A quick question on Britspeak

[ffutures]

Prompted by yet another story in which a British character refers to the USA as "The Colonies" without appearing to intend it as sarcasm or an insult.

[Poll #1468439]

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I would only do this as a joke - and only when I knew it would not be taken at all seriously by anyone present. I might do it within a group of Britons, or I might do it with US people who I knew well. I have never done this, but I suppose I might do it to annoy an American I really disliked...