9 mo. ago • 98%

The British vs Ants

48 comments

As a Brit I am DEEPLY offended... It's beans ON toast! Beans and toast does not highlight the important fact that the beans must be placed on top of the toast. Do you expect me to separate my "beans and toast"... Or put toast on beans like some hooligan?!?!

Everything else is pretty spot on to be fair.

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- And not a mention of cheese.
  
  Which should go under the beans to prevent sogginess. I will not be debated on this point.
  
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  PREVENT sogginess?? The combination of crunch and softness is a part of the appeal, you philistine!
  
  24
  
  I do this with a fried egg. Ultimate beans on toast: toast -> egg -> beans -> cheese
  
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- I confess I sometimes put the beans in a small bowl and dip my toast in or scoop it on with a fork. Nonetheless, I refer to this and beans on toast.
  
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  Torie beans on toast
  
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- This reads like something Mark Corrigan would say on Peep Show lmao
  
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I wish Americans had the instinct to line up in a queue. So tired of just mobs

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- I live in America. Where does the notion that Americans don't queue come from? For most things where people are served one at a time and more than one person wants to be served, people queue.
  
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  It comes from living in America and being around and previously working at places that may have a system where lining up would work well. Granted, the area I'm at has a large tourist population but that are mostly all Americans from out of state. It's anecdotal evidence. Maybe just my city or something.
  
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  In fairness, we queue when bollards are put up, maybe even based on paint on the ground. It must be declared though
  
  We lack the natural instinct to queue though. If you have an ingress or ticket booth, lacking direction, we form a mob that filters in rather than a queue. At best, we might queue at a store opening if there's many hours to wait
  
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  That's my experience, too, and we got it from the British. Sure, there are line-skipping jerks, but they're socially frowned upon. Compare this to somewhere like Germany where people were constantly skipping lines and nobody seemed to care.
  
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If you think ants won't jump on some beans and toast...

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Thank you, ants.

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- Is that Ant-Arctica?
  
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- Always happy to see a Look Around You reference.
  
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- Permanently Deleted
  
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That got me from the start "weird loyalty to their queen".

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Queen is pretty banging ngl tho

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Britain has anti-monarchists, don’t know of many ants that are

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- You don't know about them because they are silenced
  
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That's the reason I always call Charles Queen Charles.

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Ants can't lift 5000x their own weight but maybe OP is being British and using commas as decimal points.

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- Britain doesn't use commas for decimal points, that's a mainland European thing.
  
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  Also if OP was British, they’d have put ‘beans on toast’. What they put makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
  
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  *decimal separator
  
  We call it decimal comma
  
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The queen.... Is dead. Has been for some time too.

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- Hilariously still accurate though
  
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- The people accept Charles but I wouldn't say they are loyal to him like they were to his mom.
  
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Everything but the beans and toast and queen loyalty applies to Americans, too.

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- If you think Americans have an innate instinct to line up single-fine in queues, you clearly haven't seen queues in other countries.
  
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  I lived in Germany for 10 years, so I certainly saw the lack of respect for the queue there! But that was in the 80s-90s, maybe it's better now.
  
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Would rather serve a half German tranny queen rather than have an "unpredictable" sovereignty.

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- Speaking as a loyal British subject...
  
  Serving a half German tranny queen sounds like my Ideal date night
  
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- You misspelled tyranny.
  
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  Nowadays its synonymous.
  
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