09-05-2008, 11:21
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England is 'irritating'
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09-05-2008, 11:32
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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"overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and celebrity-obsessed TV addicts"
"insular, self-important and irritating".
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Sounds about right |
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09-05-2008, 11:37
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Sounds about right
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Well, they've got me on the overweight, alco-swilling (beer though, not pop  ) and sex-obsessed, but they can bog off with the rest of it.
Mind you, I am part-Irish 
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09-05-2008, 13:10
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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09-05-2008, 13:30
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Re: England is 'irritating'
Now where can I find a link about the Welsh boy racers of Blackwood?
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09-05-2008, 13:36
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Originally Posted by Nugget
Well, they've got me on the overweight, alco-swilling (beer though, not pop ) and sex-obsessed, |
you forgot irritating |
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09-05-2008, 13:40
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Now where can I find a link about the Welsh boy racers of Blackwood? |
Come on, it's not my fault this was printed by The Rough Guide!
And seriously, Blackwood has enough problems to worry about instead of boy racers. I'm currently staying in Barry (oo-er) and they're everywhere.. |
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09-05-2008, 13:45
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Re: England is 'irritating'
On the whole its not a bad portrait of modern England, and fairly accurate too.
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09-05-2008, 14:03
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Re: England is 'irritating'
A spokesman for the company said he believed would-be visitors would recognise that the comments were "tongue-in-cheek".
Bit like when you were flogging books for countries no one in your company had been to I suppose 
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09-05-2008, 14:19
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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On the whole its not a bad portrait of modern England, and fairly accurate too.
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Not where I live and not with the sort of folk I associate with. 
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09-05-2008, 14:35
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Not where I live and not with the sort of folk I associate with. |
Agreed.
And I disagree with this too:
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"The English have become obedient consumers rather than active citizens, with brand loyalty the nearest thing to religious/spiritual belief."
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That's way too much of a generalisation for my liking.
Twaddle.
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Last edited by kryogenik : 09-05-2008 at 15:20.
Reason: typo
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09-05-2008, 15:18
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy
you forgot irritating |
Yeah, but I remembered about it when I saw your post
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09-05-2008, 16:16
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Re: England is 'irritating'
Or we could focus on the positive comments
"But in turn none is more "fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse", with such "an unparalleled range of historic buildings, monuments and landscapes". Oxford is "superb", Bath "unmissable" and Newcastle "vibrant", it adds"
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"it's also a country where individuality and creativity flourish, fuelling a thriving pop culture and producing one of the most dynamic fashion, music and arts scenes to be found anywhere"
I'm more of a "glass half full" kind of person, myself
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09-05-2008, 16:18
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Re: England is 'irritating'
Well some parts of the UK are like they say in the book just none of them where any CF member lives .
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09-05-2008, 16:19
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Re: England is 'irritating'
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Or we could focus on the positive comments
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I can't help but focus on the negatives...
..I'm English.
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