[TYPICAL?] Is it very British..?

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 11:22

Is it very British to write hundreds of posts about the rain (yesterday) and nothing yet about this remarkable, glorious and wonderful morning full of sunshine..? (Going back to the terrace now, finish my coffee and cigarette, read on in my book - "Bonnie Prince Charlie, born to be King" - and go on wondering what moaning and whinging means...).

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:53

Hans. The British love talking about the weather. Wherever you are, whoever you meet, the weather willbe the first topic of conversation.



I can recall being on a tour to a rainforest. We met another English couple on the tour whom we had never met before. The first question the guy asked was "what's the weather like back home?"

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:56

Hans - yes, agree with Bill. It's our national pastime

proger1



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:57

Hate to point this out Bill but if anyone ever starts a conversation with me but talking wether they will be talking to them self very soon afterward.



As for moaning and whinging, that's the new citizen test for the UK.



If you aint good enuf, you aint gettin in !!!

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:58

Whether the weather be mild or whether the weather be not,

Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot,

We'll weather the weather whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not.

proger1



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:59

You just burned out you're W key Mal

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 12:59

Mal. Very good. )

karakum5c



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 13:08

An Englishmans glass is always half full ---- especially when abroad !







Unless its full of rain water !







Its snowing here in Scotland at the moment............thought it was worth a mention.

Vidal


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Posts: 867

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 13:13

I think we were too busy, outside, coffee cup in hand, surveying our sodden 'gardens and wondering if it's worth emptying pump rooms, to be posting...

Corbo



Joined: 13/09/2009
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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 14:16

Well I mentioned the sun this morning on the rain rain and more rain thread. My glass is usually half empty so perhaps I'm not the typical Englishman abroad. Mind you my Mum was from Oz and my great grandfather on my Dads side from Ukraine. Is there such a thing as a typical English person?

mamachina


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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 14:53

Corbo - no such thing! I bet most have links with the French from 1066, or the Vikings or the ..... others who had a go! i have one German, one Netherlander, one Irish and one Yorkshire grandparent - pretty usual for last century with all the gadding about that went on!! A century of travel?

daisy dukes


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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 15:12

I think it's pretty safe to say that talking about the weather isn't actually confined to just British people! I have been to many countries and conversations about the weather is quite predominant the world over!

Coversations about the weather are usually the easiest first conversations to have when talking to someone for the first time...a prelude to more interesting and worthy chats...ask any hairdresser!





DD

Deniz1


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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 15:45

i posted a comment about the sun on face book ealy this morning so there!

sloan



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 15:46

I'm British, Hans!



http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/31001.asp

sloan



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 15:48

Also, this was my facebook posting this morning:



Rain has stopped and we have woken up to a beautiful morning ... completely blue sky.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 16:34

I think Hans may have a point though, there were lots of comments on several posts yesterday and today only a few have been able to defend the sunshine comments.



I suppose that would make you few Atypical ;-))

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 17:06

Dear Brits, the American company Apple Macintosh once told me, a customer, to "Think different!". I'd like you to "Think positive!". We are alive, live that life and enjoy every minute. Billions of dead people envy us from afar, day after day.

phylray



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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 01:14

The weather, as a topic, is a neutral subject, so fairly safe to converse with a stranger.

I am surprised you are reading about Bonny Prince Charlie! (heir to the throne through the

male line) and all that!

Groucho



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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 08:11

"Billions of dead people envy us from afar, day after day."



Eh? you believe in an afterlife.... shock horror!



Hans,



If we put a post on each sunny day, you are going to get 330 threads on sunny weather per annum. I did post on the 'rain, rain, rain' thread that it was sunny so I'm obviously not British.



But more importantly well done on the medal haul in Vancouver, outstanding!

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 14:08

I for one am sick to death of the " British obsession " of discussing the bloody weather we look out of our window and can see its raining / sunny or whatever, yes I accept there are exceptional circumstances ie: floods / tsunamis but in Karsiyaka are we bothered that its raining in Manchester or its snowing in Essex.NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 14:55

Off thread but I agree with Gavin- well done to our sportsmen and women in Vancouver.

britvic



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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 15:05

Is it very British? Not at all its also a Dutch thing.



http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/31370.asp

Groucho



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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 15:44

Bill,



I was commending the terrific medal haul of the Dutch.



With only the one on the slate (albeit a fantastic dominant performance getting a well deserved gold in the Women's Skeleton) I would not characterise our medal tally as a haul...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 15:54

Our one gold is better than we achieved at the last winter olympics though Gavin.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
28/02/2010 19:27

Yep, shame Shelley Rudman could not better her silver in Turin in 2006.

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
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Message Posted:
01/03/2010 11:46

You just can't miss a chance to put Britons down can you Mr. Crusader ? For goodness sake stop whinging and moaning at us !

DutchCrusader



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Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 12:06

RE msg 26, Geejay: There we go again. Sigh. http://is.gd/9rlrN

rigsby


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Message Posted:
01/03/2010 12:08

Geejay, Do you attend any of DC,s function,s. Walks,Talks,Map sales,Chess games,? Me neither.