I was just correcting your (or your wife's) factual inaccuracy of claiming that the NZ Marmite was the original.
I think you have missed the point.
I know how the good Captain feels.
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By the way, according to Wikipedia, and UK Marmite's own website, the product that would become Marmite was actually first seen by a Dutchman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek AKA the father of Microbiology, first identified as a yeast by a Frenchman, Louis Pasteur, and first concentrated into a foodstuff by a German, Justus Liebig.
It's European?
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I think you have missed the point.
Another way of saying 'I was wrong but don't want to admit it'.
By the way, according to Wikipedia, and UK Marmite's own website, the product that would become Marmite was actually first seen by a Dutchman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek AKA the father of Microbiology, first identified as a yeast by a Frenchman, Louis Pasteur, and first concentrated into a foodstuff by a German, Justus Liebig.
Where's the bit where it mentions New Zealand?
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Surely ratadog was making that comic somewhat ironically - i.e. I don't think he's suggesting British beer is crap either, but it's what his Mrs thinks. That's what made the post funny.
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Another way of saying 'I was wrong but don't want to admit it'.
No, No, No, NO
Surely ratadog was making that comment somewhat ironically - i.e. I don't think he's suggesting British beer is crap either, but it's what his Mrs thinks.
YES
That's what made the post funny.
You are too kind.
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Mrs T, thinks that we drink too much, and that all beer tastes the same (she even thinks lager and beer is the same pffttt
Can't understands our need to being prompt and punctual to everything.What she does love, is the general courtesy the British have (opening doors, cars stopping to let her cross the road with pram etc)
And Cider and Perry.
She also thinks that British fathers (although, can only compare by observation) are more family orientated than men from other countries.Posted 6 months ago # -
If you think that the brits don't say what they're really thinking then you should try scandinavia. nobody ever says what they really think for fear of causing some sort of conflict.
conflict must be avoided at all costs (hence the high suicide and divorce rate if you ask me!)Get them drunk or put them behind the wheel and that changes I reckon.
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My wife still doesn't understand most shops not opening until 8 or 9 am, and closing at 5/6pm ... this would class as being massively lazy in Brazil
She's quickly got the impression that workers in the UK will take any opporunity or use any excuse to do as little work as possible.
And 'customer servce'. It's terrible here. Apparently.
Having spent some time in Brazil, I'm inclined to agree to a certain extent.
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She also thinks that British fathers (although, can only compare by observation) are more family orientated than men from other countries
Mrs Grips also makes the same observation. I was on a train the other day and there was an American family who looked very Mid Western. The mother entertained the kid full time for the whole two hour trip, and the dad sat with his iPad. I thought perhaps he was working but no, he was watching movies, playing games and all. Mrs Grips said that's perfectly normal. Her sisters have commented on how nice it is to see dads playing with kids, looking after them, looking after them solo during the day and so on.
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I think the Marmite argument is a bit like Rugby - Brits might have invented it, but we made it better...
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@ grantway Knight Rider is Spain is called El Coche Fantastico (The Fantastic Car). There are plenty more of these rather amusing re-namings.
And different words for the strangest things. Earlier this year I was subjected to howls of derisive laughter by my wife and a group of her friends outside a Spanish bar (and continue to be to this day whenever I am there) for saying that the noise a cockerel makes is 'Cock-a-doodle-do'. People were crying with laughter at this absurdity. In Spain a cockerel goes 'Kir-Kiri-Kee'. Also birds don't go 'tweet' they go 'pio pio' and dogs go 'wow'. Her family looked at me like I was crazy when I suggested dogs went 'woof'.
I'm really not making this up......
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And 'customer servce'. It's terrible here. Apparently.
She's right.
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Danish pigs go øf not oink
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Her family looked at me like I was crazy when I suggested dogs went 'woof'.
Are these people deaf ?
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Maybe Spanish dogs don't have lips.
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How do you pronounce øf?
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Her sisters have commented on how nice it is to see dads playing with kids, looking after them, looking after them solo during the day and so on.
That's because the dads are unemployed so they look after the kids while the mums are cleaning/working in call centres.
Or maybe that's just in Sunderland ...
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How do you pronounce øf?
Go listen to a Danish pig ?
Urff
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In Norway pigs go 'nuf nuf' (pronounced noof noof)
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@Cougar Spanish dogs speak Spanish of course so it must be just a problem with their pronunciation of English
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I think the Marmite argument is a bit like Rugby - Brits might have invented it, but we made it better.
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