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by **misha&zane** » February 13th, 2007, 6:58 am

u must get really pissed off when someone asks you for directions...im imagining ira gilligan sort of rage!

its good to get an insiders view tho. so many people try to get into Oxford uni with its reputation and whatnot.

if it makes u feel any better bristol is not much better...any uk-ers out there want to recommend their city?

by **Chelpo** » February 13th, 2007, 1:46 pm

I ate all your bees wrote:I love it really. But it has given me a deep-seated and almost irrational hatred of tourism. I'd rather get hopelessly lost in a foreign city than get out the fold-out map and wear matching raincoats/backpacks/hats.

I feel the exact same way. It doesn't matter who they are or where they're from, tourists are the worst people in the world. Travellers are great, but tourists can [spoiler]bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep[/spoiler]!

**Note to tourists: Please don't knit yourselves sweaters of the flag of your country. It's tacky and ugly. My friends were making fun of a woman with a flag sweater last summer while in line at a restaurant and it turned out her husband was standing right behind them. This all around embarassment could have been avoided.

by **Frightened Inmate #2** » February 13th, 2007, 4:39 pm

Chelpo wrote:**Note to tourists: Please don't knit yourselves sweaters of the flag of your country. It's tacky and ugly. My friends were making fun of a woman with a flag sweater last summer while in line at a restaurant and it turned out her husband was standing right behind them. This all around embarassment could have been avoided.

*angrily throws knitting materials in trash*

Great. Now what am I supposed to give you for Valentine's Day, Chelpo?

by **byron** » February 13th, 2007, 5:33 pm

If I make my 1000th post here, can we consider the thread a success?

by **littlesquish89** » February 13th, 2007, 11:44 pm

byron wrote:If I make my 1000th post here, can we consider the thread a success?

Um....no. If I make it, on the other hand, then this thread shall be worthy.
:wink:

by **LickMyLovePump** » February 14th, 2007, 4:33 am

misha&zane wrote:any uk-ers out there want to recommend their city?

I'm kinda between cities at the moment. Derry is my actual home, and is a great small city, full of history and character. Belfast feels like my home because I lived and studied there for four years.
I've been living in Manchester now for about four months and I love the place. It's a student's dream. I'll be heading down to London at the end of the year for work, which I'm really looking forward to. That's if I can bring myself to leave Manchester by then.

by **Chelpo** » February 14th, 2007, 4:42 am

Frightened Inmate #2 wrote:*angrily throws knitting materials in trash*

Great. Now what am I supposed to give you for Valentine's Day, Chelpo?

Since it was a gift I suppose I can forgive you, but would Hefner 2.0 be okay with you knitting ugly ugly Valentine's sweaters for strange women on the internet? I guess it's better than a "Slut" shirt (which, by the way, would be the greatest thing ever, if it was homemade knit sweater).

And my 1000th post will be the one to make this a success.

by **each** » February 14th, 2007, 4:57 am

LickMyLovePump wrote:
misha&zane wrote:any uk-ers out there want to recommend their city?

tecnically I'm not a UK-er anymore but i cannot stress enough that you want to stay as far away from coventry as you possibly can.

by **I ate all your bees** » February 14th, 2007, 6:43 am

misha&zane wrote:u must get really pissed off when someone asks you for directions...im imagining ira gilligan sort of rage!

Well... actually, it is good fun trying to explain that I can't give you directions to Oxford University, because it's all around you as we speak. The city is the University. To which they reply, "Yeah, but which way do I go?". You are standing in it right now. This can go on for ever.

*Checks Google Maps* Oh, bleep, I'm only 50 miles from Coventry. Damn you Midlands! Oh, yeah, I'd like to expand Stay Away From Coventry to a general Stay Away From The Midlands.

by **LickMyLovePump** » February 14th, 2007, 7:01 am

What's the point of the Midlands anyway?

by **each** » February 14th, 2007, 5:09 pm

LickMyLovePump wrote:What's the point of the Midlands anyway?

To give Shakespeare a place to be born?

Chavs a place to live?

everyone else a place to laugh at?

...feel free to add

by **LickMyLovePump** » February 15th, 2007, 7:30 am

I suppose it acts as a buffer-zone between Birmingham and the rest of the country. Surely that can only be a good thing.

by **misha&zane** » February 15th, 2007, 7:44 am

I read this thing in the papers that the UK in now the worst place for kids to live (just below the US.)
Every city's screwed up then - if ur a kid.

I was just wondering if anyone on here finds Little Britain funny?
I think its a pile of bleeeeeeep myself but the general 'masses' seem to like it. nowhere near the wit and pace of AD

by **Frightened Inmate #2** » February 15th, 2007, 9:42 am

misha&zane wrote:I read this thing in the papers that the UK in now the worst place for kids to live (just below the US.)
Every city's screwed up then - if ur a kid.

I was just wondering if anyone on here finds Little Britain funny?
I think its a pile of bleeeeeeep myself but the general 'masses' seem to like it. nowhere near the wit and pace of AD

Seriously? The U.S. and Britain rank below, say, Bangladesh or Haiti, for kids to live? What the heck was the criteria? "Kids aren't given the privilege of experiencing a culture where common ailments can be fatal." Without having read this story in the papers, mind you, it sounds like it was put together with people who long ago lost their appreciation for the good fortune they have, and have no clue how difficult life can be for most of the world's population.

Little Britain wouldn't be funny. Wee Britain, however, is hilarious. Remember, it sets up the "Wee Brain" joke. I like it.

by **LickMyLovePump** » February 15th, 2007, 9:56 am

Little Britain makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs with a spoon. Alas, I tend not to watch it.

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