What do you Americans really think it's like here in Britain?

Soccer fans, which mean low intelligence and complete and total lack of 21st century progress in sport which mimics the society's lack of progress in general.

An overreaching nationwide sense of loss at having once been truly "Great" but now settling in for the long haul of decay and dilution of the qualities and attitude that made English the dominate language and culture on the planet.

Gray in all aspects.

a tiny gloomy island the size of Ohio ruled by a frumpy Queen. Oh..and has a gossipy press that fills 100 pages each day of meaningless chatter.

The Daily Mail and The Sun are not full of "meaningless chatter".

lol that is funny shit lower intelligence than Grid Iron fans? hahaha you have to be shitting me?
At least Soccer fans have respect and honor, you have nothing of the sorts!

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This is what we see... like it or not.

We are really stupid calling a sport that you use your feet and a ball football,....we should have used an egg shaped object and used our hands...would have made more sense.

Its funny because America tries to be competitive at soccer, yet fails miserably.
And still constantly uses the term "Soccer Mom" hahahahaha
Very strange!

Ok then Soccer Mom!

Yeah, that's pretty much it in the cities. Cities and big towns are hell now.



Nope, football hooliganism has paled into insignificance. We got much bigger problems.





My folks came from the Far North. They didn't get electricity there until the mid-1960s. But they didn't run around wild in kilts and blue painted faces. Very law-abiding and decent folk.



HAHAHAHA! I was in Ohio on business once. The waitress in the hotel restaurant who obviously hadn't been more than 20 miles out of town mistook my pukka English accent for some weird foreign accent and kindly asked me if I could read English....





In their right minds, who would identify as Muslim nowadays...?




Well, actually that's more or less true.
Once out of the cities and big towns it's paradise.

I moved out to the sticks and it's heavenly after decades in the city. More than half the city problems have indeed just melted away. Or simply don't exist.



In the cities and big towns it's Absolutely Fucking Terrifying. Mostly lawless, careless, barely civilized.

Out in the sticks it's idyllic, peaceful, and far more friendly and helpful. Like the rest of the UK used to be 30 years ago. So yes, AbFab in many places.

Really like The 1975, BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend looked awesome. Grats on Brexit. You should be free to run your country as you choose, even if that means electing a muslim mayor that wants to make exemptions for more muslims to come across the chunnel. You should be free to do that (or not).


Really like English music in general. It's amazing just how much influence one nation/island has had on the music industry over the decades. Even your gay artists like The Petshop Boys are fantastic and appeal to all audiences.

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Look at the soccer moms get in quick and start brawling!

You wake in the morning, say goodbye to teddy, take the lift down and get in your Mr. Bean car. You drive by the dentist's office and flip it off on your way to work as a chimney sweep. You stop working 5 times a day to have tea and crumpets. For dinner, it's spotted dick.

Once back home, you watch some Faulty Towers, smoke a fag, kiss a pic of the Queen Mum goodnight and it's back to bed with teddy.

Everyone carries magic wands and are affraid of some guy with no nose...and dragons.

I always thought major cities were overpopulated, stinky and pretentious.

It's cause the pussy wussy children (picked last sissy type) with overbearing and overprotective mothers play soccer in North America. Hence "Soccer Moms."

Not so strange, but perhaps embarrassing revelation for you.

Oh jeez you go to New York thinking THAT is America and you call us dumb?

Yes it is strange, and you are strange, you strange weirdo fuckwit!

Fact is, and its a verifiable historic fact, modern American firearms were devised by inventions of the British.
FACT.

The way you guys play you should free the moustached wife's foot from your "arses" and let them give it go. maybe get the queen lizard to rule...um referee the game. Use your head man...headball.

the way you guys play you should pull the moustached wife's foot from your "arses" and let them have a go. Perhaps have the lizard queen rule...umm referee the game. Use what's left of your head man! Headball.

Bro, that's London, not Britain. How can this reality be Britain when only 5% of the population of *Britain* is Muslim? We're 87% white over here.

boring landscape with gray skies and rain drizzles 3-5 times per week.

Just watch the film and following tv series . this is england its a pretty spot on look at least of what life in my part of the wood looked like in the 70 80s and 90s and not a lot has changed

Once again, you only know of London and not the British mainland in general. Google beautiful landscapes UK, and you will see otherwise. There are many jaw dropping places over here, and the shithole that is London sure isn't one of them.

excuse the double post. flying British Airways and on Vodafone...what could go wrong.

From my experience, it is getting much less British, and much more brownish.

Brits better discover a sense of nationalism soon or they will fade away and be forgotten under edict of sharia law.

Is the question about the landscape or the people or life in general?

As an American, I think we have a lot more variety in things we can buy. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, just an observation. For instance, a Briton would be overwhelmed in the typical American supermarket or shopping mall. I'm not even sure you call them supermarkets. Big grocery stores. A place to buy food for the household.

The British often forget that their four constituent countries are comparable in size to like 4 out of 50 states. Los Angeles to New York is about 3,000 miles, and it's all the USA. If you're in London and you travel 3,000 miles east, you'd have passed Moscow. I think the British often fail to grasp this concept when contemplating what the US is. It's continental in size.

I also don't understand the reverence for a monarchy. Or even a need for a monarchy anymore other than posterity and some sense of former greatness, though keeping it seems a little sad in my opinion.

From what I see on google maps, the road system in cities looks odd to an American eye. Not just driving on the left, but the crosswalks and those zig-zag lines. Now, while it's true London is a very old city, it's like American cities in that most of its development happened in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution. London and other British cities evolved a little differently from American cities at this time. Not saying it's bad, just different. American cities tend to follow traditional grid patterns, whereas the roads in British cities seem to be all over the place. Again, I'm not talking about ancient roads, but roads built from the 1800s to the present day.

In the countryside, the roads look quaint, but they're all so narrow and poorly marked. Also, Britain doesn't seem to have a comprehensive highway system comparable to the USA. There are some expressways, but no limited-access roads going continuously for hundreds of miles. In fairness, I know Canada, as big as it is, doesn't even have ONE trans-Canadian highway that comparable to an American Interstate (limited access for thousands of miles, minimum of two lanes in each direction, no traffic lights, etc.). Most of the cars driven in Britain seem small and strange looking to an American eye, and the license plates are very nondescript.