Hugh Laurie: the British accent vs the American

The fantastically talented Hugh Laurie paid a house call to Ellen, and they played an exciting game of American slang versus English slang -- and the game was bloody brilliant!

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[TheDarkFalcon]

Nothing to do with accents.

[Cheekalob]

Let's face it, you're either a wanker or you're not. Where you fell out of your Mum's womb isn't the determining factor.

[ItsJustElli]

hahahaha that " shawty" part allmost killed me of laughter :DD

[tomsega]

We are all wankers; the point is there are wankers, and then there are wankers.

[EngliscWarrior1]

English accent* Scots are British citizens yet have different accent to English.

[Luis Pedro Dominguez Aldana]

Hilarious

[bumblejack dupree]

Intermix of ethnic groups may come easier here. often central americans become American, even Amerindians. After all the protests people simply go back to work.Pehaps I take exception to immigrants because my parents were immigrants. After pensioning I plan to leave the US and become an immigrant myself. Aussies, Americans etc, are often found in other lands and will closing our borders give those nations an excuse to close theirs? If you say "let them" remember resources come from those lands

[sonicmatt93]

I'm finding faults with the immigrants (more so on a cultural and criminal level) but the real criminals are as you say ''the employers''

the whole system is corrupt...im pretty sure we are heading for another ''ethnic cleansing'' when people wake up and realise their own government has punked them into buying the immigrants are a good thing for the economy propaganda...but the guys pulling the strings wont care...they can sit happy in their mansions while the world falls apart around them.

[bumblejack dupree]

"how about the economical expenses of having immigrant excess"

If immigrants are receiving "welfare" is that the fault of the immigrant? Why would a nation provide foreigners with an incentive to invade a country by giving them free stuff?. if that is the case your argument is with your own govt and not the immigrant...As for "putting other natives out of jobs" what jobs are the immigrants taking? and more importantly who is employing immigrants. I find more fault with the employer.

[sonicmatt93]

some immigrants are productive...but in a way theres the downside to immigration...it puts other ''Natives'' out of jobs...straining economical systems to provide welfare payments to the now non productive jobless natives.

and Im sure there was plenty of black, indian and Asian people involved in the riots...in proportion to their percentage of the total of England.

with the USA, did we just see Russian (Chechens) bomb Boston?

how about the economical expenses of having immigrant excess?

[bumblejack dupree]

the Spanish didn't truly colonize anything...they were merely looking for gold and few of them stuck around mixing with Amerindian tribes. Missions built along the California are not really colonies. British brought entire families to the new world and built townships...that is a colony.

[bumblejack dupree]

l I stand by my original statement as to who financed the original explorations of the new world..as for England I'm also an outsider.

you said "today its been hijacked by immigrants? Asians, wogs etc.

Are the immigrants productive or are they a burden on English society? I've seen riots in London, were Asians at the center of that unrest? Is it common place to see Hindi gang members and Hindi organized crime, destroying society? what does that have to do with the USA as you seem to blend them.