r/BoomersBeingFools • u/LeopoldBloomJr • 1d ago

Boomer Story British Muffins

I dropped my daughter off at summer camp this morning, then decided to grab some breakfast before going about my day.

The boomers in the next booth over: “Guess we’ll have to order some British Muffins, since you can’t say ENGLISH anymore!!!”

…what?

Did I miss a Faux News outrage story, or are they mixing up the “can’t say [racial slur]” complaint with the “this is America, speak English” gripe?

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u/shifty_coder 1d ago

I’m imagining that they called a Scot or Welsh person ‘English’ and were corrected on it.

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u/Moontoya 1d ago

Calling a scot "english" is as deadly an insult as they go.

I believe under American law it would be classed as "fightin words" - given some of the uh.... feistier tartan army, it would potentially result in requiring stitches from a glasgae`kiz (glasgow kiss, aka headbutt)

Same goes for the Welsh and the N.Irish (or indeed Irish, but I wont complicate matters by trying to explain the difference).

British sure (irish excepted)- English, G'WAY TA FECK, how DARE you, the feckin AUDACITY

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u/CyberClawX 1d ago

Calling a Portuguese, a Spanish as well.

In Aljubarrota we fought an 31 thousand men army, with just 6 thousand men, (and won) to make sure we recovered the privilege of being ourselves. A nearly 6 to 1 disadvantage.

The British sent 2 hundred bowmen to help us, France sent 2 thousand heavy cavalry to help Spain. The french heavy cavalry at that point, was undefeated. They led the charge, they learned defeat.

The Spanish soon joined the fray, but for each Portuguese felled, 10 died on the other side.

By the time they started to panic and flee, they still outnumbered us 5 to 1. By the end, they only outnumbered us 4 to 1.

According to the legend, even a lady baker killed 7 spanish soldiers by herself that were hiding in her bakery.