British Invasion!
Sunday, August 31, 2003 by Gemstone | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Good Morning! I am a stupid Brit!!
(Pip Pip - Tally Ho, Crumpits and wot not...)
I was wondering if there are going to be any plans for an option in the Edit Account section to change the order of the dates around:
eg. mm/dd/yyyy - dd/mm/yyyy
From the recent poll I can see there are lots of non-Americans out there and I dont know about others but for me those dates just get confusing
(Pip Pip - Tally Ho, Crumpits and wot not...)
I was wondering if there are going to be any plans for an option in the Edit Account section to change the order of the dates around:
eg. mm/dd/yyyy - dd/mm/yyyy
From the recent poll I can see there are lots of non-Americans out there and I dont know about others but for me those dates just get confusing
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grayhaze
Reply #23 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:32 PM
Reply #23 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:32 PM
I say chaps, there's no need to start throwing around national stereotypes just for the sake of it. Honestly, you fellows just give the British a bad name. God save the Queen!
Cheerio.
Cheerio.
grayhaze
Reply #24 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:35 PM
Reply #24 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:35 PM
All we need now is some American to come in here sitcom-style and start talking in a mock cockney accent in the misguided belief that they're accurately representing a British person, and thereby making the use of an actual British actor entirely unneccesary. Oh, and not to forget that all British people are actually evil, if you believe just about any American action movie. 
WOM
Reply #25 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:39 PM
Reply #25 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:39 PM
I must have missed those movies grayhaze. Could you list them for me and I'll check them out.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #26 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:48 PM
(Scene: a wartime RAF station)
Jones: Morning, Squadron Leader.
Idle: What-ho, Squiffy.
Jones: How was it?
Idle: Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;
hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy,
flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: Er, I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Squadron Leader.
Idle: It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite
right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered
back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and
caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: No, I'm just not understanding banter at all well today. Give us it
slower.
Idle: Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.
Jones: Hold on then -- Wingco! -- just bend an ear to the Squadron Leader's
banter for a sec, would you?
Chapman: Can do.
Jones: Jolly good. Fire away.
Idle: Bally Jerry... (he goes through it all again)
Chapman: No, I don't understand that banter at all.
Idle: Something up with my banter, chaps?
GRAMS: AIR RAID SIRENS
(Enter Palin, out of breath)
Palin: Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and
let's get the bacon delivered!
Chapman (to Idle): Do *you* understand that?
Idle: No -- I didn't get a word of it.
Chapman: Sorry, old man, we don't understand your banter.
Palin: You know -- bally tenpenny ones dropping in the custard!
(no reaction)
Palin: Um -- Charlie choppers chucking a handful!
Chapman: No no -- sorry.
Jones: Say it slower, old chap.
Palin: Slower *banter*, sir?
Chapman: Ra-ther.
Palin: Um -- sausage squad up the blue end?
Idle: No, still don't get it.
Palin: Um -- cabbage crates coming over the briny?
The others: No, no.
(Film of air-raid)
Idle (voice-over): But by then it was too late. The first cabbage crates hit
London on July the 7th. That was just the beginning.
(Chapman seen sitting at desk, on telephone)
Chapman: Five shillings a dozen? That's ordinary cabbages, is it? And what
about the bombs?... Good Lord, they _are_ expensive.
Reply #26 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:48 PM
(Scene: a wartime RAF station)
Jones: Morning, Squadron Leader.
Idle: What-ho, Squiffy.
Jones: How was it?
Idle: Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;
hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy,
flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: Er, I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Squadron Leader.
Idle: It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite
right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered
back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and
caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: No, I'm just not understanding banter at all well today. Give us it
slower.
Idle: Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.
Jones: Hold on then -- Wingco! -- just bend an ear to the Squadron Leader's
banter for a sec, would you?
Chapman: Can do.
Jones: Jolly good. Fire away.
Idle: Bally Jerry... (he goes through it all again)
Chapman: No, I don't understand that banter at all.
Idle: Something up with my banter, chaps?
GRAMS: AIR RAID SIRENS
(Enter Palin, out of breath)
Palin: Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and
let's get the bacon delivered!
Chapman (to Idle): Do *you* understand that?
Idle: No -- I didn't get a word of it.
Chapman: Sorry, old man, we don't understand your banter.
Palin: You know -- bally tenpenny ones dropping in the custard!
(no reaction)
Palin: Um -- Charlie choppers chucking a handful!
Chapman: No no -- sorry.
Jones: Say it slower, old chap.
Palin: Slower *banter*, sir?
Chapman: Ra-ther.
Palin: Um -- sausage squad up the blue end?
Idle: No, still don't get it.
Palin: Um -- cabbage crates coming over the briny?
The others: No, no.
(Film of air-raid)
Idle (voice-over): But by then it was too late. The first cabbage crates hit
London on July the 7th. That was just the beginning.
(Chapman seen sitting at desk, on telephone)
Chapman: Five shillings a dozen? That's ordinary cabbages, is it? And what
about the bombs?... Good Lord, they _are_ expensive.
grayhaze
Reply #27 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:59 PM
Reply #27 Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:59 PM
WOM >> http://www.theshrubbery.com/0599/action.html
grayhaze
Reply #28 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:05 PM
Reply #28 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:05 PM
You might also like to take a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-london/A891155 for a comprehensive list. 
Cazzie
Reply #29 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:05 PM
Reply #29 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:05 PM
G'day mates! Now this aussies' awake, time to join in.
I'd like the option of the date format to match my puter too.
Did someone mention crupets??? Yummmmmm
I'd like the option of the date format to match my puter too.
Did someone mention crupets??? Yummmmmm
grayhaze
Reply #30 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:12 PM
Reply #30 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:12 PM
Can anyone say Greenwich Mean Time?
The date/time debate will rage on forever more, but in the end the world measures their time based on differences from GMT, which is measured in the British time/date format. So if everyone just adopted the 'correct' notation for dates and times, it would make things so much easier.
The date/time debate will rage on forever more, but in the end the world measures their time based on differences from GMT, which is measured in the British time/date format. So if everyone just adopted the 'correct' notation for dates and times, it would make things so much easier.
WOM
Reply #31 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:29 PM
Reply #31 Sunday, August 31, 2003 4:29 PM
Thanks grayhaze, that was enlightening.Never thought of it in the way you put it. Those are some of the best actors in some of the greatest parts I've seen.Oh well, I guess everyone sees things different, as I didn't look at it the way you put it. Guess I'am not that prejudice.
UBoB
Reply #32 Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:49 PM
Greenwich Mean Time.
I thought all witches, no matter whether green, yellow, red or whatever, were always mean.
Reply #32 Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:49 PM
| Can anyone say Greenwich Mean Time? |
Greenwich Mean Time.
I thought all witches, no matter whether green, yellow, red or whatever, were always mean.
Jafo
Reply #33 Sunday, August 31, 2003 6:33 PM
Reply #33 Sunday, August 31, 2003 6:33 PM
It's not 'green witch'...it's 'grennich'...so 'witches' don't rate a mention....
UBoB
Reply #34 Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:08 PM I was just messin' witcha. I'm aware of the correct pronunciation. I've even been to Greenberg's Village in New York City. 
Reply #34 Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:08 PM
I was just messin' witcha. I'm aware of the correct pronunciation. I've even been to Greenberg's Village in New York City. 
Leo the Lion
Reply #35 Monday, September 1, 2003 1:22 AM
Reply #35 Monday, September 1, 2003 1:22 AM
Grayhaze.........i have been taking a "butchers" at this thread and i love some of our Brit speak. Anyway must dash - got to go up the "old apple and pears" to bed as i have got to be up early in the morning to get my "barnett" cut.
Tallyhoo.........bandits at 12 o'clock and all that
Tallyhoo.........bandits at 12 o'clock and all that
Gemstone
Reply #37 Monday, September 1, 2003 2:49 AM
Reply #37 Monday, September 1, 2003 2:49 AM
This is way cool! 
If you go onto My Skins and then re-type the ID number in the address bar you can see all the peoples names. And as long as you do a number under yours then u get sum1 Fun as nething
If you go onto My Skins and then re-type the ID number in the address bar you can see all the peoples names. And as long as you do a number under yours then u get sum1 Fun as nething | But dont worry people the update butons are not there! |
Stumpy
Reply #38 Monday, September 1, 2003 5:06 AM
Reply #38 Monday, September 1, 2003 5:06 AM
I think this thread went a little off topic
But to add my twopenny worth. In American films British actors are used to play villans because the Brirish can act the parts well
FYI: Muffins and Crumpets are two different foods
But to add my twopenny worth. In American films British actors are used to play villans because the Brirish can act the parts well
FYI: Muffins and Crumpets are two different foods
Gemstone
Reply #39 Monday, September 1, 2003 5:22 AM
Reply #39 Monday, September 1, 2003 5:22 AM
Stumpy. You are too smart for you own good....
FYI: I dont kno wot that means but i just felt like putting i in there!
FYI: I dont kno wot that means but i just felt like putting i in there!
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Reply #21 Sunday, August 31, 2003 11:27 AM