and if you think of Britain, what comes to your mind then?

[toobfreak]

Disgusting food. Poor houses. Stupid government.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

More of our weird humour.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Bad food, bad weather and weird humor.

American food is toxic and the majority of it is banned in the UK and Europe. The weather is the same as America's, but it just changes more quickly due to where the UK is on the planet. Maybe you should do a geology and geography course. Brits and most of the world do humour, Americans and Germans can't grasp humour, irony, and sarcasm.

So for example, your post actually met the threshold for irony.

 

[leftwinger]

Arsenal.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Poor houses.​

Al least we build with bricks and breeze blocks. And not wood and cardboard.

Stupid government.​

That’s true.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

American food is toxic and the majority of it is banned in the UK and Europe. The weather is the same as America's, but it just changes more quickly due to where the UK is on the planet. Maybe you should do a geology and geography course. Brits and most of the world do humour, Americans and Germans can't grasp humour, irony, and sarcasm.

So for example, your post actually met the threshold for irony.

They have trees forever. On the interminable drive to Canada.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

American food is toxic and the majority of it is banned in the UK and Europe. The weather is the same as America's, but it just changes more quickly due to where the UK is on the planet. Maybe you should do a geology and geography course. Brits and most of the world do humour, Americans and Germans can't grasp humour, irony, and sarcasm.

So for example, your post actually met the threshold for irony.

No
America's weather is vastly different depending on where you live.
America, like many things, because of our size and diversity, has the best and worst of a lot of things. Including food.
And get some humor, obviously the original post was part humor/part real.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Lucy Connolly is a mother. She has a 12 year old daughter. She posted one stupid thing on social media, and soon deleted it. She was sentenced to 31 months in prison. Torn away from her family, for ONE stupid social media post. She now sits behind bars. This is INSANE.

Rapists and paedophiles get let off with less. This is not the Britain I know and love.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Bad food

American girl here just returned home from the Uk. Tried my first sausage roll and liked it so much i decided to try making them. I need honest opinions, don’t hold back.. I can handle it. They do taste pretty stinkin good! Hoping my English Bo will love them..

Minus the dijon mustard and i didn't use mace, just doubled the nutmeg.​

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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The comedy of Peter Kay, but you've got to "get" the Northern English folk.


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[ShahdagMountains]

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The comedy of Peter Kay, but you've got to "get" the Northern English folk.


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He gets on my nerves.

 

[Zebra]

channel tunnel

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Calming landscapes and the villages.

 

[Zebra]

hedgerows

 

[JWBooth]

 

[Zebra]

Lucy Connolly is a mother. She has a 12 year old daughter. She posted one stupid thing on social media, and soon deleted it. She was sentenced to 31 months in prison. Torn away from her family, for ONE stupid social media post. She now sits behind bars. This is INSANE.

Rapists and paedophiles get let off with less. This is not the Britain I know and love.


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Terrible!

What did she post?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

 

[Zebra]

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York Minster Cathedral, and all of York.

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Beautiful!
and all of York City
They still have a complete town hall.

 

[Zebra]

I can't believe I am the only one who mentioned the spreading of the English language.

Consider how a U.S president can go to almost any country and there will be representatives in those governments who speak perfect English. There is no other country on earth who can expect that.

How many governments have citizens fluent in Swedish (but in Sweden they are taught English in their schools). German? Chinese? Japanese?

The British made English the language of business. The Americans helped this continue with their dominance as a super power (which is why I say it must not fail).

Second as a necessarily language of business might be French or Spanish, but that's a distant second. Chinese is too difficult to speak and far more difficult to read/write, also not based on the latin origins.

Communication is the most valuable skill in global friendship and peace.

I like the English language.
And especially the Scottish version of it.

 

[Zebra]

Miles instead of km
Pints instead of liter
Inches instead of cm
Ounces instead of gram