Posted on 08/27/2014 11:48:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yes, we have noted it for decades. The blacks in the UK are educated and learn the Queen’s English, spoken properly.
Here they have their own ‘culture’, if you can call it that, and any black attempting to ‘sound white’ is ridiculed. They are doing themselves a disservice and are paying the price. It all goes back to pre-civil war era and the Reconstruction then Jim Crow times.They refuse to even try to talk like the rest of the country and will consciously make efforts to not do so....................
When I ran a company in Canada, I had black employees from Commonwealth countries (my lone South African was a white girl). It was a novelty for me, a Southerner, to hear blacks talking with British accents. It was especially nice that these folks also did not share the culture/work ethic of their American cousins.
My god. Seriously?
I live on the east side of Olive Branch, just south of Memphis, close to Marshall County. I know Hickory Flat well. Recently my brother and I have been looking at wooded land all over Benton, Marshall, and Tippah Counties (Hardeman County, TN too).
I assume the author, being a Brit, has a "tin ear" when it comes to Americanisms as well as Americans and America for that matter.
Oh yeah it has been much maligned by the liberals: What's the matter with Kansas
Boy, that's the truth. Most countries will bury their skeletons, but we shout 'em from the rooftops - and that is one of our strengths.
WOW! Is that a SAR 80 rifle? It is like NOT HAVING A RIFLE!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_military_rifles
“The L85A1 was improved in 1997 after constant complaints from the troops. The main problems were difficult maintenance and low reliability. These problems led British troops to nickname the weapon the “politician”, as, in their estimation, you could not make it work and could not fire it.”
Not true, many hunters are of modest means and background.
That would be the GB that had more Tory govts and PM’s than Labour from 1945, had the longest (Tory) party in power (18 yrs from 1979-97). And whose current govt is a Tory-led coalition with a Tory PM.
Social socialism perhaps. If such a thing exists.
Havent a clue what that means.
British Tory governments don’t impress me any more than US republican ones do when it comes to reversing socialism. Fabians have been busy replacing capitalism with socialism in Great Britain, the rest of Europe and the US for well over a century, pretty much unabated and uncontested with the notable exception of Reagan and Thatcher.
Life expectancy in Britain is actually higher than in the US
I live close to two large commercial shooting estates in the south-west of England. Their typical charges for a day's shooting (which would be called 'hunting' in the U.S.) is £30 per kill. Not excessive. In fact shooting has been growing in popularity, particularly among businessmen as an alternative to the golf course for out-of-office networking. That's one reason why shotgun and other sporting gun ownership is higher than it's ever been.
Oh. That explains it.
To me, liberals all sound like the teachers in a Charlie Brown TV special.
My Uncle who died a couple of years back had 78 acres of wooded land, the old family farm, just north of Hickory Flat. I don’t know if his widow sold it or if his son lives there now or whatever happened to it. It may be for sale, I don’t know. You could go to Hickory Flat and ask around if someone knows whatever happened to the Bradley place out on route 2 and if it was for sale................
How much for deer hunting there? $20 like it is here?
Michigan is about the size of England, and has around 700,000 hunters every year. How many there?
I met some people from England and they couldn’t believe how cheap it was to go deer hunting here. They said it cost a small fortune in England.
I wasn’t talking small game hunting, here you don’t even need a license for that on your own property.
There was a whole family from England that came here for a wedding and stayed for about 3 weeks. We had a ball, they were a lot of fun.
It’s very difficult to make meaningful direct comparisons of the kind you’re asking for, since there are such huge differences between the two countries in the patterns of land use, the quantity of uncultivated land, the populations of the various game species, competition with other recreational pursuits in the countryside, and (especially) the very different traditions in the way the various field sports have been practised in the US compared with Britain. (Even the terms ‘hunting’ and ‘shooting’ mean something quite different when used by British as compared with American sportsmen!)
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