it’s darkly humorous watching a political movement in the heart of empire so dedicated to making sure their children are poorer, less educated, less healthy, and shorter lived than they are. Sucks for us but imagine the level of competency in the US military in ten years when the kids carrying guns don’t know how babby is made, can’t find the USA on a map and think british english is a literal foreign language.
Sucks for us but imagine the level of competency in the US military in ten years…
“I’m gonna ask for immediate evac. Mike, check our location.”
“How? All the electronics are fried.”
“The map.”
“Paper map?”
“Yeeeeeeah.”
“I… Erm… I don’t really know how to use a paper map.”
“How can you not know? We all had training.”
“I faked it.”
“Who knows how to read a map?” The reply is silence from the group. “Lucas? Alex? The rest of you? Nobody knows how to read a map?” Everybody is staring at the sand. “I don’t either. Fuck!”
Alex says “I think I can do it. North is pointing up - right?”
“This is fucking impossible, when I turn around the map doesn’t change orientation at all!! How the fuck is anybody supposed to use this stupid thing??”
Well, clearly you’ve never tried speaking to someone from Yorkshire (and if any Americans think that’s pronounced York-SHY-re you’re in for a big surprise about the rest of that godforsaken island). Seriously, I can’t understand half the shit they say.
“'Ave a cuppa?”
“… a ‘cuppa’ what?”
Angloid scoffing noises
I just wanted to make fun of Brits. I understood his meaning, but I just hadn’t heard it said like that. Maybe Americans are all dumb base animals who can only understand the meaning if we say all the words because no one would ever ask someone like “want a cup of?” If you did ask that then after the confusion was over the assumption would be coffee. Maybe water. For me anyway
Don’t worry, I was making a joke about Yorkshire being very insular - Manchester and Birmingham are very close to Yorkshire, and Bovril isn’t well known outside the UK.
“Cuppa” is quite a linguistically interesting word as it’s derived from “cup of”, but is actually used as a noun in its own right to mean a hot drink. The correct answers are yes if you want tea, no if you don’t want anything, and the name of your preferred drink if you want something other than tea, but there’s no real way of knowing that unless you grow up in the UK. Over here it’s so common that it’s considered a standard part of English by standard English people, so when talking to other English speakers they’re completely confused by them not knowing what is.
it’s darkly humorous watching a political movement in the heart of empire so dedicated to making sure their children are poorer, less educated, less healthy, and shorter lived than they are. Sucks for us but imagine the level of competency in the US military in ten years when the kids carrying guns don’t know how babby is made, can’t find the USA on a map and think british english is a literal foreign language.
Lmao, I’ve met functionally illiterate army officers. We’re already there.
“I’m gonna ask for immediate evac. Mike, check our location.”
“How? All the electronics are fried.”
“The map.”
“Paper map?”
“Yeeeeeeah.”
“I… Erm… I don’t really know how to use a paper map.”
“How can you not know? We all had training.”
“I faked it.”
“Who knows how to read a map?” The reply is silence from the group. “Lucas? Alex? The rest of you? Nobody knows how to read a map?” Everybody is staring at the sand. “I don’t either. Fuck!”
Alex says “I think I can do it. North is pointing up - right?”
“This is fucking impossible, when I turn around the map doesn’t change orientation at all!! How the fuck is anybody supposed to use this stupid thing??”
Damian - as always - has an excellent suggestion - “Maybe you gotta rotate it?”
Well, clearly you’ve never tried speaking to someone from Yorkshire (and if any Americans think that’s pronounced York-SHY-re you’re in for a big surprise about the rest of that godforsaken island). Seriously, I can’t understand half the shit they say.
“'Ave a cuppa?” “… a ‘cuppa’ what?” Angloid scoffing noises
(Real conversation)
Tea or Bovril, what else do you have a cup of? I guess coffee might be on offer if they’ve travelled a lot, to places like Birmingham or Manchester.
I just wanted to make fun of Brits. I understood his meaning, but I just hadn’t heard it said like that. Maybe Americans are all dumb base animals who can only understand the meaning if we say all the words because no one would ever ask someone like “want a cup of?” If you did ask that then after the confusion was over the assumption would be coffee. Maybe water. For me anyway
Don’t worry, I was making a joke about Yorkshire being very insular - Manchester and Birmingham are very close to Yorkshire, and Bovril isn’t well known outside the UK.
“Cuppa” is quite a linguistically interesting word as it’s derived from “cup of”, but is actually used as a noun in its own right to mean a hot drink. The correct answers are yes if you want tea, no if you don’t want anything, and the name of your preferred drink if you want something other than tea, but there’s no real way of knowing that unless you grow up in the UK. Over here it’s so common that it’s considered a standard part of English by standard English people, so when talking to other English speakers they’re completely confused by them not knowing what is.