moneypenny20

I'd not been here long and was helping out in the school tuckshop. We'd stopped for our lunch and the others were asking me about tuckshops in the UK. I was explaining how we didn't have tuckshops but generally had full blown canteens with tables and chairs etc.

One noxious woman, who strangely I've never seen again told me that all the food in UK schools was crap and none of the children ever ate a vegetable. I was polite and explained that she was wrong and why.

She told me that she'd seen Jamie Oliver's School Dinners and knew for a fact that it was the same in every single school in the UK. I tried explaining about worse case scenario and editing for TV etc but she knew better so after telling her I must have made a mistake and she obviously knew more than me, I shut up

ABCDiamond

TV has a lot to answer for.

Some people even think that Neighbours and Home and Away is just like Australia

moneypenny20

Really? I can't believe that. The Brits are so clever and intelligent and know so much

Wol

But then, I had an American - head of a bank, no less - ask me once if the UK had their winters at the same time of year as the States.

You have to ask what sort of world picture some people have...

ABCDiamond

Do you know how many people have just looked that up ?

Wol

No?

moneypenny20

My BIL who is a Kiwi and a major dickhead to boot (nothing to do with being a Kiwi) once asked me, in all seriousness, if Britain had Boxing Day

ABCDiamond

An Australian once asked me what the average British people do on the Queens Birthday Holiday ......... ummm........

BadgeIsBack

I guess some people just haven't grasped hemispheres, and long and lat. Alot of people, myself included, had never got around to working out the extent of winter in Australia and thought it was quite warm all year round.

Do we (Brits) have it at the same time? Isn't there an informal/formal day - or even a day off...? all I can remember is Trooping the Colour....in spring/summer.

I once asked an Australian what they did on Australia Day - the answer was - not much at all. I had images of the whole country celebrating feverishly when for most it is just a day off at home.

Pommy Dan

not a BANK holiday in UK. SHe rides round horse guards parade that day, doesnt she? or is that her REAL birthday.

the yanks dont have Boxing Day, btw. Nor one of the easter holidays. But then they get Martin Luther King Day so that is OK

Geelong Gent

Colour blind so now your a racialist?
To some extent your right - I would be happy anywhere because I would make it so. Perhaps this underlining point is why you can't and the majority can enjoy Melbourne?

I'm not particulary warming too you and I'm a very friendly chappy

You sniffed that one out did ya? Can't say it took my attention, what I did notice were alot more free poo bag/scappers available in the parks. Dont remember such things in Brightons lanes????

Its Art you baboon

Well stop doing it then
3 years in Melbourne zero myself - that is noing any victims and suffering ourselves. Now in last 3 months in UK I'm up to 18 incidents already.





Here is your solution
http://www.melbourneairport.com.au/i...70&l=2&m=2&z=4

BadgeIsBack

Thought so..the UKers get short-changed. Not her real birthday which I think might be in April. (A quick check confirms this).

From wiki:

"Trooping the Colour is a military ceremony performed by regiments of the Commonwealth and the British Army. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments for centuries and it was first performed during the reign of Charles II. Since 1805 the ceremony has been carried out on the British Sovereign's birthday,[1] which, since King George VI, has been regularly held on a Saturday in June.

Trooping the Colour has become closely identified with the Queen's Official Birthday, and is also known as the Queen's birthday parade.[3] It has marked the official birthday of the sovereign since 1748, and has occurred annually since 1820 (except in bad weather, periods of mourning and other exceptional circumstances). King Edward VII moved Trooping the Colour to its June date, because of the vagaries of British weather"

We'll have one for our own Martin.

elfman

some Yanks do - MLK day is far from universally recognised

MartinLuther

When the UK electric companies were mostly owned by US utilities, I did have one senior US exec ask me, "Exactly how high are these high streets that people keep talking about?".

moneypenny20

Well? How high are they? My old home town has a Lower High Street