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  1. fuxstockings

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  4. Phil Brickma

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    A couple questions for the fellow Brits:

    - Is there a designated area to drink alcohol outside the football stadiums?

    - I've noticed that many supporters don't wear their team colors during matches. Am I wrong, or just used to American football where everyone has their team colors on?
     
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  5. Jay Jay Okocha

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    Adjacent / West Brit here

    They can drink on concourses or behind the ground.

    Many wouldn’t wear a jersey to a game as it’s no bueno in a lot of pubs to wear “football colours”.
     
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  9. WhiskeyDelta

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    That's the trouble with living in a country that by-and-large does to circumcision.

    Like yeah, circumcision is bad, but a sausage roll would never get confused for a dick in America.
     
  10. EMAW FC

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    watched a few episodes of Naked Attraction on HBO Max and sheeeesh
     
  11. WhiskeyDelta

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    Yeah and that show is on normal broadcast TV over here. You can do full profanity and nudity after 9pm I think.
     
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  14. Taques

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    Is the entire new season available on YT yet?
     
  16. Taques

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    episode 1 was last night but they get them on YouTube pretty quick I think
     
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  17. WC

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    Couldn’t find the other thread so posting this here. Brit cons convinced that celebrating being #2 is the answer to their problems!

     
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  18. WhiskeyDelta

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    Also it’s in no way the “second most powerful country” in the world. They’re probably 3rd or 4th in Europe. Especially if you discount all the foreign money propping up London.
     
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    Apparently Canterbury is what Peterborough would look like if Peterborough had any money
     
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  27. southlick

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    Watching the new season of The Young Offenders

    Good shit
     
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  28. Taffy

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    Wasn't aware there was a new season, thanks for the heads up :beerchug:
     
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  30. southlick

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    I got it from torrance. Not sure where you can stream it.
     
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    taskmaster series 18 cast: andy zaltzman, babatunde aleshe, rosie jones, jack dee, and emma sidi

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    I tend to side with the Scots more often than the English but simply cannot on this one thanks to the oceans of clean drinking water that have been wasted because of Scottish grass upkeep standards.
     
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    Disgusting kink shaming from Metro News.

     
  37. Taffy

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    r/shitamericanssay
     
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  40. WhiskeyDelta

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    If you want to experience dealing with literally any UK government entity, go watch the queueing for a form scene in Hitchhikers Guide.

    I need to get my right foot X-ray. Tragically, my doctor made the unforgivable mistake of clicking “left” foot on the referral form to the X-Ray clinic in town. So I get there, they say “so you’re here for your left foot” to which I reply “no it should be my right foot”. And apparently that is an unfixable error and they sent me home. So now I get to call my GP when the office reopens (because they close for lunch because staggering lunches between the two receptionists is impossible) to get them to fix it, which even money will require me to go back in to the GP so I can then burn another lunch hour going back to the big hospital again.

    Fucking cunts, all of them.
     
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  41. Gallant Knight

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  42. Phil Brickma

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    So I've been really interested in the British Culture since watching the Keane, Wright, Carragher and Neville podcast.

    They call people from Liverpool Scousers and I have heard Geordies being associated with the North part of England.

    Is it similar to America where people from the south call northerns Yankees and people from the the North call us Redneck? Or is it more complex?

    Also, do you guys as a whole like that famous athletes and actors are coming over and buying Stake in Football Teams?
     
  43. WhiskeyDelta

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    Geordie is much more specifically related to the region around the Tyne river, especially Newcastle on Tyne. There’s a TON of different Northern accents; pretty much pick a region (Northumberland, Cumberland, the various Yorkshires, etc) and you’ll have a regional accent, and then every city and major town will have its own variant of that accent - sometimes it even gets to a different dialect level.

    Some of them are different because of recentish movement (and by recent I mean “the Industrial Revolution” or “post WW2 Windrush/South Asian immigration) like Birmingham (Brummie) or Liverpool accent (which also has a lot of Irish and Welsh influence).

    I would say, as an outside observer, that it’s a bit different feeling than the regional rivalry in the States; the UK is basically a caste system. Most of the accents there are all working class accents, so they’ll all hate the Posh accents and vise versa. My wife for example is from East Anglia, but she doesn’t have an East Anglian accent (more common around Newark for example) because she’s from near Cambridge, which is where about a quarter of the posho’s go to Uni, so even though she’s town (local) and not gown (associated with the school) her accent sounds posh until you meet posh people.
     
  44. Phil Brickma

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    Thanks - a bunch of good stuff. I've been to Liverpool and it was almost as if they were speaking another language (very fast and kind of slurred). I went to downtown London and it felt like I was in a big city in the US.