An American SC in London

[Lace Neil Singer]

*snerk*

As for those of you moaning about Gordon Ramsey and the Spice Girls, may I remind you that you forced Madonna and the Backstreet Boys on us?

[AdminAssistant]

*snerk*

As for those of you moaning about Gordon Ramsey and the Spice Girls, may I remind you that you forced Madonna and the Backstreet Boys on us?

Besides, England gave us Shakespeare(cough*), Jonson, Marlowe, Shaw, Pinter...some of the greatest playwrights of all time.

And Oscar Wilde who said, "America and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." (Ok, probably not the exact quote, and it might not have been Wilde.)

* I am what is called an Oxfordian in Theatre History circles. Oxfordians believe that the man from Stratford-upon-Avon (William Shaxper) is a down and dirty liar and fraud, and that the plays attributed to "Shake-speare" were actually written by Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford. (I'm not trying to start a debate on the topic, that belongs in Fratching or elsewhere, just explaining my stance.)

[cinema guy]

And Oscar Wilde who said, "America and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." (Ok, probably not the exact quote, and it might not have been Wilde.)

I think it was George Bernard Shaw.

[Brightglaive]

And Oscar Wilde who said, "America and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." (Ok, probably not the exact quote, and it might not have been Wilde.)

I actually expanded on that quote.

America, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada are six countries separated by a common language. (Seven if you count India)

[Ironclad Alibi]

When the SC was whining about, "That's how we do it at hoooooome!" I would have had a hard time restraining myself from responding, "Well, seeing as how you're not at home, I guess you can do it this way or GET OUT!"

This reminded me of that old muffler (Midas?) shop commercial where the guy on a trip has a broken muffler.

Traveler to Filling Station Guy: Where's the nearest Purple Sunset Muffler Shop.

FSG: There aint any around here.

T: But they're all over the place back home.

FSG: This here aint back home.

[Difdi]

And don't get me started on the paper verses plastic people.

It takes more energy to recycle a paper bag than a plastic one, and the plastic bag can be 100% recycled...you always lose some fiber content to wear when recycling paper. You can make plastic bags from corn oil too...

[ditchdj]

Out of all fairness, though, The Young Ones was the shit in their day! I used to watch them on MTV every Sunday night when I was in junior high twenty years ago! Although I have a little trouble understanding their thick accents and have to watch it with captions they're still hilarious!

[FuzzyKitten99]

Gah... you had to remind us?! Why?!

They probably sent us the Spice Girls because they were still sore about that little Boston Tea Party and the whole Revolutionary War thing...

But I still like them anyways! They gave us Def Leppard, so they can't be all bad!

[Samaliel]

They gave us all the Doctor and for that we shall be eternally thankfull to them.

[Geek King]

They gave us all the Doctor and for that we shall be eternally thankfull to them.

...even if it did take them 25 years to give the good Doctor a budget.

[Samaliel]

Even though.

[ditchdj]

A good deal of my music collection is British imports. Tracy Ullman, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Bronski Beat, Marillion, Nik Kershaw, Kate Bush (awesome voice!), Eric Burdon, just to name a few.....

[Lace Neil Singer]

Come on, you know you miss the plastic wasps and bacofoil robot suits.

[depechemodefan]

Just a note: either you mis-remembered what he said, or he acclimatized REALLY quickly, or he wasn't an American.

I have a co-worker who thinks he's English. One grandparent is English, the other 3 were from southern Italy. ANd they lived in Boston. Where being Italian is common. So he's now an Episcopalian instead of Roman Catholic. We calls potato chips "crisps". He can go on about English cheese. He says "I'm on holiday to see mummy in Florida." (something to that effect). He is a nice guy, but he's quirky.

Not really a visitor hapstance, since the guy could be from this city, but one day a guy comes in (and he speaks Spanish to insult my co-worker and me) and tells us that Mexicans are rude (us being the Mexicans).

A) A woman stuck her credit card in the copy machine where you only put bills. There's even a sign saying that this slot is only for cash (something to that effect). I was tlling my co-worker that I told the manager in charge and the service repair man was coming. This is so my co-worker will know what to tell the woman when she comes around again (she went to use the phone).

B) He looks more hispanic than my co-worker or I. I don't get where he calls us Mexicans just to put us down

C) He came up and we told him "one min." He started with "You Mexicans are rude. I know people say Mexicans are rude." We tell him that I was just telling my co-worker something work related and he doesn't listen. He continues all the time we go to help him print that we were Mexicans, we were rude, Mexcans are rude, in English and Spanish. I sort of could have seen at first why he thought we ignored him, but once we explained it he should have let it go or -best case scenerio- apologized

[Lace Neil Singer]

What this SC really said was "vacation"; but as I said before, I typed in English cuz I really was too irritated to be bothered to remember exactly what the SC said. Same goes for most people I should think; who can remember, word for word, every single conversation you have with an SC? In any case, I've encountered plenty of nice American visitors; this one just stood out as a cow. XD