This is great: Britain
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Cut out and keep: How to behave in Britain
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Cut out and keep: How to behave in Britain
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
A different world...
Some things haven't changed though:
The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. -
There are housewives in aprons and youngsters in knee pants in Britain who have lived through more high explosives in air raids than many soldiers saw in first class barrages in the last war.
Helps me remember how easy my life is compared to many though!Comment
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It made me proud to be from such good stock and live in such a wonderful country.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Very interesting.
There was something on QI about how American GIs had been warned about the different attitudes to race in Britain, i.e. that the British were just as welcoming (or otherwise) to black American soldiers as to white soldiers, whereas the white Americans were a bit shocked to go into the pubs and discover they were expected to drink in the same room as the blacks.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostThere was something on QI about how American GIs had been warned about the different attitudes to race in Britain, i.e. that the British were just as welcoming (or otherwise) to black American soldiers as to white soldiers, whereas the white Americans were a bit shocked to go into the pubs and discover they were expected to drink in the same room as the blacks.
A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".Comment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.
A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".Comment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostISTR they Americans demanded segregated regiments which they were granted by the MOD. They also demanded segregated pubs but the landlords refused. They went in to pubs and often tried to beat up the black guys there but were surprised (and probably injured) when the white British would intervene and fought alongside their black countrymen. Made me proud to be British.
A friend who was in the army more recently was told by some Americans who they were working with that their unit had been told "don't drink with the British, don't gamble with the British and for God's sake don't fight with the British".Comment
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Nice informative post, thank you.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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