Where is Everybody?

[dan-cat]

You should have bought this one Scott
http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1273225-1,00.html

I thought Hobbiton was in New Zealand

 

[KenHigg]

That'd be cool name for a band - 'One Rock Cottage'


ken

 

[Rich]

I thought Hobbiton was in New Zealand

You'd be surprised at just how many names around the world emanate from the UK

 

[ColinEssex]

Sorry.

I'll try to attach a couple.

Isn't that the house from the Addams Family?

And where isn't a high crime area in the USA?

Col

 

[Friday]

Hey they look pretty good, shame about the area, do the authorities not try to clean the area up?

Like many cities in the USA, law enforcement is the last to get any funding. Plus, the existing neighbors don't appear to be the type to care about each other...

 

[Friday]

Isn't that the house from the Addams Family?

And where isn't a high crime area in the USA?

Col

No, Col that's not the Addams family home. but you are right, it is hard to find a safe haven anymore...

 

[ColinEssex]

No, Col that's not the Addams family home. but you are right, it is hard to find a safe haven anymore...

I notice it's made of wood so it must be in a hurricane area - all we ever see after a hurricane is wooden houses destroyed.

Here's a tip - try bricks, they're really good for building houses, even the Romans thought so, shame the USA is a little slower to catch on

Col

 

[statsman]

Actually, frame (wood) houses are the norm in most places in the US. I am suprized at the number of frame houses in most American cities when I go there. Even very expensive houses on the "right side of the tracks".

Toronto has an advantage. A big chunk of the city burned down in the great Toronto fire in 1912. The insurance companies said they wouldn't re-insure unless you re-built in brick.

 

[Salient]

As anyone with a wife will know, there's no such thing as "free" fun

Yes pretty much the free is knocked out of everything, and you apparently immediatly do everything wrong

 

[TessB]

Oh and don't forget the compulsary USA flag in the front garden.
Col

I'll never tire of hearing about the stereotypical viewpoints of Brits on American's way of life.
How utterly absurd.

 

[Rabbie]

Yes pretty much the free is knocked out of everything, and you apparently immediatly do everything wrong

According to my wife I only have two faults - everything I say and everything I do

 

[Rich]

I'll never tire of hearing about the stereotypical viewpoints of Brits on American's way of life.
How utterly absurd.

Isn't the obverse also true though?

 

[ColinEssex]

I'll never tire of hearing about the stereotypical viewpoints of Brits on American's way of life.
How utterly absurd.

Americans,

Have a flag in the front garden.

They have a flag badge on their lapel (like GWB always wears)

They carry shopping in brown paper bags with a french stick poking out.

Cars are massive V8's

Table cloths are always red gingham design

In a restaurant, nobody goes to the cashier to pay, you throw the money on the table and walk out.

Newspaper deliveries are thrown by a kid on a bike rather than posted through the door.

A 'diner' is always a converted railway carriage in the middle of town

Aliens always visit an out-of-the-way town in Arizona rather than Times Square

People chew tobacco and spit alot

Shall I go on?

Col

 

[GaryPanic]

Americans,

Have a flag in the front garden.

They have a flag badge on their lapel (like GWB always wears)

They carry shopping in brown paper bags with a french stick poking out.

Cars are massive V8's

Table cloths are always red gingham design

In a restaurant, nobody goes to the cashier to pay, you throw the money on the table and walk out.

Newspaper deliveries are thrown by a kid on a bike rather than posted through the door.

A 'diner' is always a converted railway carriage in the middle of town

Aliens always visit an out-of-the-way town in Arizona rather than Times Square

People chew tobacco and spit alot

Shall I go on?

Col

thats essex your talking about ....

 

[ColinEssex]

thats essex your talking about ....

Yes - Essex in Vermont USA

Chittenden County
Including: Essex Junction
Chartered: June 7, 1763 (New Hampshire Grant)
Area: 25,214 Acres = 39.4 Square Miles [ Size Rank: 134* ]
Coordinates (Geographic Center): 73°04''W 44°31'N
Altitude: 492 feet ASL
Population (US Census, 2000): 18,626 [ Population Rank: 2* ]
Population Density (persons per square mile): 472.7 [ Density Rank: 10* ]

Col

 

[Alc]

Isn't the obverse also true though?

Definitely. Since arriving here, I've heard - from Canadians and Americans, both - that
1) it always rains in the UK (I mean every day)
2) that everyone has bad teeth
3) that there are only two television stations
4) that everything is smaller
5) that you can pretty much see the whole of Europe in a week or two (sorry, not 'see', I should say 'do', they have this bizarre belief that Europe is an activity, rather than a place)
There's rarely any insult meant by any of them, but the stereotypes are there.

 

[GaryPanic]

Definitely. Since arriving here, I've heard - from Canadians and Americans, both - that
1) it always rains in the UK (I mean every day)
2) that everyone has bad teeth
3) that there are only two television stations
4) that everything is smaller
5) that you can pretty much see the whole of Europe in a week or two (sorry, not 'see', I should say 'do', they have this bizarre belief that Europe is an activity, rather than a place)
There's rarely any insult meant by any of them, but the stereotypes are there.

all true you know ,
rained today
dentist tomorrow
my digital box has broken -(can now only get 2 channels)
everything smaller ? - well I put that down to a cold spell
Europe in a week , well if you miss those countries that are dull
Belgium, France, Germany, then possibly (only kidding France & Germeany)

 

[Alc]

rained today

Case proven.

dentist tomorrow

What do they do, paint the yellow stains on and make sure every tooth is crooked?

my digital box has broken -(can now only get 2 channels)

Two more than I could pick up where I live, without cable/satellite.

everything smaller ? - well I put that down to a cold spell

You can blame what you like, son.

Europe in a week , well if you miss those countries that are dull

Frighteningly close to what I hear, here

 

[GaryPanic]

You can blame what you like, son.


No... honest its cold...(lol)

 

[dan-cat]

Definitely. Since arriving here, I've heard - from Canadians and Americans, both - that
1) it always rains in the UK (I mean every day)
2) that everyone has bad teeth
3) that there are only two television stations
4) that everything is smaller
5) that you can pretty much see the whole of Europe in a week or two (sorry, not 'see', I should say 'do', they have this bizarre belief that Europe is an activity, rather than a place)
There's rarely any insult meant by any of them, but the stereotypes are there.

You left out chimney sweeps. We all think you clean chimneys for a living