What do you hate about the UK?

[Taxloss]

[HEyHEY]

1. Repression of the Irish.

[Taxloss]

6. Good one.

I should have included that.

[HEyHEY]

7. Or repression of the Scots/Irish...and anyone brown

I should add..they're cool now

[Taxloss]

11. Well, we have sorted ourselves out over the past 20 years.

And you must remember we on the left were fighting that oppression tooth and nail.

[JohnKleeb]

12. ahh yeah

[Rhiannon12866]

30. A very good one. As an Irish-American, I should have thought of this

I have visited both England and Ireland a few times, and that really did bother me. The last time was at a point of high IRA activity and I totally freaked out my mother by conversing with IRA supporters, on the streets of Dublin, and signing their petitions. But I felt that they had a valid point. I should have realized, back then, that I was really a liberal, at heart.:-)

[CanuckAmok]

32. They had it coming, for hiding their Lucky Charms.

n/t

[ncrainbowgrrl]

2. The Value Added Tax

Ouch!

[hickman1937]

3. Other.

Why do they get to eat with a tool in each fist?

[Fenris]

4. Imperialism

[HEyHEY]

5. Dude..I love imperialism

Oh, shit I thought you meant the margarine

[Taxloss]

9. Look who's talking.

What imperialism has the UK engaged in lately?

ON EDIT: Gosh, this was a stupid thing for me to say. Hey ho.

[JohnKleeb]

14. It was

:), and you guys were at it before we were, so basically you made us imperialists. :P

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Nah, McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt did that.

[JohnKleeb]

17. was kidding

so basically we got our start imperialising 107 years ago, and the brits have been doing it longer. My biggest problem with the British is their opression of native people, read people in africa, the middle east, india, and of course Ireland.

[Taxloss]

18. So we did it first, so we're to blame for your sins?

Interesting take on moral philosophy there.

[JohnKleeb]

21. I was kidding

sorry my sarcasm doesnt come off well.

[Taxloss]

24. Sarcasm never comes across online.

I enjoy your posts, Kleeb, keep it up.

[Fenris]

23. I agree. Extremely stupid.

[Taxloss]

26. Charming.

[Gemini Cat]

8. I like the UK and I love the people.

I actually like rain as well.

[Rowdyboy]

10. I'm a freaking Anglophile!

I love the British Isles, however, I've heard the cuisine is pretty skank. I don't know if its true, but thats the stereotype...

[HEyHEY]

13. ah, it ain't bad...same as here really

[Taxloss]

20. Rot. We have fine food.

[Rowdyboy]

27. Sorry...I've never had chance to see for myself. Maybe someday...

[eyepaddle]

16. Is it anything like New Zealand?

I know, I know, it's really the other way around, but at any rate; I hate separate cold and hot faucets in sinks! C'mon, you guys figured it out for showers and bathtubs why not sinks? I like to brush my teeth with cool water--amd wash my hands with warm. None of this scalding hot or teeth shattering cold business, not for me. ;)

[gtp1976]

19. Manipulate your own poll much? LOL

You knew how the majority of voters would vote after you typed your first choice. Why even bother with the other selections? :-)

[Taxloss]

22. And yet people have voted for them. Go figure.

[gtp1976]

25. I know. I was only kidding. n/t

[Osamasux]

28. The food.

If you insist on calling it that. Digestibles indeed.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Their food, except for breakfast

And when I was there in 1967 (my only such trip) they drank warm soft drinks. I don't know if that's still true, but it was like drinking spit.

[American Tragedy]

34. I've noticed that when I've been abroad.

I had to specifically request ice with drinks. Before, I assumed that was a fairly universal preference.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

38. Not ice, just refrigeration

On the Continent, soft drinks and juices were served chilled, although without ice. In England, soft drinks were served warm--I didn't try any juices.

[tjwmason]

35. Much has changed since 1967

Food especially is far better (we no longer boil vegetables until they're a vague grey mush); warm drinks (you mean things like coke I guess) are only in dodgy places or where logistics prohibit - either the drink is chilled beforehand, or (and all of the time in pubs) there is ice.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

31. Repression of the Irish

And bland apple pie. If you're going to serve apple pie at every restaurant and cafe, at LEAST make it palatable!

[CanuckAmok]

33. That inbred family of welfare bums who answer to "Your Highness"

Cutting the Monarchy from the Civil List isn't enough... they should all be forced at bayonette-point to work long unpaid hours in inner-city projects and pensioners' homes.

[mr blur]

36. The food thing is a myth

which always astonishes me coming from people in a country which invented McDonalds, TV dinners and coca cola and spread junk food around the world. When I was in Florida I was astonished that the idea of a good meal was a plate piled high with processed, tasteless junk, as if the fact that you could have a LOT of it meant that you were eating well. The teeth thing is a myth, too. The royalty thing isn't as they are inded parasitic inbred wankers.

[WritersBlock]

37. Absolutely love the UK, but could use one more category:

"American-style" ANYthing.

If something's gonna be called "American-style," it should at least BE that way. Take hotdog buns, for example. They're supposed to be sliced horizontally across the side, not vertically down the top. Otherwise, they break apart, the bread doesn't surround the hot dog, which squirts out across the room, and it all causes a real mess. I can see a diabolical sense of humour at work in this.

And donuts. The classic ones come with holes in the middle, not jam. Holes. With glaze. Not sugar. Glaze & holes.

We won't even touch on Tex-Mex except to say that Delia needs to research what constitutes an enchilada. I'm just saying.

It's probably like a lot of British pubs in the States; sometimes it just doesn't translate.

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Edited for poor vocabulary. Whether added or subtracted is debatable ;)

[Mitt Chovick]

39. Spelling color with u

That always bugs me :argh:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. That they drive on the wrong side of the road. Crossing those streets

are hazardous to one's health!

[mogster]

41. I'm an Anglophile

I love Britain :-)

Don't tell the fundies, though. Anglophile sounds suspicious in some quarters :D

Voted for BLAIR the LIAR, of course. My old hero--now reduced to...well, I don't have WORDS!!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

42. Oasis.

[fedsron2us]

43. The vistas of endless melancholy, the long littleness of life

and the eternal wait for a train.

[Aiptasia]

44. The general "stuffiness" of the UK

It's a brilliant place to visit. I got the chance to spend a few days in London this summer and even got to tour Buckingham Palace on foot while the queen was on holiday in Scotland for six weeks.

London has so much history and neo-roman/classical architecture that I couldn't help feeling the historical impact of the whole colonial era. The english were very nice to me, even though I was a yank, but I couldn't help feel that there was this pervasive "stuffiness" about the whole country.

They love their pomp and circumstance, and I couldn't help feeling like there was a definite pecking order to their society.

[amazona]

45. I love the U.K. or at least the part I've seen

...which is London and parts of southern England. Everyone is soooo polite!

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72