That's because Brits need some lubrication to start talking. I found that trying to chat with Brits that I bump into on vacation is like trying to pull chicken's teeth.

Maybe it's you

Chickens have teeth??????
Stef

I agree, I am a brit my self and struggle to talk to other brits.

We are told never to talk to strangers so we end up only talking to people if we are introduced to them.

I disagree

Ola,

Slightly cheating here as i've not actually been yet. I'm currently on a stealth Internet fact gathering mission while i sit in my humble Scottish lair awaiting return of news from bunac.

After reading this thread im not put off. Possibly the opposite, It seams like theres a fair bit of romanticizing about the uk, a bit like you would an old flame.

In the same sense, i've been looking at the pretty pictures getting myself all hot and bothered as one would over a potential new filly and having stumbled over this topics like finding out all there manky habits beforehand.

To summarize; If cheese, bricks and crap tv is all i have to worry about, id probably still bang it.

I will echo the above and say that I find the standard of driving is poor. Im a trucker so have to deal with it every day. It varies - Toronto is like London..impatient and drive like idiots on the hwy..120kph three feet from the car in front.

Maritimers seem to not know what day it is let alone if they want to turn, merge, overtake etc they are in a world of there own and seem to lack hazard perception

Quebecers should not even be allowed to own a car let alone drive it!!

Mobile, TV, Internet and Beer are a rip off

'I dont know' seems to be a perfectly acceptable answer here at work. It seems like nobody wants to take responsibilty and be proactive as if they are scared of something being their fault and in the meantime nothing gets done.

They also seem to have a much more god fearing attitude to management as well - It seems they think that they will be struck down if they go against anything that powers that be have decreed!!

Rubbish bacon rubbish TV

Price of chicken and Mushrooms

Lack of baked savories I miss proper pies

The French

How so?

If this is all I have to worry about in Canada it seems very trivial and British indeed.

Pronounciation? Maybe you haven't been to 90 percent of england but even in my home town which is peaceful and prosperous enough I still hear

Fack off
Shuttap
Innit

on a regular basis if I venture out. "wadder" is minor in comparison to the rape of the english language by Englishmen and women of today.

Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, all of the south west, Scotland, the Welsh, Irish, Sheffield and London - all bastardise the english language every day. I find it amazing that people would complain about the pronounciation of water in a country 2000 miles away. Did these people only live in the home counties?

Here too. But that's comfortably familiar rather than something to complain about.

Wonderful - yet another bigot is added to the rank of righteous immigrant . . .

Yes... though I'm guessing it's likely more of an issue of not knowing where to find quality cheese (rather than it simply not existing). Often you have to visit the higher-priced speciality markets (outside of the run-of-the-mill supermarkets) if you're trying to seek the quality/variety of cheese that you'd be used to in the UK. Of course, those higher-priced speciality markets are often only found in urban areas. If you're living in small-town Canada, you're probably hooped!

CHEESE.....


.... is also expensive in Vancouver (unless of the massive, processed, rubber brick variety).

But frankly, if such a thing was to become the basis for my determining the quality of my life or the country in which i live, i would want to kill myself.

there must be a lot of folks on suicide watch.

"Wonderful - yet another bigot is added to the rank of righteous immigrant"

= joking and or making light of what I typed you numpty