Why Do Limey Brits Live In Thailand

[steverino]

Depends who cooks it I'd say....Full English Breakfast comes in many formats, depending on origins of bar/rest. owner. But in the UK, the breakfast cafe's who make it, mainly for builders etc, are mostly run by Europeans as I remember, or Chinese, or occasionally Greek Cypriots, but not often real Brits.

It's about time the Brits got a hold of themselves here, and start pointing out to foreigners who have been subjected to English fast food that we have a real cuisine which is not unlike French ,some German Dutch and Belgian foods. A lot of Game dishes and the like which you have to pay a fortune for now. The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?

[Rags]

The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?

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Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...

Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...

Edited May 10, 2005 by Rags

[PETERTHEEATER]

Don't post the Unoin (sic) Jack. The 'jack' is the mast on a ship from which the Union (British) flag is flown. If you want to be proud fly the Union flag!

But then again, don't annoy your hosts, fly the Thai flag instead, same colours, different design.

The friends I have who are British say it is because England is a dreary, wet, dismal little crap island with high taxes, skanky women and dreadful food.

They say Thailand is wonderful because the weather is great, food is good, things are cheap, taxes low to non-existant and of course the women fantastic. Mind you, this is not what I am saying; I am not British and don't live in Britain. This is what

BRITISH PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME.

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Your British friends say because England is blah, blah? So Scotland and Wales aren't part of Britain and with that assumption the aforementioned aren't dreary and don't have skanky women as well?

Britain is possibly the world's most beautiful island if people actually get off their asses and have a look around it. But unfortunately most visitors stick with London and the home counties and a quick dash to the Lakes. Yeah, it's wet and miserable at times, taxes in line with other developed nations, women can be awful but there's some beauties, but the food certainly ain't crap. Having someone who know's how to cook the myriad of wholesome dishes may help.

The reason I'm here is wife and kid, easy living and none of the over-the-top pc crap that is rife in Europe, oh and to get away from boring Europe. As far as nightlife goes, Thailand is great, but take away the women and you haven't got much. Nightlife in the UK is unbeatable, you'll be spoilt for choice by the plethora of bars, pubs and clubs, and of course choice of beer and REAL ale, and you may even come across a half decent dolly-bird from time to time.

Peder, do you know where 'limey' comes from? No Googling!

I could post the Unoin Jack but wouldn't want to be seeing as getting on my high horse...Illuminati

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[Rinrada]

know along with rugby, golf, football,badminton, tennis, table tennis, modern boxing, darts, hockey, billiards, rounders.

Wait a minute, golf was not invented by the English!

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That's right! It were them "See You, Jimmies" from up north!

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and one or 2 others......

for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.

A steam car: William Murdoch (1754-1839)

Tarmac roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)

Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772

The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)

The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)

The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870

The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

Bridges

Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)

Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)

Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

Canals & Docks

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)

Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

Lighthouses

Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)

The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)

The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)

Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)

Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)

The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)

Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)

Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)

Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977

The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)

The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)

Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)

Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

Scottish shipbuilding firsts:

The first all-steel ship

The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic

The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic

The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week

The first all-welded ship

The first merchant ship to run on oil

The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer

The first ship to be fitted with two engines

The first steam whaler

The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)

Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)

Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)

The 'Scotch Plough': James Anderson (1739-1808)

Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)

The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)

The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)

The post office

The mail-van service

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)

Light signalling between ships: Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)

The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)

Some Scottish publishing firsts:

The first book translated from English into a foreign language

The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-81)

The first English textbook on surgery (1597)

The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)

The first textbook on Newtonian science

The first colour newspaper advertisement

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)

The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)

The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)

The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)

The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)

Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)

The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980

The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)

The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)

Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)

The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaaac Holden (1807-1897)

Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)

The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)

The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)

Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley

Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850

Cornflour: John Polson in 1854

Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874

Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)

Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)

Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)

Pioneering the use of anitseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922)

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)

Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others

Pencillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Discovering an effective treatment to eradicate TB: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964

Bank of England-Bill Patterson

US Navy-John Paul Jones

Economics.Adam Smith

...............and Whisky.... ...and loads of ither things

wee scunners...

[Thomas_Merton]

for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded. ...

...............and Whisky.... ...and loads of ither things 

wee scunners...

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Admirable though these achievements are (and we will be forever indebted to the brilliant Scottish people), the only important question is:

How did Scotland do in the Six Nations?

[jackr]

Don't post the Unoin (sic) Jack. The 'jack' is the mast on a ship from which the Union (British) flag is flown. If you want to be proud fly the Union flag!

But then again, don't annoy your hosts, fly the Thai flag instead, same colours, different design.

The friends I have who are British say it is because England is a dreary, wet, dismal little crap island with high taxes, skanky women and dreadful food.

They say Thailand is wonderful because the weather is great, food is good, things are cheap, taxes low to non-existant and of course the women fantastic. Mind you, this is not what I am saying; I am not British and don't live in Britain. This is what

BRITISH PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME.

Your British friends say because England is blah, blah? So Scotland and Wales aren't part of Britain and with that assumption the aforementioned aren't dreary and don't have skanky women as well?

Britain is possibly the world's most beautiful island if people actually get off their asses and have a look around it. But unfortunately most visitors stick with London and the home counties and a quick dash to the Lakes. Yeah, it's wet and miserable at times, taxes in line with other developed nations, women can be awful but there's some beauties, but the food certainly ain't crap. Having someone who know's how to cook the myriad of wholesome dishes may help.

The reason I'm here is wife and kid, easy living and none of the over-the-top pc crap that is rife in Europe, oh and to get away from boring Europe. As far as nightlife goes, Thailand is great, but take away the women and you haven't got much. Nightlife in the UK is unbeatable, you'll be spoilt for choice by the plethora of bars, pubs and clubs, and of course choice of beer and REAL ale, and you may even come across a half decent dolly-bird from time to time.

Peder, do you know where 'limey' comes from? No Googling!

I could post the Unoin Jack but wouldn't want to be seeing as getting on my high horse...Illuminati

Lets not get pedantic now, PTE

[toklong]

know along with rugby, golf, football,badminton, tennis, table tennis, modern boxing, darts, hockey, billiards, rounders.

Wait a minute, golf was not invented by the English!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's right! It were them "See You, Jimmies" from up north!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

and one or 2 others......

for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.

A steam car: William Murdoch (1754-1839)

Tarmac roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)

Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772

The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)

The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)

The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870

The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

Bridges

Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)

Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)

Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

Canals & Docks

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)

Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

Lighthouses

Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)

The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)

The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)

Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)

Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)

The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)

Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)

Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)

Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977

The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)

The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)

Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)

Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

Scottish shipbuilding firsts:

The first all-steel ship

The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic

The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic

The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week

The first all-welded ship

The first merchant ship to run on oil

The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer

The first ship to be fitted with two engines

The first steam whaler

The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)

Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)

Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)

The 'Scotch Plough': James Anderson (1739-1808)

Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)

The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)

The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)

The post office

The mail-van service

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)

Light signalling between ships: Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)

The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)

Some Scottish publishing firsts:

The first book translated from English into a foreign language

The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-81)

The first English textbook on surgery (1597)

The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)

The first textbook on Newtonian science

The first colour newspaper advertisement

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)

The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)

The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)

The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)

The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)

Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)

The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980

The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)

The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)

Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)

The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaaac Holden (1807-1897)

Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)

The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)

The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)

Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley

Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850

Cornflour: John Polson in 1854

Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874

Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)

Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)

Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)

Pioneering the use of anitseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922)

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)

Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others

Pencillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Discovering an effective treatment to eradicate TB: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964

Bank of England-Bill Patterson

US Navy-John Paul Jones

Economics.Adam Smith

...............and Whisky.... ...and loads of ither things

wee scunners...

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Gee....All of this and they still can't put a man on the moon.....

[peder.klockmann]

Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...

Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...

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Your post makes me wonder if you understand the meaning behind the word "limey"; let me freshen up your brain cells.

The history of the word limey

Because, it was practically impossible to carry fresh fruits and vegetables on long voyages years ago, British Parliament decreed that each sailor must drink a pint of lime juice daily as a preventative against scurvy(ie anti-scorbutic). Thus came the nickname for British ships, and Britishers in general.

Hint:

Using the google search box, type in the code 'define:' followed by the word you want to learn about. Here is an example.

[Rags]

Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...

Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Your post makes me wonder if you understand the meaning behind the word "limey"; let me freshen up your brain cells.

The history of the word limey

Because, it was practically impossible to carry fresh fruits and vegetables on long voyages years ago, British Parliament decreed that each sailor must drink a pint of lime juice daily as a preventative against scurvy(ie anti-scorbutic). Thus came the nickname for British ships, and Britishers in general.

Hint:

Using the google search box, type in the code 'define:' followed by the word you want to learn about. Here is an example.

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Thanks for the lesson Peder - consider my brain cells refreshed :D

You will however be pleased to know that I am well aware of the meaning and origin of the term limey, and have even been known to 'google' on occasion. As can be demonstrated by my previous post in this very same thread of yours

Could we please get one thing straight.

When speaking about Brits, Scottish and Welsh are included.

I think this thread should be about limey English.

Am I limey, being a Scot?

Am I a Pom?

When in Australia, most people tend to talk well about the Scots, same as the Yanks I meet.

Why would the English want to live here?

A better topic would be, "How do we keep the   English from living here"!

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Neeranam,

Sorry mate, I'm afraid that you're one of us

Taken from the Concise Oxford Dictionary 10th Edition:

Limey

· n. (pl. Limeys) N. Amer. & Austral., chiefly derogatory a British person.

– ORIGIN C19: from lime2 + -y1, because of the former enforced consumption of lime juice in the Brit. navy.

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My second post was actually in response to a reference (albeit a little off-topic) regarding Heinz baked beans, and I replaced the "chiefly derogatory" term Limey with the word "lovely" for startling comic effect. Obviously got a bit lost in translation and has upset you for some reason for which I sincerely apologise

Rags

Edited May 12, 2005 by Rags

[jackr]

Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...

Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...

Your post makes me wonder if you understand the meaning behind the word "limey"; let me freshen up your brain cells.

The history of the word limey

Because, it was practically impossible to carry fresh fruits and vegetables on long voyages years ago, British Parliament decreed that each sailor must drink a pint of lime juice daily as a preventative against scurvy(ie anti-scorbutic). Thus came the nickname for British ships, and Britishers in general.

Hint:

Using the google search box, type in the code 'define:' followed by the word you want to learn about. Here is an example.

You should read your own topics. This one has been done to death and I asked you on the very first page if you knew what you were talking about with respect to the title. Never mind.

Toklong, neither did you did you? Flags don't flutter in a vacuum Nice studio though but bloody expensive

[jayenram]

highly unusual to find a pissed pom   

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Very true, very true.

Errrmmm.

[jayenram]

Well I am in Liecester at the moment it is 20 degress and lovely and sunny so i am off down the pub for few pints of Guiuness Extra Cold, or maybe Pedigree or John Smiths

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You would be getting me jealous if I didn't know how much you were gonna pay per pint. I wouldn't think you'd get a pint of any of those for under Bht 220.00, even in Leicester!

I'll continue to drink my Bht 30.00/pint *chang*.

[jayenram]

mmm, You forgot cricket, cant play it but sure invented it

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i know along with rugby, golf, football,badminton, tennis, table tennis, modern boxing, darts, hockey, billiards, rounders.

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Didn't the Brits also invent ice hockey?

[peder.klockmann]

My second post was actually in response to a reference (albeit a little off-topic) regarding Heinz baked beans, and I replaced the "chiefly derogatory" term Limey with the word "lovely" for startling comic effect.  Obviously got a bit lost in translation and has upset you for some reason for which I sincerely apologise

Rags

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Crap, there were too many pages to go through, sorry I didn't see your earlier post.

And, um as for 'limey'; It's no more derogatory for an American to call a Brit that, then for a Thai to call a white complected individual a 'farang'.

It is exacatly the same in my eyes. If they can call us 'farang', then I can refer to Brits as 'limey'.

Anybody dissagree?

[peder.klockmann]

Gee....All of this and they still can't put a man on the moon.....

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LMAO

I like your style, keep up the good work!

[Popeyethesailorman]

Toklong, neither did you did you? Flags don't flutter in a vacuum Nice studio though but bloody expensive

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OOOH... conspiracy theory???

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/moontruth.asp

[Rags]

Crap, there were too many pages to go through, sorry I didn't see your earlier post.

And, um as for 'limey'; It's no more derogatory for an American to call a Brit that, then for a Thai to call a white complected individual a 'farang'.

It is exacatly the same in my eyes.  If they can call us 'farang', then I can refer to Brits as 'limey'.

Anybody dissagree?

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No worries

I have no problem with being called a Limey (it was the Oxford Dictionary that referred to it as chiefly derogatory).

In fact a bit of friendly banter between Limeys and Septics is what its all about.

Rags

[alex100]

The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Now you're talking....Heinz baked beans on toast...

Unfortunately for the topic of this thread "why do lovely Brits live in Thailand" the absence of original Heinz baked beans (excluding the sweet veggie variety) is one mark against LOS...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The Beans are best with breakfast

[alex100]

Depends who cooks it I'd say....Full English Breakfast comes in many formats, depending on origins of bar/rest. owner. But in the UK, the breakfast cafe's who make it, mainly for builders etc, are mostly run by Europeans as I remember, or Chinese, or occasionally Greek Cypriots, but not often real Brits.

It's about time the Brits got a hold of themselves here, and start pointing out to foreigners who have been subjected to English fast food that we have a real cuisine which is not unlike French ,some German Dutch and Belgian foods. A lot of Game dishes and the like which you have to pay a fortune for now. The supermarkets and marketing companies have conspired to bring down the great traditional English cuisine. How many of us grew up on Heinz Baked Beans?

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The game pie has long been surpassed by the chicken tikka masala goodbye to the pie.

[alex100]

know along with rugby, golf, football,badminton, tennis, table tennis, modern boxing, darts, hockey, billiards, rounders.

Wait a minute, golf was not invented by the English!

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That's right! It were them "See You, Jimmies" from up north!

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and one or 2 others......

for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.

A steam car: William Murdoch (1754-1839)

Tarmac roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)

Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of Parliament in 1772

The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)

The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)

The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870

The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895

Bridges

Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford (1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)

Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)

Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

Canals & Docks

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)

Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)

Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)

Lighthouses

Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)

The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)

Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)

The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)

Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)

Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)

The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)

Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)

Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)

Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977

The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)

The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)

Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)

Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)

Scottish shipbuilding firsts:

The first all-steel ship

The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic

The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic

The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week

The first all-welded ship

The first merchant ship to run on oil

The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer

The first ship to be fitted with two engines

The first steam whaler

The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)

Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)

Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)

Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)

The 'Scotch Plough': James Anderson (1739-1808)

Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)

The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)

The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)

The post office

The mail-van service

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)

Light signalling between ships: Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)

The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)

Some Scottish publishing firsts:

The first book translated from English into a foreign language

The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-81)

The first English textbook on surgery (1597)

The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)

The first textbook on Newtonian science

The first colour newspaper advertisement

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)

The decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)

The reflecting telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)

The concept of Latent Heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)

The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)

Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)

Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)

The Kelvin scale of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)

The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)

Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980

The first cloned mammal: The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996

The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)

The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)

Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)

The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)

The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaaac Holden (1807-1897)

Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)

The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)

The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)

Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley

Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850

Cornflour: John Polson in 1854

Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874

Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)

Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn (1716-1794)

Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)

Pioneering the use of anitseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922)

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)

Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others

Pencillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

Discovering an effective treatment to eradicate TB: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s

Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964

Bank of England-Bill Patterson

US Navy-John Paul Jones

Economics.Adam Smith

...............and Whisky.... ...and loads of ither things

wee scunners...

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Football hooliganism - Jimmy Maclumfart 1972 East of of Glasgow Green and White Hoops

[Pink Mist]

Thought Fleming was an Ozzie

[Crossy]

Thought Fleming was an Ozzie

First line of the first hit in a Google search for 'alexander fleming':-

"Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881."

Definately a Scot, nearer to Perth Scotland than Perth WA.

[JimsKnight]

mbkudu this is not a blast at you...

The friends I have who are British say it is because England is a dreary, wet, dismal little crap island with high taxes, skanky women and dreadful food.

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Just to correct your post slightly....

Well I'm English and I'm from England. British implies someone could be from Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland or indeed England. England is not an Island, Britain is an Island (s). OK? good, just to clear up that common misunderstanding.

Yes its wet and hostile in Winter. Dreary, often. It is a little island which a lot of people forget when the immigrants pour in.

Not so sure about 'skanky' women? That must be a yank term. However generally the ladies here are what you might call prudish and don't look after their figure compared with thai women in general (not just bar girls). Dreadful food?? Hmm not too bad, thai food isn't that great but its more available at cheap prices from all the eaty out places compared with Britain.

High Taxes, well yeah it is, the tax for average earnings is about 22%, while this is lower than Norway and Sweden your average wages are fcking crap compared with those in Scandinavia and the benefits are less too.

If you compare it with the USA its not as bad as you might expect.

Casual bad attitude and Violence is a trait amongst many Anglo Saxons (english) this is reflected in the drinking, boozing culture that seeps into many cities and towns of England. Compared with other european countries we are perhaps the worst country for binge drinking, getting pissed for the sake of it rather than for the pleasure.

[sadman]

'Casual bad attitude and Violence is a trait amongst many Anglo Saxons (english) this is reflected in the drinking, boozing culture that seeps into many cities and towns of England. Compared with other european countries we are perhaps the worst country for binge drinking, getting pissed for the sake of it rather than for the pleasure.'

Couldn't agree more. I've found it embarrassing all over the world when I see Brits behaving like this. It must also be acknowledged that Scots, Welsh and English who misbehave will all be lumped together as Brits.

Like most people, I can be defined in terms of the comparitor: British rather than European/American etc; English rather than Welsh/Scots/Irish; Londoner rather than Geordie; South Londoner rather than North Londoner..... but where does it end and what does it matter? For pretty much every nationality with which I have come into contact, I have met really good people and I have met t*ssers. I treat them as individuals and hope I will be afforded a similar courtesy, and not be considered in the same light as one of the lagered-up, foul-mouthed Union Flag brigade.

I like a laugh and a good bit of banter, and don't have a problem with being called 'limey', 'pom' or whatever - provided that the person is having a laugh, rather than being insulting. Either way - expect an appropriate response!

[Joey Boy]

Limey ey.. Is there a word for people who have to work in places like Afghanistan to be able to get a well paid job?

[Sir Burr]

A few corrections:-

POM(E) does not stand for "prisoner of mother England".

It is short for pomegranite which refers to the colour of the faces of the newly arrived in Australia. Only Newbies had sun-burned faces.

Limey.

In actual fact the Royal Navy used lemons, not limes. The Americans thought the RN used limes, thus the name limeys.

The national flag of the UK is not called the Union Jack unless it is flown from the jack-staff of a ship. It's name is the Union Flag.

If the USA had not entered the second world war, we would be speaking Russian, not German. The Russians were quite capable of defeating the Nazis in Europe all on their lonesome, though it is estimated that it would have taken another year.

American language and spelling.

It is actually closer to the original English. When the settlers first went to America, their language became static, whilst English in the UK kept evolving. Check out Bill Bryson's first book. Can't remember the name.

Edited May 24, 2005 by Sir Burr

[peder.klockmann]

Limey ey..  Is there a word for people who have to work in places like Afghanistan to be able to get a well paid job? 

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Of course there is, the word is expat.

[Joey Boy]

Limey ey..   Is there a word for people who have to work in places like Afghanistan to be able to get a well paid job? 

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Of course there is, the word is expat.

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And theres me thinkin you had a part time job with countdown..

Expat ey

[peder.klockmann]

Countdown?

Huh? :|

[kat]

Sir Burr said: "A few corrections:-

POM(E) does not stand for "prisoner of mother England".

It is short for pomegranite which refers to the colour of the faces of the newly arrived in Australia. Only Newbies had sun-burned faces.

Limey.

In actual fact the Royal Navy used lemons, not limes. The Americans thought the RN used limes, thus the name limeys.

The national flag of the UK is not called the Union Jack unless it is flown from the jack-staff of a ship. It's name is the Union Flag.

If the USA had not entered the second world war, we would be speaking Russian, not German. The Russians were quite capable of defeating the Nazis in Europe all on their lonesome, though it is estimated that it would have taken another year.

American language and spelling.

It is actually closer to the original English. When the settlers first went to America, their language became static, whilst English in the UK kept evolving. Check out Bill Bryson's first book. Can't remember the name."

Brilliant post. Thanks SB.