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Windarossa
10-11-2005, 01:09 AM
Our teacher told us funny story when she was teaching in London. She was new there and teaching a kindergarten class. She was watching over the children when they ate lunch when a student approached her with a very mad expression. The little boy had tears coming out of his eyes and he was shaking with a tomato-red face telling her "Someone pinched 'ma biscuit!".

She kept asking him to repeat what he said and he kept repeating "Someone pinched 'ma biscuit!!". She thought someone pinched his butt... She had no idea what to say or do because she didn't know for sure what the problem was. The boy said it several more times and than just erupted with hysterical crying. When she made it to the teachers lounge, turns out when the boy said "Someone pinched 'ma biscuit!" he meant that someone stole his cookie!

These English really do have their own "language" like the one parodied in Gold Member when Austin Powers has a subtitled conversation with his Fozsha.

SOMEONE PINCHED MA BISCUIT!
Liger Zero
10-11-2005, 01:13 AM
You Lost Me At The Point When The Boy Ment Someone Stole His ookie http://bbs.projectx.cyberfuturism.com/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif ImNot Moving to England.
hussinx
10-11-2005, 01:17 AM
lol there r like that http://bbs.projectx.cyberfuturism.com/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin2.gif
Virtual Fighter
10-11-2005, 01:20 AM
This is TOTALLY worth making a thread about!
Liger Zero
10-11-2005, 01:21 AM
Man I Would Take A Compliment As An Insult Down There And Beat Someone Up.
Roll
10-11-2005, 01:27 AM
And yet, we're the ones who deviated from their language to begin our own. Just think: to them, our language is ludacris.. (no, NOT the forum member)
alamgir
10-11-2005, 01:51 AM
Hey we don't say ma? Oh yeah the boy was little. And here in England there's a difference between cookies and bisucits.
Windarossa
10-11-2005, 02:00 AM
I think the story was so funny to us because she said it in such a funny way! You really had to hear it to appreciate it.
Roll
10-11-2005, 02:03 AM
I find it funny myself as it is, but then, I can also appreciate the situation for what it is..
marvel911
10-11-2005, 01:13 PM
You know, I live in North America, and I've never been to England, but hell even I knew the kid was talking about a stolen cookie..
Bandit04
10-11-2005, 01:40 PM
So biscuit means cookie in French? =/
blanka09
10-11-2005, 09:00 PM
Virtual Fighter, do you go to ALL her threads making stupid comments like that ??

And by the wayy, it's all about opinion. The English call cookies, biscuits. That doesn't make them wrong and us right. It's what THEY call it. No one made America Lord over the language to put parameters over the right word to call a type of food.

It's just like our "american football". Giving the game that name is just prepostrous.
ledmonkey
10-11-2005, 09:10 PM
Quote[/b] (blanka09 @ Oct. 11 2005,10:00)]No one made America Lord over the language to put parameters over the right word to call a type of food.
<span style='color:green'><span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Yea...we did..wanna fight about it.. my country v. yours.. for old times sake..</span></span>
Virtual Fighter
10-11-2005, 09:29 PM
Quote[/b] (blanka09 @ Oct. 11 2005,2:00)]Virtual Fighter, do you go to ALL her threads making stupid comments like that ??
It wasn't sarcasm. There's no way to prove it! Italics my ass!
Windarossa
10-11-2005, 11:59 PM
Quote[/b] (blanka09 @ Oct. 11 2005,10:00)]Virtual Fighter, do you go to ALL her threads making stupid comments like that ??

And by the wayy, it's all about opinion. The English call cookies, biscuits. That doesn't make them wrong and us right. It's what THEY call it. No one made America Lord over the language to put parameters over the right word to call a type of food.

It's just like our &quot;american football&quot;. Giving the game that name is just prepostrous.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with an English accent or way of speech. If anything, that is the correct way of speaking English, I think. And this story was mainly so funny to us because our teacher actually pronounced “someone pinched ma’ biscuit” the way the little boy did. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just funny that she couldn’t understand him even thought he was saying something so simple.

And to answer your question Blankao9, yes... yes he does. http://bbs.projectx.cyberfuturism.com/non-cgi/emoticons/huh2.gif
blanka09
10-12-2005, 12:05 AM
ooh crap, my bad... I thought the topic was aimed at the english boy causing the mix up by calling cookies biscuit http://bbs.projectx.cyberfuturism.com/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin2.gif
Windarossa
10-12-2005, 12:23 AM
No biggy.
alamgir
10-12-2005, 02:04 AM
We don't even call cookies biscuits lol. There are biscuits and cookies in the English language.