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Just in case you need to withdraw application
Here is a list on the 'Going back to the UK' part of the forum. It lists those things you are likely to miss or could miss if you had not thought about it properly. Put in a nice colour blue
When reading the list and seeing some of the items I just could not believe it. Dead people long forgotten. Items that really should not make a bit of difference to life in general. I would like to edit the list - the comment would be such as making sandwiches with bread you've sliced yourself They trying to say it is the only country in the world where you can get bread that is uncut? Is it really that important on a world scale? steam trains When was the last time a steam train pulled the 7.30 from Brighton to London on the commuter run? Mums slapping children in the precinct I mean ---- is this a good thing or what? Are these things really what is good about the UK? Bill and Ben and the Flowerpot Men Marmite skiffle music That Morcambe and Wise segment in which Angela Rippon shows off her legs by dancing Gracie Fields singing 'Sally' Dixon of Dock Green HP Sauce salt cellers with a single large hole making sandwiches with bread you've sliced yourself really milky tea allotments steam trains toast made under a gas grill unheated bedrooms and bathrooms seaside rock erecting windbreaks on a beach The Big Issue. Scrunchings. Jasper Carrot. Lilly Savage. Noel Bloody Edmonds Magic roundabout The Archers. Big Ben Church bells on Sunday mornings. Maypole dancing. The coconutters Kali and spanish Basil Brush Roland Rat Heinz toast toppers pot noodles Postman Pat (and Jesse of course) Mums slapping children in the precinct A football ruck Singing at football games Drinking snowballs Irish paramilitary groups One lane roads with hedgerows Hedgehogs Bonfire Night PG Tip monkeys Conkers skiving Playing football in games class on a cold February morning. Chavs, Neds, Charvers and Chatham Slappers. Sombreros and big stuffed bulls from your holiday in Majorca And the Christmas special tv where naff dee-jays go around to hospitals on Christmas morning Homemade draught stoppers next to all doors. Toasting bread on a long toasting fork on the fire in the living room. Outside lavs! Calling the school crossing lady The Lollipop Lady Muffin the Mule Listen with Mother on the radio Mrs Dales Diary Bottles of brightly coloured Corona (fizzy drink) Eating Sardines on Toast Cricket football It ain't half hot mum Its the Knockout Dads Army Carry On Films Alfe Garnet question of sport Pubs closing just as you are getting * happy * Decent f **king beer when they are open . Dart leagues in every neighborhood pub . Petticoat lane . Porbello road . sunday scandal papers with NUDES . Monty python. sunday night at the london paladium. Bruce forsyth. Norman Wisdom. Tommy Cooper. Bob monkhouse . Benny hill. Stepton and son. Dusty Springfield . Cilla Black. . tom jones . rod stewart . joe cocker . elton john . david bowie . humphey littleton. chris barber monty sunshine . Derek and Clive. Driving on the *correct * side of the road . Jazz in boozers on sunday lunchtime . Parking in small spaces and not taking up two cus your vehicle is oversized /of you are and cant get out of the door if you dont . Not Eating all food with fingers . The beeb . Tennis at wimbledon Footy on every where most sats during the year . Not thinking that the *world series * only means the country its played in Not HAVING to be good at a sport to be considered *succesfull * Using the C... word more often then the the motherf**K** word . Not naming your kids junior or the 1st .2nd, thrd etc. Clean subway (underground) system . Egg cups for your ]hard boiled eggs . sardines on toast . yorkshire pudding . jam tart and custard . bubble and sqeak. pubs ploughmens lunch The * carry on films * covent garden . The more then one live theatre in each large town . Rugby Roy Chubby Brown Football not soccer match of the day quesiton of sport no commercials on tv having something on tv to watch a good piss up guinness - not out of can slices of bacon on the turkey for christmas christmas decorations in the house no poncy christmas village scenes sandwiches with one slice of meat sandwich with just cheese heritage tradition whining taking the piss lemonade being fizzy singing at football games Wellie boots rain bonnets hairnets izel loo paper (awful stuff) ice cream cornets anoraks poppy day L plates ladybird books a 'dirty weekend' cockney slang rag and bone man christmas crackers dettol gas fires oxtail soup net curtains tea cosies an entire grocery store aisle devoted to sweets and chocolate and... remember during the 60's those pale blue colored 'bubble' cars that were made for the disabled....well those: Bubble cars! Wellie boots rain bonnets hairnets izel loo paper (awful stuff) ice cream cornets anoraks poppy day L plates ladybird books a 'dirty weekend' cockney slang rag and bone man christmas crackers dettol gas fires oxtail soup net curtains tea cosies an entire grocery store aisle devoted to sweets and chocolate and... remember during the 60's those pale blue colored 'bubble' cars that were made for the disabled....well those: Bubble cars! Butlins Having been to another country Being a slow coach Mr Blobby 081 811 8181 Button Moon Maypole dancing Shell suits Ferry across the Mersey Maths A glove on each end of a long piece of wool/string/ribbon threaded through the arms of your coat. Swap Shop on a Saturday morning. High Street shopping involving a great deal of walking, not driving to each shop. Late night shopping hours in the run-up to Christmas. Boots the Chemist. Pub Quizzes in which you have a decent shot at getting the answers right. Pub crawls on Christmas and New Year's Eve's First footing. "Mind The Gap!" Nicking a chip. Raleigh Choppers. Sausage rolls. (Made some today!) Blue Peter. Magpie. Male strippers on your hen night. (Or indeed, any other night!) Morecambe and Wise Christmas Shows. (Esp. the one with Andre Previn - "Andrew Preview") Bonfire Night. Half Term. The motorway caff for a brew at midnight for the hell of it! Sausage butties. Clever adverts on the telly. The Beano Steak and Kidney Pudding Adverts for Spitfire beer Haggis The Ashes The Welsh Dandelion and Burdock Cliff Richard Parafin heaters Blackberry picking Cobbled lanes Proper chips Condensed milk sandwiches Going to the market on Sundays Donkey rides at the beach Tonging your hair Bathing instead of having a shower Viz Fiesta, Razzle and Knave Prisoner Cell Block H Mini Coopers Ford Capris (calling them a Mercury Capri is just plain wrong) Grifters, Strikas and Boxers. Burgers sold from a tatty van after the pubs close. Phone boxes you can take a whiz in. Holsten Pils Guy Fawkes night. Liquorice sherbert fountains Batter bits at the chippy Pumping petrol, then paying for it Direct debits swimming in something we call the sea at southend. Essex Girls Blue Comediens the royal family lol seafood being bought around the Pub on the Sunday Good old fashion fight. Firms (local gangs) The Kray twins the great train robbery Euro Vision Contest pearly kings and queens Dripping sandwiches Noddy & Big Ears Andy Pandy Billy Bunter Black & White Minstrels Emergency Ward 10 This is your Life London Palladium Bruce Forsyth "Beat the Clock" Tommy Steele Billy Fury Lonnie Donegon Little Joe Brown Pantomimes with famous people off the telly Family Favourites on the radio Sunday lunchtime while the smell of roast beef and yorkies and cabbage made you drool Jimmy Clitheroe Z Cars & Softly Softly Millions of flavours of crisps to choose from Plaice Doner Kebabs after the pub Pickled o Vimto Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps Robinsons Barley Water Christmas Crackers The Fast Show The Young Ones Only Fools And Horses Grandstand, Football Focus MOTD and Sportsnight. Wallace And Gromit Roobarb and Custard The Archers Mastermind Wine Gums The Two Ronnies nion Monster Munch The ZX Spectrum Reliant Robins Knotted hankerchiefs DM 1080's Proper bacon and sausages Lock-ins at the local Doing the Portobello Road pub crawl Bovril and Meat Pie combo John Player Specials Baccy in tins Saturday morning comic delivery Ribena The Chippy Travelling for 6 hours then tanding out in freezing cold rain watching your favorite soccer team get beat 5-0. Double Deckers (chocolate) Pub Crawls Snooker Kickabouts in the park Cricket on the beach The seaside Cider Crisp flavours Quavers Wotsits Birds Trifle Pantos Jackanory Vision On...Imagine a tv show for the deaf, here. Being a *Big Girls Blouse* Bob-a-job pussy cats - not *kitties!* 99's The Nativity Play at school Rolph Harris Worcester Sauce crisps one man and his dog ..... top of the pops pans people greenline buses bus conductors the wooden tops bread n dripping marmite soldiers gingerbread men conkers real cream cakes fish n chips with a big wally and a pickled onion postmen who walk .... and deliver the post twice a day children who say "please" and "thank you" radiators immersion heaters Curry and chips spotted dick tripe and onions (yuck) getting a clean knife and fork for each course of your meal rather than having to put the dirty ones on table in between courses going up the town Camden Lock © Moo and the hyphen site 2004. |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL
steam trains
When was the last time a steam train pulled the 7.30 from Brighton to London on the commuter run? |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
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Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL
Here is a list on the 'Going back to the UK' part of the forum. It lists those things you are likely to miss or could miss if you had not thought about it properly. Put in a nice colour blue
When reading the list and seeing some of the items I just could not believe it. Dead people long forgotten. Items that really should not make a bit of difference to life in general. I would like to edit the list - the comment would be such as making sandwiches with bread you've sliced yourself They trying to say it is the only country in the world where you can get bread that is uncut? Is it really that important on a world scale? steam trains When was the last time a steam train pulled the 7.30 from Brighton to London on the commuter run? Mums slapping children in the precinct I mean ---- is this a good thing or what? Are these things really what is good about the UK? Bill and Ben and the Flowerpot Men Marmite skiffle music That Morcambe and Wise segment in which Angela Rippon shows off her legs by dancing Gracie Fields singing 'Sally' Dixon of Dock Green HP Sauce salt cellers with a single large hole making sandwiches with bread you've sliced yourself really milky tea allotments steam trains toast made under a gas grill unheated bedrooms and bathrooms seaside rock erecting windbreaks on a beach The Big Issue. Scrunchings. Jasper Carrot. Lilly Savage. Noel Bloody Edmonds Magic roundabout The Archers. Big Ben Church bells on Sunday mornings. Maypole dancing. The coconutters Kali and spanish Basil Brush Roland Rat Heinz toast toppers pot noodles Postman Pat (and Jesse of course) Mums slapping children in the precinct A football ruck Singing at football games Drinking snowballs Irish paramilitary groups One lane roads with hedgerows Hedgehogs Bonfire Night PG Tip monkeys Conkers skiving Playing football in games class on a cold February morning. Chavs, Neds, Charvers and Chatham Slappers. Sombreros and big stuffed bulls from your holiday in Majorca And the Christmas special tv where naff dee-jays go around to hospitals on Christmas morning Homemade draught stoppers next to all doors. Toasting bread on a long toasting fork on the fire in the living room. Outside lavs! Calling the school crossing lady The Lollipop Lady Muffin the Mule Listen with Mother on the radio Mrs Dales Diary Bottles of brightly coloured Corona (fizzy drink) Eating Sardines on Toast Cricket football It ain't half hot mum Its the Knockout Dads Army Carry On Films Alfe Garnet question of sport Pubs closing just as you are getting * happy * Decent f **king beer when they are open . Dart leagues in every neighborhood pub . Petticoat lane . Porbello road . sunday scandal papers with NUDES . Monty python. sunday night at the london paladium. Bruce forsyth. Norman Wisdom. Tommy Cooper. Bob monkhouse . Benny hill. Stepton and son. Dusty Springfield . Cilla Black. . tom jones . rod stewart . joe cocker . elton john . david bowie . humphey littleton. chris barber monty sunshine . Derek and Clive. Driving on the *correct * side of the road . Jazz in boozers on sunday lunchtime . Parking in small spaces and not taking up two cus your vehicle is oversized /of you are and cant get out of the door if you dont . Not Eating all food with fingers . The beeb . Tennis at wimbledon Footy on every where most sats during the year . Not thinking that the *world series * only means the country its played in Not HAVING to be good at a sport to be considered *succesfull * Using the C... word more often then the the motherf**K** word . Not naming your kids junior or the 1st .2nd, thrd etc. Clean subway (underground) system . Egg cups for your ]hard boiled eggs . sardines on toast . yorkshire pudding . jam tart and custard . bubble and sqeak. pubs ploughmens lunch The * carry on films * covent garden . The more then one live theatre in each large town . Rugby Roy Chubby Brown Football not soccer match of the day quesiton of sport no commercials on tv having something on tv to watch a good piss up guinness - not out of can slices of bacon on the turkey for christmas christmas decorations in the house no poncy christmas village scenes sandwiches with one slice of meat sandwich with just cheese heritage tradition whining taking the piss lemonade being fizzy singing at football games Wellie boots rain bonnets hairnets izel loo paper (awful stuff) ice cream cornets anoraks poppy day L plates ladybird books a 'dirty weekend' cockney slang rag and bone man christmas crackers dettol gas fires oxtail soup net curtains tea cosies an entire grocery store aisle devoted to sweets and chocolate and... remember during the 60's those pale blue colored 'bubble' cars that were made for the disabled....well those: Bubble cars! Wellie boots rain bonnets hairnets izel loo paper (awful stuff) ice cream cornets anoraks poppy day L plates ladybird books a 'dirty weekend' cockney slang rag and bone man christmas crackers dettol gas fires oxtail soup net curtains tea cosies an entire grocery store aisle devoted to sweets and chocolate and... remember during the 60's those pale blue colored 'bubble' cars that were made for the disabled....well those: Bubble cars! Butlins Having been to another country Being a slow coach Mr Blobby 081 811 8181 Button Moon Maypole dancing Shell suits Ferry across the Mersey Maths A glove on each end of a long piece of wool/string/ribbon threaded through the arms of your coat. Swap Shop on a Saturday morning. High Street shopping involving a great deal of walking, not driving to each shop. Late night shopping hours in the run-up to Christmas. Boots the Chemist. Pub Quizzes in which you have a decent shot at getting the answers right. Pub crawls on Christmas and New Year's Eve's First footing. "Mind The Gap!" Nicking a chip. Raleigh Choppers. Sausage rolls. (Made some today!) Blue Peter. Magpie. Male strippers on your hen night. (Or indeed, any other night!) Morecambe and Wise Christmas Shows. (Esp. the one with Andre Previn - "Andrew Preview") Bonfire Night. Half Term. The motorway caff for a brew at midnight for the hell of it! Sausage butties. Clever adverts on the telly. The Beano Steak and Kidney Pudding Adverts for Spitfire beer Haggis The Ashes The Welsh Dandelion and Burdock Cliff Richard Parafin heaters Blackberry picking Cobbled lanes Proper chips Condensed milk sandwiches Going to the market on Sundays Donkey rides at the beach Tonging your hair Bathing instead of having a shower Viz Fiesta, Razzle and Knave Prisoner Cell Block H Mini Coopers Ford Capris (calling them a Mercury Capri is just plain wrong) Grifters, Strikas and Boxers. Burgers sold from a tatty van after the pubs close. Phone boxes you can take a whiz in. Holsten Pils Guy Fawkes night. Liquorice sherbert fountains Batter bits at the chippy Pumping petrol, then paying for it Direct debits swimming in something we call the sea at southend. Essex Girls Blue Comediens the royal family lol seafood being bought around the Pub on the Sunday Good old fashion fight. Firms (local gangs) The Kray twins the great train robbery Euro Vision Contest pearly kings and queens Dripping sandwiches Noddy & Big Ears Andy Pandy Billy Bunter Black & White Minstrels Emergency Ward 10 This is your Life London Palladium Bruce Forsyth "Beat the Clock" Tommy Steele Billy Fury Lonnie Donegon Little Joe Brown Pantomimes with famous people off the telly Family Favourites on the radio Sunday lunchtime while the smell of roast beef and yorkies and cabbage made you drool Jimmy Clitheroe Z Cars & Softly Softly Millions of flavours of crisps to choose from Plaice Doner Kebabs after the pub Pickled o Vimto Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps Robinsons Barley Water Christmas Crackers The Fast Show The Young Ones Only Fools And Horses Grandstand, Football Focus MOTD and Sportsnight. Wallace And Gromit Roobarb and Custard The Archers Mastermind Wine Gums The Two Ronnies nion Monster Munch The ZX Spectrum Reliant Robins Knotted hankerchiefs DM 1080's Proper bacon and sausages Lock-ins at the local Doing the Portobello Road pub crawl Bovril and Meat Pie combo John Player Specials Baccy in tins Saturday morning comic delivery Ribena The Chippy Travelling for 6 hours then tanding out in freezing cold rain watching your favorite soccer team get beat 5-0. Double Deckers (chocolate) Pub Crawls Snooker Kickabouts in the park Cricket on the beach The seaside Cider Crisp flavours Quavers Wotsits Birds Trifle Pantos Jackanory Vision On...Imagine a tv show for the deaf, here. Being a *Big Girls Blouse* Bob-a-job pussy cats - not *kitties!* 99's The Nativity Play at school Rolph Harris Worcester Sauce crisps one man and his dog ..... top of the pops pans people greenline buses bus conductors the wooden tops bread n dripping marmite soldiers gingerbread men conkers real cream cakes fish n chips with a big wally and a pickled onion postmen who walk .... and deliver the post twice a day children who say "please" and "thank you" radiators immersion heaters Curry and chips spotted dick tripe and onions (yuck) getting a clean knife and fork for each course of your meal rather than having to put the dirty ones on table in between courses going up the town Camden Lock © Moo and the hyphen site 2004. Thanks! |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by CandoCad
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After reading your definitive listing of what makes Britain 'Great', I have been inspired to complete my Canadian Immigration application. I cannot wait to get out! Thanks! Never associate me with this please. |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
The list is hardly a deterrent is it!
Blimey! Izel loo paper made the list twice!!! But still anything is handy after you've eaten most of the 'food' on the list!:D |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Hi,
having read the list :eek: :D , of what people missed reminds me 100% why I want to get out of the UK...... cheers Jerry |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Errr...did anyybody else spot "Irish paramilitary groups" in that list?
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Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by butterscotchwhip
Errr...did anyybody else spot "Irish paramilitary groups" in that list?
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Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
I suppose I'm a bit weird but... that list brought a nostalgic tear to my eye...! I've been living in Canada since June 1999. I love it here - I'd never move back to the UK but it doesn't stop me missing it now and again... even daft things like erecting windbreakers on a beach!!!
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Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Actually, it's easy to ridicule this list until you move to another country and then start to miss the simple things that are familiar and just aren't around any more.
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Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by stepnek
Actually, it's easy to ridicule this list until you move to another country and then start to miss the simple things that are familiar and just aren't around any more.
And yes there are some very odd items on the list by any stretch of the imagination and it matters not if you are an expat, non-expat, no way expat or anything come to that. |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Every expat who doesn't find what he/she expected to find in his/her new country will become homesick. If your desire to return to your home country becomes an obsession, you romanticize everything you were used to, everything that was part of your daily life and now isn't anymore. That's why you find odd things like:
Mums slapping children in the precinct Irish paramilitary groups Chavs, Neds, Charvers and Chatham Slappers. Not Eating all food with fingers. and... remember during the 60's those pale blue colored 'bubble' cars that were made for the disabled....well those: Bubble cars! Good old fashion fight. |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
I was glad to see Elton John on the list. When I go to Canada, I'll never have to hear the name again. :)
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Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL
Good point except I have read the list and thought - is this really what people miss and in fact most of what is on the list is readily available in any major country in the world. Hence no need to miss them if it really bothers the soul.
And yes there are some very odd items on the list by any stretch of the imagination and it matters not if you are an expat, non-expat, no way expat or anything come to that. |
Re: Just in case you need to withdraw application
Originally Posted by Rhodes
I was glad to see Elton John on the list. When I go to Canada, I'll never have to hear the name again. :)
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