kez81

I agree you cant discount the likes of spain its a whole different country maybe not that far away but still abroad.

Most British people i have known have travelled a lot of europe been to america some to thailand and of course australia i think the brits are very well travelled.

Hutch

'Shaped a lot of the world as we know it'. Funny choice of words. I think a more accurate description would be 'bled dry for our own ends', or 'brought about untold suffering whilst siphoning off vast amounts of mineral wealth', or 'invaded, murdered and colonised with utter indifference and disdain for the indigenous population's wellbeing.'

Rule Britannia.

yanH

I think the point that the OP was making is that although many millions of Brits do visit Spain for many of them it's not a true visit to a foreign country. Yes they do physically arrive in Spain but they are then collected by a British tour guide, taken to a British owned hotel where the staff all speak English and they the spend the duration of their holiday frequenting British greasy spoons and British pubs. Many of them probably have hardly any contact with Spanish people during their whole trip. People who visit Spain on this sort of holiday haven't really increased their knowledge of different cultures etc as they haven't experienced any Spanish culture to speak of. What they have done is visit Blackpool in the sun.

Geelong Gent

Thats what I would do

Dorothy

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Considering that I picked the plants in our yard, yes I do know the names of them.
Just a little FYI for you...People from Canada's north are not called Eskimo anymore. They are Innu or First Nations. I also hardly think a person of Innu heritage with intellectual difficulties would know what any type of tree is, seeing how most people who live that far north are above the tree line in the Arctic. Read a book once in a while. They are a tremendous source of information.l

soapy©

then we wont have to go on about trees

iPom

... or other pish.

LauraC

Maybe he just didn't give a sh*t what type of tree it was and he was being sarcastic and you just didn't pick up on it.

As someone else said, Aussie's do have a dry sense of humour, maybe you'll develop one over time so you can join in with the jokes.

Kapri

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You're very aggressive for someone who has 8 posts

moneypenny20

I find it strange that one type of person finds it funny/clever/smug to find the comments made by a few people of another nation beneath them. I find it patronising. I'm sure there are many people in the world who don't know what a turnip is, I don't find it pathetic that they don't know, I find it interesting and it makes me wonder what they know about stuff that I have no idea about. Makes me think. Obviously doesn't do the same for others. C'est la vie.

soapy©

too late for that on this thread

soapy©

i just knew you would bite at this thread

wmoore

There's nothing like jumping in head first up to the knees is there?

iPom

Well now we know where your head is!

windog

I dont know about Aus but certainly some architects in the UK resmble that remark...you should see some of the things they expect you to build!

"An architect is a person who can fit anything in a space as long as his pencil is sharp enough....wether it can be made is purely immaterial"