#britishism

[moncuries]

my mum sayin “left the fag-ends of some chips for you!” and when i said “oh for me huh?? ANY REASON?? HMM?” she said yes

[alphabet-mafietta]

So I was looking to buy a lunch bag and came across this little beauty...

Perfect! I thought but as is often the case with lunch bags, I wondered if it was any good for carrying sprouts.

Luckily someone else had already posed the question...

[itsnotacarepackage]

Me, trying to sleep: Wait, what do non-british folk call a 'tit wank'?

[chr0nically-b0red]

nahh cuz when I first woke up earlier then went back to sleep this was like 7:30 the carpet person just came and my dad be like “do u want a cuppa tea mate”

[misanthropemom]

Okay, so, Jodie Whittaker 13th Doctor is the last one I have seen. Just felt too much like an open wallet to these people.

But in one of her episodes the little slice of the future is a company called "KerBlamo".

That's clearly a Britishism for ka-blammo, and my input-starved brain is puzzled by the transformation. Is there a British accent somewhere on the island that pronounces ka as ker? And it just spread from there? Accent wonks, help me.

[brevitysoulwit93]

Call me a snob, I really don’t care, but do you know what grinds my gears most when reading some fan fiction? Something that annoys me above even the most serious cardinal writing sins? 

Not Brit-picking. By this I mean writing about a story set in the UK and not making sure the terms you use are actually used here. We do not have sidewalks. We do not wear letterman jackets. I could not tell you what age you are in fifth grade or what the hell a varsity soccer team is. 

We have pavements, we have hoodies, we have nursery/reception/primary/secondary/sixth form/college/university, we have school footie teams. We call our mums MUM. We call our phones our MOBILES. 

Please LORD give me STRENGTH

[jimmiesvesey]

as a half brit who has been many times i wanna settle this debate: doNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE PUT THE MILK IN BEFORE THE WATER. that’s fuckin gross. U put either the water or the tea bag in first, I’m not passionate about that, but the other will follow it. THEN ADD MILK. THEN ADD SUGAR. y’all aRE ANIMALS.