Traveling in the UK - Advice for Americans

[Silas 0]

and Saywhat, if you ever find yourself in the unfortunate position of being in London, I don't think that the fish and chips from 'Rock and Sole Plaice' in Covent Garden, or 'Fryer's delight' on Theobalds Road - with fish straight from the docks that morning - would dissappoint even you!!

Hey I didn't say anything against London fish and chips - it's Lancashire where I am imprisoned now that is the problem. I only found one fish and chip shop that isn't Chinese and it's Greek and theirs smell of kebabs! My best fish shop in Yorkshire is Greek but they do it the traditional way and theirs is scrumptious. We have been here since February and drive around with palid grey faces enhancing our carbon snow-shoe prints trying to hunt down a 'beef dripping' fish 'ole... no luck so far !

We give notice soon on this rented gastronomic desert so prob will soon be solved. I intend to catch my own in Tampa Florida (next to the nuclear reactor) and barby em in the garden or fry em in plain batter with NO BREAD CRUMBS THEY ARE HORRIBLE....

That'll teach you for moving to the land of pies!

I've lived in London for the past four years and before that I was three years in Cambridge; in both places I never found a chippy that I was truly happy with. I think, just as nothing can normally beat your Mother's Sunday roast, we're preconditioned to love the chippy we grew up with. I originally come from Hartlepool and as far as I'm concerned nowhere can beat my local chip store; it's always my first point of call when I visit.

Most places in London, in my very biased opinion, were either bad kebab stores offering a strangely yellowed plate of fish and chips or they were more gastropub-like, a la the Sea Cow in Clapham High St. I did find an okay place near Waterloo that's useful if you're after something before an evening of culture at the South Bank but I'm yet to find a London chippy that serves 'scraps' and I can’t seriously be expected to give my heart to a chippy that doesn’t serve ‘scraps’.

Still, with the missus now back in the US, I'll be heading back north while I wait for this visa business to end. The pain of being separated will be eased somewhat by being near my second love - Oxford Road’s Fish and Chips.

[Leney 0]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

[WifeOHunkyJohn 2]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

It's a very useful, expressive and all-encompassing word. Shame there aren't more like them.

[~*Maria*~ 1]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

Same here Kez, my accent gets so thick, my poor sod of a hubby gets real confused....my hazel eyes turn all sorts of colours and the veins in my neck stand out.....hubby jumps in his car and he's off for a couple of hours.....he says i'm the devil incarnate when i'm mad

Edited September 11, 2007 by MariaDane

[~*Maria*~ 1]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

Leney kinda reminds me of me.....2nd word outta my mouth was "####" or it was until i turned over a new leaf

[Leney 0]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

Leney kinda reminds me of me.....2nd word outta my mouth was "####" or it was until i turned over a new leaf

hehe A new leaf eh? I dunno, I'm not expecting the hubby to find one of those leaves anytime soon lol I've been reminded many times "you can take the bastart ootae Paisley, but ye cannae take Paisley ootae the bastart" lol However! I will say his swearing has become amazingly creative now that our 2 year old is repeating everything he says and telling daddy when he's said a bad word. He's started yelling "Chicken nugget!" when he's angry - on the plus side I'm fairly sure our kids will grow up to have an anti fast food complex lol

[~*Maria*~ 1]

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

Leney kinda reminds me of me.....2nd word outta my mouth was "####" or it was until i turned over a new leaf

hehe A new leaf eh? I dunno, I'm not expecting the hubby to find one of those leaves anytime soon lol I've been reminded many times "you can take the bastart ootae Paisley, but ye cannae take Paisley ootae the bastart" lol However! I will say his swearing has become amazingly creative now that our 2 year old is repeating everything he says and telling daddy when he's said a bad word. He's started yelling "Chicken nugget!" when he's angry - on the plus side I'm fairly sure our kids will grow up to have an anti fast food complex lol

hahaha well only a new leaf when the inlaws are around i'm way too far gone tae change noo, like yer hubby says aboot the paisley bit, ma boys also say tae me aboot ma swearin as well....."maw, nae matter how much ye try an kid yersel o'an yil never be able tae stop yer 'F'n & C'n' yer too auld fer that sh!te, its part of who ye are and it will always be part of ye" .....cheeky wee buggers aint they

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I feel like I'm reading an Irvine Welsh novel!

[ChasUK 0]

LMAO.

When I began to read the first post, I was like "what is this arsehole talking about?" After a couple of sentences I realised this was classic humour. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read that you should say you were late for work because you were having a #######!!!

It kinda reminds me of that Python sketch where they had a translation book and depicted a foreigner with it going into a newsagent to buy a pack of cigarettes. Refering to the translation book he calmly asks, "May I fondle your buttocks?".

Edited September 11, 2007 by Gone

[ChristinaM 0]

I laughed.

Loudly.

In the office.

Now I'm really embarrassed.

Thanks.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

If someone gets me annoyed in a store I now say to them in a loud voice "Awa an boil yer heed" I get some odd looks but it calms me down... My husband knows when he hears those words it time to be ultra nice to me until I have calmed down....

Kez

Edited September 12, 2007 by Niagaenola

[Eli the Barrowboy 16]

Great post - laughed at the Shin Fain bit the most - lol ...

[weedebz 0]

I'm not far from paisley...I know it and it's colourful language well. Nick finds some of my expressions amusing. "Awa an boil yer heed" and "ho bawbag!" to get someones attention are both ones I use along with repeated use of the words "#######" and "sh!te" which I find can be used in many ways and many situations!

[Jeraly 4]

Am glad this thread poses amusement to some - I thought maybe I just had a weird sense of humour

Debz - you're obviously toning things down around me!! Don't tell me you're going to be witness to my legal wedding and when asked "speak now or forever hold your peace" (imagine being said by Elvis-alike in afore-mentioned Elvis' southern drawl) you suffer a bout of Tourette's...

[Fandango 1,439]

whoa @ some of the replies!

That is funny as hell....an oldie but goodie!