Gas/petrol prices increase in Saudi Arabia.

[Smart_Guy]

Of course we speak English. We were originally British who came to America and started the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

No kidding

 

[~Darkseeker~]

America will come back to us one day, yankee girls love how we talk >_> <_<

 

[Celery]

No kidding

Yep and we claimed independence from Britain and went to war over it and kicked their butts back to Britain.

 

[~mr mixx~]

America will come back to us one day, yankee girls love how we talk >_> <_<

My two favorite accents are the English and the Australians, I love how they talk....It just sounds so awesome.

 

[~Darkseeker~]

Yep and we claimed independence from Britain and went to war over it and kicked their butts back to Britain.

well you say that, I don't think we were all that bothered since at the time we owned half the world and had the worlds most substancial navy

 

[Celery]

That's ok, we got our independence, that's all we wanted.

 

[~Darkseeker~]

That's ok, we got our independence, that's all we wanted.

you sure you don't want back in bro? We've got government funded healthcare and friendly police? D:

 

[root]

https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/fuel-duty
of the (now~ 97[ for petrol and £1 for diesel per litre) (e.g £4.40 ish and per gallon)

23 pence for fuel cost (this is including ALL shipping costs to this point)
57.95 fuel duty
2 pence profit for the service station (e.g to pay staff maintain pumps etc)
82.95 net total
16.59 Value added tax @ 20%
99.54 total price per litre

(another way to say this is ~75% of the price paid at the pump is tax)

 

[cb600fshornet]

Wow I didn't know it was that much, that's ridiculous, they say they "don't know" where the big spends in government, but just as one example...

When I was in the ATC (Air Training Corps), they told us that if we broke a broom in the dormitories, then to let the staff know quickly so they could replace it (as it would cost like £2 to replace), if we didn't, the maintenance company would notice it, and they'd charge something ridiculous like £50 for a single broom.
Also, a cadet broke a light bulb, and that would've cost something like £70 to replace (maintenance company charges...)

 

[Legacy1]

Technically UK is proper English, and we are just those people with ugly voices

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Like crayon is pronounced
"Crain" but americans pronounce it "Cray*On"

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you sure you don't want back in bro? We've got government funded healthcare and friendly police? D:

But like x2 more taxes