question about england???

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It's when somebody is physically forced to go somewhere against their will, mostly with their arms forced up their back, but sometimes so that they are dangling upside down.

I'm terrible on the phone with strangers.. The more I plan what I want to say, or make a mental list of things to talk about, the more flustered I get! I should be fine if Americans truly are as outgoing as they appear

 

Before anyone asks:



In England, you don't need a passport to go to Wales, Scotland, Ireland or Northern Island or anywhere internally as per normal.

In England, we are not as the Americans portray us as, ie, prance around like something out of Merry Poppins. Yes we drink tea but we also have nescafe, columbian, and some other brands of coffee.

Unfortunately we don't have Thanksgiving. I think Christmas is bad enough.
Our currency is Stirling. Not Pound as in Egypt.
We have pounds and pence.

We also have two pound coins. Two different metals. One silver and one gold or bronze.
There are 1oo pennies to the pound and a few years back we could get two dollars to the pound if we exchanged our Stirling into US Dollars.
We have a Prime Minister,not a President. Most of the time, our prime minister is having various appearances in Parliament and I have to say this, there is no point going to Number ten Downing Street as you will not see him sitting outside with a beer. You will find that there are only policemen with semi automatic machine guns that could put a bullet through a lump of steal.

The London Eye is over rated and over priced. It will cost you nearly forty quid just to take a family on the rotating wheel.For half an hour.
Piccadilly circus is also over rated. It is simply a busy road junction with flashing billboards. Although Trocadero is a good place to go shopping and for having fun on amusements or bowling or the cinema. Not far is Soho.

Soho:

Wardour Street is like the Berlin wall that devides the gays from the straights.
Left, facing north toward BT tower, is the straight section and right, facing north toward BT Tower is the Gay section. After ten pm, things get lively both sides of Wardour street.

Kensington has French community. Nearly everyone speaks french and the kids,(the girls in particular) where lovely petite french berets with their scarfs wrapped around their necks.


Need another question about England, just holla.

Additional: We have England football team.

Additional Additional: The Hockey stadium in Crossharbour got blown up. This was the place, the only place you could see the London Knights. This was their home. Now I don't know where they have gone

 

oh yeah, i forgot, people in england don't vote and elect their government but its decided who will be the government by little green elves

 

I wasn't old enough to vote at the last elections. Also, juust because we voted them into power doesn't mean they're going to do what we want, it just means we think they are more likely to than the other parties.

I would have voted Labour at the last election, had I been able to vote. However, I strongly oppose the Iraq war, so yes, we don't back you up in stupid dead end wars, our government does.

 

I think "frog-marched" in the States would be the equivalent of a police arrest. LOL (just minus the guns involved).

Are you visiting the US or just calling over? And I'd say most Americans are outgoing and pretty kind (despite how the dickhead in office makes us look), however this would depend on where you are going in the States as well. For instance, in Texas (which I've never been to and never want to go to) there are still places where if your skin is even tanned too dark they would still want to lynch you. But, for the most part, the greater majority of Americans don't feel that way - at least last time i checked it was still the majority.

I came from a city rated the most friendly place in NY. Everywhere you go, people would be nice, smile, and hold doors open for you. But, well, the people that did those surveys also didn't spend time deep in the heart of the ghetto either. But even there, the biggest problem you had to worry about would be a cop pulling you over for being white in the wrong area.

 

hey, it's the same in the States. Just cause you vote for someone doesn't mean you like everything they do. But before you want to hang me by my toenails (and justifiably so) ... I NEVER VOTED FOR BUSH!!!! Personally I can't stand the bastard and hope everyday they impeach him.

And also don't take every comment some kid makes about English people supporting stupid wars to be the same thought concept that all Americans have. Cos, well, it's pretty obvious that the people of England NEVER agreed with the war. It's just Blair and his cronies bending over for the American government.

 

You must be either, a) a child, b) extremely confused, or c) extremely fucking thick.

 

When I was young (in the 1960s) I was reading a lot of mathematics books, and I noticed that English numbers were different from American numbers: e.g. an American Billion is 1,000,000,000 (9 zeros) while an English Billion was 1,000,000,000,000 (12 zeros). The English system seemed to make more sense, as the number of zeros was simply 6 times the latin root of the number name (6 x 3 for Trillion, 6 x 4 for Quatrillion, etc.), whereas to figure the numder of zeros in the American system one has to multiply by three and then add an additional three.

I have been told that England and America now use the same numbering system. Does anybody here from the U.K. remember if there has been a changeover to the American system since the 1960s, when it occurred, and how it was accomplished without mass confusion?

 

Zajko, I have no clue about that honestly myself ... but as a Yank living here, I find it a bit wierd that frequently you'll see money amounts listed with a , to seperate the pounds from the pence ... which is obviously different to the . that is used in America to separate dollars and cents.

So (to clarify) you'd write $59.99 (for 59 dollars 99 cents) but £59,99 (for 59 pounds 99 pence) ... at least, that is what it seems to be. I still use the . instead of the , most of the time though, cause that is what is natural for my brain to do.

 

A 70-year-old former British soldier who fought guerillas in Aden and Triad gangs in Hong Kong showed four muggers how it doesn't pay to mess with the SAS.

Douglas O'Dell is past retirement age but the moves he learned as a volunteer in Britain's toughest regiment half-a-century ago stood him in good stead when he was ambushed near his home in Bielefeld, Germany, by four local toughs.

The former Provost Sergeant put paid to the danger on the street like he once took out bandits in hotspots across the globe.

THWACK! The first mistake came when one of the teenagers grabbed him around the throat and said in German: "Give my your money, grandad, if you don't want to get hurt."

"Bad move," said Douglas. "The only part he got right was grandad. If you're gonna grab someone from behind take their arms and pin them to their waist.

"This joker, I was able to grab his elbow, crouch down and throw him over my shoulder. He landed on his back on a fence and squealed like a stuck pig."

CRASH! As one went down another moved in and Douglas thought he saw him reaching for a knife. The Birmingham-born divorcee, who has a daughter and three grandchildren, said: "I had the measure of him but I slipped on some wet leaves as he came for me and bashed my face badly on the concrete.

"I saw his boot coming towards my face and I thought: 'No you don't, sunshine.' I grabbed his leg and twisted it until he too was screaming out in agony.

"Then I got to my feet and kicked him in the chest."

With two down the two remaining would-be muggers had enough. One peeled his groaning pal from the fence, the other picked up his crippled accomplice from the pavement.

"The last I saw of them they were limping down the pavement like a WW1 trench raiding party who got clobbered," said Douglas.

Douglas, who served nearly nine years with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment before leaving the army in the late 1950s, learned his combat moves when he was accepted for SAS training.

He completed the course and was to join the famous regiment when he contracted malaria and had to leave the army.

"I was upset at the time but I made the best of it. It's funny, but I never thought I would need to know that stuff again, the unarmed combat, but it came back just when I needed it."

The youths ambushed him just 60 feet from the flat he lives in in the British Army garrison town he has called home since 1961.

He went on: "The police only became involved because I went to the hospital with my face. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. They didn't get anything – except a bloody good hiding.

"They were German, I think east Germans, from their accent. There have been a lot of break-ins in my road.

"I just didn’t think this would happen to me. I was only returning from a pal's place after drinking a few beers."

Douglas, who spent three years as a policeman in Birmingham before returning to Germany to live after his marriage ended, shares his flat with a mongrel dog called Schnuffi.

He still works, as a delivery driver, "because my pension isn't very good."

Police in Bielefeld are still looking for his attackers.

But a spokesman said: "He had everything under control. These guys picked the wrong guy on the wrong night.

 

England = 10 Germany = 0

 

i would say the childish extremely confused thick ones are those who accept their fate of a government not being responsive to evolving realities

 

who does your government choose to fight and to die in their wars?

 

Wow...You are a really stupid ****!
You're blaming the British public for going to war with Iraq?! That's a direct insult to every British person in this forum. We did not choose to start a war, but it is our right, if we choose to, to fight in the war. If you were to blame the British public for their government going to war, that would also make the whole of the U.S a right bunch of cunts aswell, but we're better than that to call a country cunts for going to war!

 

I've never seen a comma used to seperate pounds from pence.

 

We enjoyed the QUEEN movie with Helen Merin.


My god, the guy playing Tony Blair looked just like him. Beautiful shots of Balmoral and the Scotish highlands.

Is Princess Diana dead 9 years, how time flies.

 

yes, i know all that, its not the british publics fault at all since they have nothing to do with the government that represents them since that government is put in place by little green elves

just curious, why is it an insult to say people are responsible for the government that represents them? if the people don't take the responsibility, whose responsibility is it then?

 

Yes, I'm sure that the public of Nazi Germany is to blame for the Holocaust, and even the Jews were somewhat to blame for it.

 

Have not seen the Queen movie but am sure it is splendid.

Our Princess and I say Our, because I was born in Wales, was sadly lost in a tragic accident. I remember it like it was yesterday. In Hanwell sleeping on the floor on army reject mattress due to having just moved. Somebody rang the person I was staying with and told the sad news. The tv went on and of course everything was Diana. Even tony blair's speech was very well done. As Elton John played Candle in the wind with tears in his eyes, he kept it together.

Yep, nearly ten years. I hope they build a monument.

 

yes, the german public was manipulated by the nazis' rhetoric and promises

the truth is the world is our responsibility and we are all empowered to enable the world to evolve