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I wish I were British...

#101
Deathblade Eric, Undead Evil and Bassybill:

Things so fascinating about UK, England especially:
-- What is England all about? Roundabout! ;-) {this English vice reached Poland, unluckily);
-- Signs on the streets: Look right! (Look not wrong?) :-)
-- Left side driving, particularly first meeting with a roundabout!
-- a car-boot = a trunk
-- Car-boot sale = flea market
-- Separate taps for hot and cold water
-- Cozy hotel rooms, so different from so many sterile continental hotels
-- Freehouses, especially the ones with good food and two identical meals in price of one
-- Off-license
-- Fish'n'chips, "delicious fish, isn't it", only without vinegar, please...
-- REAL ALE. No jokes, I love it, and you cannot get it genuine exported. Canned ale ain't real anymore.
-- Meatpies
-- Yorkshire pudding! "With a little bit of milk"
-- Extremely social people at pubs
-- Everybody speaks English!

Dislikes:
-- Industrial action = going on strike
-- A national horse races paralyzing a large city for good
-- Raining, sometimes just too cold
-- Long waiting in queue for something so simple as pouring a glass of beer... On the other hand, English bartenders are master of inobtrusive collecting of empty glasses
 
#102
sloasdaylight said:
Not bad as in it's a sub-par accent, but rather bad as in I couldn't make it out, and I'm usually pretty good making out accents. Think of this scene in Hot Fuzz That's kinda what this interview was like lol.

And believe me, I'm well aware of what people think of Southern accents. Read through this thread, you'll see plainly, from people who live in the States even.
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Thanks for the link, I enjoyed that!

Personally I love all accents. I'm sure ours are just different enough that we'd get a kick out of each other.

As for those stereotypes about the south -- both the accent and the people -- well that's just ignorance. Luckily it's not universal. We all learn to speak from the people around us in our community; and geographic separation = change and variation. Vive la différence.
 
#104
I wake up listening to the BBC News World Service on my alarm and read the BBC website every morning at work to catch up on world news - does that count?


Oh, and while we're on the subject of the evolution of a language, take 10-15 minutes to read through this, some pretty interesting stuff. :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_ages_english.shtml


British culture I find very intriguing - I'd absolutely love to spend some time over there.
 
#107
my friends husband is from England, I met him for the first time at there reception.. I couldn't understand half the crap that came out of his mouth. we've became decent enough friends through facebook where I get to tease him about eating blood sausage. he informed me that no one under the age of 40 eats that crap. i tease him about it anyway
 
#110
bassybill said:
If you think roundabouts are tricky, you should try finding your way through this lot...

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That doesn't look so bad...

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I travel through those two pretty frequently.


Full sizes here:
http://imgur.com/I9f36.jpg
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#119
sloasdaylight said:
Be careful Kwesi, bad teeth and awful food come included in this package.

:ninja:
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Hmmmmm...... Never considered this. They boil everything over there don't they?

Do the English know how to fix ribs? This could be a deal breaker for me.

BTW Mark, with all of your Southern American sensitivity, did you just make broad, sweeping general statements about our Queen loving brethren?
 
#120
sloasdaylight said:
Be careful Kwesi, bad teeth and awful food come included in this package.

:ninja:
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It's true that we're not as fond of cosmetic surgery as our US buddies. :p

And Americans and Brits perception of each other's food is really strange. Most Americans seem to think English food is somehow bland and tasteless. Most English people believe that American food is just mass produced, chemically modified junk, loaded with HFCS and not a natural ingredient in sight. In my experience, neither stereotype is totally true, although there are maybe a few grains of truth in there somewhere in both cases. But I've had some fantastic (and some abysmal) food on our side and your side of the Atlantic, many, many times.

(Phalex - we have some great ribs over here. No problem.)
 

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