Originally Posted by WarriorLife

Surprised your noses aren't getting sunburnt, with them being so far up in the air, whilst you sit upon a high horse.

Whenever I return home to England and people find out I now live in Texas, they will always ask me one of the following:

- do you live on a ranch?
- do you ride a horse to work?
- do you say "Y'all" all the time?
- does everyone wear cowboy boots and a hat?
- are you a cowboy?

Get the picture? Dumb people are everywhere. We all have moments of dumbness and times when we say foolish things. But I tell you this - if I was to ask the "What do they eat" question that was posted earlier, and that guy looked at me for a couple of seconds before answering...I'd tear his pompous head off his arrogant shoulders and shove it up his egocentric ass.

Originally Posted by yorkshire_lass

I found it hard to believe that anyone in America could really seriously ask someone from England what language they spoke, but my daughter was asked this just recently by a school friend (aged 14). Another child had been reading Harry Potter and said "it must be great growing up in England with magic being real there an all......." - he was serious!!

Originally Posted by Eskimo

We had a child ask our 13 year old if we speak French in England ! also as a favour I am doing a presentation to a US family tomorrow who are moving to the UK, the boy (14) wrote on his info sheet that his biggest worry in moving to England was that the kids would never have heard of Harry Potter

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

Surprised your noses aren't getting sunburnt, with them being so far up in the air, whilst you sit upon a high horse.

Whenever I return home to England and people find out I now live in Texas, they will always ask me one of the following:

- do you live on a ranch?
- do you ride a horse to work?
- do you say "Y'all" all the time?
- does everyone wear cowboy boots and a hat?
- are you a cowboy?

Get the picture? Dumb people are everywhere. We all have moments of dumbness and times when we say foolish things. But I tell you this - if I was to ask the "What do they eat" question that was posted earlier, and that guy looked at me for a couple of seconds before answering...I'd tear his pompous head off his arrogant shoulders and shove it up his egocentric ass.

Originally Posted by yorkshire_lass

Iand said "it must be great growing up in England with magic being real there an all......." - he was serious!!

Originally Posted by cpe111

If someone asked me that I would have a strong suspicion they were taking the p%ss

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

I just think people on here have a lot of nerve making post after post containing digs and rips at the US (English pubs aren't as good?? You're in AMERICA you daft bastards), and now this smug, high and mighty thread were everyone talks about times they belittled someone, or looked down their noses at them, because they happened to make a slightly silly statement.

Ironic considering the sheer amount of twaddle that gets posted on this once interesting forum.

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

I just think people on here have a lot of nerve making post after post containing digs and rips at the US (English pubs aren't as

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

Do you have a thing about making fun of kids or something? Give the poor little guys a break - at your age, you should know better.

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

I just think people on here have a lot of nerve making post after post containing digs and rips at the US (English pubs aren't as good?? You're in AMERICA you daft bastards), and now this smug, high and mighty thread were everyone talks about times they belittled someone, or looked down their noses at them, because they happened to make a slightly silly statement.

Ironic considering the sheer amount of twaddle that gets posted o here. Go ahead, start your troll nonsense - I know I'm right.

Originally Posted by pingu

All people ever do on this part of the forum is criticise the USA and complain about why it's different from the UK. This thread sums up the attitude of British people abroad http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=315063. I think that if you don't like it abroad, then move back to the UK. Why should the rest of the world change to suit the British?

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

Exactly - well said. I never met a more pretentious, self-loving lot as the people who inhabit this place. I find it amusing that you are all referring to conversations with 13yr olds and yokels. Go talk to the professors at NYU and see how well your intellects match up.

And yes I'm at it again....holding a mirror up to your attitudes and proving what you really are.

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

Exactly - well said. I never met a more pretentious, self-loving lot as the people who inhabit this place. I find it amusing that you are all referring to conversations with 13yr olds and yokels. Go talk to the professors at NYU and see how well your intellects match up.

And yes I'm at it again....holding a mirror up to your attitudes and proving what you really are.

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

You never saw this one then?

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=307592

Originally Posted by WarriorLife

That thread certainly has it's moments...but like everything else, soon degenerated into an MSN-style chitchat that is of no interest or relevance.