Good and Bad Things about England

Pal

Good : The Premier League
Bad : Maggie Thatcher

TanG411

Good: Sound people
Bad: Liverpool accents.

minidazzler

Good: Girls are easier
Bad: They have more STD's.

justshane

Any of the roads i have been on(not very many) have been decent, seem to have a good motorway network.

biko

Good: the food.
Bad: the food.

Caoimhín

Good; the wimmin.
Bad; It's a police state.

karlog

Good: The language
Bad: Chavs

DerekDGoldfish

Good: they have some good ciders (and some awful ones as well)
Bad: They dont have lucozade in pubs, what kind of ****ty pub dosnt have locozade

Gummy Panda

Good: better retail selection
Bad: Brummytom

Karl Hungus

Good: The booze.
Bad: Irish tourists.

Mr. Presentable

Pal wrote: »

Good : The Premier League
Bad : Maggie Thatcher

You have them wrong way around.

If England were to sink beneath the waves tomorrow I cannot think of a single thing I'd miss. Maybe BBC4.

lube5150

Good:giving me 420stg wages in 1987,when the dole offered me 40pounds
bad:getting hit by the queens car in winsor,

antodeco

Good: Cheryl Cole
Bad: Above is too far away

KeithM89_old

Good: Some good TV shows
Bad: Everything else

Saft Hans

Good: The TV Channels
Bad: Everything else

EDIT: Keithm89 beat me to it

Big Nasty

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Good: The booze.
Bad: Irish tourists.

Have you lost your mind? The beer in the UK is pure ****e, and I like my beer!

As for Irish Tourists, I thought all the bad ones were in Playa del Ingles not England!

Pauleta

Good: The amount of Rock bands that came out of there from the 60s-90s

Bad: Naomi Campbell

AckwelFoley

Good: Their Language and culture
Bad: ****ty Neighbours & and Martin Johnson - Hes a wanker

Karl Hungus

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Have you lost your mind? The beer in the UK is pure ****e, and I like my beer!

Beer? Pish. I'm talking proper English Ale here.

DebDynamite

Good: Excellent train service (and they don't even know it)
Bad: Class-obsessed

AckwelFoley

Pauleta wrote: »

Bad: Naomi Campbell

You're being a bit harsh. Shes a bit of a rough Diamond, but i see potential

Big Nasty

Good: Nice English People are really nice, a lot of good music, some beautiful scenery.

Bad: Chavs, they don't do it by 'alf! Food & Drink can be awful muck, 800 years......

PeterIanStaker

Good: The Jeremy Kyle Show
Bad: The Jeremy Kyle Show

Big Nasty

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Beer? Pish. I'm talking proper English Ale here.

Fair enough but 'regular beer' has a tendecy to be total absolute muck. I don't drink 'regular beer' here either though. Belge, German and czech beer all the way!

Tar.Aldarion

Good: Choice of cider and drink prices
Bad: expensive trains :mad:

Black Magician

Good: Everton FC
Bad: Everton FC girls(Their English!!!)

St._Andalou

Good: beautiful countryside (the Lake District, Devon, Cornwall), its literature, music (the Smiths in particular)

Bad: Sky news, Sky news and Sky news, which is inflicted upon us this side of the Irish Sea.

ordinary_girl

Good: They have London and Manchester, and it's because of this that I'm incredibly jealous.

Bad: I don't live there

Pal

Good : London
Bad : Manchester

Big Nasty

Rest_Energy wrote: »

Good: They have London and Manchester, and it's because of this that I'm incredibly jealous.

Bad: I don't live there

Manchester is a bloody **** hole! :eek:

Mental_Legend

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

Good: The Jeremy Kyle Show
Bad: The Jeremy Kyle Show

This. I watch the show every now and then, but when somebody you know says "Hey, we're appearing on the Jeremy Kyle Show today.", who in their right mind would say "OK, let me just get my coat!"? Although, half the people on the show are probably stoned beforehand anyway.

El Weirdo

Black Magician wrote: »

Bad: Everton FC girls(Their English!!!)

It's probably the Scouse accent.

scientific1982

Good: The music.
Bad: Some of the accents especially brummie, young london and essex.

Karl Hungus

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Fair enough but 'regular beer' has a tendecy to be total absolute muck. I don't drink 'regular beer' here either though. Belge, German and czech beer all the way!

I used to be quite into the Belgian beverages myself, but over the years have grown extremely fond of English Ales. Nothing quite compares to a good pint of ale pulled on the olde style hand pumps, it's just gorgeous.

nullzero

Good: Northeners (probably because half of them are Irish)
Bad: Racial segregation (ghetto's)

Big Nasty

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I used to be quite into the Belgian beverages myself, but over the years have grown extremely fond of English Ales. Nothing quite compares to a good pint of ale pulled on the olde style hand pumps, it's just gorgeous.

I'm going OT now and we should probably take this to the beer forum but the only draught beer I drink these days is GUINNESS. It's actually more consistent lately than any other draught. Bottled beer on the other hand is obviously very consistent. I tend to drink Belgian beer the weekend and Czech during the week! Is it possible to experience proper English Ale anywhere in this country?

merengueca

Good : That I managed to move up the career ladder here on my own merit. Nepotism is very much the scurge of Ireland.

Bad : My family aren't here

Karl Hungus

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I'm going OT now and we should probably take this to the beer forum but the only draught beer I drink these days is GUINNESS. It's actually more consistent lately than any other draught. Bottled beer on the other hand is obviously very consistent. I tend to drink Belgian beer the weekend and Czech during the week! Is it possible to experience proper English Ale anywhere in this country?

Yeah, bottled ales are good. You can find some places have a very nice selection, like the Bull & Castle in Dublin. Many off licenses will stock some nice ones. It won't be the same as a proper pint you'd get from the old hand pump, but still better than most things.

I'll generally drink bottled ales anyway when I'm on, depending on where I'm going.

Big Nasty

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Yeah, bottled ales are good. You can find some places have a very nice selection, like the Bull & Castle in Dublin. Many off licenses will stock some nice ones. It won't be the same as a proper pint you'd get from the old hand pump, but still better than most things.

I'll generally drink bottled ales anyway when I'm on, depending on where I'm going.

Can't beat the owl hand pump Karl! :eek:

I usually get my beer from Redmonds in Ranelagh, great selection and very reasonable. PM me a few suggestions to look out for!

InTheTrees

Its so crowded. Seventy million people jammed onto that island. There's barely any uncultivated open space left.

Slutmonkey57b

That's only a problem if you prefer scraggly wilderness.

ejmaztec

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

You have them wrong way around.

If England were to sink beneath the waves tomorrow I cannot think of a single thing I'd miss. Maybe BBC4.

Considering all of the goods and businesses that would disappear, you might miss a lot more than you think.:P

questionmark?

Good: Choice of drink in the pubs

Bad: A tendency to have useless bar staff that are way to slow at serving

starbelgrade

The Good; They are in general, nice folk, despite their reputation

The Bad; When they are bad, they are really f*cking bad, which lends to their bad reputation

And The Ugly; Wayne Rooney

mackeminexile

InTheTrees wrote: »

Its so crowded. Seventy million people jammed onto that island. There's barely any uncultivated open space left.

Eh? Have you ever been to England? The Lake District, Northumberland, Cumbria, Yorkshire Moors, Dartmoor etc etc etc

R0ot

Good: The are separated by water from us.
Bad: They are English.

Adriatic

I advise everyone to read Tickling the English by Dara O Briain to find everythnig you need to know about the english from a funny irish perspective.

orourkeda

Rest_Energy wrote: »

Good: They have London and Manchester, and it's because of this that I'm incredibly jealous.

Bad: I don't live there

Manchester's a toilet pot.

Good: London
Bad: Bolton, Leeds, Leicester and Coventry

orourkeda

Adriatic wrote: »

I advise everyone to read Tickling the English by Dara O Briain to find everythnig you need to know about the english from a funny irish perspective.

Dara O'Briain.

You are joking aren't you?

Biggins

Good: The beautiful Yorkshire and Lancashire countryside.
Bad: The traffic and city drive nightmare that is London.

kev9100

Good: Sound people and really good public transport

Bad: Chavs and their city centres close really early.