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Juvieus Kaine wrote: the people aren't exactly pleasent (don't lie to yourself), ?

Yeah, Go Pikies!

Mannahnin wrote:When we visited the British Museum we took my picture next to the Sutton Hoo excavation treasures (yay, vikings!),

Don't you mean 'Yay, Anglo-Saxons?' Anyhow, I loved that exhibition. In fact, I love the British Museum. It's one of my favourite places in the world. It's just full of amazing stuff - 6000 year old Chinese jade pieces, ancient Babylonian tablets, Roman stuff, native American artefacts, not to mention the Egyptians... the list is almost endless. I think my favourite display was the Ashurbanipal exhibit.

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

Juvieus Kaine wrote: the people aren't exactly pleasent (don't lie to yourself), ?

Yeah, Go Pikies!

Don't you mean the chavs? They're enought to scare anyone away... or at least cause a nuisance

Juvieus Kaine wrote:

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

Juvieus Kaine wrote: the people aren't exactly pleasent (don't lie to yourself), ?

Yeah, Go Pikies!

Don't you mean the chavs? They're enought to scare anyone away... or at least cause a nuisance

Meh, Chavs, Pikies, the same thing, they both nick stuff

Albatross wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:When we visited the British Museum we took my picture next to the Sutton Hoo excavation treasures (yay, vikings!),

Don't you mean 'Yay, Anglo-Saxons?'

I was dumbing it down, yes. If you haven't checked them out already, I recommend Bernard Cornwell's Saxon books for fun historical fiction stories. I actually have no relation to the anglo-saxons, being partially of Swedish descent. But in part thanks to that, and to my having a stereotypical viking name (common among the Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes), I've always liked that stuff, and it was fun to get my picture taken with viking-esque stuff, even if said stuff was actually from a separate but related culture.

Albatross wrote:Anyhow, I loved that exhibition. In fact, I love the British Museum. It's one of my favourite places in the world. It's just full of amazing stuff - 6000 year old Chinese jade pieces, ancient Babylonian tablets, Roman stuff, native American artefacts, not to mention the Egyptians... the list is almost endless. I think my favourite display was the Ashurbanipal exhibit.

It's a jewel. We only spent half a day in it, and talked about how we could make a whole trip to London again JUST spending it at the British Museum.

Although on a substantially lesser scale, we also enjoyed the natural history museum in Vienna a lot. That's the only other such museum we've been to in Europe (otherwise just art museums). I love going though exhibits which themselves are extremely old. The peek into how previous generations looked at antiquities is also awesome.

Like all thing French when compared to all things English, the Louvre is better.

micahaphone wrote:Who gives a flying feth about britain?

The only case I've seen of it is vapid people being obsessed with the royal wedding. And a few teenagers who believe "when I graduate I'm going to school in the UK because everything is awesome over there everyone is smart I won't have to deal with these dumbasses anymore".

2 Things to say here:

1) The Royal Wedding was insane, but only because we brits got a day off school/work

2) Nah mate the USA is where it's at, that's where I'm heading in a few years time

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:
2) Nah mate the USA is where it's at, that's where I'm heading in a few years time

Say good-bye to universal healthcare, or you know you could move to Canada.

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

micahaphone wrote:Who gives a flying feth about britain?

The only case I've seen of it is vapid people being obsessed with the royal wedding. And a few teenagers who believe "when I graduate I'm going to school in the UK because everything is awesome over there everyone is smart I won't have to deal with these dumbasses anymore".

2 Things to say here:

1) The Royal Wedding was insane, but only because we brits got a day off school/work

2) Nah mate the USA is where it's at, that's where I'm heading in a few years time

Well, if I got a day off, I'd be happy too. But us Americans didn't. So why be excited about it?

So, you mean that you guys have the mirrored situation? That we are a country of smart people/a better place?


Well, this reinforces Thomas Hobbes, in my opinion.

We don't generally have that opinion of you, no offence...

Albatross wrote:We don't generally have that opinion of you, no offence...

None taken. We Americans will gladly admit that the other side of the debate (choose one) in our country are godless idiots who barely made it out of high school.


And I am correct in that Britain really isn't that different from the USA in terms of people/manners/intelligence/sophisticated-ness?

micahaphone wrote:

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

micahaphone wrote:Who gives a flying feth about britain?

The only case I've seen of it is vapid people being obsessed with the royal wedding. And a few teenagers who believe "when I graduate I'm going to school in the UK because everything is awesome over there everyone is smart I won't have to deal with these dumbasses anymore".

2 Things to say here:

1) The Royal Wedding was insane, but only because we brits got a day off school/work

2) Nah mate the USA is where it's at, that's where I'm heading in a few years time

Well, if I got a day off, I'd be happy too. But us Americans didn't. So why be excited about it?

So, you mean that you guys have the mirrored situation? That we are a country of smart people/a better place?


Well, this reinforces Thomas Hobbes, in my opinion.

We don't think your a country of smart people, we just think America is a good place to go to.

Come on Obama! Get that US NHS

What does the USA have that you don't?


Besides guns.

micahaphone wrote:What does the USA have that you don't?


Besides guns.

Annoying accents, but that's besides the point, well I think, especially Canada, has a more 'community spirit' than England, you celebrate Christmas and stuff proper over there!

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

micahaphone wrote:What does the USA have that you don't?


Besides guns.

Annoying accents, but that's besides the point, well I think, especially Canada, has a more 'community spirit' than England, you celebrate Christmas and stuff proper over there!

You mean you're all dour and don't have fun holidays?
I do suppose that you don't have thanksgiving...

micahaphone wrote:

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

micahaphone wrote:What does the USA have that you don't?


Besides guns.

Annoying accents, but that's besides the point, well I think, especially Canada, has a more 'community spirit' than England, you celebrate Christmas and stuff proper over there!

You mean you're all dour and don't have fun holidays?
I do suppose that you don't have thanksgiving...

You could say that, On halowee'en no one comes out any more, of course i'm too old for it but still not many kids go trick or treating any more!

That's somewhat of a problem, but I live in a town with a high elderly population. I actually saw some parents driving their kids door-to-door, for the houses they knew were supplying. I mean, I'm all in favor of the parental evac, carrying you away to better, fresh neighborhoods, but that's ridiculous.

micahaphone wrote:That's somewhat of a problem, but I live in a town with a high elderly population. I actually saw some parents driving their kids door-to-door, for the houses they knew were supplying. I mean, I'm all in favor of the parental evac, carrying you away to better, fresh neighborhoods, but that's ridiculous.

Now that is just a shocker

You say people want to go to England to go to school? I want to go to Uni in the USA

micahaphone wrote:What does the USA have that you don't?


Besides guns.

Good food.
Mexicans

You can tell by GODZ replies he is just a young pup.

Having lived in the US, I cant really see any glaring differences, you just like seeing the world when your a young lad.

In a nutshell, its the exact same. Our food is better than it was in 1980, and their pubs and breweries are better. Sadly it seems that everwhere is becoming the same as everywhere else in this global world we live in.

Same brands, same clothes, same food, same music, same cars, same culture.

It varies by state slightly, but basically in CA its sunnier, but has too much traffic, and aside from those two things it aint that different from Yorkshire.

But we have more pubs per square mile, and that's more important to me than weather, so we moved back over here.

Plus, you brought a Mexican back with you, so...

mattyrm wrote:You can tell by GODZ replies he is just a young pup.

Having lived in the US, I cant really see any glaring differences, you just like seeing the world when your a young lad.

In a nutshell, its the exact same. Our food is better than it was in 1980, and their pubs and breweries are better. Sadly it seems that everwhere is becoming the same as everywhere else in this global world we live in.

Same brands, same clothes, same food, same music, same cars, same culture.

It varies by state slightly, but basically in CA its sunnier, but has too much traffic, and aside from those two things it aint that different from Yorkshire.

But we have more pubs per square mile, and that's more important to me than weather, so we moved back over here.

I would like to say that the weather in the US is much better, but this month and April, it's been pretty damn fine here in the UK

In my short but ''colourfull'' existance on this planet i have figered out that nomatter were you go holiday/other the only thing that really changes is the language, life is pritty much the same everwere elce. All ways good to come home to see Yorkshire thou, seeing thous green hills allways makes me smile.

Speaking for myself, my ancestry is Scotch-Irish on my dads side and French on my moms side. I am also a history buff. I would love to go to Britain to see the rich history that we don't have in the USA. I want to see castles and elves. Same goes for France or Italy.

GG

Eddie Izzard wrote: Now I'm from Europe, where all the history is made...

Ketara wrote:

Eddie Izzard wrote: Now I'm from Europe, where all the history is made...

“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!"”

SilverMK2 wrote:

Ketara wrote:

Eddie Izzard wrote: Now I'm from Europe, where all the history is made...

“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!"”

Kinda weird how new some cities are...

Juvieus Kaine wrote:As a fellow Brit I am endlessly confounded when I talk to foreign people (no offences), particularly Americans, who say they'd love to come swing by for a week or two and enjoy what we have to offer.

...Urm hang on a minute Why here? I've been to Florida twice (probably the "nice side") and it was gorgeous - lovely weather, great food, decent scenery, awesome holiday. My dad's been about and he said it's quite nice in other states. So what makes Britain any better? Food is not as great, the people aren't exactly pleasent (don't lie to yourself), it's rather dreary and wet and there's not alot to do overall besides sight-seeing. You could easily do that in other countries - Russia, Japan, China, heck most countries but not here

So c'mon Internetz, why would you want to come visit Britain?

Not the food, not the women, and the trip is usually incredibly expensive due to the pound v dollar, but we are still obscessed with royalty. When I visited back in 04, I know I went right to Buckingham and starred at the guards and their funny hats like an idiot. Piccadilly Circus was alot of fun, tons of little pubs and the people were really nice. I had my first true culture shock there. I was sitting at a table alone in a pub for lunch while reading the paper and some brochures. By the time I was done eating there were 6 complete strangers sitting with me talking and drinking, it was awesome. You would never see that at a table in the US.

I spent most of my time in London. I would like to see a lot more of the country side, such as going on a tour of some old Lancaster and York sites.

Once upon a time, I nearly got run over by an American tourist driving on the wrong side! Do me a favour and stick to visiting the Alamo instead.

I have no idea why an American would even want to drive in the UK/EU. You guys have great public transportation. I visited 15 countries in 3 months by foot, bus, train, boat.