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  • #76
    Totally the same person. We recognise Santa and Father Christmas as the same character, it's just rare that anyone over here (of my generation at least) would call him Santa.
    I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.

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    • #77
      HEATHENS.
      "Looking like Nic Cage dressed in Kurt Cobain's closet. I mean that as a compliment" - BillyG

      "Too cunty for wine bars, too dainty for real bars." - Anderson

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      • #78
        Originally posted by Ben Thomas View Post
        Totally the same person. We recognise Santa and Father Christmas as the same character, it's just rare that anyone over here (of my generation at least) would call him Santa.
        Why is that, that the name Santa's gone out of fashion?
        I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.


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        • #79
          He's just always been Father Christmas over here. I guess parents got sick of explaining what 'Santa Claus' meant. But actually a lot of European countries call him variants of Father Christmas. In France, he's Pere Noel and I think most of the Latin-derived languages use a variant on that, so maybe we got it from them.
          Last edited by Ben Thomas; 10-12-2013, 03:21 AM.
          I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.

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          • #80
            Why do birds suddenly appear, ev'ry time you are near?

            Why do stars fall down from the sky, ev'ry time you walk by?
            "Fuck Rob. Also, he has a podcast called Podcaust. Edgy Holocaust humor lulz indeed." - The Faraci

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            • #81
              Cos I'm beautiful. Or as they say in Manchester, 'fit as fook'.
              I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.

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              • #82
                And jus' loike me, they long ter be. . .

                Cloooooose t' yerrrrrr. . . . .
                I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.


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                • #83
                  Sorry for the sillyness, I just have no serious inquiries for teh brits at this time.
                  "Fuck Rob. Also, he has a podcast called Podcaust. Edgy Holocaust humor lulz indeed." - The Faraci

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                  • #84
                    Why do you guys get to have casts of characters that are actually human and not some fucking model assholes on your television programming?
                    Me quick one want slow

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                    • #85
                      Yeah, that is kind of fooking weird yeh.
                      "Fuck Rob. Also, he has a podcast called Podcaust. Edgy Holocaust humor lulz indeed." - The Faraci

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                      • #86
                        You Brits DO realize it's "disoriented", & that "disorientated" isn't a word, right?
                        I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.


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                        • #87
                          http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/de...h/disorientate
                          I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.

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                          • #88
                            Which just goes to show how far American English has deviated from her mother tongue (which is also a mish mash of other languages).
                            Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs!

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                            • #89
                              We're the Mary.

                              You're the Rhoda.
                              Me quick one want slow

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                              • #90
                                You're the DiNozzo.

                                We're the McGee.
                                Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs!

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