Brits United!

[dragoner]

it was an understated monty python reference, just trying to lean into the thread premise

We'll call it an ex-argument.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Similarly, Worcestershire (pronounced “Wooster”) sauce is a condiment. You add a few drops to something you’re seasoning, like the top of a Welsh rarebit (“grilled cheese”) much as you might do with Tabasco sauce.

I use Worcestershire as part of a marinade for any tougher cut of beef. My posh English MIL pronounces it Wuh-ster-sheer though. I hear Worster-sheer a lot around here, but what do dirty Canadians know?

I grew up on HP sauce.

 

[Morrus]

I use Worcestershire as part of a marinade for any tougher cut of beef. My posh English MIL pronounces it Wuh-ster-sheer though. I hear Worster-sheer a lot around here, but what do dirty Canadians know?

I grew up on HP sauce.

I’m starting to think this mysterious ex mother in law of yours was from Wisconsin.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I’m starting to think this mysterious ex mother in law of yours was from Wisconsin.

She was born in Jersey in the 30s. Their family was evacuated when the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands during WWII. They moved to Belfast where her father was the headmaster of a school there.

 

[jian]

She was born in Jersey in the 30s. Their family was evacuated when the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands during WWII. They moved to Belfast where her father was the headmaster of a school there.

Yeah, so the Channel Islands aren’t part of England (nor is Northern Ireland, obviously). Jersey does have its own unique libertarian finance-based culture and posh people there are different from English posh people; the latter is also true of NI and Belfast, in my experience.

Even within London and the Home Counties (the posh bit of England) there have been complex and ongoing arguments about what is posh and not posh for centuries. A seminal text is Nancy Mitford’s essay in the 50s on U and non-U, even though Mitford herself had lived in France for twenty years at that point and was mostly regurgitating her own youthful prejudices from the 20s and 30s. That essay is in any case basically a century out of date at this point.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I’m starting to think this mysterious ex mother in law of yours was from Wisconsin.

That wasn't a 'mocking laugh' emoji btw. Wisconsin was pretty funny.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Yeah, so the Channel Islands aren’t part of England (nor is Northern Ireland, obviously). Jersey does have its own unique libertarian finance-based culture and posh people there are different from English posh people; the latter is also true of NI and Belfast, in my experience.

Interesting...

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Yeah, so the Channel Islands aren’t part of England (nor is Northern Ireland, obviously). Jersey does have its own unique libertarian finance-based culture and posh people there are different from English posh people; the latter is also true of NI and Belfast, in my experience.

Yes, I know... part of the UK was the point. Although I can see I'm treading into that dreaded UK vs Britain vs England quagmire...