You know your in the UK when .....
Oct 14th 2012, 7:54 am
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Oct 14th 2012, 10:25 am
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You know you're in the UK when......... you watch your groceries pile up after being scanned before you realise no one is going to bag them for you.
Oct 14th 2012, 10:37 am
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We always get asked if we want them bagged, we always do it ourselves.
Oct 14th 2012, 10:47 am
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You know you're in the UK when......... you forget that it's pay as you go in the pub and you can't run up a tab......... no bad thing.
Oct 14th 2012, 11:09 am
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Sorry but we have been able to that and not just our local. Im not just disagreeing but we arent finding the same things. We have been asked several times if we want to pay when we are finished but we always pay as we go, less tempting 
Oct 14th 2012, 11:10 am
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You can have afternoon tea at Betty's!
A selection of sandwiches (no crusts!), scones with cream and jam, a variety of cakes and tarts along with lashings of tea (tm The Famous Five). That's how we spent a happy hour or two with friends today who were visiting from Manchester
I don't think the two-mile walk I took right afterwards made much of a dent in the calories
A selection of sandwiches (no crusts!), scones with cream and jam, a variety of cakes and tarts along with lashings of tea (tm The Famous Five). That's how we spent a happy hour or two with friends today who were visiting from Manchester
I don't think the two-mile walk I took right afterwards made much of a dent in the calories
Oct 14th 2012, 11:19 am
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You know you're back in the UK when............... you see package tour holidaymakers drinking pints at 7.a.m. in the morning in airport lounges.
"I'm on me holidays and I'm gonna bloody well enjoy it."
"I'm on me holidays and I'm gonna bloody well enjoy it."
Oct 14th 2012, 11:26 am
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My recent experience in a busy non-local oriented rural Uk pub with food and outside seating or nooks where you cannot be seen is that if you want to run up a tab they will want to take your credit card. Fine if you are known, as in your local, but Brits and other jolly Europeans (e.g. Latvians??) are now fairly big at doing runners after enjoying the finest of the menu and wine list.
Oct 14th 2012, 11:36 am
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My recent experience in a busy non-local oriented rural Uk pub with food and outside seating or nooks where you cannot be seen is that if you want to run up a tab they will want to take your credit card. Fine if you are known, as in your local, but Brits and other jolly Europeans (e.g. Latvians??) are now fairly big at doing runners after enjoying the finest of the menu and wine list.
I must admit I havent come across needing to hand over a credit card. I have an honest face and we live in a nice area, probably helps. 
Oct 14th 2012, 11:44 am
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Seen exactly the same thing in many US and Australian airport lounges.......by the locals....not package holiday makers
Oct 14th 2012, 11:45 am
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Not sure what you are insinuating! The UK, one has to assume, is trying not to create an image of being a siege society, however some are clearly taking advantage wherever they are and (some) pub owners must act accordingly by making it the same rule for all.
Oct 14th 2012, 11:48 am
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You know you're in the UK when............ you see package tour holidaymakers turning up at arrivals wearing sombreros and carrying stuffed donkeys.
Oct 14th 2012, 11:56 am
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Oct 14th 2012, 11:59 am
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Is there any need to try and create an image that we arent a siege society ? What a very odd thing to say
