Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m2dicr$2mo$3@dont-
email.me:

No, there are only two drinks. Coffee and beer. One you drink before
noon, the other, after noon.


Re my other post, my mistake. We were talking about Germans. Although, I
have it on excellent authority that they too like whisky..

Brian Reay wrote in :

Earl Grey

I miss that! I really should make it so...

Brian Reay wrote in :

The Italians also
liked Shortbread

Indeed they do! The local delicatessen makes a point of selling it alongside
a range of very Italian biscuits.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:36:53 -0000, wrote:

Thanks to streaming I've been watching a lot of British TV lately.

Same here. Some shows are incomprehensible.

Quite often I find I haven't a clue what people are talking about, mostly
when it is just casual conversation between the characters.

This might help decode British idioms:
http://www.translatebritish.com
http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm

Oops... Gotta answer the blower.

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"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:36:53 -0000, wrote:

Thanks to streaming I've been watching a lot of British TV lately.

Same here. Some shows are incomprehensible.


The reason that Yank comedy shows are not entertaining is that you are
briefed that a punch line is coming up several seconds before its arrival,
in order
to give you time to think, whereas in Britland we are quick-witted and do
not
need to be groomed in that way.

Likewise, in Britland we recognise that Christianity was completely debunked
in 1957
when the Sputnik was launched and did not hit a blue firmament on the way
up,
whereas in Yankland there seem to be increasing numbers of people who
subscribe to the superstitious beliefs of bronze-age shepherds in the Middle
East.

"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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On 10/24/2014 8:48 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
AndyW wrote in
. com:
was distribution of lactose-based products germane to the conversation?

I have it on (possibly dubious) authority that the Germans love milk.

No, there are only two drinks. Coffee and beer. One you drink before
noon, the other, after noon.

Do you mean to say there are people that get out of bed before noon?
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
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On 24/10/14 15:55, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

The Italians also
liked Shortbread

Indeed they do! The local delicatessen makes a point of selling it alongside
a range of very Italian biscuits.


No something I especially care for. I prefer digestives biscuits or Hob
Nobs. I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

"gareth" wrote in news:m2dss1$c5d$1@dont-
email.me:

The reason that Yank comedy shows are not entertaining is that you are
briefed that a punch line is coming up several seconds before its arrival,
in order
to give you time to think, whereas in Britland we are quick-witted and do
not
need to be groomed in that way.


You've never watched House, have you. And if you have, before you say that
House is acted by a Brit, consider that if anything, Wilson has a quicker wit
than House, and Chase gets some of the best lines in the show.

Another US show with rapier-sharp wit very gently and deftly disguised, is
Monk.

Brian Reay wrote in :

I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

Can't argue with that. Evenm the cheap shop's own brand ginger biscuits rock.
There are some flaws though, those weird tinned ones that look (and taste)
like soem papery composite, and the ones with a blob of jam as tough as
Torrseal, those take careful suspension of disbelief (and a friendly dentist
within easy reach too).

On 24/10/14 15:54, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

Earl Grey

I miss that! I really should make it so...


Very much my normal tea and it MUST be made in a teapot, none of this
dunking a tea bag in the cup nonsense. Totally uncivilised.

My XYL drinks Yorkshire Tea and knows it will be divorce if she brews it
in my EG teapot ;-) It is dreadful stuff, I can't abide the smell. I've
a friend in the USA who loves it and I feel guilty when I take him some.

The Harrods 'smokey' EG is very good, although I don't drink it all the
time. A friend bought me some as a gift. Normally it is Twinnings EG,
sometimes with honey and lemon. There is an excellent Tea Rooms in
Canterbury which does their own mix, Bentley something, which is similar
to EG. I've been tempted to adopt that as a reserve tea.