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You know you're an anglophile when . . .

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David Seager
David Seager
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quotePosted at 22:19 on 23rd March 2010

This is some silliness I came up with based on some of my own recent activities. It's probably interesting only to those of us outside the UK with a longing to visit or return.  Feel free to add to it!  I'll start.

You know you’re an anglophile when . . .

Your favorite part of the film Amistad was when the British marines deployed in battle line against the slave fort at the end of the movie, being thrilled with some kind of ancestral memory to identify with the (very cool) red coats . . .

            Your idea of entertainment is to re-watch Horatio Hornblower, Sharpe, and videos of Piece of Cake, Inspectors Dalgleish, Morse, and Lewis, plus episodes of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, the Midsomer Murders, and clips of the Battle of Trafalgar. . .

            You regularly watch videos of the last night of the Proms, especially thrilled by the playing of Hope and Glory . . .

            You keep going back to Pictures of England to see more photographs . . .

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Stephanie Jackson
Stephanie Jackson
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quotePosted at 06:57 on 24th March 2010

That's lovely David. It's a shame more British aren't as patriotic about our country as some of our American cousins are!

Personally I love it here though - warts and all!

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Ruth Gregory
Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 03:36 on 25th March 2010

You eat mushy peas with your fish and chips.  :-)

Can you be a Brit and be referred to as an Anglophile?  I don't mean in the patriotic sense, but I think Ive always heard the word as referring to people from outside Britain who love Britain.

 

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Urmimala Singh
Urmimala Singh
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quotePosted at 05:30 on 25th March 2010

Love reading books only by English authors like Austen,Dickens,Wodehouse,Hardy,Agatha Christie,Bronte sisters,George Eliot,Anthony Trollope,Sir Conan Doyle,Georgette Heyer,Elizabeth Gaskell etc.. over and over again !

Love to watch only movies and TV serials based on the works of these authors.

Log on to POE whenever there is any spare time and always dream of visiting England again and again!

These are things I am guilty of David.Laughing

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Sue H
Sue H
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quotePosted at 13:51 on 25th March 2010

I'm am actually English living in America (I REFUSE to be called an ex pat, I HATE HATE HATE that label) but I'll add

You heart skips a beat when you see a Mini Cooper on the road

You zone in on an English accent in the crowded mall and stare longingly.

You try speaking with an English accent when around someone English (We have one patient who does this every time, and I find it quite irritating). 

What a fun idea for a thread, David

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Ron Brind
Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 13:55 on 25th March 2010

You sneak around Wheatley trying to be part of the locals! Lol

I wonder who that could be now? (Sorry mate) Lol

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Krissy
Krissy
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quotePosted at 14:09 on 25th March 2010
You use all the English swear words....all the one Americans don't know!! (naughty of me, I know! Embarassed)
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Sue H
Sue H
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quotePosted at 15:30 on 25th March 2010
On 25th March 2010 13:55, Ron Brind wrote:

You sneak around Wheatley trying to be part of the locals! Lol

I wonder who that could be now? (Sorry mate) Lol


Just remember who lived in Wheatley first, Ron  .
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Ron Brind
Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 18:02 on 25th March 2010
What, you are older than me? Lol
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James Prescott
James Prescott
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quotePosted at 18:19 on 25th March 2010
there's not so many older than our ron Foot in mouth
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