Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Agreed. The number of Americanisms I've seen on this forum by Brexiters who proclaim themselves to be more patriotic due to their decision on 23/6/16 is somewhat contradictory.

Don't really care about Americanisms, language changes. But you do get a lot of American political terminology entering British politics on both the left and the right hence the abuse of the word 'liberal'. You get conservatives here, not the normal well read ones such as Carswell, but the commentators who use liberal in the American sense of a left-winger. But you also get the left who see liberal as neoliberal which they in turn mean right-wing believers in uncontrolled free markets taking over as much as the state as possible.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Agreed. The number of Americanisms I've seen on this forum by Brexiters who proclaim themselves to be more patriotic due to their decision on 23/6/16 is somewhat contradictory.

Thank you so much Andrew.

You see I thought the threat to the UK, of losing complete control over borders, laws and taxes, was due to a non directly elected bunch of bureaucrats who wanted to build a federal states of Europe, taking advantage of mass immigration and cheap labour rates, among a bunch of other things.

Now you correct me by saying it's actually because people have been using Americanisms, such as 'Get-Go', 'Gotten', and 'Kinda'!. Thank you. I will try my best to stop using these Americanisms immediately. There really is too much at stake here!

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Mr K

You can be a remainer and patriotic you know

Just don't get the double standards of some, who hate the EU, but are very fond of us becoming another state of the US; throwing about Americanisms like 'Libtard' etc. We're closer to Europe, in fact we're still in Europe, whatever daft decision we've made. France supplies us with fine wines and cheeses, the US has given us McDonalds....

Well l have been called many things in my life some pretty bad but l am just as patriotic as anybody in this country as IMO anybody who comes out with that label simply does not know what they are bloody talking about as one can be patriotic and very much still like foreign influence's and cultures.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Just don't get the double standards of some, who hate the EU, but are very fond of us becoming another state of the US

Now you have lost it Mr K

Originally Posted by Mr K

France supplies us with fine wines and cheeses, the US has given us McDonalds....

And Switzerland supplies us with the Cuckoo clock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Now you have lost it Mr K



And Switzerland supplies us with the Cuckoo clock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE

and Mr K supplies us with weapons grade bullonium

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Now you have lost it Mr K

See I've touched a raw nerve there ! This country is become more obsessed and influenced by the US, in culture and language. It may be what others want, but not me.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Thank you so much Andrew.

You see I thought the threat to the UK, of losing complete control over borders, laws and taxes, was due to a non directly elected bunch of bureaucrats who wanted to build a federal states of Europe, taking advantage of mass immigration and cheap labour rates, among a bunch of other things.

Now you correct me by saying it's actually because people have been using Americanisms, such as 'Get-Go', 'Gotten', and 'Kinda'!. Thank you. I will try my best to stop using these Americanisms immediately. There really is too much at stake here!

shaw is a pickle partner and has been from the get go ,kinda make ya wonder how we've gotten behind this here situation and all ,well must skeedadle back to the ranch mom's servin burgers n grit's yehaw git along little dawggy USA USA USA HOOOORAH

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well l have been called many things in my life some pretty bad but l am just as patriotic as anybody in this country as IMO anybody who comes out with that label simply does not know what they are bloody talking about as one can be patriotic and very much still like foreign influence's and cultures.

Well that's kind of (kinda) what I was saying Den. There is a xenophobia about Europe, but we love German cars, going on Spanish holidays etc. Fine if we want to be 'little England' but let's not become a down market version of the country across 'The Pond'.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mr K

You can be a remainer and patriotic you know

Just don't get the double standards of some, who hate the EU, but are very fond of us becoming another state of the US; throwing about Americanisms like 'Libtard' etc. We're closer to Europe, in fact we're still in Europe, whatever daft decision we've made. France supplies us with fine wines and cheeses, the US has given us McDonalds....

20 American Inventions That Changed the World

https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-...nged-The-World

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Mr K

See I've touched a raw nerve there !

Actually you gave me a big smile!


BTW, as you are a Vintage TV channel fan, I hope you appreciated the clip from, The Third Man.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Thank you so much Andrew.

You see I thought the threat to the UK, of losing complete control over borders, laws and taxes, was due to a non directly elected bunch of bureaucrats who wanted to build a federal states of Europe, taking advantage of mass immigration and cheap labour rates, among a bunch of other things.

Now you correct me by saying it's actually because people have been using Americanisms, such as 'Get-Go', 'Gotten', and 'Kinda'!. Thank you. I will try my best to stop using these Americanisms immediately. There really is too much at stake here!

The evil USofEU was defeated on 23/6/16 but seems to have been replaced by people trying to colonise us by promoting US political slang like libtard. Gotten is old English as in ill-gotten gains so I'm happy with that, just people watching Fox News and not understanding that terms like Liberal mean different things in different places.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The evil EASY was defeated on 23/6/16 but seems to have been replaced by people trying to colonise us by promoting US political slang like libtard. Gotten is old English as in ill-gotten gains so I'm happy with that, just people watching Fox News and not understanding that terms like Liberal mean different things in different places.

but tard is universal

[denphone]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

20 American Inventions That Changed the World

https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-...nged-The-World

And l trump you with 30 inventions that changed the world and all by different countries as well.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by denphone

And l trump you with 30 inventions that changed the world and all by different countries as well.

it's not a competition it's just a small sample of what the USA has given the world and if your trumping me provide a link as proof of your statement

i'll start you off
1 GERMANY attempted world domination more than once [ weapons of terror]
2 FRANCE surrendering to the above and supplying them cheese and wine
3 AMERICA coming to our aid to defeat number 1 with it's technology and armed forces

[denphone]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

it's not a competition it's just a small sample of what the USA has given the world and if your trumping me provide a link as proof of your statement

Whoops l am getting forgetful in my old age.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...ver/ss-AAm0QZp