Showing posts with label Cultural humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural humour. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2012

You can hire me to teach you English, London

These pictures were taken on my walks in London and thereabouts, not in China or India.



     Just in case you thought native English speakers had a less taxing time with apostrophes:

Right outside the Queen's castle at Windsor





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You 'might enjoyed' this sign at Waterstones, Islington
'Tradisional' English breakfast at Pimlico
Methinks someone from Hafeez Centre is trying to make it in Hackney

Coinage by a Central London cafe, possibly to encourage the pleasures of loose tea. Hoping they're as mindless of the UrbanDictionary meaning as they are of its spelling. 
All Behaviour Relating...Of a Sexual Nature ...Or of Illegal Activity?
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Generation gap

Older cousin to her daughter: We'd better head home now, it's Maghrib already.
Daughter's friend: Why aunty? Doesn't your car have headlights?