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Cheese rolling?? Haha, must look this upYorkie wrote:Two types of Rugby, cricket, golf, snooker, darts, tennis (for posh people who seem to be genetically crap at sport hence we have no decent players), badminton, table tennis, polo, croquet (last two i don't know anybody who plays them!), squash and, er, loads of others. Like cheese rolling.
You know what they say, only mad dogs and Englishmen..............libera36 wrote:Cheese rolling?? Haha, must look this upYorkie wrote:Two types of Rugby, cricket, golf, snooker, darts, tennis (for posh people who seem to be genetically crap at sport hence we have no decent players), badminton, table tennis, polo, croquet (last two i don't know anybody who plays them!), squash and, er, loads of others. Like cheese rolling.
Ok... I'm really, really confused...
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FB = Facebook...we have an FB group for people on this forum...but it only has 11 members so farYorkie wrote:FB? Go on, enlighten me.
I think a major difference between our two societies is that Britain (or perhaps more accurately England) isn't as loudly or brashly (or blindly?) as patriotic. We get slightly uncomfortable at the hand on heart, salute the flag thing (except for odd moments of celebration). There would be no pledge of allegiance at the start of school over here.
What I'm getting at is that people don't feel compelled to join in for fear of being ostracised - we quite like to encourage eccentricity. People might be mildly appalled at somebody slagging off the country but they would, of course, be too polite to say so!
. yeah, right) and a HUGE pension, I'll have a summer house in Suffolk I can escape to from about 24 May until the end of July 
People who aren't into occasionally ostentatious displays of nationalistic fervour (such as yours truly) are usually written off as being "liberal anti-Americans"--but then again, to be anti-Empire in the late nineteenth century was probably frowned upon in "polite" English society, so... Well as one of the few male voices on this thread I think I must make a defence for poor old dads.libera36 wrote:Haha, I second that one. My dad drives me crazy...kthomp wrote:lfathers are sooo imbarsing
Bah, Facebookkjackson83 wrote:FB = Facebook...we have an FB group for people on this forum...but it only has 11 members so farYorkie wrote:FB? Go on, enlighten me.
I think a major difference between our two societies is that Britain (or perhaps more accurately England) isn't as loudly or brashly (or blindly?) as patriotic. We get slightly uncomfortable at the hand on heart, salute the flag thing (except for odd moments of celebration). There would be no pledge of allegiance at the start of school over here.
What I'm getting at is that people don't feel compelled to join in for fear of being ostracised - we quite like to encourage eccentricity. People might be mildly appalled at somebody slagging off the country but they would, of course, be too polite to say so!
Funny--almost all of the English people I know are very patriotic...about England, not Britain.
Yes, American patriotism tends to be much more forward and direct...especially this time of year. One day, a long time from now, when I've gotten an endowed professorship (
I hates it, my precious.We're just kiddingYorkie wrote:Well as one of the few male voices on this thread I think I must make a defence for poor old dads.libera36 wrote:Haha, I second that one. My dad drives me crazy...kthomp wrote:lfathers are sooo imbarsing
What you need to remember is that men never actually grow up - we all believe we are 14 in our minds.
As they say, "the difference between men and boy is the size of their toys". So true on all levels. We are just big kids at heart
My dad doesn't drive me crazy any more than my friends, or the rest of my family... Except for when he makes annoying, sarcastic comments about Libera 
libera36 wrote:We're just kiddingYorkie wrote:Well as one of the few male voices on this thread I think I must make a defence for poor old dads.libera36 wrote:
Haha, I second that one. My dad drives me crazy...
What you need to remember is that men never actually grow up - we all believe we are 14 in our minds.
As they say, "the difference between men and boy is the size of their toys". So true on all levels. We are just big kids at heart
Go on my cheese Ok, I am finally going to ask the question I've been avoiding because I simply didn't want to look stupid, especially since my family is of Scottish decent. What is the difference between England and Britain??kjackson83 wrote:
Funny--almost all of the English people I know are very patriotic...about England, not Britain.
Please don't yell at me. I sincerely just don't know.
