homesick_american

"I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?"

Hooker No. 1: Well, the little guy was kinda funny-lookin'.

Marge Gunderson: In what way?

Hooker No. 1: I dunno, just funny-lookin'.

Marge Gunderson: Can you be any more specific?

Hooker No. 1: I couldn't really say. He wasn't circumcised.

Was he funny-lookin' apart from that?

Love that movie. :thumbs: :thumbs:

Let hope not!!

It's normal to be a bit homesick, but I think that after he settles into life in the USA and sees it can be great...much greater than life over here...he'll be OK. He does WANT to do this; I am not forcing him to do it. He's nervous and stressed at the moment, but so am I. I'm moving back to a country that I left in April 2001 and that I have visited...briefly...only twice since then...and I haven't set foot in Texas since March 2005.

I've been a grownup longer here in the UK than I was in the US and I know how to do grownup things here in the UK but not in the US. I haven't driven a car in two years and I'll have to do all the driving at first in Dallas since my husband is nervous enough behind the wheel in the UK. I'm not ready to throw him to the wolves in Dallas just yet. We'll start him off nice and slow.

There are things he's looking forward to, like big nice backyards for growing fruit and veg...parks for cycling and walking...a lot more outdoor life than in the UK, where the weather is often too cold, wet, or both to play outside. He'll miss his family, but to be frank he'll see his mum about as much as he sees her now which isn't very often. She visits maybe 2-3 times a year and says for a week, so if she visits once a year for a fortnight or twice a year for a week then he'll see her just as much. She's on a pension and can't afford the plane tickets, but we can and have made it crystal clear to her that she does not have to worry about her travel expenses....WE will handle those. This seems to have reassured her a bit. She's been to Texas, too, and liked it. She likes my parents. She'll be fine. I don't care much for her and wouldn't mind if she never visited, but she's my husband's mum so she's part of the deal. She'll visit; she'll be OK. She's not elderly or infirm so the trip won't be too difficult for her. We'll even get her an iPod and fill it with Elvis and Cliff Richards songs so she'll be entertained on the plane.

He wants a fresh start and he wants out of his comfort zone. He has some anxiety issues and both he and his GP feel that taking him out of his comfort zone and forcing him to confront some of those anxieties will be good for him. Once he's in America he won't be able to run home to mama so easily, and she enables him anyway. My parents, OTOH, love my husband very much but would not put up with that sort of behavior from him. They wouldn't put up with it from my me or my brother either. They helped us through our issues without enabling us but always pushing us to be independent and self-reliant. His mother hasn't done that for him and it sometimes causes problems. Life in America will force him to finish growing up, and he's looking forward to that. Sure, he's nervous...but being nervous about a move like this is NATURAL.

I'm confident that he will make the adjustment and that he'll be fine. I've been with him for 10 years and married to him for 6 of those 10 years, so I think I know him pretty well.

oops! I remember you didn't like Houston, but ...oh well. Happy traveling to Dallas!

Houston's not my favorite place but I wouldn't go so far as to say that I don't like it. I usually enjoy it when I visit it but I wouldn't really want to live there.

"I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?"

I love that line from that film. :lol: :lol:

We rented some vids last week at Blockbuster.

Happy Feet was cr@p.

Deja Vu was cr@p.

The Sentinel was cr@p.

Stranger than Fiction...dunno, fell asleep during it. I'll give it another try.

I'm sure we can agree to disagree on that.

We'll have to.

You could always pick names from literature...

BTW what was wrong with Alastair Cooke? He was a nice man from what I knew of him.

I thought he was a pompous #######. He still didn't deserve to have his bones replaced with plastic tubing, though. That wasn't very nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Cook...t_of_body_parts

I guess I have trouble with the idea that what a person does for a living is a reflection on their personality. I've noticed that plenty of writers have that problem - and are subjected to savage personal attacks purely on the basis of stuff they've written. Seems a little unjust IMO.

I don't care that he was a writer. It's WHAT he wrote and WHAT he said that I objected to. The guy was a blowhard.

you could always go with

married to a homesick_Brit

Dunno if he's homesick or not, we're not there yet.

I like...taco flavored kisses! taco, taco, burrito, burrito....

That was my favorite episode of South Park ever.

Dixie Chick

Whistling Dixie

I the Dixie Chicks.

You could always pick names from literature...

BTW what was wrong with Alastair Cooke? He was a nice man from what I knew of him.

I thought he was a pompous #######. He still didn't deserve to have his bones replaced with plastic tubing, though. That wasn't very nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Cook...t_of_body_parts

Homing Pigeon?

Proud2bAmerican

How about TACO FLAVORED KISSES :-)

Smelly poo!

Ex-sorority ho!

TEXAN WHO VOTES DEMOCRAT

OR I could just go for the obvious one and call myself: yellow_rose. That's very Texan.

Homeagain_American

Hostile_American

lol..just joking

I'm known as 'texgal' on another board.

Homefree_American

Also a good one though we don't have to stick with the HA motif here.

I've used many different handles over the years on different boards and am well-known by many of them. I'm retiring some of those identities because I don't want their reputations following me around. I've never been good at thinking up names though.

But now since you asked, I have a better name for you:

self-important pompous tw@t

Funny, I would have said the same thing about you. And here I was thinking Alastair Cooke was dead.

I am not going to deny it either

You're Alistair Cooke?! Ah, the mystery of his missing bones is solved...

(Seriously, H_A, I always read your name as Homeless_American, even though I know full well that's not what it is... as for the name, I have no suggestions, but... congratulations on being very shortly about to need a new one!! )

Bleh, I'm not homeless...I jumped into the UK property market before it peaked so we're going to rake in about 75,000 pounds in pure fat profit from the sale of our house. Awesome.

Homeless American?

How about changing yours to PRAT

I only said "homeless" because you were thinking of buying a home.

But now since you asked, I have a better name for you:

self-important pompous tw@t

Funny, I would have said the same thing about you. And here I was thinking Alastair Cooke was dead.

Arson is a crime, so arsonists = criminals.

how about Lone star lady?

My favorite so far, but I cuss too much to be a lady.

I don't agree with banning - but I do think that game is 'unrelentingly nasty' as described and therefore objectionable.

I deal with objectionable forms of entertainment by not buying them/participating in them/etc. I don't tell other people what they can and can't do.

I quite like the Grand Theft Auto series, but for all the immoral stuff you could do in the game (and which got the likes of Hillary Clinton trying to ban it) it at least had a sense of humour. This has none of that - and the draw appears to be in the number of ways that you can kill a person: including suffocating with plastic bags, cutting heads off with garotte wire, and hacking bodies to pieces with meat cleavers - there really isn't much objective to the game beyond that.

Got to wonder at what exactly the target audience for these games really is. I mean, are companies marketing to sadists now?

Clearly they think there's a market for it if they bothered to make it; either that or they're getting off on the publicity generated by the UK government's knee-jerk reaction.

There's a similarly disturbing trend in recent horror movies like Saw, Hostel and Turistas which abandon traditional shock horror in favour of a disturbed focus on torture and suffering. Turistas in particular features a scene where a woman is dissected while still alive with all the nauseating detail of a medical training school training video. I don't mind "horror" - its the torture I object to.

I'll have to take your word for that because I've never seen any of those films...never even heard of the last two...and since I haven't seen them I have no opinion of their contents.

I'm not saying that I like things like that, but I don't like the government telling me what I am and am not allowed to watch, read, listen to, etc.

The government shouldn't be mandating this stuff I agree, but I think we're at the balance of free-speech and social responsibilty here. I've seen a lot of very pedestrian by the numbers horror flicks, but this new trend really emphasises torture and suffering over everything else. The latest ones seem merely to be doing it cynically and simply because other films like Saw have done it before and feel a need to raise the bar.

If things continue like this, you've got to wonder if there will be any taboos left. I mean, once people are accustomed to this kind of thing, how will they 'shock' us next? By showing us graphic scenes of child abuse?

I like horror, but I have to draw a line at simulated snuff movies.

There's a lot more than that that I find objectionable; I don't like all the swearing on UK TV or the innuendo, I don't like the violence on American TV where people are tortured and blown up on prime-time TV...I HATE pornography because it's so trashy and degrading, and I hate gangsta rap and the glorification of drugs and violence. I really hate that sh!t...all of it.

However...I don't feel that it's the government's job to ban something. If shops themselves made individual decisions to not carry a product I wouldn't mind so much but the government can kiss my rosy-red, law-abiding #######.

How about

HRW_2_DFW

ducks flying tomatoes

Um, the abbrev for "Heathrow" is actually "LHR", so LHR_2_DFW

Direct flights to Dallas go to Gatwick, not Heathrow anyway.

We're flying Heathrow-JFK-DFW because my mom used her ff miles and AA sux.

Happy_American would be good, I reckon. You'd still be H_A then; which was entirely my reason for choosing it.

But I'm already happy. Especially since I'm test-driving 2 mg of Ativan as directed by my GP. She was all 'try out 2 so if that zonks you out then you don't have to take four and encounter breathing difficulties' or something medical like that.

This is like being drunk.

quit bragging and share

It's for my fear of flying-itis so I can't share, I need them. *grabby* MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY benzodiazepines or however the hell you spell them.

My disease needs strong drugs. I hate using tranks because they make me feel soooooooooooo weird like I do right now but hey, otherwise you'd have to bound and gag me to get me on the plane. I disrupt the plane, the other passengers don't like me. They're like "Oh sh!t, there's that crazy girl again."

Happy_American would be good, I reckon. You'd still be H_A then; which was entirely my reason for choosing it.

But I'm already happy. Especially since I'm test-driving 2 mg of Ativan as directed by my GP. She was all 'try out 2 so if that zonks you out then you don't have to take four and encounter breathing difficulties' or something medical like that.

This is like being drunk.

How about

HRW_2_DFW

ducks flying tomatoes

wouldn't that be HRW_2_IAH?

congratulations on the move and welcome home (in advance)!

OH I thought she was going to Dallas,but if it's Houston, you betcha It's Bush!

Houston, blech. We're going to Big D, so DFW. What is HRW? I thought Heathrow was LHR.

Homeless American?

How about changing yours to PRAT

I think what worries me about video games of this caliber is the ratings and the blatant disregard some parents have for said system. If it says it is for 18s and over it REALLY is only for 18s and over. Don't let a 10 year old play it for goodness sake.

The ratings system works the same as the film classification system. You don't see 10 year olds in a cinema watching Saw3, so why would you let them play Manhunt?

It indicates extremely poor parenting to me.

I agree...but NuLab seems to think that parents are idiots and can't make any decisions by themselves, so they have to do their job for them.

I don't agree with banning - but I do think that game is 'unrelentingly nasty' as described and therefore objectionable.

I deal with objectionable forms of entertainment by not buying them/participating in them/etc. I don't tell other people what they can and can't do.

I quite like the Grand Theft Auto series, but for all the immoral stuff you could do in the game (and which got the likes of Hillary Clinton trying to ban it) it at least had a sense of humour. This has none of that - and the draw appears to be in the number of ways that you can kill a person: including suffocating with plastic bags, cutting heads off with garotte wire, and hacking bodies to pieces with meat cleavers - there really isn't much objective to the game beyond that.

Got to wonder at what exactly the target audience for these games really is. I mean, are companies marketing to sadists now?

Clearly they think there's a market for it if they bothered to make it; either that or they're getting off on the publicity generated by the UK government's knee-jerk reaction.

There's a similarly disturbing trend in recent horror movies like Saw, Hostel and Turistas which abandon traditional shock horror in favour of a disturbed focus on torture and suffering. Turistas in particular features a scene where a woman is dissected while still alive with all the nauseating detail of a medical training school training video. I don't mind "horror" - its the torture I object to.

I'll have to take your word for that because I've never seen any of those films...never even heard of the last two...and since I haven't seen them I have no opinion of their contents.

I'm not saying that I like things like that, but I don't like the government telling me what I am and am not allowed to watch, read, listen to, etc.

In less than a week, I'll no longer be homesick as I'll be back in America.

Hence, I want to change my username to reflect this momentous life event! Yay!

I'm open to suggestions for a new name as long as they're not...y'know...mean. I have feelings!

The institutional racism that meant the people who murdered Stephen Lawrence got off was common knowledge before 1999, too.

The problems really began in 97 when the Daily Mail campaigned against the suspect and called them "murderers," this continued with charges of corruption, racism, etc in the press until the McPherson Report declared the Met "institutionally racist" in 1999.

I don't read the Daily Mail.

I'm still sick of police officers here groveling to people who seem to only thrive when they're handed the psychological rewards of victimhood on a silver platter.

My husband isn't circumcised and if we ever have a son, he won't be either.