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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
(Post 10097750)
I've done quite a bit of commuting (and staying away) back in the days when my industry employed Brits instead of importing the ICT crowd.
I too used to hate staying overnight in a hotel, and not just because it was incredibly expensive. There is nothing better than waking up in your own place, where you know where to get your favourite cup of tea and help yourself to a slice of toast, even if you then have a 2 or 3 hour journey to work. |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by tim1963
(Post 10097731)
A little bit like your lot. ;)
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 10097913)
My lot?
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Mitzyboy
(Post 10097916)
That intrigued me to!
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Lenox
(Post 10096540)
According to a study which appears in El Mundo today, around half of all Spaniards have never this country in their lifetime. 10% have apparently never left their province (moving up to, I suspect, about 90% in my pueblo).
I can't imagine the numbers for the UK in comparison (or care less), but at least among us foreign residents, I'm proud to say... 'we've all been abroad'! |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 10097933)
Is he being racist or Anti-semitic?
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10098863)
Probably both:nod:
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by tim1963
(Post 10098988)
Just an American that finds the persistent and juvenile anti-Americanism of the same few on this board a little boring. What gives? Did you not get to go to Disneyworld?
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Fredbargate
(Post 10096792)
Simple, the vast majority came from foreign parts
1 France 76.82 million 2 United States 54.96 million 3 Spain 52.18 million 4 China 50.88 million 5 Italy 43.24 million 6 United Kingdom 28.20 million 7 Turkey 25.51 million 8 Germany 24.22 million 9 Malaysia 23.65 million 10 Mexico 21.45 million I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners. If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays. Maybe I live in a parallel universe.:confused: Jim Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies. |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by tim1963
(Post 10098988)
Just an American that finds the persistent and juvenile anti-Americanism of the same few on this board a little boring. What gives? Did you not get to go to Disneyworld?
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Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by tim1963
(Post 10096956)
But the US is so big! Just because a few Brits have travelled to Spain for their holidays doesn't make them worldly wise. For the most part it's still full English and fish and chips when they get here - it's just that the beer is cheaper.
Jim. |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Bigger Jim
(Post 10099095)
Sorry but fish and chips is not English! It was introduced to the Brits by the Spanish but that is a common mistake!
Jim. A lot of people don't know that Haggis and Guiness are both of English origin. |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Bigger Jim
(Post 10099049)
Rank Country International tourist arrivals
1 France 76.82 million 2 United States 54.96 million 3 Spain 52.18 million 4 China 50.88 million 5 Italy 43.24 million 6 United Kingdom 28.20 million 7 Turkey 25.51 million 8 Germany 24.22 million 9 Malaysia 23.65 million 10 Mexico 21.45 million I thought that I would check some of the "FACTS". I am sure that more than one person must have been overwhelmed by Spanish visitors taking their free holidays in Andalucian hotels along the Costa del Sol and all the other resorts on the med coast that provide them to Spanish pensioners. If you look at the table above the Spanish seem to far outway us in taking holidays. Maybe I live in a parallel universe.:confused: Jim Sorry Fred just used your quote as a coat hanger. Many apologies. The table appears to indicate the number of foreign tourist arrivals in Spain, NOT the number of Spanish going on holiday. :confused: |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly
(Post 10099112)
Link ? Evidence ?
A lot of people don't know that Haggis and Guiness are both of English origin. so it must be true :lol: |
Re: Foreign Parts
Originally Posted by lynnxa
(Post 10099139)
Jamie Oliver said so on
so it must be true :lol: Haggis is popularly assumed to be of Scottish origin, but there is a lack of historical evidence that could conclusively attribute its origins to any one place. A serving of haggis, neeps and tatties A stylized version of haggis, neeps and tatties The first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.[2] . That makes him a bit older than most of us. Jim |
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