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[lastplayed]

While we are at it, these are fucking biscuits.

... there's other types of biscuits?

 

[Van Bur3n]

And Australia, and new Zealand and...

Our Australian ambassador in this thread tells us otherwise:

Itsy Bitsy, Australia.

Source sited. This other stuff is starting to sound like fake news to me.

 

[matrix-cat]

Incy wincy in Australia. Itsy Bitsy is for Americans, like calling bums 'butts'.

 

[Syriel]

It's Incy Wincy spider and that's his name. The other lyric is washed poor Incy out.

People have changed it because they didn't get it, Americans probably, but that's how the shit went.

It is "...and washed the spider out."

The spider never had a name. You're changing it to fit your narrative.

 

[Grug]

Our Australian ambassador in this thread tells us otherwise:

Well this Australian is telling you otherwise.

And so is this guy.

Incy wincy in Australia.

Nah bruv

Mmm, scones!

 

[MarkMclovin]

Nah bruv

That's a scone.

 

[Forerunner]

You know he's right, brah.

Those are fucking cookies breh.

 

[_Rob_]

While we are at it, these are fucking biscuits.

While you're at it:

Crisps:

Chips:

 

[Syriel]

While we are at it, these are fucking biscuits.

Some tasty looking cookies you got there...

 

[_Nemo]

it's itchy bitchy spider.

 

[Grug]

While you're at it:

Crisps:


Chips:

Correct.

Both are lovely when washed down with SOFT DRINKS.

Which are way more flavourful than a SODA.

 

[Van Bur3n]

Well this Australian is telling you otherwise.

And so is this guy.





Mmm, scones!

I don't believe it. This has to be the Russians at this point.

 

[Bold One]

incy wincy? wut?

 

[Radnom]

NZ here:

I must know

Incy Wincy

While we are at it, these are fucking biscuits.

Biscuits indeed

Nah bruv

Scone (pronounced like "Sconn")

While you're at it:

Crisps:

Chips:

Potato chips and chips (I'll admit crisps make more sense and I know what you mean if you say crisps. But corn chips are corn chips not crisps.)

Correct.

Both are lovely when washed down with SOFT DRINKS.

Which are way more flavourful than a SODA.

Fizzy drinks/Soft drinks and Soda

 

[Xe4]

Through threads like these, I've come to the conclusion that British people are just the *worst*. Nobody likes your dumb words for stuff, you hear!

 

[Grug]

Nobody likes your dumb words for stuff, you hear!

I like them.

 

[Xe4]

I like them.

I refuse to believe that : p

 

[EYEL1NER]

I'm in the US and said "Either one" when I read the thread title. I sing "Itsy bitsy" to my infant son but I remember also hearing "Incy wincy" probably 25 years ago and knew it to mean 'small.' I think it must have been my grandmother who sang it as "Incy wincy," but she's never been to England or Austrailia, let alone anywhere else outside of the USA, so I'm not sure where she got it from. I'll have to call and ask her tomorrow.

 

[Grug]

 

[Radnom]

From Wikipedia:

Lyrics as described in 1910, as being from the 'classic' "Spider Song":[4]

Oh, the blooming, bloody spider went up the spider web,
The blooming, bloody rain came down and washed the spider out,
The blooming, bloody sun came out and dried up all the rain,
And the blooming, bloody spider came up the web again.

 

[Syriel]

Correct.

Both are lovely when washed down with SOFT DRINKS.

Why you gotta use two unnecessary words for POP?

For reals.

 

[KahooTs]

It is "...and washed the spider out."

The spider never had a name. You're changing it to fit your narrative.

Well I must have done a bloody good job to convince the British Council.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxeKG7_Hq4

Note the capitalisation.

 

[WordAssassin]

Mmm, scones!

That's a scone.

Scone (pronounced like "Sconn")

It's easy to confuse the two because they can look similar but a biscuit is this lovely light buttery flaky cloud of heaven and a scone is a horrible sad angry rock.

The thing I posted is a biscuit <3

 

[Grug]

It's easy to confuse the two because they can look similar but a biscuit is this lovely light buttery flaky cloud of heaven and a scone is a horrible sad angry rock.

So we've now established that in addition to their failure to use correct English, Americans are also shit cooks.

 

[_Rob_]

It's easy to confuse the two because they can look similar but a biscuit is this lovely light buttery flaky cloud of heaven and a scone is a horrible sad angry rock.

The thing I posted is a biscuit <3

I feel sorry that you've never had a good scone.

 

[SirNinja]

"Incy Wincy"?? Is that one of the Teletubbies or something?

 

[ctfg23]

Itsy bitsy. Wtf is incy wincy?

 

[Syriel]

So we've now established that in addition to their failure to use correct English, Americans are also shit cooks.

Don't be pissy because you've never experienced the joy of biscuits-and-gravy.

And no country that thinks Marmite is edible has any ground to lecture others about cooking.

 

[WordAssassin]

So we've now established that in addition to their failure to use correct English, Americans are also shit cooks.

I feel sorry that you've never had a good scone.

I'm just havin fun cause I love the US vs Everyone Else war about food words. The grocery store chain Ralph's here in SoCal has lemon poppy seed scones and they're the most delicious goddamn things imaginable, especially with an ice cold glass of milk. I don't think I can eat them anymore (palm oil ergh, gotta learn to make my own) but they were decadent.

 

[boredandlazy]

Itsy Bitsy, Australia.

Incy Wincy, Australia.

 

[Radnom]

It's easy to confuse the two because they can look similar but a biscuit is this lovely light buttery flaky cloud of heaven and a scone is a horrible sad angry rock.

The thing I posted is a biscuit <3

I feel sorry that you've never had a good scone.

To be fair, I don't think I've ever had a good scone either, "sad angry rock with cream and jam (or bacon and cheese)" sounds about right...

 

[H.Protagonist]

Itsy Bitsy, Australia.

I say Itsy Bitsy (American), and my husband says Incy Wincy (Australian). This song is a destroyer of marriages.

 

[Preezy]

Incy wincy for life.

For the Empire!

 

[Christine]

The extremely diminutive spider ascends the downspout
the flush of rain drowns her ambition
restored under the sun
once more she grasps upward

 

[_Rob_]

I'm just havin fun cause I love the US vs Everyone Else war about food words. The grocery store chain Ralph's here in SoCal has lemon poppy seed scones and they're the most delicious goddamn things imaginable, especially with an ice cold glass of milk. I don't think I can eat them anymore (palm oil ergh, gotta learn to make my own) but they were decadent.

Sounds nice. But nothing can beat a lovely jam and cream scone.

That's JAM, not jelly.

Jam:

Jelly:

 

[Drkirby]

You know you are right when you beat out Thor 2 in a poll.

 

[Syriel]

Sounds nice. But nothing can beat a lovely jam and cream scone.

That's JAM, not jelly.

Jam:


Jelly:

You misspelled JELLO in your post.

HTH!

 

[Aarglefarg]

I'll narrow it down to Itsy, Bitsy, Victoria?

 

[MilkyJoe]

Spoiler

It's called English for a reason

 

[Grug]

Don't be pissy because you've never experienced the joy of biscuits-and-gravy.

And no country that thinks Marmite is edible has any ground to lecture others about cooking.

Haha, these goobers still think they are just dealing with Brits.

Marmite is shit by the way.

 

[WordAssassin]

Sounds nice. But nothing can beat a lovely jam and cream scone.

That's JAM, not jelly.

Jam:


Jelly:

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE *flips over the table spilling Jam, Jelly, Preserves, and Jell-o everywhere*

 

[Xe4]

When the right choice is so correct, it even beats the joke option...

 

[Forerunner]

Spoiler

It's called English for a reason

 

[Clydefrog]

itsy bitsy or ban me

 

[Dusk Golem]

American here, have literally never heard Incy Wincy before this topic in my life. Always has been Itsy Bitsy here.

 

[bitbydeath]

Incy wincy - Australia.
It also flows better than Itsy bitsy

 

[Grug]

Some silly Americans getting their just desserts in here.

Speaking of dessert... geez I could go for some pudding right now.

It's way better than this shitty cup of cheap custard.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Incy Wincy, UK.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I'm slightly drunk, but if you say Incy Wincy, you are clearly a terrorist. That spider was itsy as the itsiest of bitsies.

 

[31GhostsIV]

Incy Wincy, UK here. I'll fight all you bitsy heathens.

I'll gladly take on the United States of Aloominum with you.