How To Use Brits In A Sentence
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These Brits are either bunglers, incompetent, mean-spirited, or they have no minds of their own.
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The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
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The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13.
Boycott Blair's Book!
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I was brought up on tales of Brits exploring the world and this has always inspired me.
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So popstrel Samantha Mumba's joke at last week's Brits is a pretty good joke.
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What really means a lot to me is how encouraged I've been by the Brits, in terms of doing Shakespeare.
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As Anna, the arty portraitist, Julia Roberts starts slowly-she's the living embodiment of a certain style of knit-browed overconcern Hollywood stars fall back on, especially when forced to act with Brits-but she gathers a serious head of steam, and by the credits has delivered a fine performance.
Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
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She was trying to sound like those snotty-nosed Brits!
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Conservatives often deride Obama over remarks he made at a presser in April of 2009, in which he said that he believes in American exceptionalism "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Nonstop idiocy about Obama and `American exceptionalism'
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A bunch of Brits in this effervescent reissue of the trumpeter's journeys from trad to mainstream.
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The Opposition might like to recognise that the system it has modelled its approach on - that of England - was dumped last week by the Brits because it is useless.
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It is this sort of nonsense that makes the whole world get to grip with the term schadenfreude whitout really disliking the brits, England claim they invented football but it is long gone since they can dictate who or were the game is to be played.
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Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman," Scott wrote in his diary, words that have become a touchstone for generations of Brits.
Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers
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We Brits call gelatine containing desserts and confectionery, "jelly" - and the fruit based conserves that you call "jelly" we call "jam" tomar-toes, tomate-toes ... let's call the whole thing off!
Gummi Bear Surprise
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Brits have an unfortunate tendency to pour strong foreign lagers – Stella, even Leffe – into a pint jar for which they were not intended, and to get poisonously pie-eyed in the process.
In praise of … the pint | Editorial
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Danegeld or not, money served the Britsih Empire well.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Brits should be getting their lazy behinds down to the polling stations to cast their votes today.
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So “close” did the EU-3 think they were that a call was arranged between Straw and Rouhani on November 26 to wrap things up, but word came back from the Brits that the call had not gone well.
Surrender is not an Option
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Let's run down the list of the big hype bands that the Brits have spilled a lot of ink on lately.
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For non Brits: You have to understand that in England's Deep South, "... innit" serves the same non-purpose as the US "... man":
"Cab, innit.”: The funniest thing I've read in ages...
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But in the defence of the Brits things are so expensive that you have to be a millionaire to look after yourself …. such as manis and pedis … ..
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Peter Kay reignites Brits 'knobhead' Liam Gallagher feud
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The Brits have just charged eight men with conspiring to commit heinous terrorist acts.
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Then again, it would be hard to summon much tenderness for this painting by one of those pale young Brits of equine features and unvirile demeanor.
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For those not in on Britspeak, to wank is to jerk off.
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Will she catch him in the lobby where he laughs cruelly at her colossal stupidity, causing her to buy a fifth of Jack and go careening ( "careering" for you Brits) around Kelrast Curve?
Blogtimore, Hon
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And finally, for the Brits, Percy Shaw -- this is a big British invention -- saw the cat's eyes at the side of the road, when he was driving home one night and from that came the Catseye.
Paul Bennett finds design in the details
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I wanted to link up what Brits were up to in the period 1600 to 1900 and what other cultures, people, savants and natural philosophers are doing to give a networked picture of the development of the sciences.
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On Tuesday, she appears at The Brits (in all likelihood to collect the award for best international female solo artist) before her sold-out Monster Ball tour arrives in British and European arenas.
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Even if you accept that we Brits might look alike to our Stateside counterparts - pallid and vaguely unkempt with teeth the wrong side of ''eggshell'' - this is a stretch.
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Sadly it is true that many Brits are undiscriminating drinkers.
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Many Brits buying inland don't realise just how harsh winters in Spain's interior can be, or how unforgiving the scorching summer heat.
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The Brits think they say aitch and tend to look down on the Irish for saying haitch.
Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court
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The spontaneous form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the one not linked to consumption of beef or anything else, claimed over 1,000 Brits in the same time period.
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The Brits always approach the interview adversarially and ask tough, penetrating questions, and follow up, making the subject squirm (and it's not partisan -- they do it for left and right politicians, and indeed for non-politician interviewees.)
Jesse Larner: Conservative Values?
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The toast of Watford, not to mention Munich, was the increasingly familiar South African axis of Schalk Brits and Derick Hougaard, who collectively caused the visitors recurring headaches.
Leicester turn air blue against Saracens in rage at referee exchange
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If that many Brits come back from lunch soused, does it affect productivity or performance?
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Even Brits do not hark as closely when the questioning shifts to the much-less-known owners of the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror or other down-market papers.
A British Watergate?
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Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard.
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Heres one for you maybe Brits would be living in mansions flying round in jet planes if we hadnt took pity on some of the useless immigrants.
Griffin, The 'C' Word and the BNP
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The British Government has appointed a language supremo to encourage reluctant Brits to learn foreign languages from age seven.
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I hope that the Brits are able to mate up with the submarine and get the hatch open, find out really what is going on inside the submarine.
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There are under a hundred million Brits living in a country less than one thirteenth the size of Texas.
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Ik val altijd als een blok voor interessante Britse, Schotse, Ierse, Celtic of andere 'eilandse' engelse accenten.
Request to all my girlfriends
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Over the past few years it has come to be widely used in informal contexts to mean ` spirits, chutzpah, guts, courage '; what Brits used to call spunk a generation ago.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
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P.S. googling has revealed that Americans use the term purse for a woman's bag whereas the Brits refer to it as a bag.
Qwaider Planet
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Brits spend more hours chained to their office desks than their European cousins - because British bosses simply don't trust their staff to work at home instead of in the office.
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Teh armee cawld it “Bully beef” Brits maek salt beef – wiv spiesis an salt.
One garden down… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We Brits seem to favour eight pints of lager over a bottle of vino at the local tandoori.
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And as the recession bites into long-haul holiday budgets and the puniness of the pound deters Brits from making their usual treks to Tuscany or the Dordogne, it is hoping for a bumper summer this year.
Suffolk Chic
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Apparently, it is the intention of prisoners abroad that no other Brits will ever be housed in Uncle Joe's slammer again.
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Yes, there have been Brits caught up in the horror, with heart-rending stories of drowned families and friends.
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as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed
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The sexy lingerie, which is saucy as only the Brits can be, features whimsical designs like embroidered bows, polka-dots, lace trimming, and side-tie ribbon closures.
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In related news, seven Brits pleaded guilty today to taking part in one of the world's biggest Net porn rings.
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Further, the news that the kilo is in such imminent danger of extinction will no doubt be seen as a vindication by Brits reluctant to sell their fruit and veg in metric units.
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Brits also appear to have an long term fascination with types of paving surfaces, so you could find yourself tripping on stone, brick, aggregate, concrete, rock or blocks.
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In indonesia the brits did the same thing, use the Japanese soldiers to maintain law and order in Indonesia, of course it sort of failed with the battle of surabaya
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It's a shame you Brits are missing out on this one.
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After all Oti scored three of the six second half tries for the Brits and that day Ireland were mullered.
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(Aside, Charlie told me about a story he's working on where the French suboceanic nuclear tests were actually aimed at exterminating the cthuloid sea-monsters -- which is why the Brits didn't really protest)
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So the image of the US benefited from being perceived as less vicious than the Brits.
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Five Brits have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates under suspicion of involvement in an Internet drug smuggling ring.
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Facilitated by Bluetooth-enabled phones, Brits send phone messages and photos to other ‘toothers’ within 100 feet and hook up for anonymous quickies.
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You and your telescope; that is what we Brits call sod's law.
Anti-birdwatching device on my telescope
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It sounds to me like the Brits have strayed away from one of the main purposes of the Scouts: teaching youth valuable life skills and RESPONSIBILITY, including the responsibility that comes from carrying/using a TOOL that can possibly be used as a weapon.
Scouts Ban Knives in Great Britain
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It is indeed pronounced as 'lie low' but we Brits tend not to treat them as mattresses - they're used more often to lounge in swimming pools or the sea while on holiday (sorry, vacation!).
Divided by a Common Language in The London Eye
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It's easy for us Brits to assume that such sentimental spin will backfire but, having lived in the US for three years, I can assure you that Americans are made of gooier stuff.
Fightin' Words or the Simple Truth?
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They are becoming increasingly popular with fly-drive Brits anxious to get under the skin of ‘real’ Spain away from the densely populated Costa del Sol.
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Touristy places to avoid – especially in August – would be Balearics, Canaries, and North Africa … because they are going to be filled with thousands of French & Brits on family holidays & teenage revelry variations.
Calling in favours
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An utterance typical of the red brick (in Manhattan, "white brick") yoick Brits that S.I. Newhouse Jr. has imported by the boxcar, for reasons that escape this observer.
The Return of Gentility? No, It's Scoundrel Time!
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Despite caricatures about hot-blooded Latins and stiff-lipped Brits, we are, when it comes to emotions, all too human under the skin.
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Other enterprising Brits have also gone into business in the area.
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The entail didn't seem to bother those of the 11 million Brits who watched the final episode without many having the foggiest notion what an entail entails.
Peerless Titles
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Ohai d99. 2 teh leff uf teh add 2 fabrits buttin, it sez : “lolcats an funnee pikchoorz” Ai fink dis is teh lattur!
PSssst, budy…. Bet everything on - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Now I don't say that everything the US does is better than us Brits, but when it comes to roadside diners, they lead the way.
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What do Brits do when they find their car has been clamped for illegal parking?
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I believe she was one of the "chavette" creatures Brits talk about.
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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There's no word on when the Brits began to make their pj's out of tartan flannelette, but you can be sure that the Victorians will have approved of the entirely sexless, shapeless garments that left much to the imagination.
What Not to Wear in Bed
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Perhaps this partly explains the stoicism and insouciance of those Brits interviewed on the streets, all of whom seemed to know that a certain sang-froid was expected of them.
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His accent is nearly impeccable, and I was listening closely for him to slip up (I'm borderline obsessed with Brits doing American accents).
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We Brits seem to favour eight pints of lager over a bottle of vino at the local tandoori.
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Amidst bikini-clad women and overdressed old men, the two unassuming young Brits sit on a plain white couch, sharing a cigarette, barely shaded from the mid-afternoon sun.
Theo Spielberg: Meet The Vaccines!
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Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay, the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago.
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The goofball "conservative with a heart of gold" Prime Minister of Britain is what the brits call a toff, which sounds like toffee, but really translates more accurately into rich, inbred bastard.
Progressive Bloggers
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In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
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There are no perspiring throngs of Brits packing suffocating beaches.
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That night, Sullivan also featured four long-haired young Brits making the second of their three consecutive Sunday appearances on the show: The Beatles.
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The number of people who've posted remarks along the lines of "I know it's racist, but I'm British ..." is indicative of the demoralisation and discombobulation of non-Muslim Brits you speak of.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Holiday mad Brits are packing their buckets and spades and heading for the sun.
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It wasn't even an album, rather a compilation of singles put together by some Brits in the '70s.
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The Brits have in fact had first-hand experience and proved themselves worthy.
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Federer, Venus set to resume title bids; Murray excites Brits
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There used to be periodic outbursts of protest among indigenous Brits against the practise of 'shechita', which is the Jewish method of slaughter required for the provision of 'kosher'meat, but I doubt if there will be any more of that.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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If this is the outcome you favour, why not amend the Constitution to adopt the dualist system of international law the way the Brits haveit?
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
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The forthright, hip-gyrating dance for the array of disco-dancing and drink-swigging Brits is set tightly on the polonaise Tchaikovsky called a "dance with goblets," albeit, in the original, wine-filled ones toasting that libretto's prince.
Fair Feathered Friends
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While Brits eat turkey at Christmas, Spaniards look forward to festive feasts of clams, crabs, cockles, mussels, octopus and goose barnacles.
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Americans (and brits) need to remember that Osama Bin laden is a Saudi and that 15 of the 19 hijackers that attacked the WTC were Saudi.
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog
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We are not renowned for our proactive approach towards our health and well-being, we Brits.
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As Joy Division, they ripped up rock's rule book by making music that was heavy and subtle, glacial, yet full of lament - Love Will Tear Us Apart has just been chosen as one of The Brits 25 best songs ever written.
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The Brits are walking around in their shorts, for Chrissake, and —
The Invasion Of Iraq
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The image of Brits tends to be refined, cultured and polite.
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Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher made a surly appearance when picking up an award for the best Brits album of the past 30 years, and was branded a '' knobhead '' last week by host Peter Kay.
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According to a survey released last week, the No 1 fear among 1,000 Brits surveyed - just edging out terrorism - is arachnophobia.
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Its not something we good ole Brits can fix up for them.
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I mentioned "handphone" to her as a local usage that should go into the dictionary because it is so widely used in Asia - and isn't it much nicer sounding than than "mobile" (beloved of Brits and antipodeans) and more descriptive than "cellphone" of American usage?
Varieties and Variations
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Thanks to Mike Papageorge at AlternativeSource for passing along this piece of very cool news — the Brits are building an entire sustainable town on “the disused Oakington Barracks in Cambridgeshire”:
Archive for » 2006 » March : Sustainablog
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More than three million Brits have tried or are on the controversial diet, which substitutes bread, pasta and potatoes for foods like meat, eggs and cheese.
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Ben and Debs Blench, brave Brits in their 30s, threw away their jobs, sold their car, subleased their Amsterdam apartment and set off to see the world.
One month in Mexico
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In the survey the Brits come out tops for humour.
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In France they were known as chestnut gatherers; Brits called them lavender aunts.
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I mean I know the Brits have some sort of investigation going on but the U.S. population is still foaming from the mouth about a the bonus payouts, the stimulus, and our leaders are foaming right along with them, but don’t want to pursue those whose deliberate acts led to the waste of trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, because they don’t want to seem partisan.
Think Progress » Dick Cheney makes surprise appearance at CPAC to chants of ‘Cheney! Cheney! Cheney!’
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What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer.
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The fortified city was battered by fireballs from the Brits' three camps along the river.
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And Ragout finds that Massad’s “scholarship” creates gems like this one: Such practices [as the torture of Abner Louima by NYC police] clearly demonstrate that white American male sexuality exhibits certain sadistic attributes in the presence of non-white men and women over whom white Americans (and Brits) have government-sanctioned racialised power.
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Its fine sandy beach runs the length of its 40 km wingspan, and just under a million Germans holiday here every year, so why is it that we Brits haven't even heard of it?
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The Brits weren't stupid; they had a winner there.
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Famous for the fortified wine vinted on its shores, the island of Madeira is as charming now as it was in the days when well-heeled Brits made it their favourite winter roost
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Gucci recently bought a two-thirds stake in Bottega Veneta, simply because the Brits have made it hip.
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Sitting on the beach, on the north end of Monterosso, we all start to sunburn like Brits on holiday.
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Thousands of young Brits have worked on Israel's kibbutzim and moshavim and retain a deep affection for the place.
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All credit, then, to 59E59 Theaters' annual Brits Off Broadway festival for showing us a different side of Mr. Ayckbourn with his own crisp, tidy staging of "Neighbourhood Watch," a darkish comedy about the coming of fascism to a middle-class suburb.
Guess Who's Coming to the Vineyard
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In fact, the UK is now the most liberal environment for charitable giving in the world, which is great news for generous Brits.
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Max: The Brits liked Monty Python so much they apparently decided to ensconce such absurdity into laws like the one cited above, insane but true.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Official: Global Warming Alarmism is a Religion (at Least in the UK)
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Those Brits were crazy to retreat from Dunkirk!
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The so-called "Indian Mutiny" of 1857 was a war of British oppression. The Brits were an occupying colonial power. The local people owed them nothing.
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When Brits do well, it still gives me a warm glow.
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Those Brits seem tougher, way tougher, than our candy-ass American students.
Jan Herman: Student Riots vs. Internet Attacks
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The time-travel scenes are unconvincing: Will runs into a Viking who speaks by grunting noncommittally and runs into some seventeenth-century Brits who speak in unaccented modern English.
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While many Brits would find the identikit homes lacking in character, Americans prize comfort, cleanliness and convenience above aesthetics - you see it in their cars, their homes and lifestyles.
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I would say that it could only happen to me, but you always hear on the news the how many Brits do exactly the same; typical English holiday-maker: see the sun, get in it, get burned.
Spot the difference « Sven’s guide to…
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You've got to hand it to the Brits: they redefine the meaning of the word pageantry.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!
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He is the darling of German society magazines and is the kind of multilingual European who puts monoglot Brits to shame.
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Stiff upper-lipped Brits aren't keen on PDA at the best of times and it'll be super awks if you drool over your manager only to get dumped a few weeks later.
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My apologies to any non-British readers for excluding you but read the answers and realise how unpatriotic the Brits probably are.
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Not inexplicably, pressmen begin filing stories that would suggest the Brits are off to a flyer.
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In America nearly every man has his dream, his pet scheme, whereby he is to advance himself socially or pecuniarily," Mark Twain wrote in the preface to the London edition of "The Gilded Age" 1873, hoping to explain the idiosyncrasies of the American boom to wondering Brits.
New India, Old Schemes
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One tears off a piece of pitka and dunks the torn surface into the choubritsa before eating it.
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We respect the Brits more than anyone else, and this will take a long time to go.
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Fuck you christina are brits are civilised more than any american will be and we disproove anmil sluater even more than you and as for the fish tank it is wrong and secondly why would you by a fish that lives for twenty five days? seems depresing
Amazing Fish Tank
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Now, the experts are warning that all we Brits should be prepared for such emergencies this winter because lots and lots of power stations have been mothballed.
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And I don't mean staring at their own gorgeous reflection in the mirror. brought to my joyously watering eyes by TheNextWeb, revealed that 20 percent of Brits questioned thought Steve Jobs was what they call a footballer and what Americans sweetly describe as a soccer player.
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Yet by the 19th Century, the Brits were renowned for almost painful ‘Victorian’ rectitude and lawfulness.
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Pakistan meanwhile hammers the Brits in their first county match at Worcester where Alimuddin scores a century.
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Sarah's face creased into an expression of motherly frustration, a look that said: Oh, you damn Brits, always with the self-deprecation.
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There General Patton's American armour lanced its way into Nazi-held territory while the Brits fought a slower-paced battle into the Rhineland.
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But having corned beef only in the American column clearly implies that Brits call corned beef salt beef, which we don't, so it'll have to come out, I'm afraid, salt beef being (to judge from the pictures) similar, but not the same.
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After all, very few Americans have a second language so everyone except the Brits is talking gobbledygook, right?
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_ -- We have been driving along the Strada Nuova in L**'s britschka, whence we had a fine view of Vesuvius.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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It's the same with how Brits are typecast abroad: not everybody in Britain goes out, gets absolutely trollied and walks around in an England shirt abusing foreigners!
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She turns out to have immaculate manners, a perfectly adequate sense of humour and an entirely rational fear of what we Brits will make of her.
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The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.
Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food
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Boat patrols from the ships toured the marinas of St George's to reassure Brits and relay messages to anxious relatives back in the UK.
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Fortunately, when we got to the waymark where the paths diverged we met a group of Brits, mostly similar ages to ourselves, carrying much smaller packs and with a guide.
Day 6 – Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti
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He's what the Brits call a "toff" -- a product of the upper class.
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Citibanki ees jalgu kõlgutada, Times Square'il kohvi juua, Brighton Beachil jalutada, metrooga sõita, jõusaalis käia, maas datleid süüa ja ahmida endasse ümbritsevat erinevust.
Tatsutahime Diary Entry
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The reigning queen: Alexa Chung, who looked gorgeous last year in short sparkly navy and who totally has that Brits hairdo down.
The Guardian World News
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Let's face it, we smarmy and sarky Brits will throw in a bit of ironic drollery at the drop of a hat.
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Holiday mad Brits are packing their buckets and spades and heading for the sun.
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Het geweten van de Britse pop wordt de band wel eens genoemd; ze wordt algemeen beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste en meest invloedrijke Britse popgroepen van de afgelopen decennia.
The Fall
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Steve the slimmer is a beacon for Brits but Mara Yamauchi finishes under an (ash) cloud in London Marathon
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If this is the outcome you favour, why not amend the Constitution to adopt the dualist system of international law the way the Brits have it?
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
