Ritilan

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mmmm hotdogs. Yes we all are addicted to hamburgers.
Someone should set up a great hamburger place in London and then you could share our addiction.

The Infamous Jules

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I don't think this is "You Know You're from Britain when", I think this is you trying to justify your lifestyle and projecting it onto everyone else :o)

Daniel

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<b><i>You're always a half an hour late to work ... no-one notices or cares.</i></b>

They used to notice when I was late :( LOL

Allegra WICKEDFANONE

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Umm ok i think these really are brittish because i don't even understand half of them... what, exactly, IS a packaged sandwich? I had hamburgers tonight, in fact, scarfed it down like a TRUE AMERICAN!!!

Detroitrah

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another difference is you also have a prime minister that can admit when he was wrong. we have a moron for a president who wont admit ever doing anything wrong. cheers to you all in England. wish for the best turn out here in america next month for us will ya? maybe we will have a truely fair election this time. p.s. if we are addicted to hot dogs and hamburgers are you guys addicted to fish and chips?

Graeme

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Ritilan: Fantastic get rich quick scheme - I visit The States for 'research' purposes and then return to London to set up my own 'Real American Burger Joint' where I make a killing from burger deprived Brits and Americans pining for home. You want in? I should note that my last 'brilliant' idea was alcoholic milkshake (other than some initial curdling not much happened with this one).

Jules: Yeah - I'm projecting that lifestyle on to <em>you</em>.

Daniel: Mine is more arriving an hour early for work and no one noticing. Doh!

Allegra: <em>What is a packaged sandwich</em>? You are kidding me right? They are sandwiches (of any filing - although Chicken Tikka is the most popular in the UK, but that's a whole 'nother story) that come in triangular plastic or cardboard pacakages. They're sold in supermarkets and specialist sandwich shops and are the prime lunchtime food stuff of office workers. If you are ever in the UK find a <a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/">Marks and Spencers</a> food hall in a city at lunchtime and you'll see what I mean.

Detroitrah: A prime minister that can admit when he's wrong? I think you might be thinking of a different country. Maybe Norway or somewhere like that. I do love fish and chips by the way, and roast beef on Sunday's, but I don't normally get them (I'm too busy eating packaged sandwiches).

Tarquinn

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yeah i've actually been noticing recently how different canadian's and the british are... i been talking to an online friend from around there somewhere, she does things way different from how i do them, and yes i do understand the whole packaged sandwich thing... but no we don't have that here... i think it's a trust thing... we all just make our own sandwiches... i don't think i could eat a sandwich i didn't make

i'm still pretty young, but i think even when i'm older politics won't bother me at all... i don't think any one person can do better than another at a job like that... they just do it different... so since my vote would be pretty much a guess... i just keep not voting

fish and chips are great... mine are a little different from real ones, but it would be one of the first things i try if i ever get enough money to travel, another thing i'd like to travel for is to hear the english 'accent'... your guys's accent is cool, our's to you just sounds boring i've heard, and despite what U.S. thinks, only about 10% of us sound like they think we do... the rest they don't notice we aren't from around there... cuz we sound the same.... it'd be like us saying all them have a southern accent... cuz their the only one's that sound different

all the drinking ones apply to the teens and early 20's out here... but after that it's only a few that still have a hangover at work... i'm pretty sure that's probably the same there... most of those sound like early adult over any other age group...

also... i've never owned an umbrella... if thats true about buying more than 5 umbrella's in your whole life... that's a pretty big difference... i've seen people with over coats here... but i have no idea where you would go to get one, they're probably brittish...

ok well since i don't know grammar... all those dots and comma's are where i stop talking and pause a few seconds, or whatever... i normally talk on chat programs... so '...' means i hit enter to send the chat... hehe

also... i never been anywhere else so i don't know what is offensive to anyone else... if i offended anyone let me know and i'll apologize

anyways, long story short... i'm canadian

despite wanting to put more in here... it's long so, bye

Mags

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unless of course you dont like mayonaise, tomato and cucumber, in which case you cannot eat any packaged sandwich sold ANYWHERE!

Graeme

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Tarquinn: Always a pleasure to hear from you. You'll be gutted to here that a Canadian accent and an American accent sound the same to the untrained British ear (unless you're French Canadian, in which case we'd probably assume you were French). Anyway there's a faint possiblity that next year the lazylaces world tour will be visiting Canada in which case I'll have a chance to learn better.

Mags: I feel your pain - they don't exist do they? In fact it's only prolonged exposure to packaged sandwiches that has taught me to love mayo, something I wouldn't eat in my younger days - I still don't eat it unless it's in a sandwich though (with other stuff that is - a straight mayo sandwich would be pretty yucky).

Jimmy O

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Good list. Especially the "you finish every sentence with 'Cheers' or 'Yeah" part, had me cracking up. Would be funny to see if you can find a list for us Americans. P.S. I only drink on days that end in y.

Graeme

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Jimmy O: Cheers ;o)

Matt

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I live in New York, which I think has more in common with London than it does with the US. All on the list are true here, other than the umbrella and BBQ ones. And the last one is definitely true in New York.
Regarding packaged sandwiches, there's a deli of some kind on just about every block here, so it's easy to get them made-to-order, but if one's not in the mind to queue, the packaged ones are handy.

Graeme

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Matt: Now I know that I can happily visit New York without worrying what I am going to eat while I'm there ;o) BTW - why not the umbrella thing? Doesn't it rain much there, or are umbrellas just not popular? I'm seeing another get rich quick scheme where I export umbrellas to the US, use some clever marketing to make them this season's fashion hit, and then I retire to my own private island on the profits.

David

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Why would you want to BBQ your disposable baby? Surely you just throw them away?

Graeme

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David: Inexplicably all I can think of now is Fat Ba*tard in the Austin Powers films saying "Baby, Back, Ribs" over and over.

Daisy

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I think it is possible to detect a Canadian accent speaking English - listen out for words containing "ou" - e.g. out and about. I love the way they elongate the sound to almost an "owww" sound. There's almost a "y" in there, "owwyww". Then again, it's many years since I was there. And this might be confined to residents of the Toronto area, I can't remember hearing it so much in Vancouver. Maybe Tarquinn can help?

Daisy

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<i>"You're always a half an hour late to work ... no-one notices or cares."</i> - that's because the reason you're half an hour late to work is because you stayed until silly o'clock the night before to finish something and will no doubt do so again today. They wouldn't <i>dare</i> comment on it!

Tarquinn

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yeah that's an east coaster thing, alot of them are in toronto... but usually they we're born on the east coast if they sound like that, i like the east coast accent... it actually helps out the east coast comedians cuz their accent is actully surprisingly funny sounding... i've never met an east coaster than wasn't naturally funny either... so they must have alot to laugh at out there, i'd like to visit, but even a trip to the other side of canada would be too expensive for me right now

Daisy

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Thanks Tarquinn, I wondered about that. I can point you in the direction of two very unfunny east coasters (xx xxxxx Street, Pickering) but that would be mean. So I won't.

Steve

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In honor of this post, I have begun tracking my current weight on my site. I really AM a fatass.

DevilishDemento

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* You believe that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all good nights for drinking. Sunday day is also entirely reasonable.

- I'm only 16 but yes, I suppose so.

* You're always a half an hour late to work ... no-one notices or cares.

- Still in college - no need for work, so doesn't apply really.

* Coming to work with a hangover is entirely accepted and indeed expected at least once a week.

- Entirely disagree.

* You don't think twice about tipping your hairdresser

- Who needs a hairdresser in Britain? We all look so shabby we may as well have never been in our lives.

* You finish every sentence with 'Cheers' or 'Yeah'.

- Not true. I pride myself upon my vocabulary. Although admittedly "Cheers" and "Yeah" do apply to most of British youth today.

* You are on to your 6th umbrella and your second overcoat... this year

- I've never owned either. Rain is nothing to complain about. I'm sick of all the other girls shrieking, "My hair! My hair!"

* You've bought a disposable baby BBQ from Tesco.

- Granted. But it wasn't really me, it was my friends, and they're all blokes. Says it all, really.

* You don't think twice about buying a packaged sandwich.

- Ahaha... Okay, I'll give you that one.

* A sunny lunchtime means searching for a patch of grass and stripping off practically down to your underwear

- Heck. NO.

* You've accepted queuing as a way of life.

- Yes, I suppose I have.

* You believe that every American is a fatass addicted to hamburgers and hot dogs.

- Hell, yes. Well, I believe most of them are. That would be because most of them actually are.





So, because I go with so few of these, am I not a good Englishman? (Er, woman.)