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Of course those curries we eat are actually very British, and we have plenty of fantastic beer now, and yes tea, lots of it.
We can't afford our own 'British' cars.
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Top selling cars in the UK: Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa, Ford Focus.
Irish pubs are a worldwide thing, and we don't have many of them over here, and we certainly don't get through much Belgian beer. Proper beer is increasingly popular, but the most popular is Carling and has been for about 35 years.
And you will struggle to find Indian curry served publicly anywhere, what we eat is very much a British invention.
No-one sits on anything from Ikea, not whilst the DFS sale is on - and it has been for longer than Sweden has been invented now.
Most of our TVs are Korean, and we mostly watch whatever Simon Cowell tells us to, before he then sells the format to America.
Aside from that, flawless.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Geez, somebody seems to have taken offense there... I think it was mostly a joke... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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No offense taken, and I know it was a joke, albeit a very, very old one.
I just wondered if there was any truth in it, or ever had been, cos I don't recognise any of it, so did a bit of googling.
Jokes playing on stereotypes need to have some truth to the stereotype to work.
Although the punch line was accurate.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: No offense taken
Did you mean "offence"? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I thought I did, but the spell-checker objected and the post I was replying to agreed with it so I went meekly along with the consensus.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yeah, you're both right, just blame me and Microsoft... 
http://grammarist.com/spelling/offence-offense/[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I moved to London 2.5 years ago. My opinion might disappoint you. From a Londoners perspective being British is similar to being Swiss ( I lived there for 5 years so I can judge  ).
Fore-mostly it is about being incredibly polite. Without people ever noticing. For example you plan your pedestrian path 10 meters (,pardon ... 32.8 feet) ahead at rush hour. Then you execute it like a deer, you do not bump into anyone, you do not block anyone's path; and nobody even knows how skilfully you did it.
Then it is about Friday pubbing. No other nation does it quite so consistently as the British.
Then it's about the culture. London's red mail and phone boxes, cabs, cityscape, queens guard, The Beatles...are all very strong and recognizable cultural influence.
For the rebel Americ Unitedstatians it is about the accent which sounds like someone not actually trying to swallow a chewing gum while speaking. And a lot of classy words such as autumn instead of peasants fall. Or arriving instead of coming (but not during sex).
All in all Britain is a very nice and open place. And we should not trash British just because they are proud on their language, culture, habbits, industries, history - because they have something to be proud of.
There.
That is what being British means.
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Apparently you politely forgot:
on a positive note:
Bad teeth
A stubborn caste system all its own.
Bad Abysmal native cuisine
Atrocious approximation of the English Language*
Pathetic envy of Dick van Dyke's portrayal of the local vernacular.
* Indeed! One of the world's truly great oxymorons.
Quite Spot-On. Cheereo, Pip Pip.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Quote: Bad teeth
This is a myth supported by such films as Austin Powers and all the other cheap-shot films and comedians.
Quote: A stubborn caste system all its own.
Which country does not have a caste system of some sort. The US certainly does! I don't think I need to go into details.
Quote: Atrocious approximation of the English Language
We invented and developed it therefore we can speak it however we like and we are automatically correct - it is impossible for it to be an "approximation" of any kind.
Quote: Pathetic envy of Dick van Dyke's portrayal of the local vernacular.
A brilliant comic - we laugh at his accent because it was meant to be laughed at.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just keep telling yourself that - and keep up on the meds, too.
Far be it for me to break that bubble . . .
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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According to Cecil Rhodes:
Quote: Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
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This looks amazing! 
Regards,
Palash
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Wow, just Wow
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I've spent a day trying to transfer an apple machine from my old laptop to a less old iMac.
I try to "Restore from Time Machine" but it keeps saying the time machine disk is in use. It's always in use. I have to resort to physically unplugging the time machine just to ensure that it's not being locked - even though the only machine using it is unplugged.
I get it started. 40hrs to transfer, so I ditch the WiFi and switched to ethernet. And then had to reboot everything to get it to connect to the ethernet port. Overnight it transfers and everything's fine - except it's not.
iPhoto thinks that I've not synced a single photo from my iPhone and so wants to sync everything again. I try and sync with iTunes and iTunes suddenly doesn't know anything about Photos - it keeps wanting to sync with Aperture (you know - that app that's been killed off and replaced by Photos?).
So update, reboot, update - while constantly - never-endingly - entering my iCloud password and iMac password every single time. The irony kills me[^]. Except it doesn't actually seem to remember my password. So I just keep adding it, and OK'ing and on we go.
The El Capitan update was interupted when I switched from Wifi to Ethernet and it never resumed - just sat their "Waiting" - even after I rebooted (downloaded the installer onto a separate machine and then manually updated.
The main issue is that it's not smooth. Not even vaguely. I'm constantly back-tracking and trying new ways to get something done. Updates aren't working and I get "This item isn't available at this time" so I wait, reboot, do something else, try again. Connecting to remote disks is beyond painfully slow. Reboots take forever. Getting updates is hit and miss.
And then I switch to my Windows 10 machine and it all just works. Very, very quickly, very smoothly.
I used to dread setting up Windows machines and love setting up Macs - and now it's totally opposite. The Mac experience due to their software and inability to handle networking and timeouts sensibly is just beyond painful.
I'm on the Latest And Greatest Apple OSs on everything, and it's all just not working.
I'm only really on Mac's because the hardware is so nice and so fast. I enjoy switching to MacOS, and in some cases need to (eg synching my iDevices). Maybe it's time to admit it's just not working and break up. That Surface 4 is looking mighty svelte...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I read this without looking at the poster and wondered what kind of doofus was encountering all of these problems, then found out it was Chris!!!!
Welcome to Windows!
Dave.
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Chris Maunder wrote: iTunes
Please keep it civilized in the lounge!
At least it didn't sync the wrong way. I had that happen to my iPod once... There went my music 
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Come to the Dark Side: we have cookies!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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and there is not limit on how many you can eat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: we have cookies!
with variety of cached versions 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You don't sound very thankful today.
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Did you try turning it off...and then on again?
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Chris said he was dealing with the MacOS, not Windows!
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Just got off the phone with my brother-in-law. His 12 day old Windows 10 laptop is already infested with a virus that won't let it boot-up or shutdown properly.
Thanks, but no thanks. 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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