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A true picture of britain?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.can't see much to argue with there. Some of it's good - eg the queues. I remember, in the scrum to get on a bus in Paris, hearing two old Fench ladies muttering that they wished people would queue the way they did in London.
But the driving is often poor and yes, people are overweight, including me, though that's hardly unique to Britain. The national diet does have a lot to do with this.
But the driving is often poor and yes, people are overweight, including me, though that's hardly unique to Britain. The national diet does have a lot to do with this.
I just don't get the whole queuing thing.Ok so they don't queue on the continent so it's every man for himself is it? So if I shin scrape and elbow my way to the front that's ok is it? I'd always just go straight the front and push in. So I'm confused because here must be some sort of system on the continent or it would just be natural selection. So I think queuing properly is the only way to avoid anarchy.
I stayed at an Italian run resort in the Maldives a few years ago and therefore most of the guests were Italian.
The food was buffet style and the Brits dutifully queued and started at one end of the buffet and worked their way patiently to the other end, whereas the Italians were just diving in and out of the queue randomly to load their plates.
Difficult to have a moan when we were very much in the minority and it is just their way of behaving - in fact, they probably thought the Brits were mad for forming an orderly queue.
The food was buffet style and the Brits dutifully queued and started at one end of the buffet and worked their way patiently to the other end, whereas the Italians were just diving in and out of the queue randomly to load their plates.
Difficult to have a moan when we were very much in the minority and it is just their way of behaving - in fact, they probably thought the Brits were mad for forming an orderly queue.
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