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Fri Jan-21-05 11:07 PM
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Poll question: What do you hate about the UK? |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:08 PM
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1. Repression of the Irish. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:13 PM
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I should have included that.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:13 PM
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7. Or repression of the Scots/Irish...and anyone brown |
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Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 11:16 PM by HEyHEY
I should add..they're cool now
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:18 PM
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11. Well, we have sorted ourselves out over the past 20 years. |
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And you must remember we on the left were fighting that oppression tooth and nail.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:18 PM
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:02 AM
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30. A very good one. As an Irish-American, I should have thought of this |
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I have visited both England and Ireland a few times, and that really did bother me. The last time was at a point of high IRA activity and I totally freaked out my mother by conversing with IRA supporters, on the streets of Dublin, and signing their petitions. But I felt that they had a valid point. I should have realized, back then, that I was really a liberal, at heart.:-)
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:06 AM
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32. They had it coming, for hiding their Lucky Charms. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:09 PM
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:09 PM
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Why do they get to eat with a tool in each fist?
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:10 PM
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:12 PM
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5. Dude..I love imperialism |
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Oh, shit I thought you meant the margarine
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:14 PM
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Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 11:16 PM by Taxloss
What imperialism has the UK engaged in lately?
ON EDIT: Gosh, this was a stupid thing for me to say. Hey ho.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:19 PM
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:), and you guys were at it before we were, so basically you made us imperialists. :P
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:20 PM
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15. Nah, McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt did that. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:23 PM
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so basically we got our start imperialising 107 years ago, and the brits have been doing it longer. My biggest problem with the British is their opression of native people, read people in africa, the middle east, india, and of course Ireland.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:23 PM
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18. So we did it first, so we're to blame for your sins? |
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Interesting take on moral philosophy there.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:25 PM
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sorry my sarcasm doesnt come off well.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:30 PM
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24. Sarcasm never comes across online. |
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I enjoy your posts, Kleeb, keep it up.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:27 PM
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23. I agree. Extremely stupid. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:14 PM
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8. I like the UK and I love the people. |
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I actually like rain as well.
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:18 PM
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10. I'm a freaking Anglophile! |
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I love the British Isles, however, I've heard the cuisine is pretty skank. I don't know if its true, but thats the stereotype...
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:18 PM
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13. ah, it ain't bad...same as here really |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:24 PM
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20. Rot. We have fine food. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:38 PM
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27. Sorry...I've never had chance to see for myself. Maybe someday... |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:22 PM
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16. Is it anything like New Zealand? |
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I know, I know, it's really the other way around, but at any rate; I hate separate cold and hot faucets in sinks! C'mon, you guys figured it out for showers and bathtubs why not sinks? I like to brush my teeth with cool water--amd wash my hands with warm. None of this scalding hot or teeth shattering cold business, not for me. ;)
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:24 PM
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19. Manipulate your own poll much? LOL |
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Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 11:24 PM by gtp1976
You knew how the majority of voters would vote after you typed your first choice. Why even bother with the other selections? :-)
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:26 PM
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22. And yet people have voted for them. Go figure. |
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Fri Jan-21-05 11:30 PM
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25. I know. I was only kidding. n/t |
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Sat Jan-22-05 12:55 AM
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If you insist on calling it that. Digestibles indeed.
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Sat Jan-22-05 01:00 AM
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29. Their food, except for breakfast |
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And when I was there in 1967 (my only such trip) they drank warm soft drinks. I don't know if that's still true, but it was like drinking spit.
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:15 AM
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34. I've noticed that when I've been abroad. |
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I had to specifically request ice with drinks. Before, I assumed that was a fairly universal preference.
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:22 AM
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38. Not ice, just refrigeration |
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On the Continent, soft drinks and juices were served chilled, although without ice. In England, soft drinks were served warm--I didn't try any juices.
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Sat Jan-22-05 06:27 AM
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35. Much has changed since 1967 |
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Food especially is far better (we no longer boil vegetables until they're a vague grey mush); warm drinks (you mean things like coke I guess) are only in dodgy places or where logistics prohibit - either the drink is chilled beforehand, or (and all of the time in pubs) there is ice.
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:03 AM
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31. Repression of the Irish |
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And bland apple pie. If you're going to serve apple pie at every restaurant and cafe, at LEAST make it palatable!
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Sat Jan-22-05 03:09 AM
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33. That inbred family of welfare bums who answer to "Your Highness" |
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Cutting the Monarchy from the Civil List isn't enough... they should all be forced at bayonette-point to work long unpaid hours in inner-city projects and pensioners' homes.
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Sat Jan-22-05 06:50 AM
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36. The food thing is a myth |
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which always astonishes me coming from people in a country which invented McDonalds, TV dinners and coca cola and spread junk food around the world. When I was in Florida I was astonished that the idea of a good meal was a plate piled high with processed, tasteless junk, as if the fact that you could have a LOT of it meant that you were eating well. The teeth thing is a myth, too. The royalty thing isn't as they are inded parasitic inbred wankers.
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Sat Jan-22-05 07:13 AM
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37. Absolutely love the UK, but could use one more category: |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-05 07:46 AM by WritersBlock
"American-style" ANYthing.
If something's gonna be called "American-style," it should at least BE that way. Take hotdog buns, for example. They're supposed to be sliced horizontally across the side, not vertically down the top. Otherwise, they break apart, the bread doesn't surround the hot dog, which squirts out across the room, and it all causes a real mess. I can see a diabolical sense of humour at work in this.
And donuts. The classic ones come with holes in the middle, not jam. Holes. With glaze. Not sugar. Glaze & holes.
We won't even touch on Tex-Mex except to say that Delia needs to research what constitutes an enchilada. I'm just saying.
It's probably like a lot of British pubs in the States; sometimes it just doesn't translate.
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Edited for poor vocabulary. Whether added or subtracted is debatable ;)
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:28 AM
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39. Spelling color with u |
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That always bugs me :argh:
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:35 AM
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40. That they drive on the wrong side of the road. Crossing those streets |
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are hazardous to one's health!
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:37 AM
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I love Britain :-)
Don't tell the fundies, though. Anglophile sounds suspicious in some quarters :D
Voted for BLAIR the LIAR, of course. My old hero--now reduced to...well, I don't have WORDS!!!
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:37 AM
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Sat Jan-22-05 10:56 AM
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43. The vistas of endless melancholy, the long littleness of life |
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and the eternal wait for a train.
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Sat Jan-22-05 11:03 AM
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44. The general "stuffiness" of the UK |
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It's a brilliant place to visit. I got the chance to spend a few days in London this summer and even got to tour Buckingham Palace on foot while the queen was on holiday in Scotland for six weeks.
London has so much history and neo-roman/classical architecture that I couldn't help feeling the historical impact of the whole colonial era. The english were very nice to me, even though I was a yank, but I couldn't help feel that there was this pervasive "stuffiness" about the whole country.
They love their pomp and circumstance, and I couldn't help feeling like there was a definite pecking order to their society.
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Sat Jan-22-05 11:17 AM
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45. I love the U.K. or at least the part I've seen |
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...which is London and parts of southern England. Everyone is soooo polite!
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