Comments on: England, England

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:56:49 +0000

Perp, that’s a good point. You can find all ‘types of people’ here and everywhere else. This Rough Guide piece is not unlike horoscopes in that way – vague enough to apply to anyone/ where!

By: Perpetual

Perpetual — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:47:22 +0000

I dare say that you can go out and find any stereotype you want in this country, pick your town and pick your time and there you go – stereotype met! You want to see drunken, overweight, alco pop swilling girls then go to any big city centre on a Friday or Saturday night. You want a bit of culture, then pop over to Cambridge or one of the thousand plus year old henges or stone circles we have dotted around the south west.

I had the opportunity to move to the US a few years ago and didn’t, simply because for all my occasional bitching and moaning I do love living here, even with the crap celebrity obsessed TV shows that I constantly have to avoid.

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:51:29 +0000

Everywhere has its faults, and like you say, RG, I love England too. I can't think of a perfect place to live, everything considered.

By: Regular Girl

Regular Girl — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:04:31 +0000

Well, I only have Canada to compare England with and I have to say that England certainly IS more celebrity-obssessed than over here. And the brits DO have a tendance to bury their head in the sand about certain issues.

But…

But….

I love it and I would live there any day.

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:09:52 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Victor. I didn't know the history of the Rough Guide. It makes some sense now to read about Ellingham. However, the Rough Guide has been around since the early 80s, so surely it has an editorial team now and some sort of quality control? My point is that while it may have started with a biased ethos, there is no excuse now for such shoddy claim-making.

By: Victor Emmanuel III

Victor Emmanuel III — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:20:00 +0000

The rough guide was invented by Mark Ellingham, an English upper middle class hippy from well healed rural Wiltshire. The fact that his publication finds working class English urban culture the most disgusting and offensive on earth, should come as no surprise to anyone.

Last year, Mark himself was lobbying for a green tax on plane flights abroad, to places like Budapest, to stop poor English people from revealing to the wider world their unfortunate existence and embarrassing everyone. You’re an absolute shower!

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:13:28 +0000

Oh, half the commenters are away with the birds, Jason! It's always the way on Have Your Say, I think. (I think they're also Daily ~~Mail~~ Bigot readers.)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:47:57 +0000

Isn’t Stereotyping wonderful! (yes that WAS sarcasm!)

I’m sure there are SOME out there that are as described, but the vast majority of people are normal, level headed, sensible individuals.

Unlike some of those commenters!

By: tenderhooligan

tenderhooligan — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:29:05 +0000

Pinky, I thought the same thing on the ‘anti-social’ thing – gang violence in the US (which we imported from there, by the way) isn’t anti-social at all!

By: pinkjellybaby

pinkjellybaby — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:58:20 +0000

Hmmm. Well, i can’t say i like England all that much, and i hate to say that i think it’s very much heading the way they describe. Which is why i chose to get out.

But then every country has it’s bad points…. i guess.

“ONLY country in the world that has problems with anti-social behaviour”

does all those crazy Americans who shoot eachother not count?
and the way the French are so arrogant towards everyone?

i’d say that was anti-social as well!