Sally Redux

Really good pointing.

Bud the Wiser

Benny Hill

TheEmperorIsNaked

Nice one Chris!

I can't say specifically because I've been away so long. However, perhaps I can say what I am returning for:

-Even if I lived behind the gasworks, I know I can catch a bus out to what for me is the most beautiful countryside in the World.
-Mist. I miss....er, mist. I notice it a lot in my live webcam spying. Miss mist!
-Pubs. I know so many have gone, and the major breweries control so many others-but they are unique to the UK.
-Birds that twitter not squawk. (For some unknown reason the Lorikeets have taken up dawn residence and the trees are not yet in fruit. I am awakened to incessant bossy squawking!)

Belonging.

.......and I love the quirkiness!!! I will arrive at my destination by 1st class rail. That much I can afford.
The blurb says this will get me 'complimentary tea or coffee....and a biscuit'.

Love it!!! How twee is that!? '...and a biscuit'! I wonder what would happen if I took more than one biscuit??

All hell would break loose: I would be thrown off a speeding train, land in a nest of false widow spiders, run screaming into an irascible violent Badger, and flee colliding with a poo tree so heavily that all the bags broke loose and burst on my head.

I am very worried about this. I won't take the biscuit. It's a trap.

not2old

Its been a long time since I lived in Britain, so I cannot say whats great about it today on the points posted by others up thread. .

As a born Brit its great for me because I have the freedom to come & go as I please without a hassle whenever I want to.

I can be in Britain and assimilate, to smell, feel, touch & taste all that it has to offer - take it or leave it, its my choice or be on the next plane out to wherever.

I can whinge, moan & complain about all that is wrong with this that & the other, for I know the next person wont give a $hit about my going on about it for more than five seconds.

I don't need to be told its great, it can be a dogs breakfast to others for all kinds of reasons - its motherland & that's all that matters to me.

roaringmouse

In what other country can you get porn in a newspaper?

not2old

I have never seen porn in a (great) British newspaper ... tell us more?

roaringmouse

Err...Page 3.

not2old

topless is porn?

roaringmouse

Context is the important thing here - boobs are not news.

dunroving

As long as you engage in equal opportunity whingeing, that's fine. Any whingeing about things in the UK must be equally balanced by whingeing about similar problems in Australia.

dunroving

Having watched "Miranda meets Brucie" last night I must say that no matter how corny some people may think Brucie and his ilk are, they are a unique and fondly-regarded part of Britain's cultural history.

roaringmouse

That's because it's the same worldwide, and any negatives in the UK exist everywhere else. Positives are just for the UK though.. apparently

roaringmouse

Surely by now they're having to plug him in every night to keep him going?

not2old

I'm OK with one sided whinging. It can be the other person whinging, It doesn't have to be balanced & I don't have to agree or listen or debate it, I can just nod or walk away - after all thats whats great about (living in) Britain

dunroving

If so, they must have put him on a "long charge" the night before that program, because he was a ball of energy. I hope I have as much energy at his age.

He really is a national treasure, I don't care what all the whingers say about him.