Because it probably falls outside of modern thinking.
Outside modern thinking !
I suggest its morphed from that old fashioned upper class English snobbery very prevalent in the UK when I grew there in the 1950's.
Today we have car snobs ,driving attitude snobs, holiday destination snobs , house snobs, & what you do for a living snobs (ie.
blue collar or white collar as the Yanks call it) Et Al
Even in the 1980's 's working for B/L there was the white lab coat guys like me, who had different collars attached as a sort of status symbol or simply know you bloody place mate ! .
This guy is Tech1 and this guy with the yellow collar Tech 5 in Engineering (yesterday couldn't even spell it now I are one!) & with a
red 'un he is Corporate Grade 26 entitled to company car for free like a Dolomite . Whoopty do!
This thread concentrated (
originally as it did on the topic of driving ) and over cooking it on a highway exit and doing a bit of damage,
in short a fender bender .
Really no big deal, but Oh boy, Oh Boy the poor OP was picked to pieces by the forum driving snobs, reading him being eagerly chastising for bad driving techniques. & how accomplished they are those a quasi Fiangios responders ~ Oh sorry my bad,. should have said Sterling Moss 'cos he was a Brit not a bloody Cuban/Argie. A foreigner!
Now today with a driver shortage in the UK suddenly you don't give $schit where the driver comes from, as long as you are not inconvenienced at Waitrose and your polished MB ride is not key'd by a fellow Brit miscreant .
Then an overseas member as an
ESL contributor was picked on by silly but subtle innuendo, that quintessentially if not unique Brit manner in direct address or the written word when dealing with a foreigner .
Now its de-generated to
peanut head !!!
Come on where's your manners.
Now me the enigma.
A Brit gone rogue.
Doesn't think like us, and has obviously lost that
intrinsic exclusivity of being a domiciled Brit in the British islands.
Why are you on this web site as a member I'm asked ???.
The confusion is only made worse by being a Ven with a cedula which states Venezolano.
Why would a Brit become a Ven? --Oh my brain hurts and it confuses my British sensibilities.,
(I can tell because I have rudely been asked point blank by a fellow Brit ! )
Argentina comes into more confused thinking, another nation of miscreant Americans like those Yanks who we deep down regard as slightly less cultured than us. (Canucts not quite so but the still talk like Yanks !)
So I turned the table on some of you folks writing "RUDE" about hot button issues as only a born and bred Brit can you.
As an insight I have a farm Argentina, called an Estancia.
I inherited it from my grandfather, who was a 6 years orphaned bare foot boy in North Shields at the turn of the century, became a cabin boy on an Argentinian freighter.
Educated by the Master of the ship (an Argy OMG) he was fluent in Spanish & German by the outbreak the 1st World War .He served the British Crown in the Northern Cyclist Battalion & the Lancashire Fusiliers at Passiondale.
He became a decorated officer in the field in 1917 and served again in the 2nd World War
Now if you know anything, anything at all about Argentina, you will know that its part of Mercosur like Venezuela .
A sort of EU of the south !
And just like the EU, Brits HAD rights of domicile & work in member countries --Get the picture AND contrary to machinations & direct accusation by rude forum members I am not a "Narco Trafiicante "!
I will close this post with a question
For domiciled Brits
what makes for you a British hero?
Equally what makes for an
American hero?
Think about it before answering.
Hasta La Vista
Tuercas viejas
