Spotting British people
Jul 22nd 2017, 5:18 am
#46
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Re: Spotting British people
It's bad enough getting old and ugly without having a mouthful of rotten or missing teeth to go with it. I lost some of my teeth through neglect but now thanks to implants my teeth look really good.
Thank God for braces too. A pretty girl shouldn't have to live with crooked or buck teeth. There were too many that did when I was a kid growing up in the UK
Thank God for braces too. A pretty girl shouldn't have to live with crooked or buck teeth. There were too many that did when I was a kid growing up in the UK
Jul 22nd 2017, 10:26 pm
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Re: Spotting British people
I do? 
I wouldn't have asked if I knew it anywhere, especially in my heart... 
I guess I just don't notice that many 'bad' British teeth back home (or here). Perhaps it's because Brits, in either country, don't tend to smile as much or as widely as Americans...?
I wouldn't have asked if I knew it anywhere, especially in my heart... I guess I just don't notice that many 'bad' British teeth back home (or here). Perhaps it's because Brits, in either country, don't tend to smile as much or as widely as Americans...?
Jul 23rd 2017, 2:12 am
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Re: Spotting British people
Jul 23rd 2017, 2:50 am
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Re: Spotting British people
Yes indeed . . . it seems uniquely in the US, the "GB," "Union Jack" stickers on the cars etc could very well not be from Brits themselves but from Americans with only a loose tie, if any, to the country. A helicopter mom whose son did a study-abroad in England, another person who finally took that European vacation and wants to show off that he went to London, and so on. I did know university friends who put those stickers on their cars from various other countries because of their lineage, even if their relatives had been in the US for 200 years . . .
Whereas in Australia if I pull up behind a car that has an All Blacks sticker on it . . . I know exactly what that means!
Jul 23rd 2017, 2:55 am
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Re: Spotting British people
As well . . . I think that sort of thing is received much better in the US . . . if an American asks another American "where are you from" the answer is half-expected to be ethnic lineage rather than place of birth (you are expected to say "Germany," "Ireland" etc even if your great great great grandparents came to the US in the early 1800s). If an American asks a non-American that, the expected reply is a specific hometown or home country.
Having a Union Jack on the car in the US doesn't ruffle feathers the way, putting it on my car (or the Stars and Stripes) would in countries like Australia, where I think it would mildly irritate people (and that would be half the point of putting it on there in the first place).
Having a Union Jack on the car in the US doesn't ruffle feathers the way, putting it on my car (or the Stars and Stripes) would in countries like Australia, where I think it would mildly irritate people (and that would be half the point of putting it on there in the first place).
Jul 23rd 2017, 9:59 pm
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Re: Spotting British people
Spotting British cruise-ship passengers is easy enough here in the Caribbean: most of them (male and female) seem to wear sandals.
Jul 26th 2017, 2:55 pm
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Re: Spotting British people
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