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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/5/2013 10:54:23 AM

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I do remember corresponding by mail with a guy named Geoff for awhile after that first summer, and I always giggled when he used the word "whilst" in his letters - God I was silly at 18.

I see no cause for merriment at the use of the word 'whilst'. It is a fine upstanding word.

, bang on old chap!!

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/5/2013 10:57:22 AM

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Don't knock 'Seany- Sean', he's a national institution! & best Bond by far

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/5/2013 11:10:39 AM

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Daddy long legs, also known as the crane fly.....
I remember back in senior school, we had walls enclosing the cafeteria and the school auditorium, that would be covered with them at the end of the summer?... millions of the damned things, , they would mate by joining their nether regions and fly about together, not caring what was in the way, very bad fliers considering....their size(about twoinches)

Being a brit... Im terribly friendly until a twit makes its presence felt...
I know plenty of brits who are standoffish I know many friendly americans and standoffish ones.
I dont think there can be an objective case for either.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/5/2013 6:11:18 PM

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I like the word "whilst".

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/5/2013 6:40:26 PM

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Ah, a crane fly. Good to know. I'll remember that whilst picking their dead bodies out from behind the screen door.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 12:47:50 AM

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I like the word "whilst".

How about 'Erstwhile'? That's a good word, a nice woody word, like 'Caribou', not a tinny word like 'Formica', Yuk!

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 12:49:26 AM

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How about punky wood?

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 12:51:27 AM

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You're up early! How's the new deck coming along?

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 2:36:51 AM

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Ooooh...the Canadians. I always got the feeling they hate us Americans.

actually Canadians have been very friendly towards Carol and I and I have really only heard one guy make a rude remark abot Americans. Oh sure, they think we are dumb as bricks to run our country the way we do but they like us anyway. My general assessment is that Canadians live up to their reputation of friendliness.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 3:08:23 AM

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My schedule is sleeping between 6 am to 2 or 3pm.,
So I have vampire schedule.
The new deck is awesome. I used them last night and they were amazing.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 4:56:08 AM

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Hiya,

Could possibly be buying the deck this afternoon, if I'm not dragged down the pub first! I'm really pleased you're getting on with them

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I too have a vampire schedule, but I'm more Peter Cushing than Christopher Lee

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Have a great day!

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 9:21:10 AM

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Having read the books before the movies came out, I already had a picture in my head... and Connery was Bond. In the books he wasn't the pretty boy type that later actors portrayed.

Ian Fleming wanted the even craggier looking Patrick McGoohan at first.
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Flying daddy long legs......

I will not sleep for a week now.

And Sean Connery - yawn. I never thought he was the best Bond anyway.

I think it's the accent that gets me. Sigh.....

Although, I traveled with a singing group for two summers, and it cracked me up see the reaction of the Yankee and even across the pond guys to my southern accent. It's more of the Scarlet kind and less of the Joy from "My Name is Earl" kind, and you'd have thought I was Cindy Crawford when I opened my mouth. Of course, it was the 80's so the big hair probably helped......

I do remember corresponding by mail with a guy named Geoff for awhile after that first summer, and I always giggled when he used the word "whilst" in his letters - God I was silly at 18.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 11:47:20 AM

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when I got any insulting comment in regards to my profile pics in the past (with folks which werent on the boards) they were always from people from the UK...somehow it appeared to me that they love trying to insult others with childish comments like "wow, you've got a fat arse..."

As a Brit, I have to say that is embarrassing.

As I said, placing my profiles in another country it might trigger the trolls there just the same way, but it just made my head shake, to receive such shit from online trolls...

Unbelievible how boring their lives must be...

Personally speaking, they did not realise that I actually like my proportions on that pic, so their attempts of insulting me did not work anyway

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 2:55:27 PM

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Having read the books before the movies came out, I already had a picture in my head... and Connery was Bond. In the books he wasn't the pretty boy type that later actors portrayed.

Ian Fleming wanted the even craggier looking Patrick McGoohan at first.
http://images.easyart.com/highres_images/easyart/2/4/243847.jpg

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Flying daddy long legs......

I will not sleep for a week now.

And Sean Connery - yawn. I never thought he was the best Bond anyway.

I think it's the accent that gets me. Sigh.....

Although, I traveled with a singing group for two summers, and it cracked me up see the reaction of the Yankee and even across the pond guys to my southern accent. It's more of the Scarlet kind and less of the Joy from "My Name is Earl" kind, and you'd have thought I was Cindy Crawford when I opened my mouth. Of course, it was the 80's so the big hair probably helped......

I do remember corresponding by mail with a guy named Geoff for awhile after that first summer, and I always giggled when he used the word "whilst" in his letters - God I was silly at 18.

You have just encapsulated all my boyhood dreams. I love Seany Sean, He is James Bond!

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/6/2013 3:04:44 PM

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Ian Fleming wanted the even craggier looking Patrick McGoohan at first.

Ian Fleming didn't like Connery for the role, at least at first. He thought Connery was a 'Scottish oik'. Bit of a snob, our Ian. However, I've read that he saw Bond as a craggy looking man. And a heavy smoker - sixty a day. He wouldn't have been very fit.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/7/2013 5:33:25 AM

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Sean Connery is the archetypal JB, but, Patrick McGoohan, would have been good too

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/7/2013 5:47:13 AM

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I try to be friendly with people of all nationalities, that said, I have a low tolerance for stupidity.

I admire the british for their history, even though one of their kings kicked the shelton family off their ancestrial holdings, something about supporting another claimant to the throne. Petty really.

I have a soft spot for women of the UK and Ireland, the accents drive me into complacency.

The Scots gave us scotch, even though the British try to claim it as there own.

Aside from the fact they like to rename things that were invented in the US, all in all the people of the UK are good people.

It is an elevator by the way, not a freaking LIFT.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/7/2013 6:52:31 AM

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Lift, Lift, Lift!!

& it's a bonnet, not a hood!!

A hood is a gangster!!

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/7/2013 7:37:38 AM

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Bonnet?

So if it's, what we call, a hooded sweatshirt you would call it a bonnet sweatshirt?

I've never heard 'hood' being used to call a gangster. We use the term hood as slang for neighborhood.

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RE: Americans friendlier than Brits? - 6/7/2013 7:58:40 AM

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/eixo/15-best-britishisms-e9k

or a catchy lil song(fanny in US means bum, fanny in the uk is a vagina)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/emmalead/english-to-american-2xgr
or even

altho, I dont agree with many of the brit ones.
and even a food one....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/a-categorization-of-what-americans-brits-and-chi
thanks buzzfeed

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