English is the official language of the United States

[quintessentone]

Richard....

Porky pie - lie. Maybe taken from the scene in Great Expectations where Pip stole the pork pie for the convict then did not confess to it? lol

Edit to add:

Dicky bird - word. Bird is the word.

[quintessentone]

American English explanation.

[Kurokage]

no that pronounciation is "all you"

insert clever comment about narcissism and tinfoil hats here

Yes it's all me because I speak English, and now its the official language of America, they all do to!!!

 

[UltraBudgie]

Yes it is all me because I speak English, and now its the official language of America they all do to!!!

 

Which brings up an interesting point -- if America withdraws from NATO, are they still allowed to use the NATO alphabet, or do we go back to Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox, etc? Maybe make the British revert to Apples Butter Charlie Duff Edward Freddy...

To detect NATO spies, just make them say Maryland or New Hampshire....

[Oldcarpy2]

Porky pie - lie. Maybe taken from the scene in Great Expectations where Pip stole the pork pie for the convict then did not confess to it? lol

Edit to add:

Dicky bird - word. Bird is the word.

"Berk".....

[Kurokage]

Which brings up an interesting point -- if America withdraws from NATO, are they still allowed to use the NATO alphabet, or do we go back to Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox, etc? Maybe make the British revert to Apples Butter Charlie Duff Edward Freddy...

To detect NATO spies, just make them say Maryland or New Hampshire....

After 911 and the call for help to it's NATO allies 636 British troops died fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a shame that Trump and 'eyeliner' Vance seem to forget that fact when rubbishing the NATO alliance...

The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Authority, so being international, I imagine we can all still use it!!! 

[sahgwa]

Armstrong and Miller RAF pilots. Innit, tho blood:

https://youtu.be/ZD58-kOTuBY?feature=shared

That was really good :D

[sahgwa]

After 911 and the call for help to it's NATO allies 636 British troops died fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a shame that Trump and 'eyeliner' Vance seem to forget that fact when rubbishing the NATO alliance...

The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Authority, so being international, I imagine we can all still use it!!! 

roger that. sierra out!

[Oldcarpy2]

"Two countries divided by a common language".

- George Bernard Shaw.

[sahgwa]

“THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. BERNARD SHAW”
This is an imperfect world. The greatest of human minds has its limitation.
 
The intelligent reader will already have guessed from the foregoing that the subject of this paper is George Bernard Shaw. It cannot be doubted that England today would be hard put to it to show a bare dozen men capable in their highest flights of the kind of thought which is the breath of life to Mr. Shaw. In destructive criticism he stands practically unchallenged.
But there seems to be one flaw in the emerald of his mind; one piece of bad steel in his bag of tools. He shares the almost universal infirmity of being unable to detach himself completely from the phenomena which he is observing. He loves to twist a text to suit his rope.
 
We had an excellent example of this failing in his book on “Wagner”. Wagner was a socialist like Mr. Shaw himself; and Mr. Shaw felt himself bound to read the socialism into the operas. The monarchist might just as easily have claimed that Wagner was a king's favourite, and the operas mere praise of kingship. The position would be quite as easy to defend. The result of this was that Mr. Shaw found himself in a very awkward position, for the fourth drama of the Ring would not fit in. He was obliged to ask us to believe that Wagner suddenly and without reason abandoned his great and serious purpose, abandoned the whole course of his thought, and reverted to mere opera with an entire {1} lack of consecution. It is really asking us to believe that Wagner became demented, exactly as one would say of an architect who gave forty years of his life to building a cathedral, and then gave up the design and finished it off with minarets. But let us to our muttons — or rather to our lions!
 
Criticism of Christianity by a thinker of Mr. Shaw's eminence marks an epoch in the history of religion. His preface to “Androcles and the Lion” is just as important as the ninety-five theses which Martin Luther nailed to the door of the church of Wittenburg. Mr. Shaw, as might be expected from so original a thinker, takes the fairest point of view. He asks us to clear our minds of everything that we have ever heard about Christianity, and to place ourselves in the position of the rude Indian whose untutored mind gains its first schooling in the gospels from a missionary. To this he only makes one reservation, that the reader must know something of the human imagination as applied to religion. This of course is rather like blowing a hole in the bottom of your boat before you launch it. But we will take Mr. Shaw as he stands.