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RE: An American In Horsham

Paul D — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:23:22 GMT

Hi Mike, Saw you website thought it was very humorous. It’s interesting to see our country from an American point of view. It must be handy for fellow ex-pat Americans that would want to keep in touch with each other, you must have enough Brits living and working in the states.

The bit that made me laugh the most was we moaning about the good weather we’ve had this year. I never moan, I always varied and never boring. I liked the good collection of photos from your travels.

Paul D

RE: An American In Horsham

DotNetWebs — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:17:11 GMT

Hi Mike

Thank you for registering and welcome to the forums.

The first time I heard the term SUV was in The States. Like Mike says they tend to be just called '4 by 4's' round here.

Incidentally my brother used to live in Chicago and I spent quite a lot of time there. One thing that always amused me is that Chicago people drive EVERYWHERE even if its only a block or two away. They then spend twenty minutes driving around in every increasing circles trying to find a space before 'touch parking' their huge Cadillacs against the cars either side of them.

One of those little Smart cars on your glossary page would be quite practicable out there!! You would probably get laughed right out of town if you drove on though! :w00t:

RE: An American In Horsham

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:14:33 GMT

Hi Mike, what I meant to say is that we don't tend to use the term SUV. Chelsea tracor is one option or, more commonly 4x4 (4 by 4).

It is often said that they are used for the school run and the only time they go off road is to park on the pavement!

RE: An American In Horsham

MikeH — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:43:06 GMT

Thanks for pimping my site.

And, yeah, you do use SUV's; you just call them Chelsea Tractors.

RE: An American In Horsham

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:55:59 GMT

Mmmm, some sharp observations in the glossary. Mostly accurate except for SUV which we don't use

An American In Horsham

DotNetWebs — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:45:01 GMT

I stumbled across this site tonight and found some of the articles very amusing:

http://www.lindenwald.com/

This article about the Christmas build up is interesting

http://www.lindenwald.com/chronicle/2006/061203.htm

It includes another message of disappointment at the lack of a Christmas Lights and Fireworks ceremony this year.

The glossary cracked me up:

http://www.lindenwald.com/glossary.htm

It seems our US colleagues don't understand trainspotting :w00t: