Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,321
So is mine, though I don't use it as a rule
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[Albion] Best English Club
- Thread starter SeagullsoverLondon
- Start date
Not necessarily, it depends on the percentage and the origin of the components.
- Jul 6, 2011
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The OP question is just stupid.
We are the best club in the world so of course we are the best in England, no?
We are the best club in the world so of course we are the best in England, no?
Baldseagull
Well-known member
A woman being referrred to as a bike in the UK, is a woman that a lot have people have "ridden". Best use cart if using that expression in English.
Sepulveda
Notts County's younger cousins' fan
I'll keep that in mind
el punal
Well-known member
You’re a Bristle City fan and I claim my £5.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,014
no. Nissan is a Japanese brand. BMW is a German owner. It's a bit more tentitive with Nissans, but Mini are still a British car maker, brand, location, culture.
Liverpool, Manchester clubs, Chelsea all play in England and more importantly their fans are mostly English. the fans make the club, not the owner.
your point is wrong.
thejackal
Throbbing Member
Not sure I agree entirely with that bit
Although, the modern mini was designed by Americans working for BMW, and is also manufactured in other countries.
I also recall that on one of their models, they consistently stuck the back door on the right side, so if you were in the were in the back of one in Britain you had to get out into the road.
Anyway, in the case of Man City, Newcastle et al, "the fans make the club" is exactly what the sportswashers would like people to say. Making them look all cuddly and loveable.
cracking thread
What are those in Italian?
I'm trying to learn at the moment, and it'd be nice to throw a few colloquial phrases about.
"If my grandma-io had wheel-ios , she'd be a cart/bike-io"
"If my grandpa-io had 3 ball-ios, he'd be a pinball machine-io”
it’s not difficult
Pretty sure it should be "grandma-ia".
Remembering whether the gender of the verb depends on the person or the object they're acting on is entirely beyond me.
Sepulveda
Notts County's younger cousins' fan
Keep in mind that they're usually said with a slightly dialectal edge (e.g. "la mi' nonna" instead of "mia nonna" in Tuscany) or with grammar errors regarding verb tenses (e.g. "aveva" instead of "avesse" and "era" instead of "sarebbe") because they're very street-level sayings and you know those kind of things almost have to be said like that sometimes, regardless of correct grammar rules.
The correct standard versions would be:
"Se mia nonna avesse le ruote sarebbe una carretta."
"Se mio nonno avesse tre palle sarebbe un flipper."
There are also other variations on the theme, for example one of my school teachers - like a true Milanese - used to say "If my grandma had a trolley pole she'd be a tram." ("Se mia nonna avesse la perteghetta* sarebbe un tram.")
*Milanese dialect
Crawley Dingo
Political thread tourist.
- Mar 31, 2022
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It does a bit, you mean the land its built on which is Spanish .
And if @Your Mum had a cock and balls she'd be your dad.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
His Dad is (Jamaican-)English, hence his name Robert Lynch Sanchez (both are surnames, in the Spanish style).
B-right-on
Living the dream
Ah but if you wore a black hoodie, hung around with a load of other school kiddies wearing hoodies, went to a brand new state-of-the-art cladding on a rat infested shithole in Croydon after burning half of the city down, got the clubs owners to kick out long term STH so you can bang a drum behind the goal and wave a flag when clapping hands, barged into their rivals stadium, chuck a few flares about amongst our own fans, get excited when a manager comes out of the geriatric home to save the season and have our best player a diving crybaby, you'd still be a twat.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
We're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen, in fact