Category

Archive for the 'The English' Category

My Favourite World Cup Story So Far…

Is From Spiegel Online (in German). It tells of two England football fans who drove to Cologne and then went for a bit of a look around the town.
At the end of their wander they couldn’t actually find the street in which they’d parked their car. However, these two individuals were intelligent, well-prepared, and […]

Banning The English Flag At Inactualfact

(Agency) Mild controversy was raging at the editorial office of inactualfact last night after the department for lentil-eating, sandals and socialism called for the English flag to be banned from the website’s pages because, “of its strong links to right-wing extremism.”
“Nonsense”, the English Affairs spokesman is reported to have said, “whilst we’re proud to fly […]

Re-Pats Guide To Britain 1: Being A Wanker…

I am, it would appear, a wanker.
This is not an act of confession by a man finally admitting why his eyesight has deteriorated from pre-pubescent perfect vision to its current state of short-sightedness (that is exactly what happened, but it’s purely freak coincidence), but passing on the wisdom of others to you. Bizarrely, no […]

You Can Never Go Back. Probably…

Whilst writing this post I’ve realised I’m semi-quoting Bill Bryson in Notes From A Big Country, but I have at least returned to the beginning of the post to say that I internalised, rather than just plain plaigerised his text. I don’t have a copy of the book with me, so I’m paraphrasing from memory […]