100weight

This was so funny until I realised I had misread it.

CWT

Michael

Only if the poster was gay or a woman.

Danoz

+10000000000

Pulaski

Or drainage canals and lakes, if you live in Florida.

Guindalf

Rolf Harris!

(also a decent Ruby!).

rpjs

Currently in Blighty for a week. So far:

1) Sullen customer service personnel. Yes, I know there's the counter-view that American customer service is "fake" but it's nicer to be on the receiving end of someone who's pretending to like their job than someone who wants to make it clear they don't.

2) Mr Branson's nasty Pendolino trains, although as one of the nice Metro-North trains I usually ride on has just crashed, maybe I shouldn't complain.

3) Arseholes who think they quiet coach doesn't apply "because the train hasn't left the station yet".

4) "Due to staff shortages, this service is currently not available. Thank you for you patience."

5) Poshos who give other staff a hard time because of 4) above. We're on a train, do you think the conductor is going to whip out the missing staff member from her backside.

6) Pedestrians wandering all over the place on the pavement. I so love the keep right rule in the US.

7) The grey, grey weather.

Apart from that I'm happy to be back!

hungryhorace

Nasty Pendolino trains? The Virgin trains are really nice! Far nicer than anything i've ridden on yet here in America.

Pulaski

You're setting a pretty low bar to measure achievement there!

rpjs

Ugh no, they are cramped and uncomfortable and are the only trains I ever get travel sick on. Even Metro-North (when they're not crashing) are better, and Amtrak's Amfleet cars are rail heaven.

hungryhorace

I've found them fine, indeed the Virgin trains are thought of as excellent for the most part.

Bob

I kind of miss that....after some pikey shits over the car with their epic parking skills...

I don't miss...having to get dressed up to go out on a Friday night or never getting let into some pocky pub.

SultanOfSwing

I don't miss the price of petrol. Also, I don't miss earning **** all money and not being able to afford a house.

fuchs01

Like I have said on other thread, Fissssssh Nnnnn Cccchipps and a good
Ol pork pie. Sunday tea times with family.
Bacon you can usually get anywhere in the world.
Doner, if the Turks or greeks are about, you can get that also anywhere, the way of cutting it, will be different, plus with the north Africans will argue, who originated the doner. I have eaten doner in NY and Chicago both times in a deli.They had a great
choice on hot sauces. I must say I do like the doner in England, I like the thin slices.

Besides the food...I miss the half hour comedies in midweek, but that era has past.
Magic roundabout, and the wombles, too clever for the kids.
Watching Westerns with my dad, like Wagon Train, Laramie, Cheyenne, while eating
Baked beans on toast, on a wet saturday afternoon ,but thats nostalgia, cos like my dad the heroes have gone to that great prairie in the sky.

Steve_

Traffic would be the #1 for me, and I don't mean congestion either, I mean having to know every kink in a road that has been there for centuries in order to navigate down it.

Also the typically British superior attitude, not everyone has it but it's not hard to see how Britain ended up with an Empire. I know I'm a know-it-all but one thing I do know - the UK is a second-tier power and hardly anyone cares what anyone in the UK thinks about anything anymore.

In Canada, people know it's a second-tier power and act accordingly. Americans on the other hand know they're a superpower and think everyone cares about their opinion but generally no-one does. Or at least British people don't because they have a superior attitude.

hungryhorace

I love that part about being British!

btw - quality of the roads in England is superior in every way to the roads in the parts of MA I drive in.