Moving to your foggy town

The Roman Emperoror Agricola, when he visited Britain about two thousand years ago, said we were a bunch of mongrels, barbarians of no discernable origin. And that was before the Romans themselves, Jutes, Saxons, Norse, Angles, Normans, French, Italians, Portuguese, Northern European Jews, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, West Indians, Turks, Armenians, Kurds, Arabs, Africans, Chinese and Vietnamese had really started to settle here (did I forget anybody?). So Its hard to say that a lot of English are actually French (if that's what that^^ means). We're a total mix up.

"Il etait une fois" = "once upon a time". You yourself mentioned the Normans...

I may have inadvertently taken liberties with some historical details here and there... I'm no historian, so I don't even know if you can rightly categorize the Normans as "French", because the concept of "France" may not have existed at the time. Mostly I just wanted to the opportunity to say "rosbif" and "grenouille"...

Back in Wisconsin I learned everything I needed to know about World history. The cool english people wanted to get away from the uptight ones so that moved to the States. That was just after Columbus discovered the States, before that there wasn't anything important happening.
The Germans really screwed up with that whole Hitler thing.
The English and the the French still owe us for WWII
Democracy is the only way to rule a country and the US is the only place where you can buy democracy. You can get it by handing over your goods, natural resources, people or land to us. In return you can have lots of democracy and baywatch.
Other than that, not much is happening with the world.

oooh and Greece gave us the Olympics but Nikon and Pepsi made it right.

However London has the Trixie Chix which the rest of the world doesn't have which makes it a really cool place. So Kattt if you've learned anything you'll come out and drink beers with us.

Roxy's Herstory is about the size of it!

"Il etait une fois" = "once upon a time". You yourself mentioned the Normans...

...who aren't really french (they're Norwegian). But I did mention the french too!

I was only trying to say, British = totally mixed up, at whatever stage in history.

"Il etait une fois" = "once upon a time". You yourself mentioned the Normans...

I may have inadvertently taken liberties with some historical details here and there... I'm no historian, so I don't even know if you can rightly categorize the Normans as "French", because the concept of "France" may not have existed at the time. Mostly I just wanted to the opportunity to say "rosbif" and "grenouille"...

The Normans, as in the chaps who were the last to successfully conquer this sceptred isle, were of pretty recent Viking origin in 1066 so can't really be considered French.

i.e. what Skully said ^^^

I heard that London is a city in England. I always thought the country was just called 'London'! Doh!

...who aren't really french (they're Norwegian). But I did mention the french too!

Hm, maybe I confused the Normans with William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy... oops. My excuse is that I spent my school years learning the Taiwanese perspective on Chinese history, in which we were taught:

• We, the Chinese*, are awesome. We used to have the greatest in everything... art, literature, culture, philosophy, technology, everything.
  
• Everybody else loved us and always kissed our asses. In return for their ass-kissing, we gave them loads of gold, silk, and delicate porcelain.
  
• Then the evil white people came along and totally took advantage of us. Especially the bloody English with their opium, which they used to dope us up while they took over Hong Kong, and stole a bunch of priceless relics now on display in the British Museum.
  
• Mongolia is ours. End of story.
  
• One day we will re-take the mainland and liberate the poor oppressed masses under the evil rule of the Chinese Communist Party.
  

• The Americans are an ok bunch. They have no culture or history, and they're really hairy, but their 7th Naval Fleet keeps China from launching missiles into downtown Taipei.

• I use the phrase "we, the Chinese" in purely an ethnic sense, rather than nationality.

The Japanese have better swords.

The Normans, as in the chaps who were the last to successfully conquer this sceptred isle, were of pretty recent Viking origin in 1066 so can't really be considered French.

Wikipedia:
The Norman Conquest was a pivotal event in English history [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_England"][/url]for several reasons. It largely removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, French-speaking monarchy, aristocracy and clerical hierarchy.

And that's the last I shall say on this matter, because I really don't know enough about the subject to debate it!

"Creme de menthe, mon dior!"

although in many ways i feel like i've gotten dumber from reading these posts... thank you ;) i've been looking on gumtree and this other student housing/flatshare website i've found but everything seems to be super last minute as far as housing is concerned. i'm from pennsylvania/philadelphia/new york. in the states you're referred to as "foggy londontown" quite often which is why i titled the thread that way, perhaps a mistake, but i meant no ill will. these diy bike shops skullhead named are just what i'm looking for.. thanks!! and hey, if anybody you know is in need of a flatmate, let me know. thanks again for all the little tips. i was reading about bike polo, too, and it looks awesome. kinda makes me wanna get a fixed gear instead of a ss, although last night my friend was showing me a little gadget on the hub of his new bike that switches it from fg to ss... how common is this? seems like a pretty cool idea. i'm mostly just worried about getting plowed over by a double decker while learning to adjust to fixed. ok have a great day guv'nors.

Do you know Jack aka cranky aka get out of my house you drunk from Brooklyn? he is in my house calling americaland from my phone now.

The Japanese have better swords.

And porn. So I'm told.

...at the same time, if you've got the dosh.

And porn. So I'm told.

Nah, they pixellate all the good bits.

But at least they never annexed Tibet...

Wikipedia:
The Norman Conquest was a pivotal event in English history for several reasons. It largely removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, French-speaking monarchy, aristocracy and clerical hierarchy.

And that's the last I shall say on this matter, because I really don't know enough about the subject to debate it!
I didn't say they didn't speak French, but it wouldn't be a French that you, I or VeeVee, would recognise, in the same way that the English spoken by King Harold wouldn't be recognised by us today.

Not that it matters, we're a mongrel nation with a long history of invasion and immigration.

oh god i hate the french language. ich glaube deutsche ist dast beste, aber mein grammatik ist scheeeeiiiiiiiiisssseeee. bier = besser deutsch, wann mir war im hochschule ich war ein austaschschulerin im osterreich fur ocht monaten und ich hatte dort deutsch gelernt... aber, aus ich hat gesacht - mein grammatik ist am schlechtesten ...... okay that's enough, i just really like german, even though my own german is rather sloppy. is germany in asia? i'm just not quite sure because in my eleventh grade world history class we just had to make big cookies of african countries and fit them together into a map for the fat teacher. true story.

Wikipedia:
The Norman Conquest was a pivotal event in English history for several reasons. It largely removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, French-speaking monarchy, aristocracy and clerical hierarchy.

And that's the last I shall say on this matter, because I really don't know enough about the subject to debate it!

The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were the descendants of the original Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock. Their identity first emerged in the first half of the tenth century and gradually evolved over the succeeding centuries until they disappeared as an ethnic group in the early thirteenth century. The name "Normans" is derived from "Northmen" or "Norsemen", after the Vikings from Scandinavia who founded Normandy (Northmannia in its original Latin).

true story.

there is only one other person i have ever heard use true story like that besides me, where are you from. tell me now.

The Japanese have better swords.

...and sweeter frames.

there is only one other person i have ever heard use true story like that besides me, where are you from. tell me now.

here where are you from?

ha pretty funny to read this now and be able to put a face to just about every username, and marvel at my own naivete... i feel like i have learned so much since then.. haha

Pretty interesting thread, bit old though but it's your own..

Funny that you should come from around Killadelphia/NY. I was born in NY and having lived in London for the last 12 years, planning to go back there for Uni!

NOT that anyone cares...

ha pretty funny to read this now and be able to put a face to just about every username, and marvel at my own naivete... i feel like i have learned so much since then.. haha

How are you finding it thus far? I want bullet points.

Maybe get the resident list maker to create a survey?

Kattt, I remember a time when you were asking me if your hair dryer would work in the UK. You have come far, young grasshopper.