Nicolaou, I love Cadbury chocolate! At least you get more time off from work than we do here in the U.S.
Thing I LOVE and HATE about living in ENGLAND.
by nicolaou 50 Replies latest jw friends
-
-
Bstndance
Pob,
Rest assured, Posh has been deported out of England and is taking up exile in LA with all of the other plastic looking celebrities. :-(
I do like the reports that she likes David's money too much to let him join Scientology. :-) -
lowden
HATE
England Football Team (Because they're truly CRAP and the players are treated like royalty).
The weather.
Soap T.V.
Chav Scum.
The T.V. licence Fee
The binge drinking culture (yobs)
Jingoism
The Old School Tie
Could go on.....
LOVE
England in May (Springtime)
Our literary history (Shakespeare, nuff said)
The diversity of our countryside.
Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Lennon andMcCartney Roy Harper, Bert Jansch (although he's a Scot really)
Ale
Gorgeous buildings and ancient architecture
Manchester
Could go on.....
Peace
Lowden
-
Clam
Loves
Sense of Humour - History - Architecture - Rugby- Individual character of towns and villages - Cricket - Indian Restaurants - Cosmopolitanism - Fry ups - Warm bitter and English pubs - Frosty, sunny mornings with noisy crows - Terry Wogan -Rannulph Feinnes types
Hates
Factory Farming - Big Brother - Loan and Credit Card ads everywhere - Daily Mail - Football manager's mind games - Blair, Brown and Prescott - Conspicious consumption - Piers Morgan -Pete Doherty and Kate Moss - Estate Agents - Arse antler tattooes - The overpaid underachieving England Football team - Prince Andrew
Phew that only took 5 minutes. One could go on and on.
Clam
-
Peppermint
Things I Love:
Rolling countryside
Country pubs
The weather
A sense of history around me
Our coastline
The BBC
Our foresight to export religious fanatics in the 1600's
Our sense of humor
Our diversity
The sympathetic mixture of modern and historic architecture
Waves and seagulls football crowds and church bells (got that one from Joe Jackson)
Things I do not like:
60's architecture
Mass immigration (this needs more explanation)
Class systems leading to:
1.Celebration of commonness - Chavs etc.
2.Snobby elite – wasters who have no purpose in life, obvious example The Royal Family.
Gutter press.
Our unbalance negativity and euphoria regarding our national sports teams. -
wozadummy
I was born there too ,and I'm sure I've got a castle somewhere like all the other poms that came here too.
My parents said you hav'nt seen green till you've been to the English countryside but I've never been back but it sounds lovely. And the pork pies are supposed to be the best, my father would.nt eat one unless it came in a tin from home!
It's funny how the poms are like New Zealanders living here - they whinge about this place but hardly any go home.
-
wozadummy
PS:
I think the only poms that go back home are the ones that come out here to learn how to play cricket and take their little urn of wood ashes back.
-
stevenyc
Things I miss about England
My family
My friends
Sailing
I decent pint of Guinness
CURRY
Watching football in the pub
Waking up to radio 4
Pork-pies and Worcestershire source
Hedgehogs and urban foxes
Two sided politics
Decent news programs
Smokey Bacon crisps
Things I don't miss about England
Drizzle
Marmite
Fear of success
suspicion of strangers
more drizzle
Milton Keynes
It's very expensive
Did I mention the drizzle?
steve -
nicolaou
Arse antler tattooes
Oh god Clam! Yes, they all think they're so "individual". lol
Loves
the seaside (as opposed to the beach)
peter kay
al murray
jack dee
lee evans and norman wisdom (they need to be on the same line)
tommy cooper
spike milligan
peter sellers
peter cook and dudley moore
proper pubs that let you bring your dog in
elderly housewives who still scrub their doorsteps
marmite
asian corner shops
a bag of scalding hot, salty, vinegar drenched chips on a freezing cold afternoon
the CotswoldsHates
"can I get", not "may I have"being looked at as a weirdo for saying 'good morning' to a stranger
not being able to get a proper cup of coffee anymore (yes, we English drink coffee too)
shopping centres killing the High Streets
whining pessimism (as opposed to English cynicism which is great)
benefit cheats and slobs who won't work
the House of Lords
the belief that we are better than everyone else (as opposed to the ability to actually explain it! ) -
moshe
--and don't forget to add the free BMW motorcycles you can salvage off the beach from ship wrecks!