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      Woah there.. what's your issue with Greggs? Greggs is a magical place.

      Greggs cheese n onion pasties are yummmmmmmmmmmmmmy
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      someone please explain the donkey at the beach thing. why are barn yard animals and all their smells a good thing to have on the beach?

      or maybe your waters are cold and you cant go in so no swimming/jet skis/surfboards etc...so you have to conjure more land activities?

      enlighten me! :)

      Donkeys on the beach in the UK go way back when to before time was even invented.

      Yep, waters are cold the tide goes in and out, the sea is very uninviting and most likely full of sewage, but the donkeys are so cute n cuddly and I remember trotting on one on the beach when I was little and it was great :smile:

      I would prefer to ride a barn yard animal as a little kid than risk injury on a jet ski/surfboard...which most people can not afford
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      I don't think it's about one country versus another I am british but have lived in America and Australia. If I could ban one thing it would be the ubiquitous multi national food companies and franchises. I would be happy to see the back of McDonalds, Pizza Hut et all even their healthy options are too fattening. I would also love to see a ban on food advertising on TV. I personally have not bought food from an outlet for 3 years and think all mfp pals should do the same. Like good old Martin Luther - I have a dream! If you don't eat junk tell people.
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      Sadly they are saying no alcohol in many parks now : (
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      And Brits are okay with bashing?

      Yeh, we're very good about doing it to ourselves
    • Posts: 9,026 Member
      you know what the UK should do? win some world wars.
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      Chips and curry sauce is good, but since moving up north its all about the chips and gravy :)

      No idea why people say this is just a northern thing. As a southern girl, I am a huge fan of chips, cheese and gravy.
    • Posts: 1,100 Member
      Sadly they are saying no alcohol in many parks now : (

      But that's how I spent the majority of my youth... :sad:
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      or maybe your waters are cold and you cant go in so no swimming/jet skis/surfboards etc...so you have to conjure more land activities?

      There's no 'maybe' about it, our sea is f..f..f...f...freeeeezing!!
    • Posts: 3,750 Member
      you know what the UK should do? win some world wars.

      as far as i can tell they didnt lose WWI or WWII or are you from an alternate timeline? is Elvis still alive where you come from? :D
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      Bump so funny :))
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      Sadly they are saying no alcohol in many parks now : (

      Well there goes my Monday morning . . .
    • Posts: 3,624 Member
      I'd like to point out that Canada also has cheese rolling (#18)
      http://www.canadiancheeserolling.ca/
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      Love.
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      I don't think it's about one country versus another I am british but have lived in America and Australia. If I could ban one thing it would be the ubiquitous multi national food companies and franchises. I would be happy to see the back of McDonalds, Pizza Hut et all even their healthy options are too fattening. I would also love to see a ban on food advertising on TV. I personally have not bought food from an outlet for 3 years and think all mfp pals should do the same. Like good old Martin Luther - I have a dream! If you don't eat junk tell people.

      Given the conversation - Martin Luther didn't have a dream, Martin Luther King Jr. did. Martin Luther is responsible for Protestantism, and as I understand it, the founding of America by the Puritans, though.
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      #24 is the Christmas market in my university city, Bath!
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      Gotta do me the cheese-roll some time.

      Maybe some time when I've got a good bit of cash put away so that if I do break a bone (pretty likely), I can still feed myself, however.

      Greggs seemed amazing when I first found it - when it was cheaper and more of a Northern thing. Could actually get a decent lunch in a city centre with the £5 allowance we got. When they got bigger (don't recall seeing any in the South at the time), the prices seem to have crept up and the quality down.

      In a few towns around my area we've got a bakers called "wilds", which is similar, but local and cheaper - a lot of the items are "any 2 for £1", which is pretty reasonable.
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      22. Signs that notify you when the next train is coming. <
      We do this one. Well, at least in the DC/MD/VA area metro.
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      The date thing is so true - I always have to think for a minute when I see an american date - why is the month first? So confusing! And chips & gravy is where its at! :D ooh and custard creams are amazing too. mmm
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      Dont forget the cheese on the chips and gravy! :tongue:
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      my comments as a brit:

      a. yay for cheese rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      b. those London Underground displays that tell you when the train is coming.... what you have to understand is that the minutes are very flexible. Sometimes they're very loooooooooooooooooooong minutes, other times they're little tiny short minutes. There's some kind of highly intense gravitational field down there that dilates time when it feels like it, so basically just because it says that a train will arrive in two minutes, it doesn't mean that a train will arrive in any sane, non-relativisitic sense of the term "two minutes"
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      I'm American... and I wish we had most of this list to be honest... I need to go spend some time is the UK... ;D
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      b. those London Underground displays that tell you when the train is coming.... what you have to understand is that the minutes are very flexible. Sometimes they're very loooooooooooooooooooong minutes, other times they're little tiny short minutes. There's some kind of highly intense gravitational field down there that dilates time when it feels like it, so basically just because it says that a train will arrive in two minutes, it doesn't mean that a train will arrive in any sane, non-relativisitic sense of the term "two minutes"

      True. It's kind of the that 7 day period in the bible. Especially on the Jubilee line.
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      Drink buckets of tea and open a pie and mash shop
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      As a full bloodied European living in the US for the last 16 years I fully support/miss - boozing at any time of the day/ any place, long vacations, cursing without raised eyebrows and nudity everywhere!

      Right on Brits, right on! :flowerforyou:
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      True. It's kind of the that 7 day period in the bible. Especially on the Jubilee line.

      Perhaps there are wormholes down there...

      I think Greggs probably only makes sense if you feel mildly nostalgic for bread filled with raisins and covered with sugar (mmmm... Belgian bun). Without the nostalgia, it wouldn't work for me.

      Nice to see a reminder that a university education is still relatively cheap, seeing as we mainly just remember to whinge because it's not free any more...
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      Perhaps there are wormholes down there...

      I think Greggs probably only makes sense if you feel mildly nostalgic for bread filled with raisins and covered with sugar (mmmm... Belgian bun). Without the nostalgia, it wouldn't work for me.

      Nice to see a reminder that a university education is still relatively cheap, seeing as we mainly just remember to whinge because it's not free any more...

      Except the Scottish, of course...
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      Joke post was joke

      you are not very good at telling jokes.
    • Posts: 331 Member
      Is one of them having tea time?
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