What's Britian like?

[mrhappyface]

I rarely venture off the island of Oahu, so i haven't really seen a lot of white people, and I've never seen a British person. I've seen quite a few Australian tourists and talked to them, but i've never had the chance to meet a British person other than one soldier with which i had a barely sustained conversation with. Since Escapist is an international forum, i wanted to come here to ask what Britian is like. Can you guys tell me? Do you guys have some kind of unique dialect like Pidgin?

 

[Cherry Cola]

England has the best candy ever.

I once ate candy, that tasted exactly like cake.

Marvelous!

 

[Cherry Cola]

I went to southern England and found it excruciatingly boring.

I went to Scotland and Newcastle, and it was brilliant!

I'm Irish by the way.

Because of the Scottish cyclops?

 

[El Poncho]

You will find a different accent every 10miles. We are very good at laughing at ourselves but the weather is a bit crap, it's not freezing it's not blazing hot it's in the middle.

Because of the Scottish cyclops?

No, we are just awesome.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

people talking about some sort of queen and tea

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

 

[Trivun]

Cold wet weather, lots of rain and (recently) snow. Crap government, inner cities full of chavs (yobs who carry knives and wear Burberry and tracksuits). Not much else to say, really.

Oh, and I agree with Furburt, the south is pretty dire. I'm from the middle of the country (the West Midlands) and couldn't wait to leave. I now spend nine months of every year at university in Leeds, up north, which is much better. I only go back home for Christmas, Easter and summer...

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

South is ok, north is a scumhole. Sorry northeners.

 

[El Poncho]

people talking about some sort of queen and tea

Lies and trickery! We talk about the weather, it's how we start our conversations since our weather changes every 15minutes.

 

[DazZ.]

It's cold and wet, so it's like most penguins.

 

[Iron Mal]

I'm Irish by the way.

Hey! So am I!

England is much of a muchness really, it's not incredibly exciting or incredibly boring (London is an alright place to spend the day but I wouldn't want to live there).

Chavs are a major problem though (along with 'the lads' and football hooligans).

 

[Trivun]

South is ok, north is a scumhole. Sorry northeners.

Actually, that's the complete opposite. I've lived in the south, in the Midlands (for most of my life), and now live up north (Leeds), and I have to say that a lot of people down south who I met are pretty boring and that it's pretty bad down there. The only way it's better is that there are better paying jobs there, a lot of southerners (particularly the South East) are quite rich. Up north, people are much friendlier and happier and I really feel at home here. I prefer the north much more.

 

[DannyBoy451]

Essentially it's a secular, pluralist paradise.

No seriously, I love this country.

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Implying that this country was better in the past?

 

[Batfred]

Wet and cold. In summer it is damp and nearly warm or hot with a hose pipe ban even though it rained for the last 8 months.
We do not speak in a dialect like Pidgin, but becuase we invented English (what with being English and all) there are a lot of accents and local turns of phrase in a relatively small country.

If you have seen Brtish humour, you know that we are self depricating and will insult our own country as soon as anyone elses (although we will always insult the French and Germans first). To that end, we may say we hate it here, but your average Brit is VERY patriotic although it won't really be for Britain except for at Olympics time. I don't even call myself British, I am English and any Scot or Welshman will also probably say that they are not British.

Anyway, I digress. The weather sucks, we like to queue (or so foreigners think), we whinge a lot mostly about the government being soft and we have an immigration problem.

I love it here and would never call anywhere else home.

 

[Pariah87]

Bill Bailey has it right generally.

"57% of our days are overcast so as a nation we are infused with a whistful melancholy prone to binge drinking, mild eccentricity and casual violence"

Oh and remember, breakfast is served 7 till 9, not a minute later! Or you will be cast out!

 

[mrhappyface]

You will find a different accent every 10miles. We are very good at laughing at ourselves but the weather is a bit crap, it's not freezing it's not blazing hot it's in the middle.

Because of the Scottish cyclops?

No, we are just awesome.

Ha, everyone i know get their impression of Britian from reading Harry Potter and Redwall. So we have some pretty weird ideas of Britian, sorry.

 

[hem dazon 90]

Its shit like everywhere else right now


weather is nice though

 

[TimeLord]

I'm Scottish and it's great up here. Snow is goood

 

[President Moocow]

I rarely venture off the island of Oahu, so i haven't really seen a lot of white people, and I've never seen a British person. I've seen quite a few Australian tourists and talked to them, but i've never had the chance to meet a British person other than one soldier with which i had a barely sustained conversation with. Since Escapist is an international forum, i wanted to come here to ask what Britian is like. Can you guys tell me? Do you guys have some kind of unique dialect like Pidgin?

Lots of rain, lots of parties (better than Americans), less fat people than America, less attractive people compared to the rest of Europe, good general sense of humor, unhealthy but fucking delicious food and more promiscuous sex. So it's awesome, except for the shitty weather.