Anglolovers

Cowboy said:
And it gets worse when you meet certain young people (no offence to any young British people on this board, if you are here you probably aren't one of them), sure every nation has it's share of chavs and no-hopers, but Britain has manage to spawn the most hopeless, ugly, permanently depressed, barfight-looking sweatpants wearing nitwits I have ever seen....real shame.
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The bane of the UK in my opinion. The worst part is that some of these people now have their own children which are 10x worse than themselves.

The picture I posted is of a small rural village, you'd think it'd be nice. Wrong, local people try to stay indoors, especially after dark due to the constant harassment of local youths. A couple of weeks ago they barricaded an elderly woman out of her house and she had to wait until they got bored and wandered off to get back in.

A sad state of affairs this country is in, and only going to get worse.

Also I think too many people are obsessed with London and the south, other cities further north offer very similar experiences for a fraction of the price.
 
KaJuN said:
1. Join the Air Force
2. Get stationed in England (like me, flying there today. Yay!)
3. ???
4. Profit!

Like a boss.
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I'd forgotten about you coming over here, I'll keep an eye out overhead.
 
If I could, I would move to some rinky dink coastal vilage in Cornwall.
 
Noooooooooooooooooooo! :( Next year, definitely!


Cobol74 said:
Hey KaJuN welcome, you will probably be over in East Anglia - decent beer in that neck of the woods so you start with a big +.

If you can get to see a Premiership football (Soccer) match, that will open your eyes wide! It is a bit pricey but good fun. Remember we drive on the same side of the road as the Japanese. Fuel is horrendosly expensive, get it on base if at all possible. Try to get to a good Curry house, a family run Italian Restrauant, a Chinese and better still a Thai restrauant; if at all possible.

You will spot loads of US type fast food but in my opinion our versions are not as good as the same ones in the US for some strange reason.

Will you get to go to an RAF base when you are here? The best place is the empire flying school at Boscomb Down - I think that they still regularly spin a Hawker Hunter (on purpose) to teach recovery techniques.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Test_Pilots'_School

Anyway have fun.
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Thank you very much for the welcome and the tips! I'll be in Suffolk and from what co-workers said about the area good beers are plentiful. Attending a football match is something I've been looking forward to ever since I found out I was going to England. I can't wait to experience that atmosphere! Thanks a lot for the food suggestions too. Okinawa had amazing food everywhere I went and it would be very disappointing to get to another country and be met with mediocre meals. I'm very, very tempted by that pilot school now.

I can't wait to get there. :thumbsup:
 
KaJuN said:
Noooooooooooooooooooo! :( Next year, definitely!


Thank you very much for the welcome and the tips! I'll be in Suffolk and from what co-workers said about the area good beers are plentiful. Attending a football match is something I've been looking forward to ever since I found out I was going to England. I can't wait to experience that atmosphere! Thanks a lot for the food suggestions too. Okinawa had amazing food everywhere I went and it would be very disappointing to get to another country and be met with mediocre meals. I'm very, very tempted by that pilot school now.

I can't wait to get there. :thumbsup:
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And a pre- :welcome: from me too!

On the football team, Norwich City FC are based in Norfolk, the next county north of where you will be.

They are newly promoted to the EPL, are the only EPL team in all of East Anglia and will be having matches against Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea etc over the comming year, with their first home game on saturday 20th August, against Stoke City.

Have a good flight.

:)

EDIT: On pronunciation of Norwich, it is pronounced as Nor'ich, the "w" is silent. You don't want to sound like a foreigner, do you? :lol:
 
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Cobol74 said:
You will spot loads of US type fast food but in my opinion our versions are not as good as the same ones in the US for some strange reason.
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its because we banned all the amazing transfats, high fructose corn syrups and artificial additives that make US food taste so awesome
 
captain_70s said:
Also I think too many people are obsessed with London and the south, other cities further north offer very similar experiences for a fraction of the price.
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This.

Roads well maintained? Ha! Yeah right. The ones that aren't as pot-holled as hell have speed cameras everywhere. One of the big problems of somewhere like the Peak District is that it is obviously a tourist hot spot, so roads are always busy, and the real good driving loads like Cat and Fiddle etc have been ruined now with speed cameras, taking the fun away.
 
captain_70s said:
Haha, my old house was built in the late 1700s on top of a medieval graveyard. When digging the back garden for vegetables and such it wasn't unusual to find human bones. My favourite was the jaw bone, complete with teeth.
As somebody with a very keen interest and history and archaeology this excited me quite a lot, although might be a bit too much history for some people. :lol:

Here is a picture of the street, the top is from Google Streetview and is a year old, the bottom is from the 1960s. The place has barely changed since the 1700s, let alone a mere 50 years ago!
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Yup, things sure went downhill. Loads of spare parking and the only cars visible are an Anglia, a Mini, an Escort MkI and a Morris Minor Traveller. Primitive and unreliable pieces of shit to be sure but at least they had style and character.

And KaJun, you can travel to Norwich to watch them get spanked royally in the EPL or travel less far to Ipswich Town to watch a team in a lower league who at least have a chance of being entertaining.
 
Better than supporting the Mancs.

Yeah, I said it. And I will again. Actually KaJuN, you are free to hate Tottenham and their supporters as much as humanly possible. PLEASE.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Football. :p
 
Jay, remind me how many trophies the Werther's-toting French kiddy-fiddler has brought back to North London in the last 6 years? I seem to recall it's a round number.

:p

/me sings "With a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile, Arsene Wenger is a paedophile. There's only oooooone Arsene Wenger, oooooone Arsene Wenger...."

:D
 
Jay said:
Better than supporting the Mancs.

Yeah, I said it. And I will again. Actually KaJuN, you are free to hate Tottenham and their supporters as much as humanly possible. PLEASE.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Football. :p
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Jay, didn't know you were a Gunners fan. :cool:

MWF said:
Jay, remind me how many trophies the Werther's-toting French [Redacted] has brought back to North London in the last 6 years? I seem to recall it's a round number.

:p

/me sings "With a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile, Arsene Wenger is a [Redacted for legal resons] There's only oooooone Arsene Wenger, oooooone Arsene Wenger...."

:D
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Oh, I forgot you are are a Man U fan. :p

As a neutral in all this fan partisanship :angel:, KaJuN should find his own team. I just suggested that the Canaries were his closest and the newest EPL team to where he is stationed.

The Football Thread is thataway ===>

Now, back to the Anglophiles Thread.

:)
 
argatoga said:
The following is rant against the British government, be warned:

I love British TV and film, and enjoy their cars, but fuck if I'd ever live there. They are one step ahead of the US in over reaching government, and I disdain class divided society. Yes we have classes in the U.S., but here it is not only possible to move up the scale it is encouraged. Having an inbred "gift from God" royal family given special privileges is a horrid notion that has been outdated since Tarquin Superbus was booted out of Rome.

I can go and start a longer rant of the advantages of Republicanism (no not the dipshit American party), but that may move us a bit too far off topic.

//ducks
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This. This, this, this.

I'd pay the license fee if I could have their TV, though, but I'd rather visit--not stay.
 
Have the British yet to figure out how mix hot and cold water while washing your hands at a sink?
 
IVIaster said:
Have the British yet to figure out how mix hot and cold water while washing your hands at a sink?
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No, we just use one or the other. stand there quietly complaining. write a strongly worded letter and then get in a queue at the royal mail to have it posted.
 
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