{"id":3328,"date":"2014-04-30T07:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2014-04-30T07:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:03:36","slug":"24-agonising-british-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"24 Agonising British Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lukelewis\/24-agonising-british-problems\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lukelewis\/24-agonising-british-problems<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I&#8217;m still waiting for the first person to hold a door open for me.<\/li>\n<li>If I can&#8217;t hear you, you ain&#8217;t talking.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gerroff&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s actually a better way to deal with unexpected visitors. First take all your clothes off, and\u00a0<em>then<\/em> invite them in. It works especially well with Jehovah Witnesses.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The button is not lighing up &#8230; we&#8217;re trapped. We&#8217;ll die in here. Slowly.&#8221; in an increasingly panicy voice.<\/li>\n<li>Tea? What&#8217;s that?<\/li>\n<li>But &#8220;well this is fun&#8221; is\u00a0<em>supposed<\/em> to be the way to announce that you&#8217;re having the worst time of your life.<\/li>\n<li>Well that&#8217;s no way to make someone nervous.<\/li>\n<li>And thus, never choose a first choice mug.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get annoyed; just use the cricket bat.<\/li>\n<li>Do people really do that?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do you come equipped with a mute button?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Never experienced this. Possibly because I refuse to speak to machines.<\/li>\n<li>But &#8220;that&#8217;s interesting&#8221; is\u00a0<em>supposed<\/em> to be sarcastic.<\/li>\n<li>Not at all. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to tell people endlessly about my fascination with serial killers.<\/li>\n<li>A sandwich connoisseur would\u00a0<em>never<\/em> trust someone else to make the sandwich.<\/li>\n<li>You do surprise me.<\/li>\n<li>Actually, I practice my odd pained grimaces. It takes effort to get them just right.<\/li>\n<li>Of course!<\/li>\n<li>Not at all. See #4<\/li>\n<li>Who am I?<\/li>\n<li>It actually translates as &#8220;Thanks a bunch for using this infernal instrument to interrupt me and ask me your trivial question when I was doing something important.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And of course it should never be used unless blood is spurting.<\/li>\n<li>Actually it&#8217;s a great opportunity to bite their neck and suck their blood.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See:\u00a0http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/lukelewis\/24-agonising-british-problems I&#8217;m still waiting for the first person to hold a door open for me. If I can&#8217;t hear you, you ain&#8217;t talking. &#8220;Gerroff&#8221; There&#8217;s actually a better way to deal with unexpected visitors. First take all your clothes off, and\u00a0then invite them in. 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