# I am English bring it on ! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822 "2013-07-06T23:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/61 "2013-07-08T03:24:41Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Yep was totally drunk last night. So what’s your excuse now? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/62 "2013-07-08T04:00:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So what’s your excuse now? It would appear to be just run-of-the-mill douchebaggery, which it turns out, much to the OPs dismay I’m sure, is not just endemic to the English. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/63 "2013-07-08T04:51:37Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Damn ! > > Sussed me ! > > Yep was totally drunk last night. > > Sorry Yanks must try harder ! > > And may I say that “Rum , Sodomy and the Lash” are good things, and that American civilisation is held back because of their “Rummist”, “Buggerist” and their Anti Sado masochistic prejudices, so much that they drink weak beer, disguised by serving it frozen, and all true American men honestly wish to be buggered by French men, but are too shy to bring the subject up. > > But don’t thank me ! > > Its thanks enough when I see my American mates serving along side me in M/E war zones , wishing that I’d bugger them, but regretful because knowing that I’m not in the American army so I’m not gay. . > > And I think that I am really, really going to pay for this in the very near future. > > And lets get get all of the “I’m Gay and want to be a martyr” tossers in on this to show just how hurt that they are by Gay banter . > > Though American Special Forces won’t, because they know that its true and they wouldn’t buy a beer unless they had electrodes attached to their balls, > > I am really, really going to pay for this in the near future Now you’re just sober posting with that dry Brit-Wit. You know what kind of people would never write something sober? The Irish. That’s who. There’s commitment. Finnagin’s Wake? Not a sober character put to paper during the whole of it. Shaw? Just pretending to be sober and a virgin. Drunken man-slut if there ever was one. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/64 "2013-07-08T07:27:02Z")
Steady on, old boy. You’re making the French look good by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/65 "2013-07-08T07:43:57Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Steady on, old boy. You’re making the French look good by comparison. OMG. This is not going to be pretty. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/66 "2013-07-08T08:42:31Z")
Could you rattle off a list of quaint English last names, the kind one reads in Tolkien and Rawlings books? And how often do you have people whose first names sound like last names and last names sound like first names? Ex: Smith Peter, Trapper John. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/67 "2013-07-08T08:51:27Z")
I am disturbed by the fact that I am less annoyed by the content of the OP’s posts than I am by the insertion of an unnecessary space before the terminal punctation marks within them. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/68 "2013-07-08T08:51:49Z")
[**Blas de Lezo**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_de_Lezo) Be advised: you didn’t want to fuck with him. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/69 "2013-07-08T12:00:42Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > “Colour” vs “Color”, “Favour” vs “Favor”, “Labour” vs “Labor”…what a waste of “u’s”…just think of all the ink and toner, plus paper and quills, that have been wasted over the generations due to the extra u’s! Shame on U. Don’t forget all the extra trees sacrificed to make A4 paper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/70 "2013-07-08T12:07:49Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > does anyone else think it’s weird to be “proud” of the patch of dirt you were on when you slid out? Not only that, proud of the (in some important senses) _arbitrary_, artificial, historically contingent nation-state boundary lines other humans happened to impose on the Earth’s surface around that patch of dirt. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/71 "2013-07-08T12:20:35Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > does anyone else think it’s weird to be “proud” of the patch of dirt you were on when you slid out? Yes. I’m English too, as it happens. I’m not with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/72 "2013-07-08T12:22:02Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > I am disturbed by the fact that I am less annoyed by the content of the OP’s posts than I am by the insertion of an unnecessary space before the terminal punctation marks within them. Yeah, well England invented that! Probably. And random capitalisation; Guts, Gits. En-ger-luuuuund! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/73 "2013-07-08T12:36:35Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > But don’t thank me ! 1 box of “Elegant Monogram” Hallmark thank-you cards: $2.99 1 postage stamp: $0.46 You see, thats more than Three Dollars in savings right there! FTR, I think that it was awfully kind of you Not to need a good thanking. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/74 "2013-07-08T14:11:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Yeah, well England invented that! Probably. > > And random capitalisation; Guts, Gits. En-ger-luuuuund! Hmmm, yes. On a more positive note, well done to Nigel Murray; the first Englishman since Englishman Virgil Wade in 1977 to lift the English All English Tennis title at Wimbledon (England) yesterday. A proud moment for all Englishmen everywhere, and a great endorsement for the English-invented game I’m sure we can all agree. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/75 "2013-07-08T14:20:02Z")
I hear they are starting to build their own computers, they just haven’t figured out how to get them to leak oil yet! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/76 "2013-07-08T14:26:22Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Hmmm, yes. On a more positive note, well done to Nigel Murray; the first Englishman since Englishman Virgil Wade in 1977 to lift the English All English Tennis title at Wimbledon (England) yesterday. A proud moment for all Englishmen everywhere, and a great endorsement for the English-invented game I’m sure we can all agree. I thought his name was Murray Mint. 😉 It was a great weekend for us English - in rugby the British and English Lions beat Australia 41-16 to win the series. The team was made up of 10 Englishmen from Wales, 3 Englishmen from Ireland, 0 Englishmen from Scotland and two Englishmen. The 8 reserves were also all English, with traditional names like Makovina Vunipola and Manusamoa Tuilagi. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/77 "2013-07-08T14:30:51Z")
This man does not represent us. He’s a good example of _why_ it can be justified to hate us, though. Although change the diction and some nationalities around and he could fit in the dregs of any nation. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/78 "2013-07-08T15:13:16Z")
**Lust4Life** , please never touch a drop again. You’re embarrassing us ☹ One thing I would say though: I do object to the idea that anyone “bailed” us out against Germany. If Germany was worth stopping you should have been their earlier. If they weren’t, you shouldn’t have been there at all. Remember Blackwater? We were Tyrion; you were Tywin. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/79 "2013-07-08T15:15:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I hear they are starting to build their own computers, they just haven’t figured out how to get them to leak oil yet! Who’s doing it, Lucas? The monitors will always be dark. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822/80 "2013-07-08T15:16:53Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Damn ! > > Sussed me ! > > Yep was totally drunk last night. “Was” ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-english-bring-it-on/662822.md?page=5)