Well, I'm rezzing this thread (again) because I have this really random and weird desire to hear a British person imitating an American accent. I've seen lots of people in America try to imitate the British accent. I even talked to someone from the UK who said that the accent that results from an American trying to talk British always sounds like a London accent or something. Anyways, very curious.

Watch "House" on Fox. Hugh Laurie (who is British) plays House (who is American) and does a flat-out amazing job of it.

I saw something today that (slightly) redeems England's damning qualities--a debate in the House of Commons. British politics are so much more palatable than American politics. That was outright amusing. It's nice to see politicians behaving like normal people, instead of overly formal, self-righteous debate robots.

...hrm. When I saw a British political thing I couldn't figure out what was going on because they were all speaking to each other in the 3rd person and using "My Hon. friend" instead of "you."

...and your standard-issue Brit can't follow along.

I withdraw my compliment. You all suck again.

I followed on after a bit. It just seemed a silly, pretentious way of doing things.

Don't tell me it's WORSE in America and what I described would be considered "normal"? Jeez, I try to give you guys credit...

Continental Europe still wins over you both.

We will PWN you with our ovious grammatikal errors and fanny accentz.

from two pages back, the only british spellings I know are...

shope
towne
ye
olde



Also, this dissapointing thing about watching american politics is that you know, they only do those things to go on public record, and all the real debates are in the backrooms, and baseball box seats.

But I imagine thats the same in England, they just pretend its not.

Have you ever gone down to ye olde shope in towne?

Oh they have those? who would have thunk.

I've only seen ONE of those horribly spelled shops in my life.

And it was in Wales, not England.

...just so you know.