What makes england so special to you ??

drunk people starting fights, flashing their tits and vomiting on a friday night. brings a tear to my eye.

Plymouth argyle.

A great chit Chat thread which is about as rare as Cheryl Cole doing  a live solo performance.

sideshowbob     04 Jun 12 23:13 
drunk people starting fights, flashing their tits and vomiting on a friday night. brings a tear to my eye.
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WHICH PUB IS THIS SIDESHOW ?

Jun 4, 2012 -- 11:15PM, Coachbuster wrote:

sideshowbob     04 Jun 12 23:13  drunk people starting fights, flashing their tits and vomiting on a friday night. brings a tear to my eye._______________WHICH PUB IS THIS SIDESHOW ?

Probably his local tesco's

Larrence - eccentricity ,   most in this country are totally fruit loop 

Fish and chips on the beach in Cornwall..
Dropping tablets in a club in Coventry..
Walking round London and thinking..this city pisses all over Paris.
Nonone taking themselves remotely seriously..

We will win the Psycho Wars when they start...!

Cheese ^ onion crisps, Pint of beer,pork pie & pickles, country pub , Devon Cream teas and cliff Richard !

england always gets by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8e3K3-XN8

the thing that makes england so special for me is that its not in Wales

brngtwt, got to be The Eclipse?

correct fawwon,
albeit could have said the obvious mate.

The building was demolished a few years ago, best days ever in there.

Did you go to any of the amnesia house nights at Sky Blue Connexion?

fawon
it is now ilegal to say there  was any good clubs apart from the hacienda.
REPORTED.

I quite like Blackpool. The fading tatty glamour of it.

Also Wimbledon the home of tennis, my favourite sport.

Also fifty years of great bands and groundbreaking artists.

Everything else about England is dreadful.

That I'm 2000 miles away from it?

Pubs, Pimms, Sandown Park, London parks, brisk walks on the beach, croquet.

test matches especially at lords,english beer and paul weller.

St Pauls,Henley,Tower of London,Tower Hamlets,Rochdale and Beckingham Palace.

.....The fact that I can stay or leave, the choice is mine.

The people

...and that's the BRITISH people BTW

hetty wainthropp

Cheltenham Festival
Glorious Goodwood
Royal ascot
Test match cricket

as a scot-- england as neighbours has its moments

english are the best MOANERS in the world

england football team qualify for euros---all u hear on radio stations---our manager is kak----wheres rio?

a mass of boats---travel down thames---press--oh the queen has to stand in rain for 4 hours----bbc suc--ked

the thing that makes england so special for me is
that its not in Wales and maintains a respectful distance. (diolch DBtB)

It's quite demanding being the envy of johnny foreigner imho

Proud to be part of this great nation.

Proud to be Norn Irish as well.

This Royal milarkey shows England certainly is a country of two halves .

best pax ive had in my cab is n irish---totaly upfront--genuine

All other countries have an inferiority complex regards Britain and secretly wish they were like us, especially America.

On a smaller scale, it's a bit like the massive jealousy and hatred Scotland often show towards England, stemming of course because they feel terribly inferior to the English.

maybe on the whole esp Australia  ,but i would disagree totally  with America ,i'd say we have a chip on our shoulder as far as America is concerned (the little/big brother syndrome)- they probably couldn't give two hoots about us tbf ,but we tend to be very bitter about them and their success over the years

hatred in what way?

ok banockburn 1707

i like uk--horseracing/greyhounds/bbc/golf

likewise Aussies have been bitter torwards us in the past  ,although that feeling  is waning somewhat (maybe due to the economic situatuion )

likewise Aussies have been bitter torwards us in the past  ,although that feeling  is waning somewhat (maybe due to the economic situation )

Believe me Coach America has a massive inferiority complex over Britain and are intensely jealous or our heritage.  This complex often manifests itself in criticism, just like the Scots.

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 !

morris dancing and their rampant pooviness.

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.

NH racing and the Dorset coast.

chicken tikka masala

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 ...

Humour
Music
Television
Spring days

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

what will you see in paris?

You will NOT see businessmen in 3k suits on some tube lines, London is more mixed

Not reading the thread and saying my wheelie bin has lovely numbers on it.

I agree abolo, English people are quite simple

I agree ABOLO, English people are not the best sandwich in the night sky.

oops maybe i made another vocabulary mistake, simple was meant as a compliment, let's say uncomplicated then

Abolo,

do cut your nose off to spite your big toe, you were left fella.

Only joking abolo, not laughing at you mate, just made me smile.

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

micky, you have to speak Simple english with me, not Oxford english

Or Leeds english, whatever

Oxford English vEEERY Posh...

Me, common as dog sh1t

ok, "do cut your nose off to spite your big toe, you were left fella", i thought it was a Shakespeare quote

Yeah pal, to be Bee or not bee on benefits, that is the question.

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

Abolo

Have you heard of "A rolling stone gathers nO kATE MOSS?"

Ni, i'm not yet at this stage in my ESOL lessons

No

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.

I knew it, i'm becoming so good in english that he's forced to use improper sentences to lose me out

WHAT did? abolo please DIS THA CREW?

" WHAT did? abolo please DIS THA CREW? "

I bet it's not even english, maybe welsh

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... :-)

Street speech? We have not this kind of thing in Newham, we are an Olympic Borough, Sir. See you ;)

bIONIC MAN GOOD, they rebuilt from fook Hall.... :-) look on You tube