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[–] [email protected] 131 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Reminds me of the first time a friend of mine and his dad went to London. They were both more or less fluent, though his dad less so:

My friend's dad, trying to order an extra rare steak: "A bloody steak, please"

Waiter, without missing a beat: "Certainly, sir. Would you like some fucking potatoes with that?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean it is kind of weird that “rare” is used to denote “barely cooked”, when it usually means “very scarce or hard to find”.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Haha this is amazing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, as a non-native speaker, I've always considered that really weird too. Same with "well done", which is apparently worse than murder if you're enthusiastic about steaks 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Blue or Blue-Rare are the steps above rare afaik (at least in the US, not sure about England). Any restaurant that asks "what does that mean" isn't a restaurant I'd trust to serve me meat that is cool in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Made my day

[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

imagine being on twitter so much you even dream about getting annoyed by pedantic twitter users, this doesn't sound like a happy existence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

lol it’s a funny tweet. I don’t use twitter, but find joy in the cleverness and humor that people there spit out.

Would never use the app myself though. Screenshots on lemmy are as close to the rim of the volcano I’ll go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

... $100 says they're happier than you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Stay happy my dude

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's a joke that's been going around online, OOP made up this janky setup to sound original.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My first WTF moment with British English was walking into a restaurant & the hostess asked: “are you alright?”. “Do I have a bloody nose?” I quaked. Turns out it was just how folks say “what’s up?” as a hello there.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

to which she responded, "Yes of course you have a nose, but why are you cursing about it?"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

...so they remembered a Twitter post in their dream, and posted that as if it was their joke?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Strangely enough, it's the same user. Makes it even weirder in a way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Voldemort: 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

Source: It was revealed to me in a dream

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

This person makes dreams into reality.

Legend

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

bloody twat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How did a bloody nose win an F1 race?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You have to sacrifice a body part if you're not Max Verstappen (because his sacrifice was a visit to the gas station)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

By being a twat, if my memory or no is is correct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Major Kovalyov: "Am I a joke to you?"

[–] ray 3 points 6 months ago

Cooper Howard has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

matt rose replied to this (i think)