I insist on asking for
Chocolate Bread in poncy coffee places. 'Do you mean pain au chocolate?'. 'Why, do I sound French?'.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 9:39, 2 replies)

No. You sound like a dick.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:01, closed)

One of my mates
used to pride himself on the fact he always asked for 'chips' in MacDonalds.

Not unexpectedly, the server would often say something like 'er, you mean fries, right?', to which he'd go off on a bit of a rant about American/ English blah blah blah . . .

He looked an utter cock doing it.
(username failed moderation, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:23, closed)

That's just dumb. Fries and chips are different, and those serves in McDonald's are fries.
(tyrellsOwl, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 17:41, closed)

Depends where you are.
In the US, I think what you say is correct.

In the UK they're more often than not called chips - what the US calls chips, we call crisps.

So he wasn't entirely wrong, but he was being a dick. In the UK we all know exactly what 'fries' are, there's no confusion.
(username failed moderation, Thu 26 Jan 2012, 9:10, closed)

Yeah
Because annoying people pointlessly over small points is your job.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:05, closed)

Zerrrrr-zing!

( jagwap, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:21, closed)

You are that comedian off Russel Howard's Good News the other day
AICMFP.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:07, closed)

There was a comedian on Russel Howard's Good News?
When?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:30, closed)

I use the word "comedian"
In the broadest, most untrue sense of the word*.


*With apologies to Messrs Fry & Laurie.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 10:48, closed)

Or like:
"Oh, so you're a comedian are you Sir?"
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 11:31, closed)

Hahahaha - who was that? Jack Dee?
"If pulled over by the police, and they ask you what your job is, don't tell them you're a comedian - they don't like it."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 13:46, closed)