British people are generally quite glib

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― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, you know what it means now then do you?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

don't think this kind of generalisation serves any purpose

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

don't think this kind of generalisation serves any purpose

That's quite...pithy.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

glib
adj. glib·ber, glib·best

2. Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness.

British=polite=insincere. Haven't we been here before?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Well British people are quite pithy. Generally. xpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, you know what it means now then do you?

According to my own understanding, I think I do. If people disagree, it just means I'm wrong about what it means.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I do take glib to involve actually being funny in some way, but that's probably just me. And mebbe other British people too!

What that means is that when I think I'm being funny I'm actually being glib!

Aw, shucks...

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

What exactly do you mean by "British"? Unless you really think they're all the same.

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah sorry, English people, even those who are pretending to be Scottish. One of whom told me he was 'culturally English', which I guess was because of his English accent.

Anyone with an English accent, then. Or who watches British TV programmes a lot.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

So you mean English as opposed to Scottish, Irish or Welsh?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what you think you mean

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

... as opposed to "British". That's what I thought. (xpost)

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I do mean anyone who has an English accent.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Why does the accent matter so much?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Some people claim not to be English, but are.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

How do you know they are?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

And don't say, their accent

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

~There's quite a variation in English accents, Gat. Here in the People's Republic of Hull we don't go in for the ol' Received Pronunciation too much.

― Battle Raver II (noodle vague), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

He can tell by their glibness.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Lots of Welsh people don't have Welsh accents, doesn't make them English

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Are people from Hull particularly glib?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Or who watches British TV programmes a lot.

My mother was British? (Well, she did grow up in Kensington, but not that Kensington.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

This is getting kinda sidetracked. I'm sorry for suggesting that some Welsh people are not glib.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't say glibness was a particularly Hull characteristic, no. Mind, I'm an immigrant.

― Battle Raver II (noodle vague), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

http://philippe.ramin.free.fr/housemartins-london_0_hull_4-front_mini.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

worst thread ever.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

The world 'glib' belongs to people who confuse sincerity and seriousness. To hell with it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Feeble isn't it?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Only one of the Housemartins on that album is from Hull.

― Battle Raver II (noodle vague), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Is there something wrong with the concept of 'glibness' then?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I think you are right. We are glib.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

In tense moment, Cruise calls Lauer 'glib'

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

It's a bit laughable Sc1ent0l0g1sts being so down on psychotherapy when L. Ron Charalatan ripped it off so much

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Tom Cruise knows the history of psychiatry! I can barely spell it.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Marxists 0 Cable-Knit Cardigans 4

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.4thegame.com/media/00/02/83/hleb_aleksandr_afc_profile_2005.jpg

Are you call me? I am not Britishes.

― Alesksadr (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I had a truly awful curry in Hull. Stoke-on-Trent has really good curries.

― andy ---, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Can a curry be glib?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

only chicken tikka marsala

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 21 January 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Proposition: People in category x are described by the anecdotal adjective y.

Objection: But what about people in z, a sub-category of x? Let us test on a case-by-case basis whether all people in category x can be described by adjective y. Even if it takes 27 years to complete the study, and y is not an empirical criterion but an anecdotal one.

Conclusion: The proposition is glib, the objection glibber. If these people are in category x, and if y = "glib", consider the proposition proven. (By the way, if this conclusion is glibberish, it's further proof of the proposition, since I am also an x, if x = "British".)

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 21 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Even if it takes 27 years to complete the study,

This is part of a study that I have recently completed after 33 and a half years of diligent research!

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I quite like the Brothers Glibb

― anna graham, Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Maybe my basic proposition should be that I am glib, and British.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

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