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Post by Bazzy on Dec 17, 2007 4:45:44 GMT -5
Just wondering what reminds you of England ?
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Post by Thad Killian on Dec 17, 2007 5:04:45 GMT -5
bad food and bad dental hygiene...sorry...just being honest...
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 17, 2007 5:09:08 GMT -5
I just made myself think the word "England." What popped into my head was a group of blue bloods sitting around drinking tea and not talking to each other. Accurate or not, that's what you get! Oh, and Simon Cowell.  |
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Post by rawhide on Dec 17, 2007 5:25:40 GMT -5
tea and crumpets also the palace guards.
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Post by majorbludd on Dec 17, 2007 7:56:58 GMT -5
Driving on the wrong side of the road
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Post by stephenvegas on Dec 17, 2007 8:02:46 GMT -5
The Excalibur (just kidding). ;D I remember when I first moved to Las Vegas back in 1999 and I was watching the news one night and they were interviewing a couple of tourists who were at the Excalibur casino on The Strip. The reporter asked them something like, "How do you like the Excalibur/" And they responded with "This is great. Now we don't have to go to England."  Although I've mostly just been to London, I really enjoyed my stay in England on my last trip to Europe. I need to go back there because that place is cool to visit. |
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Post by stephenvegas on Dec 17, 2007 8:44:21 GMT -5
Now that I think about it, I guess the thing/place in Las Vegas that really most reminds me of England is the pub The Crown and Anchor. The Crown and Anchor is a pub located just east of The Strip on Tropicana and they serve lots of British food, have a great beer selection (although I think they no longer have Murphys  ), regularly have soccer matches showing on their televisions above the bar, have darts as part of their entertainment, and is a popular hangout for many of Las Vegas' British residents- I read earlier this year there are about 2,000 people from England living in this area. When I first moved to Las Vegas to go to UNLV, I actually lived directly behind The Crown and Anchor. And to get my Masters in History at UNLV, I had to take 2 colloquiums- one on European History (the topic was the period of the French Revolution) and one on US Foreign Policy and there were a couple of times when the professor of the European colloquium would reserve the table upstairs at the Crown and Anchor and have class there in the pub instead of on campus. Here is the Crown and Anchor: www.crownandanchorlv.com/index2.html |
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Post by Matt on Dec 17, 2007 9:09:31 GMT -5
Something else: Bazzy-English
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Post by Werner Mueck on Dec 17, 2007 10:06:20 GMT -5
British Sitcoms.
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Post by gatekeeper on Dec 17, 2007 17:19:20 GMT -5
I've been to England and when I think of England, I think of rude people and bland food.
Now Scotland was great! Much nicer (both the scenery and the people IMO)
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Post by stephenvegas on Dec 17, 2007 17:56:49 GMT -5
I've been to England and when I think of England, I think of rude people and bland food. Now Scotland was great! Much nicer (both the scenery and the people IMO) Payback, I think you're lucky you got to go to Scotland. Although I've been to London (and also Brussels and Amsterdam in Europe), Scotland is probably the place over there I still most want to visit because I'm partly Scottish on both sides of my family. |
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Post by Knapik on Dec 20, 2007 17:09:03 GMT -5
The pound
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Post by Wildfire on Dec 21, 2007 0:05:17 GMT -5
Double Decker Buses and Police Boxes (been watching old Dr. Who episodes of late)
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 21, 2007 5:14:11 GMT -5
I guess I also think of the different names we have for things. Boot for trunk, telly for TV, lorry for truck, etc. I actually work with a few British people, and it's often a brief jolt to hear something like that come out of their mouths. Or the different stressing of syllables in a shared word: week-END as opposed to WEEK-end.
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Post by azfan on Dec 22, 2007 23:27:18 GMT -5
Bond. James Bond.
Of course!
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Post by daytondave on Dec 23, 2007 14:27:38 GMT -5
Nigel McGuiness! I also remember often a roommate from college, a Chinese guy with the last name "Eng". He liked to claim that he had an entire country named after him  |
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), regularly have soccer matches showing on their televisions above the bar, have darts as part of their entertainment, and is a popular hangout for many of Las Vegas' British residents- I read earlier this year there are about 2,000 people from England living in this area.
