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1) "In seedy restaurants [in England] blowsy waitresses serve chemically indoctrinated baked beans force-landed on soggy toast - and the unholy customers love it..."
(Cassandra, Daily Mirror, 12/2/55)
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That Cassandra was a miserable old sod, gives us soft southerners a bad name. And you don't have beans on toast in any kind of restaurant, you have it in a café (pronounced caf), with baked jam roll & custard for pud. I went to enough of them when I used to accompany my lorry driver dad in the sixties.
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"I hardly know any annoyance so deeply repugnant to English feeling, as the incessant, remorseless spitting of Americans."
(Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832)
Ziss true?
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"One source of deep interest to us [as British visiting America], was the frequent recurrence of thunder-storms. Those who have only listed to thunder in England have but a faint idea of the language which the gods speak when they are angry."
(Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832)
So the thunderstorms in England are infrequent, and,.... uh.... flaccid? 
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2) "... to be born south of the Tay [is] to be effeminate, weak, fickle and wrong."
It's a thing in the UK in general.
For instance, anyone in Scotland born north of you is a 'Teuchter' whilst anyone born south is a 'Sassenach'.
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Jun 10, 2014 - 11:55 PM
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Mr Greg
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"One source of deep interest to us [as British visiting America], was the frequent recurrence of thunder-storms. Those who have only listed to thunder in England have but a faint idea of the language which the gods speak when they are angry."
(Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832)
So the thunderstorms in England are infrequent, and,.... uh.... flaccid?
Having experienced many "bad" thunderstorms in Blighty, and one in the USA that was, I gather, a pretty average one, I would have to say an unequivocal YES.
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Having experienced many "bad" thunderstorms in Blighty, and one in the USA that was, I gather, a pretty average one, I would have to say an unequivocal YES.
Something (worthless) I can lord over you, then? 
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Interesting list, most of which I would agree with. But the mention of petrol reminded me of the month I spent in London in 1969 and the city simply reeked of it. From what I've heard, that's no longer the case.
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In visiting a foreign city, a traveller - especially an English one - usually expects to find, in the aspect of the place and its inhabitants, some tincture of the barbaric. (Thomas Hamilton, 1832)
My, my, if this is true, then it's a wonder the English travel at all.
Izzit true?
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In 1832, British traveler Thomas Hamilton had his first breakfast at an American hotel dining room. He described the very busy scene of many people and the "vociferously obtruded" requests made of the servers.
"The contrast of the whole scene, with that of an English breakfast table, was striking enough.
Here was no loitering or lounging; no dipping into newspapers; no apparent lassitude of appetite; no intervals of repose in mastication...."
So do you have your breakfast like this? With the butler handing you a freshly-ironed newspaper, which you accept with a wan look on your face?
Then you rest your chin on your hand and declare how very DULL it all is and wouldn't it be nice if the grouse shooting were better?
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Dave, ready??
Here we go.
...initially with the calendar i thought is this another of your thinly-disguised gay threads??
But it isnt. I suspect its another of the other type, your thinly-disguised Brit-bashing threads?! Ha ha.
Petrol and lavender? Yeuck. Sounds like a poncey tea!
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Are your peeps really this "out there"?
--A 34-year-old man was arrested at a Tesco supermarket in Bar Hill, England, on Nov. 12 when he entered the store and threatened employees -- by showing them a photograph of a gun. [Cambridge News, 12-19-2014]
--Two hundred boredom "activists" gathered in London in December (2010) at James Ward's annual banal-apalooza conference, "Boring 2010," to listen to ennui-stricken speakers glorify all things dreary...
[Included were]... a demonstration of milk-tasting (in wine glasses, describing flavor and smoothness), charts breaking down the characteristics of a man's sneezes for three years, and a PowerPoint presentation on the color distribution and materials of a man's necktie collection from one year to the next. Another speaker's "My Relationship With Bus Routes" seemed well-received also.
Observed one attendee, to a Wall Street Journal reporter: "We're all overstimulated. I think it's important to stop all that for a while and see what several hours of being bored really feels like." [Wall Street Journal, 12-29-2010]
(See https://boring2010.wordpress.com/)
http://newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw141214.html
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i think you will find our hooters were hooters before your hooters were hooters.
in fact, your hooters took their name from our hooters.
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"Unlike most English people, she [the character in this story] was capable of speaking to strangers on sight instead of allowing four days to a week to elapse before making the first cautious advance as is the customary British habit."
from "The Triangle at Rhodes," 1936, by Agatha Christie.
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