She's thoroughly disapointed with not being able to get decent crafting supplies or weaving equipment.
Mrs Ratadog, a Kiwi, heartily endorses this and says that she appears to be marooned in the only country in the world where "wool" is not as far as she can tell a natural product produced by sheep.
This is also related to her view of the climate as she feels this is a country where the wearing of wool is essential on at least 365 days of the year in order to be slightly comfortable.
The marmite is also a pale imitation of the original, the beer is crap - although supplies of decent stuff are available from a small number of enlightened businesses catering to the marooned market - and as for the lamb well don't get me, or her, started.
It's a nightmare. I have had to explain what a normal suit is, what dental health involves, we've had many discussions about 'jobs' but she's just not getting it and while it's not really my forte, 'fashion' is something I've had to bring her up to speed on more than once.
Still, it's my own fault for marrying a scouser.
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very good samuri, do you do bookings?
MrsC is Cantonese and just can’t get her head around the humour despite having good English skills, I think British humour just does not translate sometimes?
Proper made me giggle, that."Why've you thrown these out?"
"Well obviously, the composition is all wrong, he's gone outside the lines, he's spelt 'mummy' with one 'm', and the logos on the tyres are misaligned. I just don't know where we went wrong with him."
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"Ding Ding! Here comes the shit-mobile. I've never seen a fire truck that needed to be shaved. I would rather be burned to death than be saved by this hairy piece of shit. F"
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The marmite is also a pale imitation of the original, the beer is crap
Ummm.... British Marmite is the original and crap beer!?
My brother is married to an American, she's half Lebanese and half native American and as mad as a box of frogs. Last year he brought her and her brother Stan over for a holiday. Stan insisted on sharing a room with them - this is true. They were so frightened by our roads that they flinched every time a car went past and kept asking if they could go back to Michigan early. It was not a successful holiday.
Mrs Face of a pig is Swedish and finds somethings really funny, when seeing a pub called Ye Olde Cocke she giggled for hours. Thinks that curry is very overated, cant get a handle on driving over here and thinks we all go way to fast.
The weirdist thing is her love of UK houses even hideous estates send her into raptures of how cute they look, it is all about being built out of stone.
Mrs Tee will shortly be marring a Saffa..
I find her love of Wigan RLFC a bit odd, but other than that..
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British Marmite is the original and crap beer!
Depends on your viewpoint. Mrs R much prefers the NZ Marmite which is prepared from the waste products of the brewing industry and from her point of view is the one she was brought up on. Mrs R isn't averse to the occasional Black Sheep ( its the wool thing again ) but would prefer a Black Mac given the slightest opportunity.
FTFY
proved the point exactly wrecker, well done that man.
We have Spanish TV in the house. If you've even seen that Fast Show Channel 9 entertainment show
Na but have seen Night rider in translated Spanish which was rather funny
Just found this on YouTube LOLOLOL
You're welcome gav. Easy mistake to make.
That's a South American version, no?
Muy funny.
Mrs R much prefers the NZ Marmite which is prepared from the waste products of the brewing industry
What do you think original (UK) marmite is made from??
What do you think original (UK) marmite is made from??
Apologies, I should have said [i]their[/i] brewing industry and hoped you picked up the reference to the comment on black sheep/black mac.
Frankly, I don't care what Marmite is a by product from on either side of the world as to me it all tastes vile BUT the NZ Marmite, even to me, tastes differently vile and has a different consistency etc. It's closer to Vegimite, also vile. Please note the OP started this thread by saying
What did other peoples better halves think of our English-isms?
and I answered his question. For the record, both myself and my other half are, however, united in our amusement at the response of the STW branch of the Marmite (UK) Appreciation Society, although I still struggle to understand how it being
makes up for it being vile and I, personally, would be happy to let almost anyone else take the credit for it.original (UK)
Boozing. My missus is Spanish (Catalana, sorry...) and she thinks all brits are raging alchoholics. She could have a point...
The future Mrs CD is Danish and has been here 12 years so is mostly aclimatised to the British ways but still corrects anyone who says Europe when they actually mean continental Europe. She also constantly reminds me of how good the holidays and general health and social care is in Denmark and how we in Britain don't look after people. She has a point.
If Latin other halves think that the Brits are too organised they should try living with a Scandinavian.
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Mrs. mogrim is Spanish, and she's as completely useless and chaotic as I am. Just polished off a bottle of rioja together, so not much better on that front either.
cheers_drive - Could you ask her to organise the sentences in your posts to make sense?
How about what your other halves from foreign climes think is delicious.
Mine thinks that sour milk on what I can only describe as sawdust is the ideal breakfast 😯 and the propensity to binge on salt liquorice that tastes like what I imagine gnome snot to taste like 🙁
If only they all had "the propensity to binge on salt liquorice that tastes like what I imagine gnome snot to taste like" 😉
Surely the best part is hearing them say vaguely rude things in a not-from-just-down-the-road voice?
My wife is Polish. This elevates the inedible food angle to new heights. The raison d'etre of Polish cuisine appears to involve the creation of food that looks like it's been regurgitated but tastes normal!
Mrs Face of a pig is Swedish and finds somethings really funny, when seeing a pub called Ye Olde Cocke she giggled for hours.
This from a person from the land that has toilet paper called KRAPP ??
Anyway, the second, and current, Mrs J is Greek, as was, by some strange coincidence, the first Mrs J, so I am in no position to be acting superior!!
For the record, both myself and my other half are, however, united in our amusement at the response of the STW branch of the Marmite (UK) Appreciation Society
I was just correcting your (or your wife's) factual inaccuracy of claiming that the NZ Marmite was the original.
The marmite is also a pale imitation of the original
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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.
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?
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? 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think the Marmite argument is a bit like Rugby - Brits might have invented it, but we made it better...
@ 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......
And 'customer servce'. It's terrible here. Apparently.
She's right.
Danish pigs go øf not oink
Her family looked at me like I was crazy when I suggested dogs went 'woof'.
Are these people deaf ? 🙁
Maybe Spanish dogs don't have lips.
How do you pronounce øf?
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 ...
How do you pronounce øf?
Go listen to a Danish pig ?
Urff
In Norway pigs go 'nuf nuf' (pronounced noof noof)
@Cougar Spanish dogs speak Spanish of course so it must be just a problem with their pronunciation of English 😀
