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RIP phil you would have loved hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on a memorial ship in your name rather than going to the homeless

Americans: I want a british boyfriend, their accents are so cute

British boys:

am back with some low-tier north-west posting to brighten your proroguing-ridden day

#turn big light on #england #uk #lancashire #blackpool

i feel like this becomes more relevant every day lol

#england #uk #bbc #racism #white supremism #anti white

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im going to have a stroke

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Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD

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As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”

Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”

Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”

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one time my italian bf called toad in the hole (a classic english meal of sausages and yorkshire pudding) ‘frog in a pot’

also he forgot the word for octopus and instead made a squid movement with his hand for 5 minutes whilst saying ‘you know, the leggy fish’

mid tier beaker-posting

#bbc #cbbc #england #uk great britain #english humour #british humour #tracy beaker

Friday Night Dinner is on Netflix this is NOT A DRILL

#itv #netflix #bbc #fnd

how come we can all hum the archers theme tune but none of us have ever listened to a full archers episode??

#bbc #britain #england #the archers #honestly

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right lads its nearly 3 get the queen on

#happy christmas

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tag yourself im chucklebotty

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Nothing surpasses the pure comedic value of the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special

#bbc #england #britain #gavin and stacey #British things #British TV

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what happened between bryn and jason on the fishing trip will forever be tv’s greatest mystery

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they were just very cold....

#gavin and stacey

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I love David Attenborough so much that I actually had to go and make a cup of tea after making this meme because i got so excited

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IM BRINGING THIS BACK BC I GOT STEAMING OFF MULLED WINE LAST NIGHT AND SAT AND CRIED TO MY FLATMATE FOR 2 HOURS ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE DAVID ATTENBOROUGH GOD BLESS

Today in tutor we all got kept behind for 10 mins bc we were meant to be learning about British values and when we were asked what we thought British values were some joker yelled out “DAVID CAMERON FACEFUCKING A PIG”

THE ONLY TRUE BRITISH VALUE HONESTLY