It's because you're forrin
and they're terrible racists
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:43, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

:(
I can fake English accent. Well, no, but I can try be the English stereotype and just be there, looking posh and smug, drinking my 5 o'clock tea and eating biscuits, agreeing to everything while thinking that they're talking bullshit.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Ich bin ein Auslander auch
seeing as I'm a card carrying Jock. But alas, I don't need to fake my English accent.
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:51, Reply)

So not actually forrin,
just a denizen of the lower orders of this Sceptred Isle? Boy, stoke my pipe and have it ready for me on the verandah in five minutes.

Abe, as a foreign dignitary, just do everything I do and you'll fit in just fine. If you can practice responding to everything I say with "Well, quite," and "Oh, absolutely," in an accent worthy of Rex Harrison then nobody will notice the difference.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:55, Reply)

I've got very good at saying
"Well, well, well" and "Oh, I see" Will that suffice?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

Useful point of etiquette
The correct response to "how do you do" is "how do you do". Nothing else is acceptable in polite circles.

Yet another way we sneaky Brits aim to out forrins.

/debretts
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Or, if you're being flirtatious:
"How do you do?"
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Followed by a salacious twirl of the handlebar, of course ...

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:07, Reply)

Yes,
And the only right answer to "Thank you" is "No, thank you"
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:03, Reply)

get it right up ye
ya soft peace ;) o' southern shite
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)

Yes, but is my pipe ready?
I shall have the quartermaster flog you if you continue to bandy about derogatory remarks in that native dialect of yours!
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:05, Reply)

Nah
But ma boabie is ya bent shot
( djtrialprice, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:10, Reply)