Hello From My Englishness

[where_is_RUTH]

I’ve just counted and I have about 12 loo rolls at home, purchased in a non panic state. Three people in our house.... should I start rationing?

On the pasta front I don’t know because they’re all in a cupboard that’s awkward to get to and I can’t be arsed to get on my knees and look... I definitely have some Taste the Difference Orzo. ( ohhh if only I had some truffle oil ). I do have a shed load of flour though and an unused pasta maker still in the box 10 years after the wedding. Seems a perfect time to break it open.

Refusing to get on her hands and knees...
Doesn't want to be in the kitchen...
Have you met my wife? (Bernard Manning cerca the 70's!!)

 

[ReaperW]

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[Spiritedlady]

SL! What a pleasant surprise to see you back

Planning to stock up on paperback novels tomorrow, just in case that's what it comes down to....

Feeling for all the healthcare professionals as every hypochondriac comes out to play... Worked in health care during swine flu and that was bad enough. This time it's actually slightly more serious!

Going to start making face masks out of sanitary pads and start selling them down the town. Probably get good money for them too

Thank you....Thank you all for the welcome back.

Sanitary pad masks sound incredibly innovative and probably about as effective as some of those masks being sold. You probably need some of the old school ones that you had to wear with a harness... handy loops for the ears. If only we knew someone who worked in the health service who could filtch some masks for us.

 

[Spiritedlady]

Refusing to get on her hands and knees...
Doesn't want to be in the kitchen...
Have you met my wife? (Bernard Manning cerca the 70's!!)

It’s my age Ruth... if I get down I can’t get back up.

 

[LondonSnap]

This pleases me:

Same thing happens in the run up to Christmas... I panic buy balsamic vinegar and parmesan cheese! One must keep up ones standards!

 

[AngelicaS1780]

Same thing happens in the run up to Christmas... I panic buy balsamic vinegar and parmesan cheese! One must keep up ones standards!

There are some things on which one never wants to skimp.

 

[where_is_RUTH]

There are some things on which one never wants to skimp.

Well since I can no longer smoke cigars...

Anyway people have taken the piss out of me in here, for keeping a butcher!

 

[MrDevereaux]

Well since I can no longer smoke cigars...

Anyway people have taken the piss out of me in here, for keeping a butcher!

Where do you keep your butcher?

 

[where_is_RUTH]

Where do you keep your butcher?

In my baker and candlestick maker!


A long time ago we talked about this place having subtitles (or foot notes) to explain the randomness of Britishness.
I'm free if anyone wants tutorials to pass the immigration citizen test...

 

[where_is_RUTH]

^^ NB. Someone actually born in this country would almost certainly fail the fucking test. It's impossible!

 

[londoner2]

^^ NB. Someone actually born in this country would almost certainly fail the fucking test. It's impossible!

I was born here and just tried an online demo test and got them all right except one. I have been around a while but I've never heard of Robert Watson-Watt let alone knew that he invented radar - and really don't see what that has to do with citizenship...

 

[AngelicaS1780]

I got 75% correct. Interesting. Seems as much about history as it is about civics/citizenship.

 

[AngelicaS1780]

I went to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services website (https://my.uscis.gov/prep/test/civics) to see how I would do on the practice test there. All the questions were presented in a multiple choice format. I answered them all correctly. I then noted that the actual test is *not* multiple choice. I would like to think that I still would have done as well. However, on the British test, I would have had a significantly more difficult time. The difference between recognition and recall of information.

(yes, I'm a nerd...I know)

 

[Spiritedlady]

I got 75% correct. Interesting. Seems as much about history as it is about civics/citizenship.

You’re right.... I just sat a practice test and got 22 out of 24 questions right ( failed 2 history questions but I didn’t study history beyond the age of 13). Thing is what do you think should be on the test? How about “ Which of the following should you not do while travelling on the London Underground “ tick all that apply:
Stand on the left of the escalator
Not have your travel pass ready at the barrier
Start a conversation with the person next to you
Cough.

 

[where_is_RUTH]

You’re right.... I just sat a practice test and got 22 out of 24 questions right ( failed 2 history questions but I didn’t study history beyond the age of 13). Thing is what do you think should be on the test? How about “ Which of the following should you not do while travelling on the London Underground “ tick all that apply:
Stand on the left of the escalator
Not have your travel pass ready at the barrier
Start a conversation with the person next to you
Cough.

Ooorrrgghh. Spoil sport.

I'm a grockle (Devon word for tourists) and I LOVE doing all of those things!

 

[AngelicaS1780]

You’re right.... I just sat a practice test and got 22 out of 24 questions right ( failed 2 history questions but I didn’t study history beyond the age of 13). Thing is what do you think should be on the test? How about “ Which of the following should you not do while travelling on the London Underground “ tick all that apply:
Stand on the left of the escalator
Not have your travel pass ready at the barrier
Start a conversation with the person next to you
Cough.

All of the above.
Plus the write in bonus - Bring luggage on during rush hours.

 

[Polranny]

All of the above.
Plus the write in bonus - Bring luggage on during rush hours.

Particularly a bike with panniers

 

[Spiritedlady]

Particularly a bike with panniers

Or a large rucksack you fail to take off

 

[Polranny]

Or any of the above and standing at the foot of the escalator wondering Whether you want East or Westbound District line and daring to ask .

 

[Cherry_Brandy]

or do embroidery on the tube and worry the person next to you every time the needle gets almost to eye level or is that just me?

 

[Polranny]

or do embroidery on the tube and worry the person next to you every time the needle gets almost to eye level or is that just me?

Im not sure about that one, Ruthie might know!

 

[ReaperW]

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[Cherry_Brandy]

People doing embroidery on the tube? Sounds a darn (snigger) sight more civilised than Glasgow tube. Although if you've ever seen the Glasgow tube map, you'll know its not quite in the same league...

https://mobile.twitter.com/GlasgowLiving/status/484763760964276224/photo/1

It is often the start of a good/funny conversation but not with the person to my immediate right who is usually too busy panicking about losing an eye. I had 1 hour each way on the Jubilee line for a year and it did stave off the boredom

 

[LordofChocolateSauce]

Which of the following should you not do while travelling on the London Underground “ tick all that apply:
Stand on the left of the escalator
Not have your travel pass ready at the barrier
Start a conversation with the person next to you
Cough.

sadly even here folks don't adhere to any of this, makes commuting so frustrating

 

[Polranny]

I got 75% correct. Interesting. Seems as much about history as it is about civics/citizenship.

I got 22 out of 24.
Way back in 67 my headmaster got US university entrance papers from the Embassy. They were multiple choice and were sent back to be marked. I was offered Yale or Harvard to study American history ( I got a C in my A level history in UK, Tudors and Stuarts anyone?).