...you never forget to say 'please' and 'thank you'.
...you can say the word 'bloody' in every sentence - and it still makes bloody well sence.
...you open/hold the door for the people coming behind you.
...you don't bother looking out the window when you get up in the morning to see what the weather is like, because you know it will be grey and overcast.
...you wear whatever you fancy - neither the weather nor the opinions of others have a say in the matter.
...you think it's weird when a house isn't made of bricks - and you're fascinated that people in other countries paint their houses.
...you never leave the house without an umbrella.
...you drink at least one cup of tea every day.
...you don't speak a foreign language, because you don't need it.
...you're trilingual; english, sarcasm and chav.
...you never get off the bus without thanking the bus driver - even when he's clearly not listening.
...your humour is based on sarcasm and irony.
...it's completely normal for girls to wear ballerinas to school in January.
...there is a TV channel called Dave and no one questions why.
...it's acceptable to dye your hair in any colour of the rainbow.
...you're worse at English grammar than foreigners (to be fair; they've studied it, you haven't).
...you refer to Europeans as if they aren't from the same continent as you.
...you think £5-7 pound an hour is good pay.
...you're watching many of the TV soaps, for example Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
...you walk around in London, and realise that everyone else are foreigners.
...you support a football team that is not Manchester United.

Thought I had to post this as well, because I posted one about norwegians.Many of these sentences I've found somewhere on the internet, some of them I've made up, based on my experiences after 9 months in the UK... :-)
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