Following up to libraryofalex@*nospam*btinternet.com

    >You're wrong. The food's improving, especially in London, but it's
    >expensive because of the CrAP

there has always been good food ingredients available for those
willing to find it, I imagine the OP is more concerned about
whining about restaurant prices than getting his backside over to
Borough Market, prices perhaps are high for the same reason
everything in London is expensive, which comes back to supply and
demand for land in a major business centre.
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Following up to libraryofalex@*nospam*btinternet.com

    >>It reflects "sour grapes" by this Socialist rag because their efforts
    >>to get their Socialist readers to influence American voters in Ohio
    >>has backfired.
    >So because of this stupid rag, you'll condemn the whole of the UK?

Its a perfectly good newspaper, the OP is the problem, don't make
excuses, we don't want him here.(assuming he has ever been here?)
although only a ill informed yank like him would think either
that The Gruniad represented UK opinion or that they were
suggesting someone actually shot Bush.
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Following up to Mxsmanic

    >> Unless I am satisfied with a proper apology, I will never spend a
    >> penny again in that wothless peice of nothing called the UK that
    >> happens to be on this planet.
    >You won't be missed.

I'll take this opportunity to agrre with you for once, Mixi!
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Following up to [email protected]

    > I can't say I remember him posting before.

regular troll who wont stay in the killfile.
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Following up to Mimi

    > Remember the UK has supported us in Iraq.

*Tony Blair* has backed Bush, a majority of UK people probably
despise him for it, almost everyone is certain he lied to us.
Nobody here believes Iraq had anything to do AQ, although they
are clearly there now in good numbers, killing Brits, Americans
and local in good numbers. People are currently fairly unhappy
about The Black Watch moving up to Bagdhad to support US forces
under overall US command.

    >And you really ought to see more of Britain than London. Truly beautiful
    >countryside and a lot cheaper.

Yep, try the Lake district, Cornwall or west coast of Scotland.

    >Marianne, a proud liberal

Mike, unproud liberal !
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Following up to Martin Rich

    >Those who followed up the Guardian's own coverage of its Clark County
    >exercise might have noticed that Ian Katz, writing about the response
    >from the US, described a strange obsession with teeth among some of
    >the respondents.

You do get the opposite, Brits taking the piss out of US big
toothy smiles, so its probably "one all" :-)

    > In the context of this thread, it makes me think
    >that the original poster - to put it as mildly as possible - has
    >issues with things British.

By his name he may be Irish American who lives in a fantasy land
of heroic terrorists blowing up children and secretaries funded
by people like him?
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Following up to Andrew Adams

    >which is generally humorous and
    >ironic in tone. Those who seem to be so outraged either don't realise this
    >or seriously need to get a life.

having read some of the pompous toned responses here, I begin to
wonder if the old thing about Americans not understanding irony
or any British humour might be true?
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:51:51 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, The Reids
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Following up to [email protected]
...
... > I can't say I remember him posting before.
...
... regular troll who wont stay in the killfile.

He never left my killfile.

in article [email protected], Keith Willshaw at
[email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 14:49:

    > Only if you dont want to find a specific book. The standard
    > method of sorting books in Foyles is to pile them up randomly.


I never had a problem as long as they did not mix subject matter.

My wife likes "Murder One" just down the block from Foyles,
which is totally dedicated to crime.

Earl

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:51:47 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, The Reids
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Following up to PJ O'Donovan
...
... >Unless I am satisfied with a proper apology, I will never spend a
... >penny again in that wothless peice of nothing called the UK that
... >happens to be on this planet.
...
... excellent, stay away, we don't want rude, humourless "people"
... like you.

I'm very happy for you, dear neighbours, congratulations ! :))

(I hope he hates the French as well.)

in article [email protected], BrianE at
[email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 14:55:

    >> I fully agree. I can't say I remember him posting before.
    >
    > IIRC he's had a pop at the Brits before..


PJ is a grumpy old guy who normally posts nonsense.

He has been on this group before. He tend to chase me
around the country side to find where I post so he
can counter post! He has posted on two other groups
recently in that regard and it is not the first time.

He does not like socialists.

Earl

Earl Evleth wrote:

    > in article [email protected], Mark Hewitt at
    > [email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 14:15:
    >
    >
    >>hat's just London. The thing about London is it's completely unlike the
    >>rest of the country. But most Americans are too stupid to realise this.
    >
    >
    >
    > The best thing about London is its book stores. The Americans
    > should come and try out Foyles.
    >
    > Earl
    >
Sigh. Drool. The thing I miss most living in France are English language
book stores. I'm making Amazon UK rich.

Keith Willshaw wrote:

    > "Earl Evleth" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:BDA2C026.21EA3%[email protected]...
    >
    >>in article [email protected], Mark Hewitt at
    >>[email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 14:15:
    >>>hat's just London. The thing about London is it's completely unlike the
    >>>rest of the country. But most Americans are too stupid to realise this.
    >>The best thing about London is its book stores. The Americans
    >>should come and try out Foyles.
    >>Earl
    >
    >
    > Only if you dont want to find a specific book. The standard
    > method of sorting books in Foyles is to pile them up randomly.
    >
    > Keith
    >
    >
As in Black Books?

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:58:06 +0200, Ellie C <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Earl Evleth wrote:
    >> in article [email protected], Mark Hewitt at
    >> [email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 14:15:
    >>
    >>
    >>>hat's just London. The thing about London is it's completely unlike the
    >>>rest of the country. But most Americans are too stupid to realise this.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> The best thing about London is its book stores. The Americans
    >> should come and try out Foyles.
    >>
    >> Earl
    >>
    >Sigh. Drool. The thing I miss most living in France are English language
    >book stores. I'm making Amazon UK rich.

Do you know abe books too?
http://www.abebooks.com/
--
Martin

in article [email protected], Ellie C at
[email protected] wrote on 25/10/04 16:58:

    > Sigh. Drool. The thing I miss most living in France are English language
    > book stores. I'm making Amazon UK rich.


From Paris it is not too hard to "pop" over to London. We purposefully
return from the US through London, US books stores are relatively standard
except in NYC which has a large choice.

What we do do in the US is hit the used book stores. We leave Paris with
half filled bags and return full. Expensive.

The problem now is that our Paris apartment book shelves (all over the
place) are full and we have to convert and unused maid's room on the 6th
floor to hold books.

Earl