• GiveOver@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    We used it to mean cigarette before yanks turned it into a slur. You’re the butchers here!

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      You butchered your own word removed to get fag. And who eats veg? And soccer that the US gets blamed for. We got it from you! Mangling words is what Brits do because they are orally lazy!

      *****For those without a sense of humor, this is meant in fun.

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        3 hours ago

        So lazy and yet wanting to be respected. Oh we don’t eat cows. That’s for the poors, we eat beef.

        Bunch of fuckin tea sippin wankers. But for the brits sake, words ending in re instead of er does look better to me. Theatre over theater. Colour is more colorful of a spelling…

        Regarding the gays, didn’t they use to burn gay people which is why the term connected from bundle of sticks to gay people? And probably why we use flamer as well, now that I think about it.

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          We raise cows. We eat beef even if we are poor, we don’t discriminate. Well, up until the prices these days. It’s going back to being a rich person’s supper. Much to the joy of Vegans. But even cow is better than beouf or it’s variations.

          re vs. er? bloody silent letters again. Colour looks like a wannabe upjump word. And there is the whole silent letter thing again.

          Those crude heathens probably hanged them the majority of the time vs burn. Wood costs money and takes time. A rope is cheap and faster plus it’s reusable and fits their attitude.