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#1787393 - 02/19/13 09:27 PM Re: Travel to England edAudit
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Originally Posted By: EdAudit
122 Baker St
Westminister, London
McDonald's?.....not hardly.....very funny.
not your thing you can try
85 Gloucester Rd
South Kensington, London
Burger King?......NO!!
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#1787395 - 02/19/13 09:30 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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#1787396 - 02/19/13 09:31 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Originally Posted By: swiggles
Originally Posted By: waldensouth
"Napkin" is a diaper.
"Bathroom" is place to take a bath. Ask for Toliet or water closet.
My friend from England, with whom I had dinner last night, smokes. A cigarette is called a "fag."


When we were there we were informed that "napkin" was an item for Aunt Flo, if you know what I mean. I remember seeing a Pizza Hut menu in London...pizza with tuna and corn. I've never gotten over that one.
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#1787399 - 02/19/13 09:32 PM Re: Travel to England raitchjay
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The local team is called Mansfield Town F.C., playing in the Conference National league, currently in 3rd place. This is 5th division soccer and the highest league not comepeting in the football association.

I'm sure RJ meant to include that in his comments concerning Manchester United, but likely hit submit too soon.


Actually, my knowledge of the British soccer scene pretty much begins and ends with Man. U. laugh I had no idea there was a team in Mansfield.


Just about every town in England with at least 5,000 inhabitants will have a soccer team...some more than 1. You are loyal to your local club until death...even if you grow up to become a Wayne Rooney playing for Man U, you will still follow your boyhood club (in his case, Everton).
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#1787400 - 02/19/13 09:33 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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You are here
not very much to do there

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=England&state=OH

you may have to go to Ashland
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#1787402 - 02/19/13 09:34 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Thanks EVERYONE!!! This is GREAT!! If you think of anything else, please post!!!
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#1787403 - 02/19/13 09:37 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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You are here
I am tring my best (since Peepers is MIA)
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#1787407 - 02/19/13 09:41 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Just so you are not too alarmed, they drive on the opposite side of the road there from what I understand and the steering wheel is on the opposite side of the car. You may want to rent National Lampoon's European Vacation to prepare for your trip, I think it has some handy tips.
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#1787410 - 02/19/13 09:43 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Find one of those funny dressed Guards, and try to make them laugh, flinch, smile.

Try asking people where Austin Powers lives.

Rent a car, drive down the right side of the road, and start yelling at people telling them to "get on the right side of the road!"

Try and find Mr. Bean.

Get an umbrella and do you best Mary Poppins impersonation.
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#1787412 - 02/19/13 09:48 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Mind the gap! The subway was really fun to take around and very easy to navigate. Of course, we had to take a red double decker bus once just to say we did. smile

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#1787413 - 02/19/13 09:49 PM Re: Travel to England edAudit
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Originally Posted By: EdAudit
not very much to do there

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=England&state=OH

you may have to go to Ashland
Mansfield, Ohio....um.....no.
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#1787416 - 02/19/13 09:51 PM Re: Travel to England DD Regs
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Find one of those funny dressed Guards, and try to make them laugh, flinch, smile.
Red Robin.........Yum!.......(have you seen that commercial?)
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#1787424 - 02/19/13 10:19 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Our bus driver informed us that in American we drive on the right side of the road which is the wrong side. They drive on the left side of the road in England which is actually the right side. Oh, and don't us a "k" in schedule. It's pronounced Shedule with just the "sh" sound.

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#1787427 - 02/19/13 10:23 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Order fish n chips and when they bring it out get real mad and say, "What's wrong with you people don't you speak American?, These are not Chips, these are French Fries!"

They just love stuff like that. grin

(trying to fill in for Peepers)

And yes, I love Red Robin...Yum!
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#1787428 - 02/19/13 10:27 PM Re: Travel to England Queen Mum
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Originally Posted By: Queen Mum
Our bus driver informed us that in American we drive on the right side of the road which is the wrong side. They drive on the left side of the road in England which is actually the right side. Oh, and don't us a "k" in schedule. It's pronounced Shedule with just the "sh" sound.
You are making my head hurt.
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#1787429 - 02/19/13 10:30 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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You are here
and an english to american translation app for you iPad
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#1787433 - 02/19/13 10:34 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Become an honorary Brit for a week and stop brushing your teeth.
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#1787435 - 02/19/13 10:37 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
and when you order a beer in a pub, complain that it is warm, what's with this room temperature garbage...and when they bring a coke with no ice, complain about that as well...in fact, be as loud, obnoxious, and blustery as possible...after all, they already think that about their spoiled and ill-mannered cousins, why not prove it true!

Some other random things to do:

Go to McDonald's and order a quarter pounder.

Go to a bank and ask for a 2 pound coin...when they give it to you start asking if they think you're stupid, as it clearly weighs only an ounce, not 2 pounds

At Buckingham Palace (assuming you do the tour), ask if the Queen has ever forgiven the Sex Pistols for singing that she wasn't human

Stop by #10 Downing Street and tell them you want to apologize for the time that American's dumped all the tea in Boston Harbor and that your're on a personal mission to repair our relationship issues that stemmed from that incident
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#1787437 - 02/19/13 10:45 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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They really do the warm beer thing? I couldn't do that. Yuck.
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#1787439 - 02/19/13 10:48 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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I still haven't gotten over the fact that when I went to Minnesota, I discovered that iced tea is only served when it's "in season" and when they do serve it, it has maybe one ice cube in it.
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#1787440 - 02/19/13 10:50 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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That's one of my pet peeves: fast-food joints that don't put near enough ice in their iced tea, so that it comes to you a very unappealing lukewarm.
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#1787451 - 02/19/13 11:48 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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#1787492 - 02/20/13 01:04 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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Originally Posted By: swiggles
I still haven't gotten over the fact that when I went to Minnesota, I discovered that iced tea is only served when it's "in season" and when they do serve it, it has maybe one ice cube in it.


It gets cold up here Swiggles, so we do hot tea when cold and iced tea when warm. If you need more ice you can always go out to the lake and cut some for yourself. smirk smile
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#1787504 - 02/20/13 02:24 PM Re: Travel to England DD Regs
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Originally Posted By: DD Regs
Find one of those funny dressed Guards, and try to make them laugh, flinch, smile.

Try asking people where Austin Powers lives.

Rent a car, drive down the right side of the road, and start yelling at people telling them to "get on the right side of the road!"

Try and find Mr. Bean.

Get an umbrella and do you best Mary Poppins impersonation.


OMGoat laugh

::sings Step In Time::
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#1787506 - 02/20/13 02:28 PM Re: Travel to England swiggles
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You are here
you can visit the Ministry of Silly Walks laugh
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