I like to think I have grown out of a reflexive fixation on British quirkiness, that strange combination of mascotization, obsessive pigtail-pulling, and lack of perspective that characterizes so much of white American interest in white Britishness, that focuses almost exclusively on oddities in nomenclature.
I love this. Also true story, I exclaimed "oh!" out loud at my desk when I opened this and the first thing I saw was Chris Miles. Everytime I rewatch this video I laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFDTYvSXJ00
"you've just drawn a picture of a snail." "yeah."
"do you think the title 'renaissance man' sounds a bit wanky?"
I love this. Also true story, I exclaimed "oh!" out loud at my desk when I opened this and the first thing I saw was Chris Miles. Everytime I rewatch this video I laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFDTYvSXJ00
"you've just drawn a picture of a snail." "yeah."
"do you think the title 'renaissance man' sounds a bit wanky?"
"Fifth years (ages 9-10) are called Fourthy-Fifthies, and are permitted to speak only in math to one another."
Come now, Danny. Any proper Brit would've said "speak only in maths"!
you have to many maths you have to give some of them back
The first graders at my son's (American) school are called "chums", which makes me wonder if they're about to be thrown to the sharks in a bucket.