British Speakers corner

[FAST6191]

@ca_michelbach it is actually Normal for Norfolk* and usage is not limited to the medical professions (they do have some wonderful acronyms/initialisms/euphemisms though- if people understood half of what was being said in hospitals......).

Back on topic I am counting down the days until I leave (joining the exodus of trained types), it seems there is nothing left for me here but my escape partners failed the "have nothing you can not leave in 30 seconds flat" requirement for this line of work so I am sitting around pulling things apart for people until they get sorted. Last one out lights off etc.

*in the interests of full disclosure I was squirted out/assembled in Suffolk so apparently the Norfolk folk and I are enemies or something. It certainly made an impact on the tone of the conversation with the taxi drivers when I accidentally disclosed such things the other month on the way to a job interview although I suppose half of that might have been I have no clue about football (not even enough to fake it).

@xcalibur that is when you smash your elbow into their leader's eye* and the rest tremble in fear or better yet "if i ever see you [around here again]" the reply is "what is wrong with right now".

*can get kind of difficult explaining how you just sent a 13 year old to the hospital but it can be done.

 

[Retal]

Has anyone found a part of England that isn't shit? I'm guessing it would be somewhere southern. Like coastal southern.

 

[FAST6191]

@Retal I find you can generally have a good time in most parts but try staying for any length of time and the experience sours very quickly.

As you asked my opinion having been through most of it for whatever reason
Starting at south Wales and working anticlockwise you are mainly tourist trap land (moors and national parks are OK but I would sooner find myself in the Lake district or the Peak district or better yet Scotland) which means aside from local festivals (not knocking them in the slightest; many are awesome) everything is shut for half the year or it is farming (I do find Bristol somewhat bearable though for reasons I can not quite nail down).
You then have a few cities dominated by ports* (or formerly dominated by ports which in many ways is even worse as there is usually now nothing going on). If you are thinking perhaps a bit inland there is nothing but farmland.
By the time you get to Portsmouth (or maybe a bit after) you have hit London/other cities commuter band with all that it brings (mainly expensive houses and little going on), this couples with tourist trap/port until you are some way into Kent which is quite nice if you avoid Dover (not hard as the place is tiny) but this rapidly returns to old seaside towns and commuter band although parts of northern Kent and Essex are not bad if retirement is your thing, rinse and repeat old seaside towns and ports right up the east coast but with the north sea providing a drop in temperature compared to Cornwall and the channel islands. Aside from commuting you had better enjoy selling junk/insurance to people or public/health/military service if working is your thing as all manufacturing/industry has shifted to villages if it exists at all.

Come to think of it with the possible exception of some tourist stuff and more farming that description it probably true for the north as well.

*I have been to ports all over the world (well north half of it) and unless there is something else going on or they are and always have been small they are generally not nice places.

 

[emigre]

We really are a pile of moaning bastards.

I quite like it really.

 

[ca_michelbach]

At least we're not morons!
When the republicans in America were campaining against an american NHS, one example they gave of how it wouldn't work was Steven Hawking. They claimed that if he was English he'd be dead due to the NHS...they forgot to mention that he IS english and that he says he owes his life to the NHS

 

[Retal]

I quite like it really.

It? What is it?

 

[alidsl]

The fact we moan all the time

but it's fun

 

[emigre]

The cynicism. The ability to moan. And that other stuff.

 

[alidsl]

but it also means we make better trolls and flamers

 

[emigre]

Rationality and logic are our WMD.

 

[alidsl]

and a hatred for gingers

 

[emigre]

I went ti school with someone with ginger hair. When he left he dyed his hair and reinvented himself in a way Madonna would be proud of. Then he became cool and stopped talking to me. haha

 

[vergilite]

lol iv been reading though this thread

, i love being British it is great except for chavs i live in liverpool so there are always some around

but i think cornwall is the best of england it is sunny, the beachs are clean the water is very clean and i love spending weekends down there

 

[luke_c]

Britain sucks.
The most honest quote i'v ever seen.

QUOTE(alidsl @ Sep 22 2009, 04:58 PM) and a hatred for gingers

My best friend is Ginger FYI

 

[Sinkhead]

Has anyone found a part of England that isn't shit? I'm guessing it would be somewhere southern. Like coastal southern.

My part isn't so shit. West Yorkshire's where it's at. Manchester is great too, it's only ~20 mins on the train and I go there a lot. There's the odd bad apple, but on the whole it seems like a nice place to live. Just avoid Todmorden if you ever end up round these parts (just heard that one of my friends who lives there was mugged on the way home from school

).

 

[ca_michelbach]

There's one good thing about England...CRICKET!

 

[Hadrian]

At least we're not morons!
When the republicans in America were campaining against an american NHS, one example they gave of how it wouldn't work was Steven Hawking. They claimed that if he was English he'd be dead due to the NHS...they forgot to mention that he IS english and that he says he owes his life to the NHS

I watch Mock The Week too.

Another great thing about being British...smart arse comments.

 

[luke_c]

And Football!

 

[emigre]

England seem unable to take penalties.

Scotland and NI seem to be so close and yet so far from qualifying whilst Wales last qualified for a tournament when Nye Bevan was alive.

I'm from Swansea as well. I'm never going to see Wales at a mjor tournament. Thank fuck for Rugby.

 

[dice]

I've added a poll (we can change it every once in a while)