Because we don't want to weigh things by 'stones'. :p
Also the metric system is insane. What if you're weighing a stone? Hey, how much does this stone weigh? "Oh, three stones" No, this one stone "Yeah, it weighs three stones" Then what do these three stones weigh? "Two stones"
*brain explodes*
Erm, metric system isn't about "stones", it's about kilograms. Britain is the only country I know of that uses "stones".
Still, must be embarassing for the U.S. to be in the same boat as Burma and Liberia.
Sir, if our American Educational System would've taught me where either of those places are I'm sure I'd be greatly offended. :p
Drink some tea, Get yellow teeth. Have a annoying accent. Well that's all i could think of....
Hey, I just heard one.
Let's be obnoxious, bash a culture we don't understand. Forget about the salad, just throw in a bit more ham. We laze around all day thinking about nothing. Fuck that for a laugh, let's go to Burger King.
I hope you learnt a lesson.
What lesson? :P I thing I hear another song coming on!
Get you ass pushed around by America all the time. Your country sucks, you guys cant do anything right. I just think that you blow yourselves up! Because just face it, your country is full of sluts.
Drink some tea, Get yellow teeth. Have a annoying accent. Well that's all i could think of....
Hey, I just heard one.
Let's be obnoxious, bash a culture we don't understand. Forget about the salad, just throw in a bit more ham. We laze around all day thinking about nothing. Fuck that for a laugh, let's go to Burger King.
I hope you learnt a lesson.
What lesson? :P I thing I hear another song coming on!
Get you ass pushed around by America all the time. Your country sucks, you guys cant do anything right. I just think that you blow yourselves up! Because just face it, your country is full of sluts.
Umm... I'm going to go ahead and reward you with nothing. That was by far, the most pathetic thing I have ever read. Way to go. You've made your country look even worse.
Drink some tea, Get yellow teeth. Have a annoying accent. Well that's all i could think of....
Hey, I just heard one.
Let's be obnoxious, bash a culture we don't understand. Forget about the salad, just throw in a bit more ham. We laze around all day thinking about nothing. Fuck that for a laugh, let's go to Burger King.
I hope you learnt a lesson.
What lesson? :P I thing I hear another song coming on!
Get you ass pushed around by America all the time. Your country sucks, you guys cant do anything right. I just think that you blow yourselves up! Because just face it, your country is full of sluts.
Umm... I'm going to go ahead and reward you with nothing. That was by far, the most pathetic thing I have ever read. Way to go. You've made your country look even worse.
You wouldn't be judging a country based on forum posts by people who troll gaming sites right? I don't think so, that would be silly mate.
Although I did lol a bunch, so all is forgiven! :D Oh yah, and hi!
Drink some tea, Get yellow teeth. Have a annoying accent. Well that's all i could think of....
Hey, I just heard one.
Let's be obnoxious, bash a culture we don't understand. Forget about the salad, just throw in a bit more ham. We laze around all day thinking about nothing. Fuck that for a laugh, let's go to Burger King.
I hope you learnt a lesson.
What lesson? :P I thing I hear another song coming on!
Get you ass pushed around by America all the time. Your country sucks, you guys cant do anything right. I just think that you blow yourselves up! Because just face it, your country is full of sluts.
Umm... I'm going to go ahead and reward you with nothing. That was by far, the most pathetic thing I have ever read. Way to go. You've made your country look even worse.
You wouldn't be judging a country based on forum posts by people who troll gaming sites right? I don't think so, that would be silly mate.
Although I did lol a bunch, so all is forgiven! :D Oh yah, and hi!
Drink some tea, Get yellow teeth. Have a annoying accent. Well that's all i could think of....
Hey, I just heard one.
Let's be obnoxious, bash a culture we don't understand. Forget about the salad, just throw in a bit more ham. We laze around all day thinking about nothing. Fuck that for a laugh, let's go to Burger King.
I hope you learnt a lesson.
What lesson? :P I thing I hear another song coming on!
Get you ass pushed around by America all the time. Your country sucks, you guys cant do anything right. I just think that you blow yourselves up! Because just face it, your country is full of sluts.
Umm... I'm going to go ahead and reward you with nothing. That was by far, the most pathetic thing I have ever read. Way to go. You've made your country look even worse.
I'm not British but I grew up in a culturally retarded place known as America and all Americans are raised to believe that Yakety Sax is a flawless and 100% accurate depiction of normal UK life.
Wadders: The Kinks have several songs that have a very British essence, if that makes sense. Victoria and Waterloo Sunset spring to mind. I think more people should like the Kinks these days.
You realise that Victoria was about the place in Australia, right? Anyway, Afternoon Tea or The Village Green Preservation Society would be better choices.
Well I never knew that. The lyrics seem to be pretty obviously talking about Britain and the Empire to me, but hey, what do I know?
The Lyrics
And as far as the other choices go, I'm sure your right, it's just that I only have the "Best of the kinks" thing, which doesn't include those tracks, so whilst I am aware of their existence I rarely listen to them and am not too familiar with them, hence their omission :(
Either way, it's nice to see someone else who likes the Kinks :)
led zeppelin'stairway to heaven, british climbing through life in tudor times with the echo of true meaning, if we all call a tune than the piper will lead us to reason, it does make us wonder, yeahhhhhh.oh yeah....
14 lbs = 1 stone, now why can't you yanks catch up with the rest of the world and convert to Metric.
Because we don't want to weigh things by 'stones'. :p
Also the metric system is insane. What if you're weighing a stone? Hey, how much does this stone weigh? "Oh, three stones" No, this one stone "Yeah, it weighs three stones" Then what do these three stones weigh? "Two stones"
*brain explodes*
I thought stones were an Imperial measurement...
Sure as hell they're not Metric. To be fair though, we still use metric stuff like feet, inches and miles over here in the UK a lot, just not for "official" purposes :P
There's so much fail in this thread it's unreal...
Feet, inches, miles, stones, pounds, ounces and pints are all imperial measurements.
Britain isn't inhabited by chimney sweeps and nannies. So cut the stereotypical bullshit spewing from your gob and come back when you've got an education, perhaps study at Oxford, the worlds greatest university, that'll also give you a chance to actually experience England.
"Always Look on The Bright Side of Life" by Eric Idle in Life of Brian
They should play it when people get off their planes at Heathrow.
(More serious vote: The Beatles)
Always look on the bright side of life pretty much is the British anthem. You will hear it being sung by hordes of Brits after every festival in the UK.
So as a song that defines British spirit, if have to say that...
14 lbs = 1 stone, now why can't you yanks catch up with the rest of the world and convert to Metric.
Because we don't want to weigh things by 'stones'. :p
Also the metric system is insane. What if you're weighing a stone? Hey, how much does this stone weigh? "Oh, three stones" No, this one stone "Yeah, it weighs three stones" Then what do these three stones weigh? "Two stones"
*brain explodes*
I thought stones were an Imperial measurement...
Sure as hell they're not Metric. To be fair though, we still use metric stuff like feet, inches and miles over here in the UK a lot, just not for "official" purposes :P
There's so much fail in this thread it's unreal...
Feet, inches, miles, stones, pounds, ounces and pints are all imperial measurements.
Britain isn't inhabited by chimney sweeps and nannies. So cut the stereotypical bullshit spewing from your gob and come back when you've got an education, perhaps study at Oxford, the worlds greatest university, that'll also give you a chance to actually experience England.
Shit, apologies for not correctly knowing every single metric and imperial unit of measurement. I guess I was doing something that was actually interesting when they taught us that at school. :P
I agree with you about the stereotype thing though :D But I'd say you cant just experience England by staying in the south east (which is where most tourists go I think), theres just too much distinction between the different areas of our country, you'd have to travel the whole place to get a good experience of england.
Indeed.
Thank you for the lols gents.