American flatmate
At uni, going out for an evening cigarette. Mentioned to impressionable excitable just-off-the-plane-for-first-time-in-another-country merkin flatmate that we were (as we put on our long overcoats) "going out to smoke a fag".

Much cultural misunderstanding, and horror/hilarity ensued.

Apologies for length, but they were Dunhill Internationals in my posing intellectual days...
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:18, 17 replies)

AHAHAHAHA!
It's funny because Americans use the word 'fag' to mean bumsexual, whereas here it's slang for cigarette.

Those crazy Americans, when will they ever learn?

*affectionately punches prince-igor on the shoulder*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:20, closed)

AHAHAHAHA!
It's funny because humour is exponentially cumulative, so the sixteenth time a joke is posted is many times funnier than the fifteenth... and so on.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:23, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
It's funny because of what Enzyme said, and I'm just supporting him because repetition is the new funny.

*breathes*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:24, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
It's funny because lots of people have already laughed at it despite it not containing any humour, see also The Catherine Tate Show.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:33, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:34, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
Cancer!

sorry, not funny.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:37, closed)

Yeah, I realise it's not.
I just wanted to fit in and be accepted. It was not big and not clever. But I will learn from my mistakes.


AHAHAHAHAH!
I said 'fit in.' It could be taken to sound a little rude.
EDIT: @al - why did you smell like a mouldy dog carcass?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:39, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
@Supreme Crow - Don't apologise, I wasn't getting at you, I thought your post was funny, I just thought mine may have been taking it a little too far.

What was I thinking, this is B3ta.

Cancer FTW!

Wooo!
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:41, closed)

AHAHAHAHAHA!
Cancer!

It's every bit as serious as the lead singer from Snap.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:42, closed)

^^^^^^
now that is an AHAHAHAHAHA! moment.

frickin brill!
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:44, closed)

@Cockbrush
You have just made today fabulous. Thank you for that interjection.

Have a click, even though you only posted a reply.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:44, closed)

Is this the same Snap who
formed under Italian aliases becuase "they thought the public had negative preconceived ideas about German music[1]"?

Who has positive preconceived ideas about German music?


[1]_{Wikipedia, somewhere on teh interweb. Always list your sources, boys and girls. Plagiarism is unacceptable and WILL BE PUNISHED.}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:47, closed)

^
no it won't.
source: BBC; pers comm
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 15:15, closed)

^^^
No it wont.

see I plagiarised this answer and no-ones punished me.



*Awaits punishment*
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 15:24, closed)

actually al
since you capitalised the 'n' and omitted an apostrophe I'm quite sure my august institution would exonerate you of all charges and award you a 2:1 for good behaviour.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 15:26, closed)

oh hell yeah
three degrees and counting. Get in.

*dons motown wig*

*sings*
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 15:28, closed)

I don't know...
I turn my back for...well, an hour, and find this thread rife with plagiarism!

I may as well don a motown wig and plagiarise al...

*harmonises*
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 15:44, closed)