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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/29/2010 8:20:03 PM

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Two whole newcastles? Wow. Heavy drinker!

More than that and I start drooling on my pashmina!! Can't risk that, without Peon to rescue me!

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/29/2010 10:15:26 PM

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I like that it is all the way across the Atlantic ocean creating a good degree of separation.

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 6:05:58 AM

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Yep, C of E was protestant enough for the thousands who died in religious wars during Bloody Mary and Elizabeth's reigns, for the Civil War and Old Ironsides, and for catholics prevented from holding higher office until late in the last century.

On the face of it......perhaps....

But the English religion didn't deviate so much from Catholicism in the way that say German Protestantism did.

The thing was that Spain and France were the enemies at the time and it was felt that something was needed to distinguish ourselves from them in order to breed Nationalism.....and that thing was the label of Protestantism.....but in terms of the actual springs and mechanics of the English religion.....the Church of England is a rather catholic church which down the years has encompassed eveything from Celtic Mysticism...to Christian Socialism....to English Catholicism.....it was felt that you couldn't be a patriot and a catholic because catholics had attempted to reinstate Catholicism with the support of the Spanish and French.....the barring of catholics from higher office was political rather than religious.

You walk into an English CofE church and you will see much of the splendour that you see in a catholic church.....which is was one of the reasons why religions such as Methodism came about....for many the Church of England simply wasn't Protestant enough. There are differences of course.....for example a catholic minister expects you to turn up every Sunday...whereas a CofE minister is happy enough for you to turn up once a year providing you have faith......but there are similarities between the CofE and the catholic church in a way there isn't between the German Protestant churches and Catholicism.

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 6:12:17 AM

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Born an Atheist, raised Episcopalian (CofE in America), and now a born-again Atheist, I'm here to tell you that I like to say "Episcopalianism is as close to Catholicism as you can get without bending a knee to Rome."

ETA: Glad that I was raised in a "near Catholic" environment. All those wonderful traditions and cathedrals and music, etc. BUT none of that over-riding guilt. LOL! (Did y'all know that the National Cathedral is Episcopalian?)

So the two gay guys go the Catholic/Epsicopal Church. The Easter procession goes right by them, cross, choir, incense, everything..... Later, one says to the other, "What did you think of the procession?" The other answers, "Loved the gowns, but that one guy's purse was on fire."

I guess you had to be there..... I'll see if I can find a pic. LOL!

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 6:38:35 AM

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English sense of humour.... Other BBC comedy programs were mentioned, but I didn't see "Are You Being Served?" and the always wonderful Mrs. Slocum (especially her pussy jokes and colorful hair.) Mr. Humphries is a close 2nd.

Alan Turing deserves a 2nd mention.

ETA: 2nd mentions also to Dame Judi (Dench) and Dame Helen (Mirren) especially the later's portrayal of Elizabeth II in "The Queen."

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 6:49:14 AM

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Born an Atheist, raised Episcopalian (CofE in America), and now a born-again Atheist, I'm here to tell you that I like to say "Episcopalianism is as close to Catholicism as you can get without bending a knee to Rome."

ETA: Glad that I was raised in a "near Catholic" environment. All those wonderful traditions and cathedrals and music, etc. BUT none of that over-riding guilt. LOL! (Did y'all know that the National Cathedral is Episcopalian?)

So the two gay guys go the Catholic/Epsicopal Church. The Easter procession goes right by them, cross, choir, incense, everything..... Later, one says to the other, "What did you think of the procession?" The other answers, "Loved the gowns, but that one guy's purse was on fire."

I guess you had to be there..... I'll see if I can find a pic. LOL!

As someone who was christened and raise as an Epopsicle*grin*

Episcopalians: ALL the salvation, half the guilt..... CATHOLIC LITE!!

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 9:09:36 AM

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Alan Turing deserves a 2nd mention.

He was great, but the way he was treated doesn't say great things about us Brits, I'm afraid.

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 9:24:14 AM

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Love British:

Accents
Literature
Actors
Fashion
Theater
Music
one of my ex boyfriend's brothers in Hampstead Heath...yum
the countryside
History
David Beckham...double yum
tea
the whole Victorian times things, Victorian erotica is super hot
Sense of humor

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 11:42:39 AM

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Monty Python DINSDALE!!!!!???!!!!!!

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 11:45:54 AM

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 11:46:11 AM

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I worked with a guy once he divorced an American woman and remarried a Bristish lass, he told me( I was single at the time) if you ever get married Marry a British or European woman...they dont have attitude and know how to treat their men.

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 3:30:05 PM

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I worked with a guy once he divorced an American woman and remarried a Bristish lass, he told me( I was single at the time) if you ever get married Marry a British or European woman...they dont have attitude and know how to treat their men.

Does your friend prefer UK lunatic asylums to those of the USA, too?

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 6:53:55 PM

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possibly so never can tell

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 8/30/2010 8:53:42 PM

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Marry a British or European woman...they dont have attitude and know how to treat their men.

I'd say the same for British men and how they treat their women!

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 9/1/2010 12:20:51 AM

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They saved our asses in WWII. Oh, wait...

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 9/1/2010 12:37:04 AM

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First, my husband, though he can be an utter prick at times.
Second, my ancestors...Henry, thanks for the courage to face the unknown in 1765.
Third, and maybe I should have counted it first, Jane Austen!
English breakfasts followed later by tea on a misty moisty afternoon
and all of the various and sundry things that others have mentioned.

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 9/1/2010 5:25:49 AM

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Alan Rickman!!!!!

Hugh Grant

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Shows from a channel I could access when I lives in California, called BBC, I think. I saw that veterinarian one, from books by James Herriot, one called Fawlty Towers or something, Benny Hill, and others. It was great fun and I miss it.

Big Ben.

Old buildings with character, and not little ugly painted boxes, stuff with history and character and ivy and all that.

Those guards who won't move a muscle no matter what people do or say. <laughing> I wonder what training they get to be able to stay poker faced instead of laughing at the antics of the tourists.

Places that would make me wonder...like Cerne Abbas Giant. (No, I wouldn't return home with chalk on my back.)

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 9/1/2010 6:49:59 AM

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Alan ...*mega drooling/panting/groping*

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RE: What do Americans like about Britain ? - 9/1/2010 6:55:40 AM

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