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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:34:23 AM EDT
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Well, don't come to Arizona, it's too damn hot and we open carry spoons. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_abused.gif |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:35:35 AM EDT
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Gallup, NM. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:36:41 AM EDT
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I beg to differ, you can’t get MUCH more America than Las Vegas. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:36:43 AM EDT
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My wife has family in the UK. Kinda weird, considering she's Mexican, but whatever, lol. They love going shooting and camping whenever they visit. It's mind blowing to them that I can own what I have and shoot it outside regulated ranges. They also think our vehicles and homes are completely over the top. It's hard to imagine being so space limited.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:39:12 AM EDT
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Visit the bomb museum at Elgin
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:41:15 AM EDT
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Sorry I’m a northern monkey. Don’t do the south. This might help https://greatscenicrailways.co.uk/cornwall/ All the paces I want to visit in the states are generally western filming locations  always wanted to go to Wyoming and Arizona etc.Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Spot on! Of course, most Americans haven’t even seen most of America. It’s a big place, and I think that’s what the majority of outsiders fail to realize. We’re more like the entire continent of Europe, not a singular country there in. Half as many people, but almost exactly the same size. I’ve explained it to some that way, seems to make more sense than trying to explain how or why our people are so diverse and hold differing beliefs. This is also true. Devonshire and Cornwall are on our list of places we still want to see in Europe. I want to ride the train. ETA: @Pesty The railway that hugs the coast and crosses what used to be a salt marsh, drained now, and has a beach that’s a popular getaway spot. That’s the Royal Albert isn’t it? This might help https://greatscenicrailways.co.uk/cornwall/ All the paces I want to visit in the states are generally western filming locations always wanted to go to Wyoming and Arizona etc.Monument valley, and the big 5 circle. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 11:44:58 AM EDT
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If they come to Alaska keep them out of Anchorage.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 12:59:32 PM EDT
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You haven't seen America till you've seen Slapout, AL. I think the population is 7. We don’t see many Brits visiting OK. Can’t imagine why not? |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:08:30 PM EDT
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Keep them wankers in those shithole cities I avoid. I like that plan
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:16:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or Bugscuffle, TN Or Hot Coffee, MS 
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:20:41 PM EDT
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I’ve tried to collect magnets or coffee cups from each of the National Parks I’ve been to. But I haven’t been to Glacier. What’s Trinity? AZ or COL Park I’m forgetting? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: glacier crushes yellowstone. if you've been to glacier, you got a sense of just how old the earth is. i really want to see trinity and hoover. 
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:22:28 PM EDT
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Tennessee, and not just Nashville. Get out into the country. Come in the fall and go to a county fair. Do some fishing or hunting. See Lynchburg and Jack Daniel's place. See the Appalachian mountains. Not Gatlinburg, but the mountains around there. Hang out with the real American people no matter what state you visit. I'm down with health issues right now but any foreign arfcommers that come to Tennessee can contact me. I'll put them onto some local fun, and when I'm better I'll join them on some adventures. I would go there about once a year when I lived in Alabama. Living in Florida I cant get there as much. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:23:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Put old Tucson studios on your list. Monument valley, and the big 5 circle. I’ll be going to Arizona at some point. possibly next year, My cousin lives where they filmed one of my favourite westerns , Johnny guitar
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:29:08 PM EDT
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My business partner owns a ranch in Halfway, Oregon . . which has a population of about 500 people and is about as rural and red blooded American as you can get. They get tons of tourists from Austria who want to walk rural mountain trails in America.
I also met a German once who told me that it's a huge thing for Germans to fly to NY, rent Harleys and ride across the country. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:30:38 PM EDT
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Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde NP. The San Juan Mountains in SW Colorado don't need no stinkin' national park, beautiful scenery everywhere. Colorado's being loved to death, though. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:32:04 PM EDT
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I agree. However how many Americans think London = Britain. My wife and I are still planning to visit our son in Bury St. Edmunds later this year. We had to change our plans due to an upcoming deployment for him, back to this side of the pond. Yes, we will spend a day or two in London and take the train to Edinburgh for two days then on to Inverness for two or three days, but we plan to spend most of our time in and around Bury and enjoy that corner of Britain. We might even go back over the following year. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:36:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:37:39 PM EDT
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There's a bit of a pandemic going on. UK tourists insist on visiting our fair shores (which is fine, I guess...), but they defiantly insist on congregating in large numbers on holiday in: 1. New York City 2. Las Vegas 3. Los Angeles 4. San Francisco 5. Miami That's all well and good, but they keep returning home (often making YouTube videos) and saying "As a world traveller, I've been to America and...". No. You fucking haven't, you miserable twat. So then, I feel like it's our duty as Americans, to advise our UK cousins on where they should be booking flights. Because the 5 I've mentioned (and the 5 they insist on visiting) aren't America. We can all agree on that, yes? Right. So let's help them out. And...go! |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:40:41 PM EDT
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Their reputation as a bunch of drunken assholes while on vacation equals or surpasses those of other countries, I’ve found. From Normandy to Thailand, my family and I have bumped into them, and they’re all the same.... buffoons.  Patrice O'Neal at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival (2004) |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:48:20 PM EDT
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Gallup, NM. 
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:49:00 PM EDT
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I agree. However how many Americans think London = Britain. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:52:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or Bugscuffle, TN Or Hot Coffee, MS |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 1:55:58 PM EDT
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The colonial east coast
Savannah, GA Gulf Shores New Orleans The Mississippi River, especially the lower A baseball game at Busch Stadium, St Louis, MO The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Mammoth Cave National Park The Smoky Mountains The Black Hills in South Dakota Hog hunting in South Texas Dallas-Fort Worth The Grand Canyon Snow skiing in the Rockies Yellowstone Northern California The Cascade Mountains Alaska |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:04:04 PM EDT
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Detroit is beautiful this time of year and the chicken is to die for. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:19:55 PM EDT
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They should take a trip to southwestern WV. They probably won’t come back after that. You mean the area near Logan? That's my wife's hometown. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:20:05 PM EDT
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Shit. Double tap.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:32:12 PM EDT
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All Europeans at the restaurants and places in and around Orlando Florida airport, Russians in Paris and Germans in NYC have been my most obnoxious experiences. Although the civilian Brits doing weekend binging in Amsterdam did catch my attention. Americans were embarrassing in Tokyo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxH954K9lBsQuote HistoryQuoted:
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Their reputation as a bunch of drunken assholes while on vacation equals or surpasses those of other countries, I’ve found. From Normandy to Thailand, my family and I have bumped into them, and they’re all the same.... buffoons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxH954K9lBsI was twisting the wire off of a bottle of Norman cider, when it popped off and flew into a table of drunken Englishmen. They were behind me and all I heard after the pop was 'What the FUCK??" I stood up and was preparing my most diplomatic apology when one of the hooligans also stood up, handed back the cork, and said 'cheers, mate'. We nodded to each other, then sat down and had our beverages. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:37:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Many of the Brits we encountered in Normandy were well-lubricated from drinking up the entirety of the Portsmouth Ferry's beer supply, and then started in on France's stash of booze. They filled the cafe tables with their loud, boorish behavior, but I had an amusing encounter with a few of them in Bayeux. I was twisting the wire off of a bottle of Norman cider, when it popped off and flew into a table of drunken Englishmen. They were behind me and all I heard after the pop was 'What the FUCK??" I stood up and was preparing my most diplomatic apology when one of the hooligans also stood up, handed back the cork, and said 'cheers, mate'. We nodded to each other, then sat down and had our beverages. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:39:18 PM EDT
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75th anniversary of D-day this year. It’s going to get crowded there this summer Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Many of the Brits we encountered in Normandy were well-lubricated from drinking up the entirety of the Portsmouth Ferry's beer supply, and then started in on France's stash of booze. They filled the cafe tables with their loud, boorish behavior, but I had an amusing encounter with a few of them in Bayeux. I was twisting the wire off of a bottle of Norman cider, when it popped off and flew into a table of drunken Englishmen. They were behind me and all I heard after the pop was 'What the FUCK??" I stood up and was preparing my most diplomatic apology when one of the hooligans also stood up, handed back the cork, and said 'cheers, mate'. We nodded to each other, then sat down and had our beverages. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:45:01 PM EDT
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Their reputation as a bunch of drunken assholes while on vacation equals or surpasses those of other countries, I’ve found. From Normandy to Thailand, my family and I have bumped into them, and they’re all the same.... buffoons.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:48:45 PM EDT
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Unfortunately, the facts are the facts and you can't change facts because of wishful thinking. As much as I wish that those commie cities were not real and only existed in a communist's Utopian imagination, unfortunately they are real and a geographical part of America.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:50:10 PM EDT
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Tennessee, and not just Nashville. In mid-July. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 2:52:54 PM EDT
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I thought American tourists had the worst reputation Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Their reputation as a bunch of drunken assholes while on vacation equals or surpasses those of other countries, I’ve found. From Normandy to Thailand, my family and I have bumped into them, and they’re all the same.... buffoons. The English are as bad or worse, and are catching up to us in the 'fat tourist' department, too. It was easy to spot Americans and English in Normandy by their size, but their clothing was the difference. If they were fat but dressed for the chilly winds common in late May & June, they were Brits. If they were fat but wore flip-flops, cargo shorts, pajamas in public, general sloppiness, and looking cold, they were Yanks. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 3:06:52 PM EDT
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if someone really wanted to see america, the following is my train of thought (moving generally east to west): -new hampshire or delaware -boston -some of the old coastal towns in VA and the carolinas -savannah GA -cape canaveral -the FL keys -the appalachians and cumberland -rural west virginia -small-town iowa or nebraska -hot springs AR -the gulf coast. not the white sands FL version, but the MS/LA version -new orleans -the italian/eastern european parts of chicago. -the great plains. horse country. brits are a nautical people who love the desert because it's like an ocean--they'll appreciate the GP. -yellowstone and glacier parks. -western CO, in the real working areas rather than the resort areas. -NASA in houston -fort worth TX--the city that cattle built. -the southwest. make them drive through TX, NM, and AZ. climbing up into flagstaff, and feeling the temperature drop on your skin. -white sands missile range. -hoover dam -yosemite and lake tahoe -the beach towns in CA -northern CA and the redwoods that's a start... |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 3:07:02 PM EDT
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They are stupid as they come.... I help out at a gun range in Budapest and many come with their dumb as rocks Stag and Hen parties and we keep telling them to stop pointing the guns at each other and pulling triggers. I've asked my boss multiple times to kick them out if they do and no refunds but they are afraid of losing customers who will give shitty reviews on Trip Advisor and Viago. Let them stay in their fucked up island and drink to a stupor and play roulette with their drugs. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 3:10:39 PM EDT
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Fly Emirates jerseys. See Brits all over Florida and always one person in their group is wearing one. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why are you under some illusion anyone from Britain thinks the totality of the US is some major cities? I doubt they think that. Many Britons live in small towns and countrysides also. I know several foreign people who have visited smaller areas, the south, etc, and loved it. Major cities in every country are the big tourist destinations, this isn’t some revelation or unique to the US. Orlando is full of them too...I used to live an hour away, Brits were all over the place and you could spot them from a mile away as they looked and dressed very British. See Brits all over Florida and always one person in their group is wearing one. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 3:12:46 PM EDT
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According to Tennessee Williams: “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.” |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 4:00:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Spot on! Of course, most Americans haven't even seen most of America. It's a big place, and I think that's what the majority of outsiders fail to realize. We're more like the entire continent of Europe, not a singular country there in. Half as many people, but almost exactly the same size. I've explained it to some that way, seems to make more sense than trying to explain how or why our people are so diverse and hold differing beliefs. This is also true. Devonshire and Cornwall are on our list of places we still want to see in Europe. I want to ride the train. ETA: @Pesty The railway that hugs the coast and crosses what used to be a salt marsh, drained now, and has a beach that's a popular getaway spot. That's the Royal Albert isn't it? Exquisite. I enjoyed my (tourist) visit to the UK, and I found that having a smattering of the language helped quite a bit. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 5:49:12 PM EDT
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I will. I’ll be going to Arizona at some point. possibly next year, My cousin lives where they filmed one of my favourite westerns , Johnny guitar Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Put old Tucson studios on your list. Monument valley, and the big 5 circle. I’ll be going to Arizona at some point. possibly next year, My cousin lives where they filmed one of my favourite westerns , Johnny guitar |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 5:51:11 PM EDT
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Gallup, NM. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 5:54:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gatlinburg. In mid-July. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 5:59:41 PM EDT
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I apologize to all of the limey window lickers on here.
My comments were uncalled for but it is just my vented anger at some of your compatriots that come here to my father's homeland and treats it like dirt. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 7:55:13 PM EDT
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And I just hit town and my throat was dry.... |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 8:02:47 PM EDT
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They should take a trip to southwestern WV. They probably won’t come back after that.
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Posted: 5/19/2019 8:05:44 PM EDT
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There's a bit of a pandemic going on. UK tourists insist on visiting our fair shores (which is fine, I guess...), but they defiantly insist on congregating in large numbers on holiday in: 1. New York City 2. Las Vegas 3. Los Angeles 4. San Francisco 5. Miami That's all well and good, but they keep returning home (often making YouTube videos) and saying "As a world traveller, I've been to America and...". No. You fucking haven't, you miserable twat. So then, I feel like it's our duty as Americans, to advise our UK cousins on where they should be booking flights. Because the 5 I've mentioned (and the 5 they insist on visiting) aren't America. We can all agree on that, yes? Right. So let's help them out. And...go! |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 8:18:46 PM EDT
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I apologize to all of the limey window lickers on here. My comments were uncalled for but it is just my vented anger at some of your compatriots that come here to my father's homeland and treats it like dirt. I’ve been all over the world, including Hungary, and believe that as a tourist and a guest in someone else’s country I am an ambassador for my own country. I want to see and experience the culture, food, sights and people, and do so respectfully and with good grace. Sadly it is not a trait shared by all Brits, some of whom have a notorious capacity for getting shitfaced and making fools of themselves as their inhibitions are washed away by alcohol. As always, the minority tend to be the loudest and get noticed. The majority will go unnoticed because they don’t behave like idiots and are there to see and do a lot more than propping up a bar. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 8:28:09 PM EDT
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@Malo308 You mean the area near Logan? That's my wife's hometown. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 9:52:47 PM EDT
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I apologize to all of the limey window lickers on here. My comments were uncalled for but it is just my vented anger at some of your compatriots that come here to my father's homeland and treats it like dirt. |
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Posted: 5/19/2019 9:57:58 PM EDT
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Here's my must visit list:
Coc#6 |
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