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UK Viral Vid Teaches Us How To Cope With L4D2

Bad enough that this sucker’s set in Louisiana and still features a cricket bat – I’ve truly never heard of anyone playing that game south of the Mason-Dixon, outside of university graduate students from India.

This viral vid across the pond for Left 4 Dead 2 furthers the European co-opting of the zombie genre – as American as the Fourth of July, apple pie and loud mufflers – by applying all sorts of Euro words to zombie-fightin’ weaponry. You don’t have a chainsaw but you do have a what? “A … ’strimmer’”?

The hell is a “strimmer”?

Looky here, beefeater. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaddy kicked your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaddy’s arse back in 1812, and then my granddaddy, forgiving all of that, bailed y’all out in the big Dubya-Dubya-Eye-Eye, so that I would grow up in a world where I had the inalienable right to call that goddamn yard tool by its proper generic name – “weedwhacker.”

Video: Left 4 Dead 2 UK Survival 101 Viral Teaser [Gay Gamer]

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  • mambodog

    uhh.. and we call it a whipper-snipper?

    • Daniel

      haha yeah that’s exactly what i thought. I was like “isn’t that a whipper snipper”?

      His reaction to it revving is priceless!

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