Writer's Block: Citizen of the universe

[erastes]

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It's disgustingly dull of me, but I'd want to be English again. Nota Bene: English. I've travelled extensively - and although I've found a couple of places I'd quite like to have second/third/fourth homes in (New York, New Zealand, Venice) I wouldn't want to be a citizen of those countries-- most particularly the USA.  England just makes me go all weak at the knees, really. I'm a huge "this house was built before Christopher Columbus was born" snob. :)

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[angrboda]

Completely agee about the pre-Columbus snobbery. :p

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge "this house was built before Christopher Columbus was born" snob. OH YESSSSSSSS. <3

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Am very much "citizenship is over-rated". I'd rather come back and LIVE somewhere interesting. (This from the person who is about as rootless as they come).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'd love to live somewhere more interesting, even within Norfolk - a house on the Broads or the sea for preference - but out of price range. But remain English.

I may have the body of a weak and feeble weeble but I have the heart and soul of a crumpet. And an english crumpet too. (the translation seems to have been garbled from the original)

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be Welsh. Proper-Welsh, that is, not just grew-up-here-and-now-I've-moved-back, but actual born-here-and-feel-like-I-belong. If it were possible, I'd like to have learned Welsh (the language) properly, not just a couple of hours a week at school & took a GCSE. I got flummoxed the other day by someone wishing me "nos dda i chi" simply because when we were learning it at school we never added "i chi" on the end

["nos dda" = "good night", "i chi" = "to you"]

I completely agree about the having-hundreds/thousands-of-years-of-history thing. Living in Thame, my local claimed to have been a pub since pre-Columbian times (though the "history of pubs in Thame" book seemed to disagree: I think it was a pernickety definition-thing. Oh, and for c_smith_author, it's the Birdcage I'm talking about). I think I just prefer Wales to England because it *is* where I grew up, and where I do actually feel more at home...

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

PUB! PUB! PUB! PUB!

Because yes, I am 12. PUB!

Good luck for the rugby -- glue yourself to the TV and wave a leek!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Their website says it's 700 years old, built around 1300, which is pretty blooming impressive.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

England is not disgustingly dull. I'd take it over America, and I'm technically American (though snobbish enough to identify as mostly German).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

no no no - i meant that *i* was being dull, because I was choosing the remain the same! :)

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay! I'm up early; chalk it up to reading comprehension failure. In any event, yeah, you're in a country where it makes sense to stay the same. Mine is a bit of a sinking ship.

[beckyblack]

I think I agree. For one thing, where else would I get a proper cup of tea?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know. If i ever moved to any of my "holiday homes" I'd have to take SUITCASES of Sainsbury's Red Label with me.

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Thing is though, the taste of tea depends so much on the water you make it with... so unless you're planning on taking barrels of water with you as well (and have some kind of sneaky plan to keep them fresh)...?

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I'd probably stay the same because if I'd been born anywhere else I wouldn't be who I am. Given the option, I'd rather be born in a US that had not sold out to greed and stupidity! Then again, if you'd asked me this at 18 I'd have said England, because I also love really old, historical buildings. Now that I'm in my 50's, I have a deep appreciation of central heating.

Does Sainsbury export their tea? There's an "English food shoppe" downtown that I should explore. Lipton has bought out Canada's Red Rose Tea, and Lipton is floor-sweepings.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Word on that Lipton thing. *shudder* I end up buying either conventional "Bigelow in tins" things, or an assortment of odd off-brand Chinese oolong teas in the import aisles.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't think so - I'll have to send you some. I recommend "Yorkshire Tea" - you should be able to get that - but it's not quite as good as Sainsbury's Red Label.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Yorkshire_tea.html

http://www.buybritish.net/store/customer/product.php?productid=18737

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Anything Canadian that you'd like to try? I'd recommend the maple syrup.. the most distinctively Canadian food we've run across is poutine, but I don't think it's legal to send it through the post, and in any case, french fries covered with cheese curd and gravy... I guess somebody whomped it up for teenage boys coming in starved after hockey practice.