How many Brits in your town?
Mar 29th 2007, 11:54 am
#31
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
I agree.
It's nice to have a conversation with someone who has similar points of reference to you. Sometimes I get fed up with not understanding half the things in a conversation and then not being understood.
There are quite a lot of Brits where I live.We don't live in each others pockets but we do get together.
It's nice to have a conversation with someone who has similar points of reference to you. Sometimes I get fed up with not understanding half the things in a conversation and then not being understood.
There are quite a lot of Brits where I live.We don't live in each others pockets but we do get together.
Mar 29th 2007, 2:44 pm
#32
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
hi iam aother brit down here in the lone star .but i come from watford (holywell) I LOVE THAT TOWN i went back 2 wks ago it was safe a little dirty and way 2 manny cars . did you say that you live i watford doris????????. any way back to brits in my town afew i meet up with them on sundays for football lvery few guys here in san antonio
We were not from Watford, we moved there for my husbands job and for a while I didn't like it. Too many cars, took ages to get anywhere etc but once we moved into the town it was better and I loved being close to London.
I love Cassiobury Park.
Mar 29th 2007, 2:49 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
Most of the Brits I have met here are converted Mormons. No tea, or a G & T. 
The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!
The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!
Mar 29th 2007, 2:54 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
oh yes my side of town well the cars are worst now .and all the streets are one way messed me up .had not had to drive in the u k for 7 yrs lost my edge all very quick .but i still love watford feels like home .san antonio is just to dam hot .i dont know how much longer i can hang in here each trip home makes it worst. my mum is coming out in may so that will help a little .but after that who knows
Mar 29th 2007, 2:56 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
oh yes my side of town well the cars are worst now .and all the streets are one way messed me up .had not had to drive in the u k for 7 yrs lost my edge all very quick .but i still love watford feels like home .san antonio is just to dam hot .i dont know how much longer i can hang in here each trip home makes it worst. my mum is coming out in may so that will help a little .but after that who knows
I am sorry that you are having a hard time, hopefully things will change soon for you and being here might help support you a bit
Mar 29th 2007, 2:58 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
Most of the Brits I have met here are converted Mormons. No tea, or a G & T. The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!
The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!
Mar 29th 2007, 4:40 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
Just me!...........Sophia
Mar 29th 2007, 5:17 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
Most of the Brits I have met here are converted Mormons. No tea, or a G & T. The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!
The only three "normal" Brits I know are DollyLlama , and an Irish and English lass. I've got my conversion job laid off for me and I am determined to teach the other lost souls how to enjoy a cuppa before getting to the harder stuff!I bet some of those Mormon folk partake on the quiet - drink and drugs are probably the only things that keep them sane
Mar 29th 2007, 5:40 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
I like popping into the Brit store down Greenville ave here in Dallas..
"alright then"
"yeah...lovely"
"thats good then"....
just simple words.....but so much more personal and down to earth than the bulls!t you have to go through with the septics everyday.
"alright then"
"yeah...lovely"
"thats good then"....
just simple words.....but so much more personal and down to earth than the bulls!t you have to go through with the septics everyday.
Mar 29th 2007, 5:41 pm
#41
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
My best friend when I was small had moved back to the UK from Nairobi. Her dad was in the airforce..anyway they were mormons.
Mar 30th 2007, 2:52 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
I was in a little shop in Wilmington and the owner had a full southern accent, yet overhearing her conversation with another customer heard her say the word "bugger", still with the accent. Without a thought I piped up with "you're English!" as if I had just met a long lost friend, no idea why I did. Turned out she was from Bury, Lancs, but has been here 30 years, she's the only one I have met here. Although, I was on the receiving end in a shop in Myrtle Beach, when I greeted the salesgirl with a simple "hiya', she quickly responded with "Oh My God you're English!" turns out she was from near Leeds.
Also turned out that our nationalities were the only thing we had to talk about in both cases.
Also turned out that our nationalities were the only thing we had to talk about in both cases.
Mar 30th 2007, 3:46 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
theres a fair few in our neck of the woods (prolly a dozen or so, not met all of them yet). I work with another Brit who I've known for a fair while.
Mar 31st 2007, 6:00 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
The guy on the cash register in Walmart last night is from Mansfield. Been here 20 years. He forgot to ring up half our stuff (beer and wine) as he was so excited to talk to hubby. I thought we were never going to get out of there. Poor guy he was probably a tad home sick and happy to hear a fellow Brit.
Hubby was anxious to get out as Wally World is not his favorite place in the world.....
Hubby was anxious to get out as Wally World is not his favorite place in the world.....
Mar 31st 2007, 6:04 pm
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Re: How many Brits in your town?
The guy on the cash register in Walmart last night is from Mansfield. Been here 20 years. He forgot to ring up half our stuff (beer and wine) as he was so excited to talk to hubby. I thought we were never going to get out of there. Poor guy he was probably a tad home sick and happy to hear a fellow Brit.
Hubby was anxious to get out as Wally World is not his favorite place in the world.....
Hubby was anxious to get out as Wally World is not his favorite place in the world.....
