I presume none of you has seen Withnail and I? "Oh my boys, my boys! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shoveled up by Labour, and here we are, we three; perhaps the last island of beauty ... in the world."
“If you’re thinking of coming to America this is what it’s like; you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s the truth.” – Clarkson on America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHJkB-wHLw
Stupid Americans-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Stephen Fry on American Prisons -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpFlOioXys
Don't worry America, you're still number one in prison populations, creationists and defense spending
trolololol
i know from history books, europeans ended the practice of smearing excrement on their bodies during the renaissance.
but it's still the stink factor that destroys the rep of europeans in england & elsewhere.
Proud Englishman wrote:
Is there any other kind?
mkiu wrote:
No, just a regular guy with a family tree that doesn't look like a telephone pole.
You forgot to mention where you were from...
I agree the UK is boring... But for completely different reasons to what you have mentioned.
I am from Newcastle and I hate living here because no matter where I go in the UK it is all just drinking alcohol, f***ing everything that moves, fighting and being anti-social... Everything is bleak, grey and dull...
I don't know if you have ever been to the UK but it doesn't seem like it...
The UK is far from "fancy and formal"... In most cities it's quite the opposite actually... Pregnant 14 year olds in pink track suites with "juicy" scrawled across their arse and skinny, greasy haired, tattooed, dirty track suited wannabe hard-men walking around with imaginary carpets under their arms looking for a reason to fight something... And 2/3rds of these people can't speak proper English ironically.
What you described as "England" was more like a badly executed comedic "family guy-esque" stereotype that cheap American comedies use to sarcastically mock the British.
Yep... Is boring here... Hate it... Can't wait to move...
I'd love to see where you saw these "fancy/formal, aristocratic" people so I can go there to get away from this backward, inbred town lol.
Well, well, a fellow Newcastle resident - who'd a thought it on Letsrun ?
Actually, Jourdan is right about the big metropolitan cities, though London is actually a pretty cool place and is a major global cultural centre for very good reasons.
I'd say Britain has a pretty amazing cultural heritage actually - the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dickens, Shakespeare, Orwell, Austen, Isaac Newton, Dr Johnson, Purcell, Britten, Elgar. And that's not even starting on 1066, the Tudors, the great cathedrals, castles etc etc.
Some parts of Britain are truly amazing - the Cotswolds, the Lakes District, the Highlands of Scotland, the Cornish coast, North Norfolk, the Yorkshire Dales......
Sorry, but the vomit-spattered streets of Newcastle on a Friday night are not the only thing that contributes to British culture.
Coming from a land with no culture, that's quite an amazing statement.
why is that americans constantly try to belittle the English?
whats with the inferiority complex? its getting rather boring especially to be voiced on a running forum
hungry runner wrote:
No matter how hard I try, I just can't bring myself to be interested in Brittish culture at all. It all just seems so bland.
The monarchy is so incredibly dull. What? You have a boring queen and king and princes and dutchesses that get dressed in fancy garb and wave to people? Snooze. There's no attractive women in England (except for Kate Middleton), and she's 100% owned.
The food is crap. What? Tea and crumpets, fish and chips? Pigeon pie? Get that sh!t outta here. Where's the excitement? Can I get a motherfuggin cinnamon roll or a juicy buffalo burger?!?
The whole culture just 'screams' lame. Everyone's fancy, refined, formal, and dull. I'm sure it's great... for boring people.
Yeah, America may be the wild, wild west with guns a blazing and such, but at least we're interesting. To close, I'd like to quote the great Winston Churchill: "I love England, but it's boring as hell here."
Thank you.
Awesome post, dude. NEVER been done before.
I am English and I can confirm that Hollywood has got us absolutely spot on. Pretty much everyone I know is called either Hugh, Charlie, Felicity or Harriet. We love nothing more than sipping tea and guffawing at the common ruffians (of which there are obviously very very few here).
p.s. crumpets are delicious, why would I want to eat such an unpleasantly greasy beefburger for heaven's sake?
Proud Englishman wrote:“If you’re thinking of coming to America this is what it’s like; you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s the truth.” – Clarkson on America.
Was this quote by Jeremy Clarkson before or after he said racist things against blacks, Mexicans, & Asians?
Jourdan wrote:
And 2/3rds of these people can't speak proper English ironically.
Nice
sssssss wrote:
I'm with you. I went to London/Cardiff for work, and I couldn't wait to get home. To each their own of course, but I have no interest in ever going back.
If you go to London and find it "boring" there's no help for you.
ataglance wrote:
sssssss wrote:I'm with you. I went to London/Cardiff for work, and I couldn't wait to get home. To each their own of course, but I have no interest in ever going back.
If you go to London and find it "boring" there's no help for you.
He probably stayed at a Days Inn and ate at TGI Fridays.
Whatever. America is so repressed and you have no idea. Do you realize that our topless girlie pics are the norm in our newspapers? Do you realize that cursing is the norm on our regular TV? Boring...nope!
Randy Oldman wrote:
ataglance wrote:If you go to London and find it "boring" there's no help for you.
He probably stayed at a Days Inn and ate at TGI Fridays.
Exactly. Sometimes it's the person who's boring not the city
Our monarchy incredibly dull?
Maybe, but the recent Royal Tour of Australia and New Zealand by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge ( and baby Prince George) seemed to have been a great success and I am sure if they similarly toured the USA , you Yanks would be fighting over tickets to all the functions they would attend.
At least, they don’t cost us much - your president seems to have gone completely off the charts with his ostentatious extravagance.
His recent one day trip to Brussels to visit NATO - Air Force One, three cargo planes, a 900 strong entourage and a 45 vehicle convoy?
For a 24 hour visit?
But that’s nothing compared to the ‘First Lady’s’ expenses.
First Lady? - what was she before she met Obama - a waitress?
Anyway, on her trip to Ireland accompanying the president on a meeting with Northern Ireland youth, she was off with her two children to Dublin, a mere hundred miles away, but on Air Force Two!
The cost of her two days in Dublin was costed at around $7,921,638.66.
Our Royal Family around for a year costs taxpayers £3,101,771 (that's the Queen, princes, dukes, the lot).
Three million quid plus change works out to about $5,194,347.37.
In other words, for the cost of two days in Dublin with three members of the Obama family you can keep our entire House of Windsor in the air for a year.
Now I read that the presidential fleet of 23 helicopters are to be replaced, costing $20 billion!
$20 billion for 23 choppers?
Doesn’t the president know that America has a national debt of 17 and a half trillion dollars, the greatest national debt in the history of the world?
As yet another Newcastle poster I'm really surprised anyone would find the UK boring. What exactly is it you want? Thousands of years of culture going back tithe Romans, amazing coastlines with some if the best beaches in Europe. Fantastic scenery and wilderness in the Lake District and the Highlands. Democracy, freedom to travel, some of the best restaurants in the world and pubs like you will find nowhere else on earth. Having travelled extensively and lived all over the world I think you will find it very hard to find somewhere so diverse, so interesting and so beautiful.
America is a flat pack credit card culture, featureless dead end towns for the most part with little history, little culture and pretty bad poverty. There are exceptions of course, NYC, parts of Oregon and New England.
In my opinion the only other places that I would consider living would be Japan, France, Norway and possibly Germany.
As for Britain being a 'booze fueled' social scene, teenagers and young adults are drinking less and taking less drugs than for decades.