ASK THE BRITISHES

we need more Underground Resistance though.

I think it's this concoction made of raisins, shredded nuts, spices etc, also known as "sweetmince" which is cooked into little pastry pies. Or perhaps it's little home-made sweets, marzipans etc. One of those 2 things, anyway.

birmingham is not good

I eventually gave up and went home.

i dont really smoke dope

why not just take pills, like the rest of us?

hi britishes

is "the telegraph" a real newspaper?

maybe there is a "british english" translation problem?

please help me understand this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5009465/YouTube-spammed-by-US-Congressmen.html

"cheers,"

yes, the telegraph is a real newspaper. apart from that can't help you.

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WTF with replacing # with £ sign?

I don't know why anyone would replace a hash with a pound sign sorry

# was used (and maybe is still used somewhere) to denote pounds, as in the weight, and is still referred to generally as "the pound sign" when you are calling an automated phone line in the uk

but i have never seen it used to denote pounds, as in the currency

On my mac keyboard they're both above the three (# is alt+3, £ is shift+3), so could it be an accident? Otherwise I'd guess jim's explanation of "pound sign" is correct.

(Also it's called an octothorpe really)

On reflection I want to take back my parenthetical prescriptivist remark. One of its technical names is the octothorpe, which is a good name and a fun thing to know, but that doesn't mean it is the only thing that it is "really" called.

is still referred to generally as "the pound sign" when you are calling an automated phone line in the uk

is this true? not in my experience, it's usually called Hash

oooooh, you know what, i think youre right and it's called the pound sign here (canada)

yeah never encountered it being called anything apart from a hash until I left the UK

I've heard automated phone lines - with English accents - refer to it as 'pound'.

I've never in my life heard it described as a pound sign, or used in reference to weights.

Also the use of it to denote number, #1 or #9, is an American thing fwiw.

^^^ I use the # for that a lot, because I think it looks good

So do I, it's neater, but I remember the first time I saw it used liked that not really knowing what it was - that was a long time ago though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4

So they mean English place names not British place names.