• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      As a born-and-raised American who recently got UK citizenship, I would like to say: you filthy Yankee colonials try it and we’ll show you what we did to the bloody Bosh at the Battle of the Somme, what what!

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        5 days ago

        Squid, you’re welcome here in the UK, but … er … don’t do that.

        Flashbacks of the time I, a northerner, tried to do a “Landan” accent that time I visited London. In retrospect I’m lucky all I got was a “what are you doing?”

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            5 days ago

            Ah. I see. Being stupid on purpose, in parody or otherwise, sometimes doesn’t go over all that well either.

            I have made that mistake before, and will probably make it again at some point.