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MWEB
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Oh yeah, my mum in law lives near there, we often pop in to Bettys tea room in Harrogate, and that yorkshire fish and chip baron, Harry ramsdens place.
Fish and Chips, another great English tradition.
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$herry
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me loved fish and chips in edinburg! 
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Cycovision
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Yeah, fish and chips is definately one of the few things that us English are good at
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MWEB
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Though i must hand it to our Scottish friends, only a Scot would be hardy (or dumb) enough to survive in a locked WC for 4 days at this time of year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7136288.stm
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methylated_spirit
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Extreme bowling! He's not that hardy, he drank the tap water. A purist would have gone without, or if really desperate drank their own urine, before touching the taps.
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MWEB
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Yet again, we English came 2nd, our best competitor only managed a poor 12 hours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7004943.stm
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Cycovision
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We did win first place recently in a survey of Europe's safest roads. Apparantly, we don't die as often as our neighbors do when we total our cars. I can't find the source now but it's on the beeb's website somewhere.
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methylated_spirit
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That's because they have mentalist drivers abroad...I was in Barcelona recently for the Rangers game, and cripes, it was terrifying!
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MWEB
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Quite true Meths, i remember a horrific hotel taxi transfer in Turkey once, red lights and road markings meant nothing to that guy
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Cycovision
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This is why I like riding motorbikes in India. I can imagine that the buzz you get after arriving safely at your destination is similar to the buzz you'd get after winning a game of Russian Roulette 
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$herry
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I drive like a maniac among maniacs here in PK
and whenever i drive slowly and responsibly, i get hit by bikes or rickshaws 
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MWEB
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http://www.woodlands-junior.k[....]s/questions/forum/identity.htm
Interesting question, with some good and dumb replies.
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Cycovision
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@$herry
Yeah, those bloody tuc-tuc drivers are insane! Good way to get somewhere very quickly though if you don't mind soiling your underwear...
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dr_thug
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Blimey!! An English thread right here in Esato!!
I had been looking left right and center to find something to check if what i wrote here in this thread is right or not.
What do you chaps think??
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Cycovision
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^^^
You're absolutely correct, although 'eaten' is not strictly informal. In English, there are very often two forms of past tense verbs, one for statements and one for questions.
For example:
"Have you eaten your dinner yet?"
"Yes, I ate it a while ago."
However, as with all rules there are exceptions:
"No, I haven't eaten it yet." is obviously a statement, but you use the question form of the past tense verb in this case.
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Posted: 2007-12-12 15:29
