[NZerFromHK]

So were various self-important Brits, on the grounds that the blundering Yanks just don't understand the natives the way we old colonial hands do...

Uh-oh, we seem to have run up to one Freeper showing classic symptoms of the syndrone described above. Search the response to see who that is. ;-)

BTW to the person who thinks Mark knows nothing about Britain, Mark also lives in London for at least 1/3 of a year.

[di_canio_volley]

I've looked all over the responses to this article and I haven't been able to spot a single self important Brit.

Can you enlighten me please? :-)

p.s. as a Kiwi, I know you understand the phrase "taking the piss", which another poster on here doesn't given his response to my tongue in cheek #52.

BTW, BA does seem to have a bit of an issue with one country in particular...

[Brian Allen]

<< Mark also lives in London for at least 1/3 of a year. >>

Bit braver than me. On my regular swings in from the Deepest Darkest and worse places where my particular activities take me the year around, I tend to head to Bristol and commute up to London.

Keep and eye on that Italian soccer-player-fancier, though.

Got a bit of a brain that one and a sharp eye for [Fellow] piss-takers -- and could kinda sort us out and cotton on.

Could probably make a pretty acceptable Pommy Migrant out of him -- or even, although it's a longer shot, a potential American -- after a summer or two on Palm Beach and a winter or two at Threadbow or on Hutt!

<];^)~<

Best'n's -- B A