Simone the british patriot :-P
Right, what happened today freaked me out completely. My english teacher at business school (the school I have to attend once a week because of the training for the estate agency) is such a pain in the ass. To start with: the 2 hours english I have to do are a joke because all we do are tasks like introducing yourself. Sounds like "Hello my name is Simone and I am from Germany. How are you? I am fine, thank you. What are your hobbies?" blablabla and some people are even to stupid to build simple past sentences. It's like kindergarten. Nevertheless today my teacher had the wonderful idea to explain british lifestyle and british common speech-reading from a ten years old book (he told us it is 10 years). First up he started pretending no woman/girl in the UK would say she needs to go to the bathroom, he said the common expression would be "I need to powder my nose" I HAVE NEVER EVER HEARD ANYONE SAY THAT! Then he asked us what you are saying when you are drunk. I said you can say "I am/was drunk" or sometimes they say "tipsy". He then pretended you can't say "I am drunk" and the British say "inebriated" . Everyone says "I was drunk". It went on like that forever.
I got really pissed because he started to talk really snobbish about the British and their lifestyle. By that point I was already angry because he said many untrue things that might be in his book but aren't reality. But not yet the punch line. He then started with "The British are so antithetic: they always try to be stylish and even the men wear suits and scarfes every day but on the other hand they say "fuck" in every second phrase" See, they say things like "I need to buy tickets for the fucking cinema, you wanna join me?" "Fuckin', yeah" HE WAS SERIOUSLY PRETENDING BRITISH PEOPLE SPEAK LIKE THAT. Not only nerds, he pretended that's how everyone speaks. Woooooooowwww too much. I was in a rage because everyone in class seemed to believe what's been written in that book. Now I had enough and asked him if he's ever been to the UK or if he only believes books. (btw I said it in english to give it a special taste hehe). He told me he's been there for a couple of holidays. So I asked him if he's been living there? And when that would have been :-P Now he became snobby (?) at me aswell and asked "Miss L., so I assume you've been to the UK for holidays once and now you think you know the British? Am I right?" (he did not know about me and scotland). So yes, we had a fun discussion and I think I'm his fav student from now on ;-) looking forward to his next lesson :-D :-D :-D *fight* I wonder if that guy is right in his head?
I got really pissed because he started to talk really snobbish about the British and their lifestyle. By that point I was already angry because he said many untrue things that might be in his book but aren't reality. But not yet the punch line. He then started with "The British are so antithetic: they always try to be stylish and even the men wear suits and scarfes every day but on the other hand they say "fuck" in every second phrase" See, they say things like "I need to buy tickets for the fucking cinema, you wanna join me?" "Fuckin', yeah" HE WAS SERIOUSLY PRETENDING BRITISH PEOPLE SPEAK LIKE THAT. Not only nerds, he pretended that's how everyone speaks. Woooooooowwww too much. I was in a rage because everyone in class seemed to believe what's been written in that book. Now I had enough and asked him if he's ever been to the UK or if he only believes books. (btw I said it in english to give it a special taste hehe). He told me he's been there for a couple of holidays. So I asked him if he's been living there? And when that would have been :-P Now he became snobby (?) at me aswell and asked "Miss L., so I assume you've been to the UK for holidays once and now you think you know the British? Am I right?" (he did not know about me and scotland). So yes, we had a fun discussion and I think I'm his fav student from now on ;-) looking forward to his next lesson :-D :-D :-D *fight* I wonder if that guy is right in his head?