> Invariably there are one or two in the group (that is almost always escorted by an American) that are the whiny liberal types. They complain that they are there, they complain that they went along with their friends who talked them into going, they whine about guns, blah, blah, blah.
DownUnder in Australia and New Zealand they are known as “Whinging Poms”. All they do is whinge about how much better it is in the UK and how primitive things are here in the Colonies.
Eventually they grow out of it. Given lots of time and patience. Especially patience. And cold beer.
It’s amazing how much they get to like ice cold local beer after a few scorching summers and only their warm beer to drink.
I don’t know how they manage to drink their stuff: it looks and tastes like warm, soapy, used bath-water. Ick!
But that’s whinging poms for ya.
I worked with a guy form Britain once, He was amazed at the distances we had to drive to get anywhere. I told him that America is a vast country, that other than the coastal states, is relatively sparsely populated. Then he went on about Our cheap beer and guns. I told him that there’s more guns in this country than people, and that we thrive on cheap, cold beer, and cheap plentiful ammunition. This completely dumbfounded the guy. He just couldn’t wrap his head around the concept that people still hunted for their food.
Do they look like little lobsters down there too?
You can always tell the Brits around Orlando. They are usually the ones with the pasty skin that has red hue; the depth of which is governed by how many days they've been here. :-)
Yeah, I poke fun at everyone. But I made a lot of Brit friends in Berlin. Especially the NAAFI truck that used to come by our site. Man, the Bearclaws were out of site.