leigh white Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Looking back at old films, everybody spoke in an upper class english accent, and even today they think we all speak like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 That's how I speak on holiday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Any yanks I've met on Holliday think we are ace. I also knew two brothers that somehow made their way over to living in a Bispham backwater about 15 years ago. One got addicted to whiskey and ended up in a nut house. The other also got addicted whiskey,got back scuttled against his will by a bloke on the middle walk on the sea front then eventually threw himself off the bus station roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Based purely on American comedies they think we all have bad teeth and are tight with money. They also do the "don't mention the war" thing about the War of Independence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter superjohnmcginlay Posted April 4, 2015 Site Supporter Share Posted April 4, 2015 Are you from England? Yes a place called Bolton Is that near London? Do you know the queen? Do you live in a castle? Are you Australian? Are a few questions I've dealt with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted April 4, 2015 Site Supporter Share Posted April 4, 2015 I was in America when the queen mother died and random Americans were offering me their condolences for my loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffs Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Theyre not all bad. On holiday once...American asks me if I am from London. No mate...bolton...its near Manchester. Manchester...I've not heard of that. Yeah Manchester...like Manchester United. .. Oh right. Are they a rock group or something? You'll do for me mate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 When I was in California everybody thought I was Austrialian, as soon as I corrected them and told them I was English they insisted on buying me a drink. In fact I got so many drinks bought for me I was often wankered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_spencer Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Went to Canada with a load of Wigginton. Their accent baffled the canuks summert rotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal white Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I met a guy from England called Dave, do you know him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgoefc Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Travelled over to Chicago, Vegas and Missouri for work on a regular basis as well as many other areas on holiday from 1989 to 2008. I have many a tale of weird conversations. Once in a a town called Cape Girardeau in Missouri on the Mississippi which I used travel to regularly we were asked for id in a bar and nobody in there had ever seen a passport. I had to prove my young then wifey was my wife and went through various bits of id (even our wedding certificate) as we had just got married in 1990. I found out later that evening that 90% of the residents of that town had never been out of Missouri never mind the USA! One question that always annoyed me was "which church do you belong to" never do you go to church. The Mid West is a vast country within a country. Edited April 4, 2015 by bgoefc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freds dad Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Every time I go to the USA I tell them I work at Buckingham Palace. Free drinks all round while I tell them tales about the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted April 4, 2015 Site Supporter Share Posted April 4, 2015 Travelled over to Chicago, Vegas and Missouri for work on a regular basis as well as many other areas on holiday from 1989 to 2008. I have many a tale of weird conversations. Once in a a town called Cape Girardeau in Missouri on the Mississippi which I used travel to regularly we were asked for id in a bar and nobody in there had ever seen a passport. I had to prove my young then wifey was my wife and went through various bits of id (even our wedding certificate) as we had just got married in 1990. I found out later that evening that 90% of the residents of that town had never been out of Missouri never mind the USA! One question that always annoyed me was "which church do you belong to" never do you go to church. The Mid West is a vast country within a country. Are they really that wacko with religion in the Mid West? What business is it of theirs anyway? I can understand people not leaving their shores in a way, they have so much within their country as it is so vast but loads have never even seen a fraction of their own state. That said, loads of our older generation have never been as far as Southport on a day trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankietheman Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Mrs was talking when in Vermont and a little yank asked her what language she was speaking?!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lever Ender in L.A. Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Welcome to my world.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoopJohnnyJohn Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Welcome to my world.... Yup. You want to try living in cowboy country mate. I have to repeat myself an average of 3 times before they understand what I'm asking for. Lovely people though. I'd much rather be living out west than on the east coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
land_and_sea Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 You want to try living in cowboy country mate. I have to repeat myself an average of 3 times before they understand what I'm asking for. What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted April 6, 2015 Members Share Posted April 6, 2015 Always been brilliant when I've been there. Strongest ally and all that. Still insular but there are some who have learned a lot more about us. They even know Frodo Baggins is West Hams top boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewman Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Met some yank marines and Canadian sailor boys when we were in Hamburg on a stag do as it clashed with the celebration of the harbour birthday, they thought we were fuckin nuts,kept buyin us all drinks and having their pictures took with around 30 of us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Always been brilliant when I've been there. Strongest ally and all that. Still insular but there are some who have learned a lot more about us. They even know Frodo Baggins is West Hams top boy. and when they ask are you Australian do you say yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic legs Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 We were in a bar in Prague with a table of Yanks next to us. As we got up to leave overheard one say "the Germans are leaving" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Know a lad who studied German at university and spent a year working there as part of his course. The job he had lined up fell through and he ended up working in a McDonalds on an American military base. The Septics couldn't understand his thick Bolton accent and kept asking him to stop speaking German. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underpants Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Been over a couple of times and they have been great. Away from the tourist parts they like you even more. Yes, they will buy you beers just so they can hear you talk. Had a run in with a cop once. He didn't shoot us. Which was nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 They totally love us To them we are literally awaesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lofthouse Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 We got the whole Australian question and one tidy lass asked if I knew the princes? Then later that night she noshed my brother off in a photo booth Loved every state we visited, I can't wait to go back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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