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However, I dislike your version of the game we Americans refer to as, "Football"

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I can't wait until Human Weapon goes to England to learn how to do jousting. The English sure know combat sports.

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even the football hooligans have a strong vocabulary which makes them seem way smarter than your average wearing socks w/ sandals American.

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DLizzle- People don't have classes, this isn't Dungeons and Dragons. The hilarious part was: "high-pitched, chippy, common voice" not any of the descriptions.

FWIW, I'm sorry people don't like you just because you are racist. People are mean. Especially black people, amirite?

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DLizzle- People don't have classes, this isn't Dungeons and Dragons. The hilarious part was: "high-pitched, chippy, common voice" not any of the descriptions.


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Hahaha, do you really not believe there is such a thing as a high-pitched, chippy, common voice? Or that you can't judge a person by how he talks? Oh, I forget - you're no Englishman.

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It's amusing to me that allegedly normal Englishmen have mannerisms most closely associated with girls auditioning for My Super Sweet Sixteen on this side of the pond.

Effete mannerisms like class snobbery are a big reason why English people seem gay. It's either that or the buggery.

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It's amusing to me that allegedly normal Englishmen have mannerisms most closely associated with girls auditioning for My Super Sweet Sixteen on this side of the pond.

Effete mannerisms like class snobbery are a big reason why English people seem gay. It's either that or the buggery.

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Fwiw, I have a rather plummy voice which makes me sound either expensively educated, or gay. Or both. But I am pretty sure I'm neither!

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rofl if you think class snobbery is exclusively confined to England. You are very short-sighted if you don't see these things going on in America (though admittedly probably not as bad as in England). One similar area where Americans are much, much worse imo is when it comes to people of different financial situations than them.

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The law firm where I work is just hilarious for how polarised the accents are. It is a medium-sized UK-only firm, so hasn't gone through the process of Americanisation which has led to the other firms becoming more diverse and cosmopolitan. This place is still true blue.

The lawyers all went to public school (i.e. top private school, different meaning here) then Oxford/Cambridge, and have ridic super-posh voices, like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u3G618-hxgA

Secretaries are all housewifes from Essex who left school, at best, at 18, and sound like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hKL1TgoxPxc

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jimm - do the lawyers socialize much with the secretaries? Do you feel they look down on them much?