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What makes england so special to you ??
What makes england so special to you ??
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most Americans i have met have been very complimentary of us saying how wonderful the UK is ,in fact i haven't heard a Yank ever run us down - on the other hand ,you only had to listen to one of our news reporters interv/g a yank earlier today .
NRp. Do you have anything like this in USA ? Ame. Not that i've ever seen , maybe for the President somewhere ? NRp. Well i've never seen anything like it in America . What a coont - talk about bitter !  |
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morris dancing and their rampant pooviness.
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America is a funny place. It's a nation of immigrants that has somehow walked the tightrope that somehow gives its citizens a fierce patriotism for the US, whilst maintaining strong old world 'national' communities.
Whether by luck or judgement, I don't know. |
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NH racing and the Dorset coast.
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chicken tikka masala
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I've been to America many times and lived in Australia amongst other places, never have I had one problem with any of the natives of either country not even for a minute.
The Americans especially absolutely love us. I played cricket in Sydney for an entire season and after a bit of initial Pommie bashing they were all upset when I said I was going back to the London. They secretly love us too but it's not really cool for them to say as much. |
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An aspect of other people's view of us that I've always found intriguing is our reputation for 'fair play'. So marked is this reputation that when I lived in Washington DC, getting the UK onside with foreign policy was seen as a powerful way of legitimising US conduct.
Then a gurning, morally bankrupt snake oil salesman arrived in number 10 and took the nation to war on a lie. England for me? Yorkshire tea, horse racing, cricket, Gardeners' Question Time, fish and chips ... |
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Humour
Music Television Spring days |
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Unknown people calling you "mate" , it was always making me laugh in the first months i was here, i like it. English people are quite simple, pragmatic and relaxed, businessmen in 3k suits sit down tranquilly next to tramps in the tube, it's a scene you will hardly see in Paris
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what will you see in paris?
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You will NOT see businessmen in 3k suits on some tube lines, London is more mixed
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Not reading the thread and saying my wheelie bin has lovely numbers on it.
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I agree abolo, English people are quite simple
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I agree ABOLO, English people are not the best sandwich in the night sky.
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oops maybe i made another vocabulary mistake, simple was meant as a compliment, let's say uncomplicated then
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Abolo,
do cut your nose off to spite your big toe, you were left fella. |
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Only joking abolo, not laughing at you mate, just made me smile.
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The most difficult for us foreigners is to understand when you english people are joking, 3 years here and i'm still slow on to get it
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micky, you have to speak Simple english with me, not Oxford english
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Or Leeds english, whatever
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Oxford English vEEERY Posh...
Me, common as dog sh1t |
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ok, "do cut your nose off to spite your big toe, you were left fella", i thought it was a Shakespeare quote
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Yeah pal, to be Bee or not bee on benefits, that is the question.
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yes there is "pal" too, not only "mate" , i like these little attentions, like the woman's voice in the tube telling you to mind the gap or the driver telling you stay clear of the doors when they are closing
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Abolo
Have you heard of "A rolling stone gathers nO kATE MOSS?" |
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Ni, i'm not yet at this stage in my ESOL lessons
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No
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I have no idea what he's talking about abolo and I'm English, and relatively well read.
There is a saying 'to cut your nose off to spite your face', which is basically... A does something minor wrong to B B gets angry and does something worse, that only causes himself more trouble. I've seen 20+ year friendships end over it. Classic example is when relationships/marriages break down and people say 'it's me or him/her'. A guy that I was at school with demanded that we all cut off all contact with his girlfriend (also schoolfriend) or he wouldn't talk to us. It was clearly ridiculous - there was, as both were happy to say, no kids, cheating or money involved. Just relationship breakdown. Most people's general attitude was, er no. Particularly as two of the guys were going out with two of her good friends. Perfectly happy to be tactful, not mention her around him, be sensible about who to invite to what (so that they didn't run into each other), but the stupid b*gger was adamant that we all cut her out completely, or that was it. Four or five of us tried ringing him (from time to time) for years, just to make sure he was alright, and hoping that time would sort stuff out, but he wouldn't budge. One of my mates ended up on the phone to his mum for an hour one day, hoping to get in touch, and she just cried about the fact that he'd erased such a big bit of his life and essentially crawled into a shell. That is cutting your nose off to spite your face. Girl involved is only about a 4/10 anyway! 6/10 if you're a fan of big chebs. |
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I knew it, i'm becoming so good in english that he's forced to use improper sentences to lose me out
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WHAT did? abolo please DIS THA CREW?
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" WHAT did? abolo please DIS THA CREW? "
I bet it's not even english, maybe welsh |
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Mr Abolo Sir,
No idea apart from " DIS THA CREW" is street speech.... However, live long and programme your video squire... Nan ooo nan ooo, as The Bionic man would say... :-) |
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Street speech? We have not this kind of thing in Newham, we are an Olympic Borough, Sir. See you ;)
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bIONIC MAN GOOD, they rebuilt from fook Hall.... :-) look on You tube
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