HAL's UK / USA Mega Thread.

[rudeguy]

YES!

I'm moving there. Save me a hot black chick

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

foster's too

Nobody drinks Fosters here. Nobody.

It literally wouldn't be in the top 20 best selling beers.

 

[MovingTarget]

HAL, I'm going to address this to you directly instead of the myriad of posters here. You obviously have a lot of interest in the US. This thread will not satisfy your curiosity. Only one thing will....travelling here...and I don't mean doing the touristy thing. You need to spend some significant time here - learning our linguistic idiosyncrasies, spending time with the people, learning their personal experience/history. You need a good mix of urban and rural to really get the picture. Then, and only then, will you finally understand. I don't say this lightly or in jest - you need to see this place for yourself for what it really is. I'd start saving up and making arrangements for when you graduate.

 

[HAL9000]

YES!

I'm moving there. Save me a hot black chick

I don't know any black people.

HAL, I'm going to address this to you directly instead of the myriad of posters here. You obviously have a lot of interest in the US. This thread will not satisfy your curiosity. Only one thing will....travelling here...and I don't mean doing the touristy thing. You need to spend some significant time here - learning our linguistic idiosyncrasies, spending time with the people, learning their personal experience/history. You need a good mix of urban and rural to really get the picture. Then, and only then, will you finally understand. I don't say this lightly or in jest - you need to see this place for yourself for what it really is. I'd start saving up and making arrangements for when you graduate.

I spent three months in the US in 2010, i flew into New York and flew out of Las Vegas after travelling across for 3 months.

 

[Joseph F]

I don't know any black people.



I spent three years in the US in 2010, i flew into New York and flew out of Las Vegas after travelling across for 3 months.

How did you spend three years in the US in 2010 if it's not 2013 yet?

 

[HAL9000]

How did you spend three years in the US in 2010 if it's not 2013 yet?

Shit, sorry three months not years LOL!

 

[rudeguy]

Shit, sorry three months not years LOL!

just say its the "English" calendar. We'll believe it.

 

[rudeguy]

and how do you not know any black people? You aren't racist are you? (serious question)

 

[HAL9000]

just say its the "English" calendar. We'll believe it.

Hah

and how do you not know any black people? You aren't racist are you? (serious question)

Nope, I'm not, it's just there were 2 black people at my school when I was younger, (of about 1200 people) And I never really knew either of them.

 

[MovingTarget]

I don't know any black people.



I spent three months in the US in 2010, i flew into New York and flew out of Las Vegas after travelling across for 3 months.

I was reading through the rest of the responses and found that you had been here once. Where all did you go? I hope it wasn't just major cities...

 

[HAL9000]

I was reading through the rest of the responses and found that you had been here once. Where all did you go? I hope it wasn't just major cities...

Off the top of my head (Bad memory)

It was:

New York City
Boston
Washington DC
Niagara Falls - Canada
Memphis
Dallas
Houston
Salt Lake City
Grand Canyon
San Fransisco
San Diega
L.A.
Las Vegas

Not in that order, and with loads of places in-between. Can't Remember it all.

 

[ultimatebob]

Off the top of my head (Bad memory)

It was:

New York City
Boston
Washington DC
Niagara Falls - Canada
Memphis
Dallas
Houston
Salt Lake City
Grand Canyon
San Fransisco
San Diega
L.A.
Las Vegas

Not in that order, and with loads of places in-between. Can't Remember it all.

No Miami? Shame.

 

[zokudu]

No Miami? Shame.

Ain't nothing like Miamis heat?

 

[HAL9000]

No Miami? Shame.

I've been to Miami before with my family wasn't really my sort of thing

 

[JujuFish]

See maine, up in the right hand corner? That's about the size of the UK. We're frigging HUGE. I think you can fit roughly three europes in our borders, and I don't think that includes alaska, which is the biggest state, roughly the size of california and nevada combined. I may be way off on all these guesses.

The UK is nearly 3 times the size of Maine and Europe as a whole is little larger than the US. If the UK were a state, it'd be 12th on the list by size, right behind Michigan and ahead of Minnesota. By population, it'd be number one (California has 37m to UK's 62m).

 

[Atomic Playboy]

How do people in England view the reign of Henry VIII? He's generally seen as something of an insane lunatic over here; marrying and divorcing or killing wife after wife after wife... But he also started the Church of England and moved England away from the papacy. So is he generally regarded as good or bad by the English?

 

[qliveur]

Nobody drinks Fosters here. Nobody.

Good. Fosters is horrible.

 

[Monster_Munch]

How do people in England view the reign of Henry VIII? He's generally seen as something of an insane lunatic over here; marrying and divorcing or killing wife after wife after wife... But he also started the Church of England and moved England away from the papacy. So is he generally regarded as good or bad by the English?

I don't think he was insane, but he was an egomaniac and a bit of a bad-ass. I think British people actually kind of like him because he stood up to the pope.

 

[Sinsear]

I've been to Miami before with my family wasn't really my sort of thing

Key West is better for gays

 

[HAL9000]

How do people in England view the reign of Henry VIII? He's generally seen as something of an insane lunatic over here; marrying and divorcing or killing wife after wife after wife... But he also started the Church of England and moved England away from the papacy. So is he generally regarded as good or bad by the English?

I don't know if he was insane but I see him as a egomaniac, I quite like the fact that he asked the pope for a divorce, the pope said no, so he said fuck you i'll start my own church and divorce her... Ha.

Key West is better for gays

Fair enough, I'm not gay and have no interest in going to key west.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Is England's parliament really as rowdy as is alluded to in the media? The Congress over here is generally very boring; when someone shouts "You lie!" at the President, it's considered a huge news story. Every time I hear about the English parliament, it's how they're all rowdy and raucous and continually telling each other to "ah heck off" or what have you. It seems unusual that a parliamentary body would spend so much time just yelling insults at each other, but I guess that's basically just streamlining the US process (since our representatives choose to tell each other to ah heck off through commercials rather than face to face).

Also, is the UK a strictly two party system? I know of the Tories and the Labour Party, but I don't know anything about either when it comes to their views. Are there other political parties as well? America is almost strictly Democrats and Republicans, and although there are a lot of "third parties" (like the Green Party or the Communist Party), they never get elected to anything major.

 

[HAL9000]

Is England's parliament really as rowdy as is alluded to in the media? The Congress over here is generally very boring; when someone shouts "You lie!" at the President, it's considered a huge news story. Every time I hear about the English parliament, it's how they're all rowdy and raucous and continually telling each other to "ah heck off" or what have you. It seems unusual that a parliamentary body would spend so much time just yelling insults at each other, but I guess that's basically just streamlining the US process (since our representatives choose to tell each other to ah heck off through commercials rather than face to face).

Yes it is and it's fucking embarrassing, those morons need to grow up. Ugh.

Also, is the UK a strictly two party system? I know of the Tories and the Labour Party, but I don't know anything about either when it comes to their views. Are there other political parties as well? America is almost strictly Democrats and Republicans, and although there are a lot of "third parties" (like the Green Party or the Communist Party), they never get elected to anything major.

Actually it's a three party system generally the votes are decided as follows:

Labour 40%
Conservatives 40%
Liberal Democrats 20%

Or there abouts depending who wins of course, currently we have a coalition government consisting of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats as neither of the biggest parties got enough votes for a majority, so we have a Conservative Prime Minister and a Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime minister, with the minsters divided amongst the two parties.

Labour are left, Conservatives are right and Liberal Democrats are sort of in the middle or so.

Of course our far right is close to your left, in terms of politics over here vs over there it goes.

UK Left - UK Middle - UK Right - UK Far Right ------------- USA Left - USA Mid -

etc.

 

[HAL9000]

Question: 31/05/2012 What's the deal with the homeless drinking from brown paper bags?...

 

[ElFenix]

Nobody drinks Fosters here. Nobody.

It literally wouldn't be in the top 20 best selling beers.

so it's a cruel joke played on outsiders, then.

Question: 31/05/2012 What's the deal with the homeless drinking from brown paper bags?...

gas stations put beers in slim paper bags. in some states it's required to put alcohol into bags to be carried out of the store.

 

[Gibsons]

gas stations put beers in slim paper bags. in some states it's required to put alcohol into bags to be carried out of the store.

it also helps keep the drink cold, and helps avoid a citation for drinking in public (illegal in some places).