I Think I Have a Bad Case of Brit Envy

Americans are more vulgar, but the British expressions of pique never fail to curl my toes in pleasure. Take, for example, this post about the joys of dealing with Ticketmaster:

Absoluteley piss poor seats available through Ticketmaster, who are also piss poor.... having to type in the worlds longest or hard to read captures everytime to find out you can have a stool in the carpark is just utter shite. When tickets apparently go on sale at 9.00am i expect the tickets to go on sale at 9.00am and then it's tough shit if you're slow enough to not get a booking for a particular block.... but no, that would be far too easy so instead lets piss about trickling the tickets through, "block ZZ row 999 on the roof at the back". And to make matters worse, tickets for the block i want (15) are available on Getmein.com (which is owned by Ticketmaster) at the princeley sum of £196 per ticket which means for the 4 tickets i require i've got to lose a kidney so so far the entire experience has been one of the shit spanner variety.

Rampant misspellings aside, it's just so delightfully refined in its sniffy outrage. Thank you, random British guy, for making my day. It's the "stool in the car park" that gets me. So much more scathing and unctuous than "seat in the parking lot."

I Think I Have a Bad Case of Brit Envy

Americans are more vulgar, but the British expressions of pique never fail to curl my toes in pleasure. Take, for example, this post about the joys of dealing with Ticketmaster:

Absoluteley piss poor seats available through Ticketmaster, who are also piss poor.... having to type in the worlds longest or hard to read captures everytime to find out you can have a stool in the carpark is just utter shite. When tickets apparently go on sale at 9.00am i expect the tickets to go on sale at 9.00am and then it's tough shit if you're slow enough to not get a booking for a particular block.... but no, that would be far too easy so instead lets piss about trickling the tickets through, "block ZZ row 999 on the roof at the back". And to make matters worse, tickets for the block i want (15) are available on Getmein.com (which is owned by Ticketmaster) at the princeley sum of £196 per ticket which means for the 4 tickets i require i've got to lose a kidney so so far the entire experience has been one of the shit spanner variety.

Rampant misspellings aside, it's just so delightfully refined in its sniffy outrage. Thank you, random British guy, for making my day. It's the "stool in the car park" that gets me. So much more scathing and unctuous than "seat in the parking lot."