Oh, how very English.

I agree with Broxi, I love texts. I don't find them impersonal, I find them less instrusive. With a phone call you have to drop everything and concentrate on the conversation, with a text you can answer it anytime when it's convenient for you.

Plus, nothing bothers me more than someone talking to a mate on the bus and you hear everything they're talking about. Texting is so much more personal and private. Who cares if I'm texting on the bus? I'm not doing anything else.

Also never saving or eating leftovers....including taking stuff home from the restraunts.

somebody wrote this and it is soo amazing to me that this is an ENGLISH thing i thought it was a My boyfriend's family thing. Even when we had take in Chineese . There was sooo much food left on my plate i coudln't eat. I was stuffed like a blowfish. Well the way my tummy works is when it finally settles i get a lil hungry.. SO we were taking the plates downstairs and by then my sweeet n sour chicken was cold but i love cold chicken sometimes. SO i took a bite and he  made a mean face and said" stupid woman dont eat that"LOL  i was like whaaaaat its GOOD still flavorful. and they dont eat leftovers? i dont know if it was that the fridge was too small, or if it was just because they dont have tupperwear lol.  He sure is in for a suprise when I cook cos i like to cook on monday and then have some left over on tuesday so i dont have to cook lol.
 AND I LOVE taking ofood home my tumy dont hold lots of food so i always take half home and eat it that night later. LOL OH BOY.
  can someone direct me to a link of cultural diffrences. I am going to be going to London for 6 months in July

I think if you just keep reading on the expat life or chit chat section, you'll see many of the differences.  And I'm heading to London in July too - perhaps a bunch of us from UK-Yankee can get together in early August!

My fiancee loves texts and it drives me insane.  he's been nuts since he can't text me from his phone but he can from the verizon homepage (i figured out hpow to text him from the orange home page ages ago but nevermind.    )

But i really have no patience for it.  And he has the word recognition on his phone that will fill in the word based on the first few letters and it KILLS ME.  I hate it.  I try to send a text from his phone and it bugs me.  Now he got a new one and wants to give me his old phone.  NO WAY.

And i can't DEAL when i'm trying to talk to David and his friends are in the room and it's like they feel the need to interject on what he is saying, like they are taking the piss out of him while i'm trying to have a normal conversation with him.  TALK TO ME....not them!   

I think if you just keep reading on the expat life or chit chat section, you'll see many of the differences.  And I'm heading to London in July too - perhaps a bunch of us from UK-Yankee can get together in early August!
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or maybe mid september when i'll be there and my fiancee will be traveling a lot and i'll be by my lonesome.   

I think if you just keep reading on the expat life or chit chat section, you'll see many of the differences.  And I'm heading to London in July too - perhaps a bunch of us from UK-Yankee can get together in early August!
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or maybe mid september when i'll be there and my fiancee will be traveling a lot and i'll be by my lonesome.   

I'm in for meeting up!  Oh and I have to admit, I love texting.  I have been doing for a very long time!

Aimiloo - I'm up for doing SEVERAL meetings - yippee...social time, social time!

Aimiloo - I'm up for doing SEVERAL meetings - yippee...social time, social time!

  Iam looking foward to some myself 

i want to meet up too
i am nto a real smurf i promise lol
 hehehe

You know, one of the really nice things about this island (we didn't design it that way, just sort of happened), is that no-one is all that far  from anyone else!  YEEEEEEEE!  Let the good times roll, and much socializing be done!       

You know, one of the really nice things about this island (we didn't design it that way, just sort of happened), is that no-one is all that far  from anyone else!  YEEEEEEEE!  Let the good times roll, and much socializing be done!       

Woohoo, so true Howard!  I'd invite you all to my English wedding (#3) but I think Richard would freak out since we have to pay for that one!!  But soon, how do we go about setting it up?  Elders?  (Sorry to go all Charmed on you all)

Oh Stacey!  Invite us all!  Weddings in England (and possibly the whole of Britain) seem not to be so stiff and starchy as they in the US.  Noone here minds a cash bar (see that thread elsewhere), noone wants the marrying couple or the bride's dad to bankrupt themselves, noone criticizes the size or quality of a lady's engagement ring (see yet another thread), everyone wants to support the bride and groom in their love and commitment one for each other. If anyone finds fault in any way with any of your wedding arrangements, they are not true friends of yours. S0d them!

So the success of your wedding arrangements, dear Stacey, are not dependent on what is spent on them, but on  the quality of your friends' wishes for your happiness.

And I wish you both total happiness, and know you have the means to find it.

Howard

Oh Stacey!  Invite us all!  Weddings in England (and possibly the whole of Britain) seem not to be so stiff and starchy as they in the US.  Noone here minds a cash bar (see that thread elsewhere), noone wants the marrying couple or the bride's dad to bankrupt themselves, noone criticizes the size or quality of a lady's engagement ring (see yet another thread), everyone wants to support the bride and groom in their love and commitment one for each other. If anyone finds fault in any way with any of your wedding arrangements, they are not true friends of yours. S0d them!

So the success of your wedding arrangements, dear Stacey, are not dependent on what is spent on them, but on  the quality of your friends' wishes for your happiness.

And I wish you both total happiness, and know you have the means to find it.

Howard

Thanks Howard   Trust me I agree with you!  But I'm a Long Island girl (Have you met any of us yet, you are in for a treat!) and it's been hard to take some of the things you mentioned above out of me!!!  I'll talk to Richard, he is the money man, I can hear him gasping for air already!!!  LOL!! 

My parents are paying for the one on 30 May, they would have said come one come all!  It will not be starchy though, my bands name is Spoiled Rotten for one! 

Weddings... different country, different culture.

Stacey - I think we'll just have to let people know when we're arriving and then ask them to make plans for us!  Or we can get there, find a place to meet & then announce it!  That's my plan at least!  I'm not starting work for 3 weeks after I arrive so I'm up for a bit of 'partyin'.