Merry Birthday...

[Katie]

...oh forum leader! :) :D

[nsswimmer]

do u say MERRY BIRTHDAY as well as HAPPY CHRISTMAS? haha either the uk is backwards, or the usa is. probably the usa ;D

and happy birthday :D

[Katie]

No we don't say merry birthday, but I was in a weird mood and wanted 2 c if I could provoke a response... and I did!:D

[swimmer]

lol!

[Dreama]

actually am not sure why our UK xmas cards say 'merry' i for one can't name a person I know that's ever said merry xmas to me, apart from a 70+ auntie! I think it's an old-fashioned type saying i suppose, maybe about time we updated ourselves eh?

Well saying that, most of us have, there are still the odd few that are still with old times and these seem to be the people portrayed to the rest of the world!

I assure you we aren't all old-fashioned with stiff upper lips and we don't all talk proper english like they show us on US tv! it annoys me cos some people think we're all stiff borin old farts and most of us ain't...get yourself to Yorkshire then you'll know what we're really like hehe! talking our own groovy little language, with our kewl little accents...

reet, am off darn t'pub fur a bevvy!

lolololol

<<YORKSHIRE & DAMN PROUD OF IT>>

btw has anyone noticed that a lot of the english movie/tv stars in america talk a bit posh, as i was just pointing out about our portrayal to the world...ie... hugh grant

i say let's see more SEAN BEAN (Yorkshire hero) hehe

[Dreama]

YORKSHIRE & PROUD OF IT BTW!!!!!

[ktcute]

Heh, I'm as stiff and upper as anyone else :)

Yup we aren't the pictures you see in the movies, but then if I remember rightly even 20 years ago english businessmen tended to get portrayed as bowler hatted umbreller carriers....!

I still think we are pretty unfriendly towards "foreigners" however. But we are getting better. I work with Americans in our partner company, and have a terrible time getting the older generations to listen without going "Can't stand the Americans". It drives me crazy, because some of my best friends have been American, and I happen to find them infinitely preferable in terms of their friendly approach, and generally caring nature to a whole bunch of english people I know.

You should hear what some Ugandans of my aquaintance had to say about their experiences of being in England. Now there really is a friendly country. They can't understand why we don't talk to each other on busses?!

[Dreama]

lol that paints a funny picture...

usually when someone gets on a bus you sit there praying they dont sit next to you, then god help you if they speak lol dont know why this is? perhaps something to do with the phrase "dont talk to strangers" drilled into us when we were kids! especially not in dodgy places, like on buses, some bus routes are well dodgy! some in London i can name!

[ktcute]

nod, sad but true.... in Birmingham the drivers all sit behind perpex screens, and have no access to the money at all...

if you want change... forget it!

[Bazza]

I've heard that all the money goes straight into a safe and all fares are rounded to the nearest pound such that change is not necessary...:eek:

[ktcute]

The nearest pound!!! In Brum if all you have is a tenner then the driver will attempt to take your arm off through the perspex to get you to put it in the kitty!