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Things That Have Recently Reminded Me Why I Love My Country
a slightly ridiculous post by citruses
( An introduction to Britain (or should that be 'the UK'?), otherwise entitled 'Hey, you're those guys with that big old Empire, right?' )
a slightly ridiculous post by citruses
( An introduction to Britain (or should that be 'the UK'?), otherwise entitled 'Hey, you're those guys with that big old Empire, right?' )
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And the Royal Family vid has basically made my day. Amazing.
THIS POST ♥
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Yesss, a school friend of mine posted the Royal Wedding thing on Facebook. Priceless!
Thank youuu bb /♥ back
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*giggle*
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"That is not how you fuckin spell 'pyjamas'" and "mad mouth parts" and "a spider is a spider" and "my grandparents are dead!" and "MY FUCKING FIST" ahahahaha I may never stop laughing. Also I think I may do that voice meme! It sounds very amusing.
THE ROYAL WEDDING VIDEO. YES. YESSSSSSSSS. BRILLIANT.
gfdfghbgfdfgvb they way Tom Hardy says "anything" at the end of that last video makes me laugh so much. He's fantastic. (He's also in Bank of Brothers jsyk~)
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The accents meme is really good, like, I can rarely distinguish between the various US accents, but when the differences are highlighted by something like this it's really interesting. And the dialect words! Like 'Paki two-bobs', I mean it's obviously really offensive but that's a piece of social history right there. Yay language nerdery :D
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Aha now I've seen part four... oh T-man. He's wonderful. (in BoB Tom Hardy has a sex scene, is that incentive enough for you to get to episode nine???)
I'd not heard of the term 'Paki two-bob' before. It's astoundingly offensive but just goes to show how much language changes!
Also I thought you might care to know~ next year I'm going to be doing a module on post-Roman Celtic Britain to make up my credits, a choice that was largely inspired by you! ♥
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Post-Roman Celtic Britain sounds exciting but OMG I hope you don't hate it and then hate me D: I would probably struggle with it bc history is not my strong point (I don't even have a GCSE in it), but our academic sides obvs have different strengths, so OMG get it girl!
Funnily enough our ~academic paths cross~ in my head too bc I keep thinking of you while I'm doing my Foundation for Study in the Arts module... Like, I think my final essay is going to be on Plato and Marx, and when I read all the Platonic philosophy stuff I am like I BET CHARL WOULD UNDERSTAND THIS and when I read the Marx stuff I'm like I BET CHARL WOULD AGREE WITH THIS. (Not that I disagree with Marx, it's just I'm too underinformed to have Opinions about most stuff.)
Anyway, does that mean you found out you can definitely switch to Philosophy? Or are you still waiting to hear?
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And then I had to show my children, and they both were as amused, impressed etc as I was. I specially liked Glasgow guy - he is brilliant.
I have an american friend who has ended up having to do the british citizenship test despite having children in their 20s and living here for decades. She's next on my "be amazed with citruses" tour.
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I think perhaps we ought to be LJ-friends, what with the whole 'ruining your life with happy gay farmers'/'writing glee-inducing fic about it' thing, no? I can't promise that all my posts contain as much quality stuff as this one, but if you're interested! :)
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