreds of millions of pounds courtesy of BAE and the MoD - £30m a quarter for 20 years - set up by Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan, the world is turned upside down by a lower middle class girl calling a black man a "ni**er". We must have an enquiry.

Steve wrote-



It is that ever growing section of the population which is neither working class nor toff. It feeds by word formulations and it has made every single important writer in history sick to the back teeth at the sight of it's vulgarity. It has come to dominate national life through its agents in Westminster and media and can only lead us to ruin.

It is difficult to define but I can spot a member of it as soon as they open their gob. That is because their indignation threshold is very,very delicate and one can only tell them what they want to hear to avoid having it all in pieces all over the carpet.

Will that do Steve? I wouldn't go into the finer details if I was you. It really is a most gruesome prospect.

Class divides are so ugly. Judging a person value by the amount of money they make or even what their parents made is perhaps even uglier than doing the same based on skin colour.

Almost. You think I'm middle lower class?

Would you guys help me?

I want to know slang terms for beer drinking, like beer guzzling..

Can you offer some others?

do you mean getting pissed in general Francis or the actual act of drinking specifically "beer"? If it's the latter, you could try these:

"knocking back"
"glugging"
"downing"
"hammering"

Yes, I mean the actual act of drinking beer.

So, can I say: I can knock back/glug/down/hammer some (beer)?

Sure can.

Oh I forgot, you can also "neck" and "sup"

:wink:

Just tell 'em you can sup like a fish Francis.

But if you intend putting it in a letter, don't print Francis after, they'll never believe you, mark your card as Big Frank, they'll swallow that!

Do you think I can't really sup some beer, Mathos?

and a wonderful northern expression when encouraging someone else to finish their pint of beer

Gerrit down yer neck

Which I'm sure francis will have no trouble translating. Though sensitive souls like Spendy might be shocked.

I'd rather capped you as a Chardonney or Flash type Champers type Francis..

Can you manage a dozen draught guiness, with Bushmills chasers then?

I would love you see you try to drink as much Guinness[/b]. Why are you so confrontational?

Well, my spirit of sacrifice doesn't go that far...

Thought so, stick to your plonk! :wink:


But I could always help you out, I'd buy you a few pints and chasers any day mate, !

Steve, shut your gob and don't start on the grammar and spelling thing, it bloody irks me..Are you that oink Spendi's pigging brother or what?

BTW I can manage twenty pints, with chasers mate. No problem at all!

This is all rather infantile Francis I'm afraid.

Actually I have a beer degree which is a qualification which both enables me and grants me the right to talk at length and with complete authority on any subject which might come up at the end of a long day.

You have to be careful with beer. You can easily catch "beerache" which is like tinitus but with a female voice rather than the sound of a chain saw but I never get that as I have a "Beer-angel" who watches over me and keeps me safe and got me my "Beer-armour" fitted which is an invisible protective shield, like the "Beer-cones" which guide traffic freely around me, which removes all sensations or damage when in collision with solid objects in the dark. The "Beer compass" is built in to the Beer armour and guides one safely to one's front door without one having to think about it. You have to beware of the beer-goggles. You can easy wake up next to something which doesn't look so hot as it did when you had them on and it can be quite a shock to one's self-respect. You can easily buy items on eBay that you have neither need or want of in beer-goggles.

There's much more actually. These others have no idea. They probably go to bed and get tucked in after the watershed.

But don't do the Beerwolf unless you're over 25. That's when you wake up in unfamiliar surrounding with bruises, aching joints and torn clothes with blood in your teeth and having nightmarish flashbacks.

The proper word for proper drinking is "beasting". These others are very lower-middle-class expressions. They mean genteel sipping.