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jayes_musings) wrote2004-09-30 03:20 pm
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You Know You're From Britain When... |
You believe that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all good nights for drinking. Sunday day is also entirely reasonable. You're always a half an hour late to work ... no-one notices or cares. Coming to work with a hangover is entirely accepted and indeed expected at least once a week. You can actually give directions to some of those annoying tourists in Oxford Street! You step over a drunk in the tube station rather than offering to help them. You don't even bother looking out of the window when you get up in the morning to check what the day is like. You know it is overcast. You consider a suit to be normal attire for the pub. You expect men to actually cut, comb and style their hair (using hair products). And to wear decent clothes. You dissolve in laughter when listening to the funny accent of the Aussie international telephone operator (or on TV!). You think £40 for a haircut is quite reasonable. You can't remember what 'customer service' means. After a big night out you find yourself looking for a Curry house More than three hours sunlight on summer days seems excessive. You don't think twice about tipping your hairdresser You finish every sentence with 'Cheers' or 'Yeah'. You only just realise you have lost your sunnies, you left them in Greece 2 summers ago. You like English cuisine. I mean, it's hard to beat a full English breakfast. You are on to your 6th umbrella and your second overcoat... this year You've bought a disposable baby BBQ from Tesco. A day at the beach means wearing the warmest clothes you own while standing on golf ball-size pebbles and the thought of swimming doesn't even enter your head. You always call soccer football and you have a team and it's not Manchester United. You don't think twice about buying a packaged sandwich. A sunny lunchtime means searching for a patch of grass and stripping off practically down to your underwear You've accepted queuing as a way of life. You believe that every American is a fatass addicted to hamburgers and hotdogs. You despise the French (but then, who doesn't?). You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Britan. |
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And I'm not a fatass!!!!
But I do like English cuisine.
I had a lot of sunny days the first time I went over there in fall of 97. I think I was spoiled. I'm starting to think the constantly overcast thing is a myth. I did buy a lot of packaged sandwiches over there though! (My favorites were egg salad and cheest & tomato.) However, putting butter instead of mayonaise on them was new to me.
:D
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Probably as good...or as bad...as anyone else *g* Although *beams* I can give directions to people on Oxford Street, and have.
And I'm not a fatass!!!!
And there's plenty of Brits that answer to that descriptions as well.
You were spoiled. Actually the weather isn't as bad as everyone makes out, but as it's the Brits that complain the most about their own weather...it's a fair dig. *g*
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Hehe. Maybe it's just because I don't usually need to ask for directions here. All I know is that in Glasgow my friend and I were sent hither and yither before we found the hostel we were looking for (each person we asked told us something different), and in Ireland... well, there's a reason the Celtic knots look as they do. :)
You were spoiled. Actually the weather isn't as bad as everyone makes out, but as it's the Brits that complain the most about their own weather...it's a fair dig. *g*
Hehe. The second time I went over there was the summer, and I do admit it was a lot cooler than we'd expected (yay fleece!). But there were some lovely days as well. Right now we're having a lot of clouds here, without the benefit of being in Britain. It sucks.
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and "More than three hours sunlight on summer days seems excessive." Sounds more like a winter day...
And I haven't made Greece yet.
The rest sounds pretty much like New York.
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Summer, winter...there's not much difference sometimes.
*nods* Not that I've been to New York, but I think most could apply to most large cities.