Giants leading the 49’ers 10-7 in the 3rd, a flasche of Warsteiner and a nose full of Latakia A/O. And I know the latter two will hold out, even if the Giant’s can’t.

I was utterly disappointed that both Green Bay and New Orleans lost. IMO, that paves the way to another N.E championship. Anyhow, Go Giants!

That made my day…I am a huge Giants fan.  I grew up in NJ not far from the Meadowlands so have been a fan since I was very young.  I cannot believe that the Giants are a 3 point underdog to New England though.

How lovely!

Not a word…

@GreenGrass I can never tell whether you’re trying to be funny, or if you’re just constantly being an ass.

Let’s make up and be friends! And @greengrass much as you amuse me, I sometimes wonder if you’re trying to get banned?

@dogwalla

Classic!

Well since I’ve been here I always see greengrass as a surly old man who just doesn’t give a damn one way or another…now for all I know he’s a 19 year old girl, but old man is the impression he gives off. And thank you Mr. Snuff. I get so tired of hearing “american football if for pansies”…though it’s often another p-word that’s used, and I am not sure on how far the rules allow for foul language, lol.

I will watch the super bowl but since my Cowboys had another(gulp)rough season I have switched to watching the English Premier League soccer games that are live streamed online. This year some of the MLS games will be televised on NBC and I can’t wait  :)>- I am very happy to see that my fellow statesman Clint Dempsey is having an outstanding season with Fulham, the man’s a beast on the pitch!!  I hope soccer continues to pick up momentum with fans here in the US, it’s a fantastic game.

Any foul language and arguing…its up to you.

That being the case, do you Britt’s (is there a more acceptable term?) know that on this side of the pond “fanny” is a very mild word, milder I believe than your word “Arse” which I believe is pretty interchangable with our usage of “ass”.  Also isn’t the word “munch” kind of rude over there too? Just means to eat, usually food, over here. There’s 30 seconds of your life you’ll never get back.

@Mr. 0

Damn it!!!
I needed those 30 seconds!!

:-w

@Mr.O - that 30 seconds, even though I had absolutely nothing else to do with it, is very grudgingly conceded and lamented for it’s pointless waste. I believe some people understand the duality. Not me, although I do know that munch itself is not a naughty word. It is, rather, a ‘doing word’.

Well, it’s not all gold… on the other hand I think it’s good to learn about such things. Do you mean the ass/arse duality, or the general bi-costal contrast? Never mind, my head’s allready tired…

I was refering to the butockular duality. 

I say it’s important to learn a new word everyday, even if the word is butockular.

Yeah, I just want to say that I’m genuine in my curiosity here. I’m somewhat of an anglophile, what with British music, TV, and the mags I used to read a lot(silly ones, but good). I just realized that I was lacking in good examples, and therefore it wasn’t really going anywhere. That being said, I think most Americans know the meaning of wank/wanking, but I’m only reasonably certain of the meaning of “minge”, I think our word “beaver” is about a match for that. What else should us Yank’s know about?

@Mr. O in the UK a rubber is an eraser and a fag is a cigarette.

Oh yeah, right,  a pack of fags. I heard a story about this American who was traveling and passing through GB. He went to a restaurant, and ordered three pancakes for lunch, the waiter said “Three pancakes!? Allright.”. So the waiter brings him three of what we call “poundcakes”, after a few words the waiter says “Oh you mean griddle cakes!”.

If you borrow a cigarette from someone, you could be said to be ‘bumming a fag’, this could lead to confusion. Also faggots are a meat based delicacy enjoyed by many in the North of this fair isle. And for pudendal euphemisms, there is no better education than this charming song: http://youtu.be/thFjTo6r4gg

Not to forget, on these islands we also wank and shag, which our friends across the pond also do, but not properly.

Not to forget a bit of how’s your father.

That song. It just goes on and on…

Try:

http://youtu.be/ad8xk35-jbs

Yes funny but classy! Those rathergood guys did a funny iphone/ipod app too. Sometimes we use “snatch”, we also say “bush”(I guess it likely means the same thing). You seem to have more names for it, and also for the “boobs”, the “hooters”, the “girls”, the “twins”, the “knockers”, the “sweater yams”, the “puppies”. And you’ve never seen me shag, so… well, I don’t think that’ll ever happen anyways…

Has anybody else eaten super-spicy food and chased it with a super-strong menthol? Sublime:)

Hedges is fantastic with English bitter ale.

Which ales for example? I don’t think the US has many bitters, but we have loads of good IPA’s.

Any of them - IPA is really just bottled bitter.

@Mr.O , I usually chase spicy food (spicier the better) with mint or wintergreen dip. To answer your likely question, yes, I am a masochist, lol.

Capsaicin and menthol have the very opposite effect in the mouth. Ones gives a heat sensation and the other gives a freeze, so I guess they kind of cancel each other?

Snuffster- I always thought bitters were more of a bitter-hoppy mild. And usually think of IPA’s as a higher alc more aromatically-hoppy ales. I don’t know my British brews that well- but I like the Meantime IPA.

KebAMP- burning mouth, freezing nose?

@snuffster they’re diffrent. Not much. I prefer IPA. they are slightly more aromatic and slightly more crisp in general. Or to put it another way Americans know how to make one of them and not as much so the other one.

I still remember the first time I was at a party in the States and I said “I really fancy a fag”. A terrible shame as the girl I was talking to at the time was stunning. She shot across the room and I never spoke to her again.

Well Roderick American hotties hate smokers (even if they smoke). See if you would have been snuffing at the time and said I really need a sniff… She’d have well use your imagination… o.k. bought you some scented candles. American chicks are weird which is fine with me.

@bob I may be mistaken (as that girl was), but I think she was thinking “fag” as another term…

nah girls don’t mind that. Trust me they don’t mind I’ve seen enough try to prove they don’t have any problem with that. Including one that told me I must be a cigarette cause of my nail polish. She didn’t mind at all.

I think you are generalizing women a bit too much. Some can be just as scared of gays as any guy can.

Bitter and mild are two different ales. India Pale Ale was brewed for the soldiers in the raj, but was just essentially a bitter brewed to be drunk on ship by the troops. Nowadays the distinctions have got a bit blurred with IPA usually being the stronger of the two and being bottled - but if you set a pint of, say, draught Green King IPA next to a strong draught bitter there is no real difference. I’m only talking about British beer. IPA is usually the stronger of the two at about 5%, and bitter between 3 and 4, but a few decades ago bitters tended to be stronger.

Well snuffster someday you will have to prove me wrong with a taste test. Since there aren’t a lot of british bitters available in my area. Though apperantly Irish Red is a popular style here. Which seems like a very good style that is dramatically over priced.

Indeed. The next time I’m in the States or vice versa of course.

Had my first Samuel Smith’s  ‘Nut Brown Ale’ yesterday.  Chased it down with some HDT… very nice.  My new favorite combo.

well I’am sadly in the states all the time. Nothing wrong with being in the states it’s the all the time part.

Viva la differance!(sp?). The IPA’s that I get are pretty much all between 8% and 9.5% or so. The barlywines and quadrupels I get are usually running form 9% to 11.8%. But I do like some mild British’es: Sam Smith’s, St Peter, etc.

The very best British beer, which I would be very surprised if there was any of it outside the UK is Thwaites, a genuine, delicous served at cellar temperature bitter. You don’t see much of it outside Lancashire. I found myself in the holy county last week and re-aquainted myself with this wonderful brew. Nut brown and delicious.

sounds great. Then again beer always sounds great when unavailable (I guess I would have drank more dure prohabition).

We have some good beer around here, Wold Top Micro Brewery.  It’s out in the sticks between Bridlington and Scarborough, East Yorkshire.

Nah, Snuffster you’re wrong there, it’s got to be Harveys! 

Although I’ve just discovered a long lost friend (Facebook) has taken over Phipps NBC and is reintroducing a number of their historic ales. I feel a credit card bashing coming on as the minimum order is 8 cases. I wonder if that would last the weekend? 

I’m sorry, go and have a lie down because the pressure of business has obviously got to you. AS I said, Thwaites.

LOL!

How do you U.K.'ers feel about Bellhaven, Meantime, Young’s?

Not heard of Bellhaven or Meantime. Young’s is ok. About 20 years ago there was an explosion of new bottled ales on the market - either from old companies getting into the national supermarket trade or from new, or micro, brewerys. Some of it was pretty contrived and a bit like contract made snuff, some was just like FandT, ie long since bought out trade names. There are now dozens of beers widely available in fancy old fashioned bottles that are pretty standardised and with not much more character than a mass produced lager. In my very humble opinion the best beers are those that never leave their local market. Fortunately the UK is a very small place and you can still find good local beer in various places, properly pulled up from the cellar as opposed to gassed up and chilled.

I absolutely love Belhaven in the nitro can!

I do occasionally drink a Young’s Double Chocolate, also in the nitro can.

I’ve only had the Bellhaven (Scottish) “Twisted Thistle IPA”  which is hoppy but in a different way, hard to describe, it’s the only ale that I’ve been getting which is in a colorless glass bottle. Around here the shops tend to have (literally) one or two selections from Young’s typically including the “Double Chocolate” stout. The Meantime (I’ll look it up) is from somwhere in the UK and make another kinda unusual IPA, in that it’s rather herbal and smooth. I’ll have to try the Young’s- been meaning to.

Twisted Thistle isn’t bad either.  I’ve only had one Meantime beer, a couple years back, I believe it was a porter.

I just find the hop characteristics of the Twisted Thistle to be unusual and good.

I’ll have to try the Meantime porter. There are three of thiers that I can find locally.