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What's Your Country Like?
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Zukio
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:23 am Posts: 491 Location: The Shadowy Parts of the Pride Lands
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My family is planning on visiting the United Kingdom this summer, so I was wondering if someone from there had any tips on places we should visit. The only ones that I am sure about are London, and Stonehenge, but any other places are up for debate.
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Deathwatch
Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:16 am Posts: 15 Location: In the Kremlin, enjoying tea with Lenin's ghost.
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Don't go to England, London is expensive and the rest of the country is boring and you can't drink the tap water. Come to Scotland, visit Edinburgh, see the beauty of the highlands, drink tap water, try the Exotic 'fried mars bar' come to Glasgow, the culture center of the UK, see Neds(non-educated delinquents) in there natural habitat, experience Sun, rain, snow and hail in the same day. Here is a video series explaining our greatness.
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Dissension
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Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 6991 Location: On Your Mind
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Scotland sounds like Arkansas. Actually, a public school teacher of mine indicated he's met several people from Ireland and Scotland who told him the U.K. treats them like the U.S. treats Arkansans and Arkansawyers.
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Duster
Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:44 am Posts: 381 Images: 1 Location: Deep In The Heart of TEXAS
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Pfft that is nothing compared to the odd ridicule Texans seem to get. We're either lumped together as simple minded Cowboy redneck folk or stubbornly proud separatists! It just goes to show how much our Texas lawmakers and random assorted crazies affect the nations outlook upon us.
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Deathwatch
Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:16 am Posts: 15 Location: In the Kremlin, enjoying tea with Lenin's ghost.
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We all get branded (by the English) as a bunch of alcoholic, skirt wearing, ginger, barbarian separatists and much more. The thing most of them forget is that our people invented most things out there.
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Tiggy
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 2:38 am Posts: 3867 Location: Sweeeden :3
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all I can think of when I think scotland is braveheart
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Zukio
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:23 am Posts: 491 Location: The Shadowy Parts of the Pride Lands
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It seems my family is going to those places no matter what, but Scottland is close enough that we may be able to swing on by and get a chance to see ye banks and braes o bonnie doon.
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Onlythebassist
Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:35 pm Posts: 232 Location: UK; pip pip cheerio!
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If you're set on coming to the UK, bring warm clothes whatever the forecast is - unpredictable is the word I'd use to describe it On the subject of places to visit, there's plenty in London (Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tower of London). The Tube network is pretty fun to get around on, but I'd recommend biting the bullet and buying Oyster cards rather than tickets if you plan on using the transport system*. Bus tours are OK but tend to rush your intake a bit. The London Dungeon is awesome if you're into that kind of thing (live action horror maze, takes about an hour and a half to complete) and there's a few Banksy's dotted around for the street art enthusiast. Dependent on where you plan on visiting, there's a lot of castles dotted around the UK. There's one in my own town, believe it or not! Make sure to sample some of the unique dishes as well, which definitely includes the battered Mars bar. Fish and chips is much nicer than it sounds  * Buying tickets from stations to station can be really time consuming and also slows you down significantly. If I remember, the cards give you a small discount as well and are easy to top up using the machines.
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texascat018
Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:02 pm Posts: 1570 Images: 2 Location: Manisnowba Canada
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Help, I got Canadikitus. A really bad disease. I'm starting lose my Americanness and I'm dull to cold now and I just sometimes say eh? Instead of what?. Now I'm getting used to not getting pennies for change. I kinda lost the plan of moving back to the State when I graduate, even though I took American history class and got 105% on recent unit test and I have a US flag hanging on my wall. Now I spell center -> ''centre'' And I eat smarties instead of M&M.
Regarding to my carrer, I'm starting to be like, you know what? I want to join US airforce, when I graduate, but I'm just little lazy to do that, I'll join CDN airforce, I'm already in Canadian Cadet (JROTC) anyway. Yeah when I was doing a fundraiser for the cadet, some lady came up to me and said 'you are credit to this country'. Yeah I should stay here. I'm gonna lose my Koreanness soon enough.. I used to be fast at math, but...
Guys, help, any cure for this?
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Sleet
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Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13762 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Go as south as possible and eat some apple pie.
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GameCobra
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:27 am Posts: 2948 Location: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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Remember the National Anthem.
Canadikitus isn't too bad. Just remember to stay indoors for October. November at the latest when the leaves start to fall. Since it's March, consider yourself lucky. Snow igloos I hear are very popular this time of year.
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TheMobian
Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:06 pm Posts: 252 Location: Colonel Mustang, In the elevator, with a hamster!
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Not only that, but its also polar bear racing season! 8D Ah... the great white north... 
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Beagle
Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:09 pm Posts: 1537 Location: North Carolina
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I was talking to 44R0N's mom about our recent weather, and I told her how North Carolinians like to describe our state's seasonal pattern:
"Here in North Carolina, we don't have Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. We like to call it Getting Hot Outside, It's Really Hot Outside, It's Still Pretty Hot Outside, and Cold."
It's still not quite as hot as the states in the Deep South, but still.
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Tiggy
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 2:38 am Posts: 3867 Location: Sweeeden :3
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It feels like I should be more grateful I actually have 4 seasons up here in cold sweden!
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Duster
Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:44 am Posts: 381 Images: 1 Location: Deep In The Heart of TEXAS
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Not as hot as Texas that's for sure!
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Kitch
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Joined: Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:53 am Posts: 646 Location: Orlando, FL USA
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Here in the Florida peninsula, we have hot, and what Miami considers cold, which is anything under 75 °F.
The heat doesn't get really bad until June, when the humidity kicks in. Then, it's a sauna until September at the very earliest.
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