My roommate is so British! All he does is drink tea and put mints into spaghetti! He put soap all over my door last night!
—Nice Canadian
This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2009.
British flat-mate!
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Whaaaaaaaaaaat?
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? huh?
“He put soap all over my door last night!”
That’s SO British. I haven’t met a Brit yet that isn’t always frolicking about soaping up doorknobs.
I’m full blown Brit and I don’t do that shit.
Must be where they’re from.
Hmmmmm
Probably Camden. After all, that’s Amy Winehouse country and we all know how sane she is.
Hahahaha
random
I had two Brit loves before calling it quits and picking a Pictou County sweetie. One used to mash potatoes and brussel sprouts together, the other used to boil fucking kidneys and make those goddamn pies – the kitchen would smell like a fucking urinal for a week. Other than that, I learned how to understand BBC sitcoms and the slang. They were also obsessed with sex, those randy sods. Must have something to do with all that stiff upper lip stuff. Despite all, I still love Peter Sellers and Monty Python.
I’m Irish, not ‘British’, (close enough) I do drink a shitload of tea but I don’t soap up people’s doorknobs. (ignore impending connotation) Guy’s a psycho.
Maybe the BHS (British Health Services)decided to ship their daft door knob fuckers to the outback of Can-a-der.
This is the most legitimate bitch I’ve read today. Who the fuck wants soap on their door or mint in their spaghetti.
Maybe you’re just really dirty and he’s using the soap as a barrier between your room and the rest of the house.
If your Brit roommate is paying their share of the rent and expenses on time, consider yourself very lucky. As for the soap on the door knob, maybe he or she is trying to tell you something.
I can see alittle bit of mint in their spaghetti being alright.
They just have a better fratboy culture over there than we do here. While Halifax has no shortage of frat-boys of all backgrounds, I used to know 40 y.o. fratboys when I lived over there.
I’m English and can fully understand the tea drinking part, spaghetti with mints in it, no thanks, as for the soapy doorknob – too bent to contemplate.
You said British so to fully understand your posting we’ll need to know whether you mean English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh – otherwise you sound like an American who lumps everything under European instead of individual countries.
The spaghetti and mint and soapy doorknob fetsihes couldn’t possibly be done by us English as we’re not that twisted.
The Scots on the other hand are so cheap that they wouldn’t want to spend the money on mints, soap or spaghetti.
The Irish would be too pissed drunk that he might do all the fetishes but he won’t remember.
The Welsh – hum they’re too busy eating Leeks and sheep shagging.
Hey, Senile, that’s Northern Irish to you. Long live the IRA!
Senile…go suck on some brown sauce! Now I know why the world hates you limey pricks…you don’t know when to shut up…England 5 Germany 1, battle of Gallipoli…cheeky bugger! ;P I’m with Dino Jr here…Scots & Irish sounds like Bannockburn all over again! Faugh-an-ballagh!
Kickass, jamesk. What county are you from?
Northern Ireland is still part of Britain – the IRA’s days are all over now, the “normal” people of Ireland saw to that – they were tired of being sacrificed for “the cause”.
It’s obvious that you aren’t British because we’re noted for self deprecating humour – that’s deprecating not defecating.
i thought British were good for killing coloured people and stealing their resources too. And being ruled by the Rothschilds.
And I don’t think the IRA has ever been beaten.
Just a hello to Dino…from Derry!
You’re right NGF, the IRA’s still around- or should I say the ‘REAL IRA’- a few months ago they shot 2 soldiers and 2 pizza deliverymen, then a day or 2 later they open fired on some poor policeman in the street and killed him. For what, I don’t understand.
The IRA are nothing but thugs and terrorists. Dino, when you say ‘Long live the IRA’ I sincerely hope that’s a joke, albeit a completely offensive and tasteless one- considering it was the Real IRA who bombed a busy Armagh street one Saturday in 1998 and killed 31 innocent people.
Those, my friend, are sad sad occurences that will be lived down in Britain’s history — but if you look at the Old IRA, back to the early 20th century with Eamon de Valera, British oppression was absolutely brutal. I won’t go into extensive detail here, but the film ”The Wind That Shakes the Barley” depicts an accurate portrayal, (seeing that it was based on true events). The basis for the IRA was honor and unity for the country, which is what most Irish (and myself) see worth having pride for.
I have seen “The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ and I do know that orginally, the IRA stood for something and I fully support their (much) earlier actions. Now, however, they stand for absolutely nothing- any ’cause’ of theirs has been completely undermined by their flagrant illegal activity. The IRA are still in the news here- not for any peaceful protests but for their violent, drug-dealing, murdering thuggery. I think that the bombing of Armagh is something to be lived down in Ireland’s history, not Britian’s-unless, of course, you think this act of terrorism was justified. This SENSELESS atrocity was committed by a group of IRISH people who have no idea what they stand for anymore.