British DUers

[Oeditpus Rex]

My ex's older son is in the Air Force and will soon be redeployed to RAF Alcorn, a few miles WNW of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Anyone in that area?

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Kick

Because it's a long way to Tipperary.

[billyskank]

2. Not sure - I'm in Bedford

which probably isn't a million miles away.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. What county or shire or wicket or whatever you guys call it

is Bedford in?

[billyskank]

4. Bedfordshire! :)

Next to Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. I think Cambridge is not so far away.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. According to Google Maps

you're about 20 miles from RAF Alcorn.

I'll tell Brian to look you up.

[billyskank]

6. Finally I am useful for something!

:bounce:

[southlandshari]

7. Silly man!

You are a wonderful gift to this community is many, many ways!

I just wish I was around more often to remind you of that!

:hug:

[billyskank]

10. Hey!!!

:hug:

:loveya:

[southlandshari]

12. Can you believe it?

Here at the same time?

:loveya:

[billyskank]

14. But I'm at work

I'm not supposed to be doing this, so I've got to log off now. I love you Shari!

[MissHoneychurch]

8. You are more useful than only that

alone your presence brings a smile to my face and to a lot of others :D

[billyskank]

11. Aww thanks!

:blush: :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

18. yw

but I am telling the truth and nothing but the truth :loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Can you be useful as a sort of pub valet?

See, Brian's never had British beer. He's been in Rhein, Germany and he's in Kuwait now, and I'm afraid if he goes out drinking those warm, heavy British ales he'll get so pissed he can't find his way out of a roundabout.

Besides, I want him to drink in places with cool old names like the Knickers and Garters.

[billyskank]

13. He'll be okay

British ale is generally slightly less strong than German lagers. But I don't drink, so I am not suited to that task. Sorry!

Anyway, sometimes I have had trouble finding my way out of roundabouts! :blush:

[FBBulldog]

15. As an airman he should...

make sure he goes to The Eagle in Cambridge to see the signatures of WW2 airmen on the ceiling.

http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/0009/P9042329.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Oh, wow!

I'd love to see that myself!

Man... I wonder if Johnnie Johnson signed it?

I sent the link to his mom. Thanks, dude! :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. And maybe the Baron of Beef as well, opposite St. Johns

In the 80s, it was run by an ex-RAF sergeant major type (whetever the correct name for them in the RAF is) - though it's more likely he's retired by now. It was decorated with WW2 airplane photographs. Anyway, it has got a good name, even if he's not there any more.

The Eagle's other claim to fame is it's where the world was told about DNA - Crick and Watson went there to celebrate their discovery, and told the pub (before their paper was published) "we've found the secret of life".

I was at Cambridge in the 80s, but I'm not local any more, alas. But I might be able to comment of a few pubs, assuming they haven't changed too much.

[tjwmason]

16. I'm a bit too far south.

But it is a beautiful part of the country.

Have you tried posting this in the U.K. forum? People over there are charming and friendly.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Shari did it for him

he is too lazy to do it himself :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Seriously...

I didn't know there was a UK forum.

I don't get out of the Lounge much. :blush:

[MissHoneychurch]

21. here is the link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x14741


I am mostly in the Lounge myself but I do know there is more here than just the Lounge :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. I went there after Shari told me she posted it

They talk funny.

[MissHoneychurch]

25. now really???

how ybout you Americans talk funny ("chewing gum English") and the Brits talk the "real" Englsih

And if you heard a real Scot speak once, every other English is nothing against that! Aye?? I LOVE Scottish

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. I was kidding

I love Britspeak. I'm trying to get down a few more local dialects, like Yorkshire. That one's tough.

And I adore Scottish brogue and Irish lilt.

As if a Monty Python fanatic would really consider a British accent odd? :shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

27. oops sorry

forgot to add a smilie in my post to show you I was teasing you. My bad.


:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. I guessed you were teasing

But I wasn't gonna let you get away with it. :evilgrin:

[MissHoneychurch]

29. ...

what did I do that you are so mean to me???? :cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. You live too far away

You can't hit me from there. :evilgrin:

[MissHoneychurch]

33. I will keep all the times I am hitting you stored

and when we meet you will get them .... :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. My plan is working

:bounce:

[MissHoneychurch]

36. LOL

we won't get a chance to talk with all the :spank: in store ... :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Sure we will

I'll be saying "OW!... please, mistress... OW!... may I have... OW!... another... OW!"



And you'll be saying...?

[MissHoneychurch]

41. I am supposed to say something????

I will be busy with other things :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. Then you needn't say anything

But I hope you do.

Accents... :loveya:

Ich würde lieben, eine Deutsche Frau zu hören, unartig mit mir sprechen. :evilgrin:

[MissHoneychurch]

44. so so, würdest du das???

du kleiner unartiger Junge :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. Wenn das Sie, Herrin erfreuen würde

[tjwmason]

38. Some Scots accents are like pure velvet

others are like having a cheese-grater worked on one's ears.

[MissHoneychurch]

40. I just know how the Glaswegians spoke

and I loved it :)

[southlandshari]

22. LOL - it was a nice excuse for me to say hi to my friends there!

I have been so scarce on DU in general lately that I am way behind the times in all forums. That said, I really loved getting to know the regulars in the UK country forum last summer - although not under the best circumstances - as I moderated that forum through the London bombings and their aftermath. I grew to love those Brits (and others who just wandered in) so much I requested that forum my last moderator term.

;)

How are you, sweetie?

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

24. I am doing fine

I have the UK country forum on "My forums"-list but am barely there. Once in a while I check in.

Brits are loveable. I always feel good when I am in their country. I love their culture, their nature .... and London .... sigh

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. One of the best lines I ever heard about London

came, perhaps oddly enough, in the movie "Fail Safe." The commander of the SAC command center and his counterpart in Russia were passing time on the phone by talking about their WWII days, and the Russian guy goes, "The great cities are those you can walk in. I'd walk all the time in London. Everywhere you turn, there's history."

[MissHoneychurch]

32. and not only in London

no matter where you go in Britain, there is history. That whole frickin country is history pure.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. One place I'd really like to go is Scotland

Particularly Doune, Stirling, to see Doune Castle — aka Camelot, Castle Anthrax, Swamp Castle, the French castle...





...and Portnacroish, Strathclyde, to see Castle Stalker, aka Castle Arrrggh.

[MissHoneychurch]

39. ah yes the castles

and of course Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow



To tell the truth I prefer Glasgow to Edinburgh

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Sigh... I envy Europeans their history

It's all right there, or nearby.

Americans aren't aware of their history because it isn't appreciated; we pave over so much of it.

Eddie Izzard did this bit on "Dress to Kill":

"Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. Oh, yeah. You (Americans) tear your history down, man! 'Thirty years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!' I have seen it in stories. I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, 'We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!' And people were going, 'No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!'

"Well, we got tons of history lying about the place, big old castles, and they just get in the way. We're driving — 'Oh, a fucking castle! Have to drive around it...' Disney came over and built Euro Disney, and they built the Disney castle there, and it was, 'You better make it a bit bigger, they've actually got them here... And they're not made of plastic!'"

[Mr Creosote]

47. Yes I am

well not that far away anyway. I have lived just south of Cambridge since November.