Americans in general are just ignorant of the world around them and their own history.
I love the place but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the residents weren't aware that there was life outside of their own country.
the yanks have very little history compared with Britain (and anyone who uses ANCESTRY will know they are always trying to pinch ours).
time to re-invade
I work for an American company and some of the yanks are genuinely shocked we don't celebrate July 4th over here
Unbelievable. But then again mention of Americans when in the Army used to get the obligatory "All the gear, no idea" or the alternative "All the kit, full of sh**. They called us The Borrowers cos we would "acquire" their kit if we lacked our own or theirs was better than ours (it often was). They did get rather irate when somebody "borrowed" an Armoured Personnel Carrier. failing to appreciate that we were trained to "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome". That did stretch the Special Relationship somewhat, as did my ex-TA mate running the Union Flag up the flagpole of an American Summer Camp on July 4th.....
Had a lovely weekend in Rhode Island last week, most buildings a good couple of hundred years older than anything in brighton, where we were.
Had a lovely weekend in Rhode Island last week, most buildings a good couple of hundred years older than anything in brighton, where we were.
I work for an American company and some of the yanks are genuinely shocked we don't celebrate July 4th over here
Had a lovely weekend in Rhode Island last week, most buildings a good couple of hundred years older than anything in brighton, where we were.
couple of hundred is that all, just an example Pevensey castle Romano-British nearly 2000 years ago, although I will go along with the theory that the Vikings were in north America,the remains of a Nordic body was found with a native indian arrowhead in it, but and I might be corrected here that was found in Canada.
incidentally I have worked on a lot of the buildings in Brighton and they are considerably older than 200 years
most interesting was St Nicholas Church bottom of dyke road possibly Norman ( Norman stone used in the building of)
couple of hundred is that all, just an example Pevensey castle Romano-British nearly 2000 years ago, although I will go along with the theory that the Vikings were in north America,the remains of a Nordic body was found with a native indian arrowhead in it, but and I might be corrected here that was found in Canada.
incidentally I have worked on a lot of the buildings in Brighton and they are considerably older than 200 years
most interesting was St Nicholas Church bottom of dyke road possibly Norman ( Norman stone used in the building of)
You say that but I came a across several examples of it being celebrated here today, and by English people, including flags, bunting, a fête and a 10% discount on a pub's American style burger.I work for an American company and some of the yanks are genuinely shocked we don't celebrate July 4th over here