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10/31/2020 3:42:33 PM

I was working around the house this afternoon and had BBC America on in the background. It was a nature show and I kept hearing the narrator say "Great Tits" in his English accent. He repeated it so many times, I had to stop what I was doing and watch. Was disappointed that it was only this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tit

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Papi_Chulo

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4 years ago

LOL

twentyfive

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4 years ago

So two of these birds together gets the exclamation of "What a Pair"

Papi_Chulo

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4 years ago

I recall the Arsenio-Hall show back-in-the-day - Arsenio was doing his monologue and he was explaining that a female friend of his from England was writing something on a piece of paper but made a mistake and asked Arsenio if he had a rubber - Arsenio joked "hey shouldn't we get to know each other better first" - apparently in England a rubber means an eraser - LOL

mike710

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4 years ago

Don't torch a gay guy if a British person asks you to light his fag.

Papi_Chulo

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4 years ago

I like watching the old BBC "Top Gear" shows and they use some interesting words like:

+ quid - "it cost an additional 2000-quid" - seems quid is slang for money I guess analogous to us using bucks (2000 bucks)

+ they also use "bloke" - which means a guy - "that bloke didn't know how to drive"

+ and they also use the word "rubbish" - that one is kinda easy to decipher; meaning nonsense