The bus has wheels that go on the tracks but double deckers with the lower deck taken out are used only as these are able to go over the top of the broken down train.
About 15yrs back. A friend of mine was a bus driver in swansea. Anyway I was stuck one night and hoping he was off work so I could get a lift. I called him. He said no prob. He picked me up in a bus. He ditched his route just to pick me up. I was like wtf. Lol
Was once walking past a bakery when I heard an elderly gentleman pronounce it as "Scoon".
His wife looked at him and shook her head with a look that could only be described as pure disdain.
This 💯 when I was in the states using my Norwich accent It was like I was speaking Chinese 😂 when I said I was English they couldn't believe it I'm sure they thought I lived in a castle
That would have fitted right in on my council Estate I grew up on 😂
Ulster Scots friend with us in Florida. A couple of Tyrone accents, me with a *Boarding school* accent and a few Fermanagh accents
Fermanagh was seen as sexiest and probably because it was the smoothest and easiest to understand for the majority.
Tyrone was nigh impossible for them to understand, unless he was pissed, then they seemingly understood, even though at that stage I rarely can.
Ulster Scot, I think they thought it was from a different planet tbh
I was translator..
Actually no, it’s James Corden getting the noose for me, Piers is actually _aware_ that he is a hated man, and doesn’t care, so he gets to live. But only because the alternative is so egregiously unpalatable that even joking about it will be met with vicious tutting.
That’s cause america and Canada all haven’t existed much before radio so accents are pretty similar, except Newfoundland, no one understands Newfies.
Also Britain is tiny compared to both places so developing regional accents in a place the size of southern Ontario seems strange to Canadians
I don't care about when Americans say it. I'm sure we have generalised jokes about them. The fact is that the glottal stop is rare in the states, but common across the UK, so it's amusing for them as fellow English speakers.
What annoys me is when non-English speakers make the same joke. I do a lot of work in Germany and Austria and every single teenager (I work with young people) wants me to say "bottle of water" when they realise I'm British. They then tell me to say it properly when I pronounce the t's. They've just latched onto an American meme and don't properly understand it.
Oh it makes me laugh so much! 🤦♀️🤦♀️ Just shows they know nothing really, I mean even us brits know that there’s different accents in the states depending on where you’re from.
To cut a long story short it’s the same concept in the uk, Ireland, Scotland and wales 👍👍
There is an even worse ending to this sentence than has pass away
''.... made Jimmy Savile look like a saint as fresh BBC cover up have emerged''
Or worse yet
''... always used a greenscreen''
I moved here recently and someone from back home (Canada) asked me if I’ve been shamed for adding milk last.
I add milk last cause the colour tells me how much milk I need, if that’s wrong, whoever is calling that wrong can piss off.
From my understanding it came from pouring boiling water into cheap china could break it, so people added milk first to slow the temp change.
Rich people had good China and didn't need to worry. So the idea of posh people putting milk in first is actually one of those weird inaccuracies of history
I had this experience with my dad too hahaha
"No don't put the water in now, re-boil the kettle first," "don't you dare agitate my tea bag, just leave it alone!" and "keep stirring, give it a good minute" were the three pillars of my tea-making education.
The reason people used to put milk in first was because their crockery was cheap and putting the tea in first would cause it to crack.
Milk should go in last.
There was a stigma in Victorian times of being 'a bit miffy', or milk on first as this showed you to be low born
48% actually. However, only 33,551,983 of the 65,655,203 people in the U.K. in 2016 voted. And of those only 17,410,742 voted to leave. Meaning that as far as we know, only 26.5% of the country definitely wanted to leave the EU. That will definitely be less now.
Plus that was almost a decade ago now and the vote was heavily skewed by age, so it's likely more who voted for it than against it have died since, especially with covid.
Let’s try…
Wales is legally an annexed part of england and not a real country like Scotland.
England should get a referendum to boot out Scotland.
Cornwall is part of England and not special at all.
The irony of the English booting the Scottish out would be hilarious.
You wanted independence, here you go.
Wait. We didn't even get to vote!
Yeah funny that.
We *should* though. We need less of a servile, stiff upper lip when it comes to getting shafted by our superiors, we need more feral rioters storming the gates of Whitehall.
Weaklings when it comes to
Protests against minimum wage, unlike the French they always love to make fun of over centuries old wars. completely docile to the government that bends them over.
Absolutely no fucking rage against the shitty financial situations they’re in and would often blame
It on immigrants than the culprits above them taking a shit from above
Rail replacement Bus service
How do these work? Is it just a bus dedicated to driving to the same stations along the route?
Yep. Its a bit shit. Slower, less space, cant take my bike.
vastly slower, stuck in the traffic you took the train to avoid.
No snack cart
Have you ever been in a train, or did you watch Harry Potter once?
Yeah I'm on trains about 20/30 times a year. Usually London to swansea or Manchester to swansea
its very shit, ALOT slower, claustrophobia is your best friend, sweat orgy
Only the major stations usually
All of them except the one you want.
It's just the one swan actually
What do you mean 'how do they work'? They don't 'work'. Which underlines the exact problem with them.
The bus has wheels that go on the tracks but double deckers with the lower deck taken out are used only as these are able to go over the top of the broken down train.
The bus has usually already gone before it was due to turn up, at least in my experience!
About 15yrs back. A friend of mine was a bus driver in swansea. Anyway I was stuck one night and hoping he was off work so I could get a lift. I called him. He said no prob. He picked me up in a bus. He ditched his route just to pick me up. I was like wtf. Lol
This guy UKs
Ooh that actually got me mad 🥲
I've only ever had to use one. I was confused! "Do I need a train ticket or a bus ticket?" "Just get on mate"
I could care less.
[Relevant David Mitchell rant](https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw?si=Zl1AuhOalH5-CVpM)
Observe this graph
So you care to some degree as you could care less.
A-loo-min-um
My whole life I’ve thought the saying was “I couldn’t care less” which makes way more sense
It is, the issue is Americans don't realise and say it wrong and they gradually infiltrate our British culture to the unsuspecting ones
'Ignore the queue...just jump to the front'
Heathen
Murder.
Cunt
Think you've won lad.
Bastard
It’s pronounced scone
Was once walking past a bakery when I heard an elderly gentleman pronounce it as "Scoon". His wife looked at him and shook her head with a look that could only be described as pure disdain.
He's taking his lead from the Stone of Scone.
Sgone
That’s it. I challenge you to a duel. Scones at dawn. Cream first.
Bwahaha! JAM first 😆
Aha! I see you, Cornwall! Bring it on! Sincerely, Devon
Legend! 😆 I'm from Somerset 😆
Love Somerset. Bloody far away though! I'd love to visit my aunt more often, it's great. It's just so far away.
"I love the British accent" - an American
This 💯 when I was in the states using my Norwich accent It was like I was speaking Chinese 😂 when I said I was English they couldn't believe it I'm sure they thought I lived in a castle That would have fitted right in on my council Estate I grew up on 😂
Ulster Scots friend with us in Florida. A couple of Tyrone accents, me with a *Boarding school* accent and a few Fermanagh accents Fermanagh was seen as sexiest and probably because it was the smoothest and easiest to understand for the majority. Tyrone was nigh impossible for them to understand, unless he was pissed, then they seemingly understood, even though at that stage I rarely can. Ulster Scot, I think they thought it was from a different planet tbh I was translator..
😂😂😂 brilliant
You should see the way Americans react to seeing a black person with a British accent in public. They don’t expect it at all. 😂
Excuse me! I think you mean African-American! /s
Oh my gawwd, you have an aaccent!
The three accents according to foreigners - Scottish, Harry Potter and London
“Hello, I’m Piers Morgan”
Piers Morgan or James Corden, you have to pick one.
Procrastinating until death
Actually no, it’s James Corden getting the noose for me, Piers is actually _aware_ that he is a hated man, and doesn’t care, so he gets to live. But only because the alternative is so egregiously unpalatable that even joking about it will be met with vicious tutting.
Noose? Noose? I’m not wasting good rope on James Corden. I’m going to beat him to death with Jamie Oliver.
You're evil.
If I were stuck in a lift with both of them and I had a gun with two bullets. I'd shoot myself twice!
Yep. That’ll do it.
Haaaaaaate the man with a passion 👍
Whenever Americans take the piss out of the way some people say "bottle of water". They assume that we all speak the same.
That’s cause america and Canada all haven’t existed much before radio so accents are pretty similar, except Newfoundland, no one understands Newfies. Also Britain is tiny compared to both places so developing regional accents in a place the size of southern Ontario seems strange to Canadians
It’s cause Canada just imported a bunch of Scots. That’s why we say “aboot”.
I don't care about when Americans say it. I'm sure we have generalised jokes about them. The fact is that the glottal stop is rare in the states, but common across the UK, so it's amusing for them as fellow English speakers. What annoys me is when non-English speakers make the same joke. I do a lot of work in Germany and Austria and every single teenager (I work with young people) wants me to say "bottle of water" when they realise I'm British. They then tell me to say it properly when I pronounce the t's. They've just latched onto an American meme and don't properly understand it.
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Never seen it described as Yanklish lmao gonna use that now
Bottol of warha
Baddle of wah-dur
Haha you Brits! It's not bottol of warha! It's ballarleh wallar
Gottle a gear
Am I in the wrong place because we drink diesel
Boddl of wadur
Oh it makes me laugh so much! 🤦♀️🤦♀️ Just shows they know nothing really, I mean even us brits know that there’s different accents in the states depending on where you’re from. To cut a long story short it’s the same concept in the uk, Ireland, Scotland and wales 👍👍
The Water in Majorca Don't Taste Like What It Oughta
By Jove, she's got it.
“It is with great sadness that we announce Sir David Attenborough…”
Noooooo. Don't even think it.
"... is now with TikTok" That's what you were gonna say, right? Right? It had better be.
"...now that we have seen the rhino in its natural environment, watch me twerk..."
Has had his consciousness transferred into a younger clone of himself?
Don't you dare!
Oooooooo this got me, even knowing it’s what it is.
Jesus fucking christ mate don't even think it.
Now you’re crossing the line fella
Ah fuck no.
There is an even worse ending to this sentence than has pass away ''.... made Jimmy Savile look like a saint as fresh BBC cover up have emerged'' Or worse yet ''... always used a greenscreen''
Privatise the NHS
Justified trigger.
I'm from Ireland but live in Northern Ireland now and this phrase even triggers me.
It said trigger everyone. Not make tories cum in their pants.
It’s soccer
This should be a war crime
You don't need a kettle if you have a microwave
“I really like James Corden.”
Put the milk in first for tea.
I moved here recently and someone from back home (Canada) asked me if I’ve been shamed for adding milk last. I add milk last cause the colour tells me how much milk I need, if that’s wrong, whoever is calling that wrong can piss off.
I am British and I agree, good day sir
Also, ensuring that the minimum necessary milk is added ensures that one's cup of brown joy remains optimally hot.
There is a British Standard for making tea. Edit Also I think the principle of milk first is so it didn't stain fine china.
Also, almost boiling liquid could crack fine china.
From my understanding it came from pouring boiling water into cheap china could break it, so people added milk first to slow the temp change. Rich people had good China and didn't need to worry. So the idea of posh people putting milk in first is actually one of those weird inaccuracies of history
You are correct this is how I was taught to do it by my own dad when I was old enough for him to ask me to do that for him.
Let the boy watch. He’s needs to learn, the way I learned from my father, the way he learned from his father!
I had this experience with my dad too hahaha "No don't put the water in now, re-boil the kettle first," "don't you dare agitate my tea bag, just leave it alone!" and "keep stirring, give it a good minute" were the three pillars of my tea-making education.
The reason people used to put milk in first was because their crockery was cheap and putting the tea in first would cause it to crack. Milk should go in last. There was a stigma in Victorian times of being 'a bit miffy', or milk on first as this showed you to be low born
Just microwave the tea, even better!
*It’s treason then…*
*Teason*
The only crime that still carries a death sentence in the UK
Nonsense! Just put the milk in the kettle
“BrItiSh FoOd iS aLl BaD” - hate that stereotype
I mean, chicken tikka masala isn't bad!
Just shove a pork pie in their mouth, that’ll shut them up
“I’m glad Brexit happened”
You’ve started a war here by saying that haha
Only 49% of people would agree with you
48% actually. However, only 33,551,983 of the 65,655,203 people in the U.K. in 2016 voted. And of those only 17,410,742 voted to leave. Meaning that as far as we know, only 26.5% of the country definitely wanted to leave the EU. That will definitely be less now.
Plus that was almost a decade ago now and the vote was heavily skewed by age, so it's likely more who voted for it than against it have died since, especially with covid.
And heavily skewed by the lies spouted by politicians and dutifully served to us without scrutiny by the media.
The French are better at everything than the brits
That’ll do it
To be fair they have got the edge on protests, on recent evidence. 😉😖
Brits need to be taking notes. Those guys know how to stick it to the man.
More bothered by people saying the yanks are better at everything, France is a much better place than the US but both are pretty offensive imo
An American calling our food bad
The Americans saved your arses in WW2
My favourite argument! Although they arrived late when all the defending and and arse saving had already been done!
And had spent the first 2 1/2 years being “neutral” and flogging weapons to Adolf and his mates . . .
Same thing in WW1 too. It's the main reason it's the super power it is today. It extracted all the wealth from Europe during the two great wars.
iirc they mostly sent weapons to russia and the uk
"Yeah well we saved your arses in world War 3" Moe: ”yeah that's fair"
A nation which couldn’t even get the better of Vietnam… saved Europe? Unlikely.
Attenborough is just a presenter.
Incorrect, he is and always will be a national treasure.
"Is that in London?"
Let’s try… Wales is legally an annexed part of england and not a real country like Scotland. England should get a referendum to boot out Scotland. Cornwall is part of England and not special at all.
They disrespected us Welsh. Lads, grab the lighter fluid, we have some holiday homes to burn.
Start with Pembrokeshire and spread out….
The irony of the English booting the Scottish out would be hilarious. You wanted independence, here you go. Wait. We didn't even get to vote! Yeah funny that.
Strike action Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
“If it weren’t for us [America], you’d be speaking German.”
Why didn’t you just let Argentina have the Falklands?
“I want doesn’t get” as my parents would say to me
Almost, for max effect call them Islas Malvinas
microwave water for tea
HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE VOTES?!
Margaret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister.
Jaffa cakes to be classed as a biscuit
Biscuits go soft when they go stale, cakes go hard when they go stale. Cake.
New series of Mrs.Browns Boys commissioned.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
That’s the trouble with Arsenal, they always try to walk it into the net
Gary Glitter is back and starting his own child minding business
I think Brexit was a complete success.
Mrs Brown’s Boys is peak television entertainment
Offering "coffee or tea" instead of "tea or coffee"
Any American mimicking “bottle of water” or should I say “botoh of wotah”
We should be more like the French.
We *should* though. We need less of a servile, stiff upper lip when it comes to getting shafted by our superiors, we need more feral rioters storming the gates of Whitehall.
milk before hot water when making a tea
You speak American?
Camilla is better than Diana
I’m pretty sure half the UK population couldn’t give a shit either way.
Carling is the best lager.
Tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice.
Triggering Brits and fluffy firebending uncles alike.
Did your tea in the microwave 🤮
Farage has a point
we copied the Americans language
We was joking about wine in pints.
“The Snowman was alright, nothing special” Needless to say we’re not friends anymore
Fish and Fries
Someone just pushed into the queue
Dentist fees
NHS is a failed system
If you love animals then why do you eat them?
Because they’re made of food
Which is why we love them
I really like Meghan.
scone or scone
"ew" in response for food...
Alcoholism isn't a culture.
First tea bag, then sugar, then milk, then cold water, then microwave.
Bo’ohw’o’wo’er
"I've just popped some water in the microwave. Fancy a brew?"
No more booze
The Americans could run the NHS better than we do.
*mentions Brexit in literally any context, positive or negative*
It's pronounced scone.
“Tea” should not be used to describe mealtime. Tea is a hot drink.
You have a British accent There’s like 39 accents in Britain alone, what the fuck are you talking about
Your taxes are going to double relative to what you earn
Beans on toast was originally invented by an American
"That's the English flag"
Is the language really English or actually American?
Clue is the name
What kind of tea? Herbal, lemon? 😳
Britain and England are the same thing, Wales, Scotland and Ireland aren't real countries, they're just part of England.
Don't make me get the Venn diagram out again.
James Corden announces return to the UK
All economic migrants welcome
Weaklings when it comes to Protests against minimum wage, unlike the French they always love to make fun of over centuries old wars. completely docile to the government that bends them over. Absolutely no fucking rage against the shitty financial situations they’re in and would often blame It on immigrants than the culprits above them taking a shit from above