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What do other nationalities call us?

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    #21
    Australians call us Poms, which is supposed to be derogatory these days but I quite like it. And Limeys. I've even been called a ghost, which I thought was pretty cool.

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      #22
      So basically all the UK directed ethnic slurs are actually quite nice. Shows we are liked. Or maybe it's only us that does it?

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        #23
        Well those jokey English people call me a sheep sh***er.

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          #24
          Originally posted by JoJoGabor View Post
          I witnessed a piste-rage argument between a brit and a yank, and the yank ended up saying "You don't give a sh!t because you're a brit, Brits never give a sh!t"

          I thought that was a really wierd thing to say - is that a common perception of us??
          Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
          So basically all the UK directed ethnic slurs are actually quite nice. Shows we are liked. Or maybe it's only us that does it?
          . . . or maybe, as JoJoGabor quotes; we just don't give a sh!t about it?
          The vegetarian option.

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            #25
            Originally posted by wobbegong View Post
            Is anyone actually offended by the French offering? As far as insulting jibes go, it's pretty lame.
            Yes the cheese-eating surrender-monkeys need to do much better than that.
            Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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