And calling Bill British? This makes my blood boil. Would Minerva like to be called British? No. He's English, Fleur. English. Sod the political correctness. Double Grrrr.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it reminds me to be glad that at least one of our sporkers is, ahem, English.
Now I'm off to find somebody to spork whichever chapter it was that went missing.
"les rosbifs" is a derogatory nickname that the french call the English, referring to the fact that we (allegedly) only eat roast beef. It was coined (I think) back in Napoleonic times, and isn't used as much these days.
I learned long ago that insulting British (or should I say English?) food = instant wank. Where I'm from, everything is fried, anyway, so I'd be one to talk ...
I also heard that another possible derivation of "rosbifs" comes from the way pasty English skin often turns a painful roasted red colour when exposed to the sun ;) But that may be fanciful, since most insulting names for foreigners seem to be food-based: "rosbifs", "frogs", "krauts"...
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it reminds me to be glad that at least one of our sporkers is, ahem, English.
Now I'm off to find somebody to spork whichever chapter it was that went missing.
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And good luck!
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Yes!!!
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I learned long ago that insulting British (or should I say English?) food = instant wank. Where I'm from, everything is fried, anyway, so I'd be one to talk ...
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('Brit' always makes me want to puke. She was that Swede who was married to Rod Stewart, wasn't she? Great in 'The Wicker Man' though.)
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Rosbif: French slang for `Brit,' a corruption of 'roast beef.'
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