Help me become a Londoner!
Smylers
Smylers at stripey.com
Tue Nov 24 12:57:30 GMT 2009
Dominic Thoreau writes:
> I've been in Britain for 8 years now, and I know the biggest lie in
> the country.
>
> "How are you? "
> "Oh, can't complain"
>
> The Brit can always complain, but mostly it's about things that don't
> really matter. It's when the complaining stops that they're really
> pi$$ed off....
Roy Mallard: What's it like working here?
factory worker: Well, we can't complain.
Roy Mallard: So you get on well with management then?
factory worker: No -- it's them what said we can't complain.
[Probably misquoted: I failed to Google up a script, so the above is
from memory.]
Smylers
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