I Love The UK *for Residents and Anglo-philes*

[Pirateking]

So then, who loves what?


I love Marmite. And students from Illinois who study at the campus in town love the fact that they can drink at 18!

Anybody else?

 

[Fran]

Holy triple-thread, Batman!

 

[hippie_hunter]

What's to love about the UK?

America is like 100x better

 

[black_dust]

I love multi posters

 

[Morg]

Next time Pirateking hit the button once

 

[sassycat]

I love the UK cuz they gave us Father Ted

 

[hippie_hunter]

I love the UK cuz they gave us Father Ted

Now that I think about it, I love the UK too!

They took Madonna in

 

[Danalys]

ughh it's a friday night and i'm not out for once. hence the UK sucks right now.

 

[Buttman]

I love the .UK, but I still have a burning desire to move over the pond. I honestly think I'd fit in better over there. Quite a few girls have hit on me because they thought I was American and liked my accent. Strangly enough I'm 25% Irish, 65% English, and 10% Canadian, not an once of Yank in me. I've lived in England my whole life, too.

I like the mix of countryside and city scape that you get over here. I live in a town, which is all single houses, with windy roads and lots of trees and grass, but a train journey away is Manchester (or as I like to call it, New York 2.) In America is certainly more "one or the other" whereas over here, you can always get both.

I prefer the weather here. It's sorta like the countryside/city point too. Over here, it gets a little warm, then it gets a little cold. Different enough for you to notice it, for you to get days at the beach, and a white Christmas, but you could probably get away with wearing a t-shirt outside now, whereas I know you couldn't do that in say.. New York. The weather is alot more extreme out there. It being really hot, and then really cold. We don't get tornedos either.

I love English tea, you just can't get it in America. You can get "tea" but it isn't "our" tea. (Aka = real tea. t: ) Infact, it seems you can't get it outside of the city either. I went to Nottingham (Actually stayed in Sherwood Forest - Robin Hood, etc) and the tea there was just.. bad, it wasn't normal.

I think America in general just has nicer people too. Me and my friends have been attacked twice in the last 4 months, for instance, both times being gangs trying to rob us.

I love America for being more accepting of comic-book fans. You think it's bad for you guys? I got ripped to hell by random passers-by for wearing a Batman t-shirt to see Batman Begins. I think it's because their an "American icon" the majority of English ignore them as lame and childish. I also love American TV and movies, x100 better than English tv. For every good English film, there's a 100 better American ones, fact.


I Love The Uk, And I Love The USA.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I love the .UK, but I still have a burning desire to move over the pond. I honestly think I'd fit in better over there. Quite a few girls have hit on me because they thought I was American and liked my accent. Strangly enough I'm 25% Irish, 65% English, and 10% Canadian, not an once of Yank in me. I've lived in England my whole life, too.

I like the mix of countryside and city scape that you get over here. I live in a town, which is all single houses, with windy roads and lots of trees and grass, but a train journey away is Manchester (or as I like to call it, New York 2.) In America is certainly more "one or the other" whereas over here, you can always get both.

I prefer the weather here. It's sorta like the countryside/city point too. Over here, it gets a little warm, then it gets a little cold. Different enough for you to notice it, for you to get days at the beach, and a white Christmas, but you could probably get away with wearing a t-shirt outside now, whereas I know you couldn't do that in say.. New York. The weather is alot more extreme out there. It being really hot, and then really cold. We don't get tornedos either.

I love English tea, you just can't get it in America. You can get "tea" but it isn't "our" tea. (Aka = real tea. t: ) Infact, it seems you can't get it outside of the city either. I went to Nottingham (Actually stayed in Sherwood Forest - Robin Hood, etc) and the tea there was just.. bad, it wasn't normal.

I think America in general just has nicer people too. Me and my friends have been attacked twice in the last 4 months, for instance, both times being gangs trying to rob us.

I love America for being more accepting of comic-book fans. You think it's bad for you guys? I got ripped to hell by random passers-by for wearing a Batman t-shirt to see Batman Begins. I think it's because their an "American icon" the majority of English ignore them as lame and childish. I also love American TV and movies, x100 better than English tv. For every good English film, there's a 100 better American ones, fact.


I Love The Uk, And I Love The USA.

Are you related to jonty by any chance?

 

[Buttman]

Are you related to jonty by any chance?

I don't know who that is.

 

[04nbod]

hmmm... i love the UK. i ve been here all my life so i don't know any different. i love the fact we have seasons not just sunshine all year round. i love how the population gets excited over something as hopeless as wimbledon and the world cup. i'd love to go to america but i'm english and always will be

 

[Cаrter]

I love the UK. I want to go back for a couple of months when I get out of school.

 

[sassycat]

I looooove how it's so moist and lush in UK especially Ireland :heart:

 

[Bastila]

I love the Uk for London and all the musicals we have lol.
And the sun lol.
And our food and our you know what i dont know what i like about my country lol.
Oh I like the way we talk. Our.........................comdy programes lol. We got some great actors/actresses as well.

 

[Kinedamo]

FORGET THE uk ITS ALL ABOUT IRELAND

 

[rdh007]

My user title should sufficiently explain my feelings toward that "green and pleasant land." I have never been, so I can't profess to be an expert, but I would love to be able to afford that trip some day. It is one of a handful of goals.

 

[Sugarculted]

Actually, I've grown fonder of the UK since I was born here. Looking out the window, it's raining YET again..but that's what makes it the UK

 

[black_dust]

aint raining here, you must live in a poor part of the uk

 

[Hollow Wood Director]

I love the UK for

My Mum she keeps me grounded.

HP Brown Sauce, not bloody Steak Sauce as some Americans mistake it for.They taste totally different!

Bread with less sugar and salt content, jeez you should try the bread in Florida here, yuk!

Maltesers their American counterpart Poppers taste like sugary *****.

Smarties for the cardboard tube and the little plastic cap with a letter or a picture engraved onto the underneath of it.

Fish n Chip shops Chips! Not Crisps, Chips Goddamit!

I go to an " Olde English Medieval Fair " every year which is held in my area and people dress in period costumes and suits of armour etc! There are Jousting tournaments and street performers and so fourth. All of it is pretty quaint stuff, Americans doing bad mockney accents, historical reenactments in 90 degree plus weather, stalls selling trinkets and weapons, and other kinds of wares. However they never get the food right. They have a food stall which says Authentic Fish n Chips and what do I see when I get there Fish and Crisps ( Potato chips for you Americans ) Having pointed out the error they had made, they still continue to sell Authentic Fish and Fooking Crisps!

Cornish Pasties and Sausage Rolls. Guaranteed to put weight on you, but good stuff never the less.

A Typical English Breakfast consisting of pork sausages which are not anything like the American breakfast link sausages, bacon, eggs, baked beans ( American's do not have baked beans on the menu for breakfast ) fried tomatoes, fried bread or toast and a lovely cup of tea.

Cinemas where you can book tickets that have allocated seating. Fook AMC cinemas and their free for all seating arrangements. I get to the cinema an hour early so that I can get the seats I like and then you get the late arrivers who come into the auditorium just as the film is about to start and expect you to move down a row for them. Fook them! Fook that stupid system. How hard can it be for a cinema chain to introduce a system where you can book your seats in advance? If little old Britain can do it I'm sure the superior US of A can do it much bigger and better. You're still a Dorkwad AMC!

2000A.D. The Beano, & the Dandy comics which are typically British and have some of the best creative people in the business who have worked or are still working on them. I say a Desperate Dan movie is long, long overdue. I can't figure out why IPC / Rebellion isn't pushing it's comic line faster towards the movie side of things. There are so many memorable characters in 2000A.D. that they are missing a golden opportunity to cash in on them. A Rogue Trooper / Strontium Dog / Harlem Heroes/ Mach 1 / ABC Warriors movie would be absolutely Zarjaz!

Big Finish audios. I love listening to these radio plays, but I have to have them shipped over to the States because some retailers over here aren't even aware of them. I went into an FYE store which is just like our MVC stores in Britain and asked about them. The store clerk told me they wouldn't stock those radio plays because most Americans wouldn't have the patience or the imagination to listen to them. I thought that was an insulting and blinkered evaluation of Americans, because I'm sure if they were given the chance to buy them and try them out they'd warm to them. Choice! America prides itself on lots of choice so I wish those making the decisions regarding certain forms of entertainment would take a risk now and then.

The League Of Gentlemen, it's a shame a lot of American's and ex pats didn't understand this show the one and only time it was aired on BBC America, maybe these people will eventually catch on in another 30 years, so until that time they can carry on watching ancient British humor like Monty Python, Benny Hill & Are You Being Served and I can continue to talk to Anglo-philes who talk about a Britain as if it's still stuck in the 60's and 70's. Maybe I should only talk about Johnny Carson like he's the newest and latest thing? In all fairness Americans do not get many British shows over here so it's not their fault, but it is the fault of TV networks who decide what we will and won't watch.

The BBC TV channels no fooking adverts ( commercials ) nuff said.

BBC documentaries. Very few film makers in the world can measure up to the high standards we maintain in this side of the business. Sorry, but you can't! Australia and Canada come close.

Peter Kay, this man cracks me up. Phoenix Nights is one of the most underrated comedy series in a long time. Garlic...Bread! It's the taste sensation. Give this guy a movie someone.

Steve Coogan, I just love his characters Paul Calf and Alan Partridge. It seems like out boy is doing okay in Hollywood right now. Bag of Shjte, Ah Ha!

Johnny Vegas, should be invited to every awards ceremony in the land.

A typical British Christmas...a roast dinner with turkey or a goose, roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy, carrots, sweetcorn, parsnips, sprouts, mash potatoes, Christmas Pudding and mince pies. Novelty crackers to pull at the dining table. The Queen's speech on telly and Christmas editions of TV shows like Only Fools And Horses etc and the cold weather. Since I moved to Florida my family have insisted on having a barbecue cook out for Christmas Dinner nearly every year, it just doesn't feel the same for me.

Extract from A Florida Christmas Carol

Scrooge: Boy!

Boy: Me, Sir?

Scrooge: Yes you boy, I want you to find me the biggest prawns you can find oh! and some hot dogs for the grill too.

and we have Boxing Day the day after Christmas which is another bank ( national ) holiday unlike here in America where people have to go back to work after Christmas Day which sucks big balls for those who enjoy spending a little more time with their families.

Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night, yeah baby each year we get to burn an effigy of a terrorist who tried to blow up London Parliament in the seventeen hundreds, politically incorrect or not we like it. It's our equivalent of a Fourth Of July fireworks celebration.

Doctor Who the longest running science fiction TV show ever, fook you Stargate SG1! The shows format is so flexible theoretically it should never ever get stale since you can travel any anywhere in time. The Borg have the Cybermen to thank, Bill & Ted have the TARDIS to thank for their time traveling phone box. Big respect is long overdue for this very influential TV show.

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Association Championships...the greatest tennis tournament in the world ask Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras or a legion of other players who have all gone on record stating this is the tournament of all tournaments in the Tennis world. This venue is steeped in history it's long lasting traditions have been classically well maintained and balanced considering the ever changing times that we live in. You won't find any ugly banner advertisements lining the walls of each court like you do at other tennis tournaments. The electricity of No 1 and Center courts battles can be felt even in the home, and the unstable British weather often creates a degree of high drama to the proceedings. Strawberries and cream? Yes please.

A glass of Pimm's with fresh fruit on a nice summer day sitting in a beer garden of the local pub.

On British TV they allow profanity and shock gasp nudity!!! You have to subscribe to HBO in America to get your quota of unedited adult content.

A variety of different radio stations. I don't know about the rest of America, but where I live in Florida all the channels seem to play are the same 20 songs over and over again, and if you're not into Rap, Country, College Rock or NU Metal then you can go twiddle your thumbs because there is nothing else to listen to unless you want to put up with religious programs trying to convert you to God.

Clever advertisements or ones that are mini movie spectaculars. The likes of Ridley Scott and David Fincher all worked on British TV advertisements ( commercials ) until they broke into the movie business, and you can see why they landed bigger gigs after seeing some of their small screen work. The OXO and the Maxwell House commercials ran for years and followed the exploits of the characters as they aged etc! American commercials that use this kind of angle are very few and far between. All I ever seem to see and hear over here are ad's for pharmacy drugs...Do you suffer from blah! blah! blah? You may not know it but you might have... ( fill in blank ) Ask you doctor about Crestor / Lipitor / Crapitor / Wart Gone...caution may cause mild side affects similar to the ones you were hoping the drugs would take care off. In some extreme cases death may occur, but don't forget to ask your doctor because even if you don't have it he or she will prescribe it to you because they get a commission out of selling those drugs onto their patients from the pharmaceutical companies.

Why is it in a number of TV commercials on American telly the people selling you the stuff shout at you constantly? They're fooking screaming at the top of their lungs! What's with that?

and what's with those crap arse home made TV commercials where the owners of the companies decide to go on camera instead of hiring a decent actor or actress? Bad! Bad! Bad! " We are the Ghostbusters... call...now....call.... err now!

Children's TV shows like Mr.Ben ( Why have they not made this a movie I do not know ) The Clangers, The Wombles, Bagpuss, Postman Pat, Barnacle Bill, Morph, Trapdoor, Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Jamie And His Magic Torch, Ivor The Engine, Noggin The Nog, Chorlton And The Wheelies, Rhubarb & Custard, Willo The Wisp Paddington, Rupert The Bear, Super Ted, Banana Man and many others I can't think of right now.

Michael Parkinson who like Dick Cavett knew how to do a proper interview with a celebrity without letting his own ego enter into the proceedings. Too many late night talk show hosts think it's all about them. They're the star of the show and the people they interview comes secondary to the equation which leads to a dull un-enlightening surface chit chat and nothing more.

Well, that's me out of here till I can think of some more.

Oh yeah! The NHS, Brits don't really appreciate what we have there. There are lots of jokes and criticisms about medical procedures being delayed and hospitals understaffed which to some extent is true, but not as bad as the media over seas makes it out to be. Over here in the United States everytime you see your Doctor it's a 20 to 30 dollar co payment you have to cough up, the rest of the fee which could run to hundreds of dollars is paid by your medical insurance if you have it that is. I've met so many people over here who cannot afford to pay medical insurance and can't afford to go and see a doctor or a dentist. A hospital procedure it totally out of the question so they take a gamble in not getting seriously ill or falling prone to an accident. Just remember when you see you Doctor for free in the UK ( NHS is paid for by tax payers ) you realize how lucky you are not to have to find the money up front and how cheaply you can get your subsidized prescriptions. You also have the option of going private if you need to jump the waiting queue ( line ) but these days I hear the NHS deals with all hospitalizations very quickly and efficiently.

 

[Iceman]

^ Damn, you really love the UK.

I'm just happy when it doesn't rain.

 

[the_joker]

What's to love about the UK?

America is like 100x better

What a bloody cheek! I beg to differ, UK is like, 1 trillion times better. Anyways, I love the English tea. There's nothing better drinking a good cup of tea on a sunday afternoon, maybe a pinic with cucumber sandwiches and crumpets wouldn't go amiss either.

 

[Bathrat Begins]

Being a Brit living in Texas, I really miss England.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

U.s. > U.k.

 

[04nbod]

aah maths arrows i do not understand you!