V-Flyer

As much as I like them they amuse me too

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Brilliant!!!

That is hilarious!!!

Yes our American Cousins do have a strange logic system!

Only fear is that the England Team start to think they won

buns

Oh, I don't know. It is entirely logical to me. In a previous world cup we were in the same group as England and Egypt and drew each of the games. The word on the street was that we beat England 1-1 and lost to Egypt 1-1 We knew exactly what we meant.

Yes I saw this in today's Times. The Times wrote a piece on how the Americans had covered the draw and said that both the post and NYT used pretty much used baseball style reporting to cover the game.

Interesting to see that the editor of the Post does not know the difference between the English and British. Somehow I think our friends north and west of the borders would have a word or two to say about that!

willd wrote:Interesting to see that the editor of the Post does not know the difference between the English and British. Somehow I think our friends north and west of the borders would have a word or two to say about that!

I think a very high percentage of our colonial cousins would not know the difference between the English and the British.

I have an abiding memory of travelling to Lake Tahoe from LHR to meet up with a party of American friends. Three of us travelled from this side of the pond and as we drew up to the open door of the lodge where we were to stay, a cry went up "The Brits are here" One of the three was South African, one was Chinese and I was Irish!!

honey lamb wrote:

willd wrote:Interesting to see that the editor of the Post does not know the difference between the English and British. Somehow I think our friends north and west of the borders would have a word or two to say about that!

I think a very high percentage of our colonial cousins would not know the difference between the English and the British.

I have an abiding memory of travelling to Lake Tahoe from LHR to meet up with a party of American friends. Three of us travelled from this side of the pond and as we drew up to the open door of the lodge where we were to stay, a cry went up "The Brits are here" One of the three was South African, one was Chinese and I was Irish!!

When I was in line to sign the waiver forms before doing the skyjump the girl checking the ID's said to the guy next to me, you're from Scotland (he was) and said to me you're from the UK. Technically she was right but if he was from Scotland I'm from England and both of us are from the UK. I know what I mean anyway

buns wrote:Only fear is that the England Team start to think they won

buns

I thought that they lost

willd wrote:Interesting to see that the editor of the Post does not know the difference between the English and British. Somehow I think our friends north and west of the borders would have a word or two to say about that!

Indeed - I went through a phase of entering 'England' on the Visa Waiver form under Country where you live. It was almost always crossed out and replaced by 'UK' - despite there being no such country.

FM

daywalker wrote:As much as I like them they amuse me too

http://i50.tinypic.com/1h4k0z.jpg

Or the concept of where it is?

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NH

northernhenry wrote:Or the concept of where it is?
NH

Great one! Bless 'em, geography is not their strongest point.

northernhenry wrote:

daywalker wrote:As much as I like them they amuse me too

http://i50.tinypic.com/1h4k0z.jpg

Or the concept of where it is?

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NH

Classic

northernhenry wrote:
Or the concept of where it is?

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NH

Oh dear.

I hear there are 30,000 Americans still sitting in Rustenburg stadium awaiting the 3rd quarter

FamilyMan wrote: It was almost always crossed out and replaced by 'UK' - despite there being no such country.

FM

Would that be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Commonly abbreviated to 'UK' even by her Majesty's Government?

Having said that even half the people in this country cannot tell you the difference between Great Britain, British Isles, UKGB+NI etc etc.

willd wrote:Having said that even half the people in this country cannot tell you the difference between Great Britain, British Isles, UKGB+NI etc etc.

Quite - those GCSEs just aren't a patch on O-levels bla bla bla ...

One good thing they've done this time around is to replace all american commentators on ESPN with brits, and got rid of all the ridiculous statistics panels that would pop up at the bottom of the screen in 2006, hiding half the bloody pitch and forcing us to miss critical parts of the action. ESPN seems to have realized a great part of its not inconsiderable audience for the games was made up of expats, who would resort to watching games on Unavision just to not have to deal with the idiocy of the coverage. Much better. For the Italy game yesterday they had Roberto Martinez in studio commentating on the game, and he was predictably over the moon with his new boy scoring, and was articulate and especially good at talking the usual amount of drivel you do post-game. Italy, of course, was predictable in creating 0 chances, showing the english that there is always someone worse off than you ....