# What do Americans REALLY think of Brits. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298 "2003-09-03T10:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/161 "2003-09-08T07:27:53Z")
Y’know something KIWI I can not somehow imagine Liz sat there watching the TV, cutting her toenails and saying to Phil “Fancy a curry”. I can’t imagine her having a poo either but she must, probably comes out wrapped in gold foil with ER2 stamped on it 😃 Do you know that she has never been known to fart…well not in public anyway. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/162 "2003-09-08T07:27:53Z")
Y’know something KIWI I can not somehow imagine Liz sat there watching the TV, cutting her toenails and saying to Phil “Fancy a curry”. I can’t imagine her having a poo either but she must, probably comes out wrapped in gold foil with ER2 stamped on it 😃 Do you know that she has never been known to fart…well not in public anyway. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/163 "2003-09-08T07:36:07Z")
Y’know something KIWI I can not somehow imagine Liz sat there watching the TV, cutting her toenails and saying to Phil “Fancy a curry”. I can’t imagine her having a poo either but she must, probably comes out wrapped in gold foil with ER2 stamped on it 😃 Do you know that she has never been known to fart…well not in public anyway. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/164 "2003-09-08T08:09:42Z")
Sorry about the multi…must…get…coffee…now ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/165 "2003-09-08T14:55:49Z")
About the mam/mum thing - a lot of fellow Northerners have disagreed with me on this, so is it just a Geordie thing? I’ve heard a few Irish people use it as well, so does have something to do with my Celtic heritage? I realise this has very little to do with the debate in hand, but frankly, I’m finding hard to care about that anymore. We’re just damn superior to all you former colonies, and you know it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/166 "2003-09-08T15:33:07Z")
I, for one, think the British are the worst influence ever on the United States! What have the Britons ever done for us? _Well, they did give us our language._ Right, right. But, other than language, what have the Britons ever done for us? **Ah, Reg?** Yah. **We did inherit their system of laws.** Right, but other than language and a system of laws, what have the Britons ever done for us? _Iced tea on those hot summer days?_ I’m not sure the Britons even drink iced tea. Anyway… \*\*They have been our erstwhile allies through thick and thin, if you exclude that whole burned-down-Washington DC misunderstanding. \*\* Gah! _They’re actually almost TOO polite._ Enough… ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/167 "2003-09-08T15:45:52Z")
England: Monty Python, Shakespeare, silly royalty, Harry Potter, old Roman ruins, all my fav authors (Tolkein, Lewis and Gaiman) Scotland: Ewan McGregor, Beautiful scenery, sexiest accents, bagpipes Wales: More beautiful scenery, King Arthur, bards, other cool mythology (the_Mabigonion_), Some deathly depressing coal-mining movie ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/168 "2003-09-08T16:26:58Z")
ARISU: How Green Was my Valley is the name of the film and if you want beautiful scenery go to the Lake District on a beautiful summers day…unfortunately we don’t have an abundance of those but go anyway ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/169 "2003-09-09T03:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spogga \* > \*\*JAADE: Believe me British food WAS bloody awful…then something happened!! > Suddenly we realised that fish 'n chips wasn’t the be all and end all of culinary delights, same goes for tripe and onions. > So what happened was a whole new breed sprang up out of nowhere, people that could actually cook and cook damn well. > That opened the floodgates, cookery programmes became prime time viewing, books best sellers. Chefs came from mainland Europe to show us what we had been missing, Indian/Chinese restaurants appeared as did pizza places. People who had never tasted either of the dishes these latter people produced waxed poetic about them…we were REBORN …hallelujah!!! > Then came Mc Donalds and we were nearly back to square one :C > > All that being taken on board I can assure you that fish 'n chips from a decent ENGLISH chippie are great, from and Indian or Chinese takeaway they are bloody awful. > Steak and Kidney pie or pudding!! try my friend, you’ll like it, if you don’t I’ll pay for it. > > * * * > > CADBURY: Queen LIZZIE?..behave yourself, we still have the chopping block y’know 😃 \*\* Save your money darlin’, I’m one of those strange picky eaters and I promise you I wouldn’t like it…if for no other reason than the thought of what was in it… ~J ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/170 "2003-09-09T08:00:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*\ > Er…just so you know, the only use of “chippie/chippy/chippies” in the US is as another word for “whore(s)”. 😃 It’s old-fashioned, but you still hear it once in a while, especially if you read westerns. > \ \*\* While in NZ I’ve only used it meaning a roading worker. Anyone who is making/sealing roads is a chippie. Actually, it may be a blanket term for construction worker, tho I’m not entirely sure. I did know about the chippie=whore thing, learning the hard way in a Humorous Incident, in which I told my Canadian exchange student that my dad was a chippie, and she laughed for weeks. Fun stuff, slang. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/171 "2003-09-09T08:13:28Z")
A carpenter in the UK is often called a chippy ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/172 "2003-09-09T09:35:21Z")
While in NZ… a chippy was a carpenter…those road working blokes are known as “He who leans on spade” And **Spogga** Lizzie probably does have gold foil wrapped poops but given the choice tween her and a president (EEEEEEEKKKKKK) I’m saying go with the “Can’t meddle, looks nice on stamps, don’t have to vote for em, can’t do anything but look Regal” every single time!!! Long may she (pretend) to reign! Did I ever mention I saw her out the bedroom window whilst working in a Trafalgar Square pub…I woke my parents up to share the news, damn shame it was some unruly time like 2 am lol. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/173 "2003-09-09T09:52:02Z")
Kiwi: Those road working (I use the term loosely) blokes are generally known as idle bastards in the UK altho’ I have heard other epithets directed at them. No mate, don’t agree, the sooner we are a Republic the better, where the bloody hell is Oliver Cromwell when you want him? As I was saying to Liz just the other day “Why don’t you sod off and take the rest of your entourage with you, especially that dipstick that talks to his tomato plants…that’s our future king !!!” She deigned (that’s a good word innit) to reply, just supped her pint of Guinness, hopped on her bike and left…and it was her bloody round! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/174 "2003-09-09T10:05:02Z")
Sorry we will have to agree to disagree, ok we have the advantage we don’t pay for em. But I hope old Lizzie and Charlie (can I cheer that Di is gone or is that too crude?) are going strong…I soooooooo hate to think what we might get if we became a Republic. Quiet stoic Royals vs odd, old, expensive politicians? Nope I’m sticking with the Windsors. I kinda like Charlie anyway (he shows such devotion LOL) ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/175 "2003-09-09T12:44:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spogga \* > \*\*Kiwi: Those road working (I use the term loosely) blokes are generally known as idle bastards in the UK altho’ I have heard other epithets directed at them. \*\* I see you choose to name the most polite term that is used. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/176 "2003-09-09T13:12:55Z")
I’m a gentleman Gemma and just knew you would be offended by anything else I said. KIWI: Charlie boy is a twat…ooops, sorry gemma:D ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/177 "2003-09-09T13:15:46Z")
KIWI: As an afterthought can you honestly tell me of any bloke in his right mind that would prefer that horse faced Parker-Bowels to Diana, I mean c’mon.??? ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/178 "2003-09-09T13:17:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spogga \* > \*\*KIWI: Charlie boy is a twat…ooops, sorry gemma:D \*\* :eek: You used… a SWEAR word! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/179 "2003-09-10T08:23:16Z")
Oh bugger, must have slipped out, sorry;) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/180 "2003-09-10T10:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jaade \* > \*\*Save your money darlin’, I’m one of those strange picky eaters and I promise you I wouldn’t like it…if for no other reason than the thought of what was in it… > > ~J \*\* People who’ve not tried it think that because of the kidney’s biological function it must taste terrible. This is like the story of the old woman who refused to eat tongue because it came from an animal’s mouth. She asked if she couldn’t just have an egg instead. 😃 Kidneys can be eaten by themselves, but in a pie or “pudding” (just a kind of pie made in a basin, with suet pastry, and steamed instead of baked) with diced steak and a rich gravy, they’re indescribably good. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298.md?page=10)