Yeah we do. It's on the fourth of July.

My husband was asked "do you have VCR's in the UK"?

My six year old daughter has lost her lovely english accent and came home from school saying someone had farded on the bus on the way home.

Reminds me.

When I was still living in N.I. a friend of mine, an attorney from L.A., Joan was coming to visit me.

She asked "Can you take a car into Northern Ireland or do you have to park it at the border and get a bus in?".

"Yes, you can bring a car in.", I replied.

"How will I know I have crossed the border?" she further enquires.

"The road quality improves" being my response........

People have such strange ideas, I used to tell people that in Ireland we lived with a dirt floor and chickens in the kitchen when encountering such attitudes.... :D

When registering my daughter for school. I showed them her passport

"oh was she born in London"
"No, she was born in Rotherham"
"Oh is that in Ireland"
"No, it's in Yorkshire"
"Wow, London, Rotherham, Ireland and Yorkshire, she sure has travelled a lot, hasn't she"

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Usually people just give my husband a strange look and ask him to repeat things. He's had "Are you German?" too, and while he was wearing his England hat!!

The hairdresser asked him where he was from once, and he said England. She then asked if he was from "Paris, the capital of England" !

Never had the German one...that's hilarious though. I've had aussie, english, irish. One guy I worked with could never get the english thing out of his head
"hey Tony, you going back to England for xmas?"
Me "yeah sure mate, it's probably cheaper to fly into London and get a train up to Edinburgh"
Him "cool"
Since he probably thought Edinburgh was an English city this all made sense to him :rolleyes:

Tony, you seen the new low fare airline operating out of Canada.
www.flyzoom.com

some great rates from Vancouver to Glasgow.

Wow $379, that is f**ing cheap. Have to show the wife this when she gets home, cheers mate.

yeah, I been thinking it would be worth it for me to drive to Toronto instead of Detroit.

Not to be a pain in the ass but it looks like it's $379 for the flight to Glasgow and another $379 for the flight back to Vancouver, plus taxes. Sorry, had to say!!

Some fares are as low as $199 (ex tax) one way though. Canadian dollars too

Yeah you're right, very misleading. I think it's still cheaper when you convert to canadian dollars etc and it's more convenient for us living in the NW trying to get a direct flight into Scotland...or northern england for that matter.

It is pretty good if you only need a one way :)

Women love it...

but guys hate it.

Eg: Don't go into a texas bar with your accent. I've seen british dudes get beat up in clubs, and get called pansies and get austin power jokes ridiculed, etc. etc.

In big dance clubs -- there are fights every night, and it's just another reason for a bunch of drunk tough guys to find someone to pick a fight with. Some of it may have to do with jealousy.

btw: It sounds cute, but for heavens sakes don't talk fast!!! I can never understand anything. Imagine the characters in Lord of the Rings, talking at the speed of the characters like Chris Tucker in Rush Hour or Micheal Douglas in Wall Street. Total chaos.

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I had to laugh at this post... as an American in a popular Brit tourist destination, I got *all* of the above...more than once! I was often confused for Canadian (eh? I'm only a half-breed!) and had one memorable exchange with a fella who insisted that Oregon was
A) in Canada (well, don't tell them that we switched sides...)
B) oh yea, the place with all the tornadoes (sorry, that's Oklahoma you're thinking of)
C) No it's not! I saw Twister! (yes sir. What can I bring you to drink?)

Fortunately I had my English husband along to translate. It took me a couple of weeks of waitressing to figure out that when asked about 'pudding', Jello was *not* on their minds. I cringe to think how many I sent away without dessert....

Now in the States, my husband is most often confused for Australian and I feel terrible at how often he has to repeat his requests/comments, because I've been there myself.