Keeping with the latest British theme I was wondering if this is just a sterotype or do they really have bad teeth?
Bad teeth - the new British disease - Telegraph
Bad teeth - the new British disease - Telegraph
Bad teeth,the new British disease
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Racism?:roll:
Not really,maybe a lil bait to get Great Briton/Blackleaf to reply for a change.
Some of us caught on.;-)
We have made plenty of fun of the hillbillies in this forum, Risus (at least I have).
And bad teeth among British is nothing new, that is a traditional stereotype of the British, it has been around for a long time, I don’t know if there is any truth to it (if British indeed have worse teeth than anybody else).
I remember in one of the Sabrina movies (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, at least 10 years ago), there is a character of a British girl. The British girl is eating a candy bar and Sabrina says to her “at this rate, you will rot your teeth in your mouth.”
“That is OK”, replied the girl “I am British.”
Their was an episode of the Simpsons were the dentist give's Lisa the big book of bad British teeth so it is a stereotype.
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My smile is so beautiful I was paid to have my teeth put on the poster above.
My smile is so beautiful I was paid to have my teeth put on the poster above.
Well, the British are the biggest candy eaters in the world.
"They chew through plays and they chew through films and they chew in trains," complained the London Daily Mail. "They suck lollies through Macbeth and Hamlet, and they while away Tennessee Williams with the chocolates with the scrumptious centers." The Mail's complaint was not another anti-American outburst, but a cultural critique of the world's most ravenous candy eaters: the British. Unfazed by calorie counts, the English last year ate an average 8 oz. of candy weekly, nearly double the sweet tooth of any other European country and well above the 5.6 oz. a week the U.S. puts away. All this amounts to a big rock candy mountain of 1.4 billion Ibs. of sweets annually. For Britain's 800 candy companies and 250,000 candy-peddling retailers, the sweet smell of success adds up to $800 million a year.
Read more: Britain: This Chocolate Isle - TIME
"They chew through plays and they chew through films and they chew in trains," complained the London Daily Mail. "They suck lollies through Macbeth and Hamlet, and they while away Tennessee Williams with the chocolates with the scrumptious centers." The Mail's complaint was not another anti-American outburst, but a cultural critique of the world's most ravenous candy eaters: the British. Unfazed by calorie counts, the English last year ate an average 8 oz. of candy weekly, nearly double the sweet tooth of any other European country and well above the 5.6 oz. a week the U.S. puts away. All this amounts to a big rock candy mountain of 1.4 billion Ibs. of sweets annually. For Britain's 800 candy companies and 250,000 candy-peddling retailers, the sweet smell of success adds up to $800 million a year.
Read more: Britain: This Chocolate Isle - TIME
lol Since when is making fun of British people's teeth racist? Britain is a country not a racial group. lmao
The British are a quaint admixture of Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Scandinavians, East Indians, French, West Indians, Africans, Italians (Romans) and their foreign legions.
Dental care is available, but it benefits those who use it. I had regular dental visits and my mum is 76 and still has all her teeth and they are straight and not discoloured. The rest of us also have great teeth. However, I have met many Brits who have teeth that would make my dog cringe, but also I have seen a few Canadians and Americans who have teeth that are quite frightening.
Whenever people poke fun at some group, country, etc. other than American you are sure to find Risus vainly trying to deflect to the object of his jealousy.