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My second cousin is a dentist in Lancashire. Oral health is better than the US. Low income people have better access to hygienists and there’s less sugar in their diet. The difference is cosmetic dentistry. The affluent in the US spend big on it because a row of straight-white teeth is expected for white collar professionals. Any blue chip suburb is full of people with cosmetically perfect teeth.
The sporting culture fascinates me. I watched Sunderland-Blackburn today. Sunderland attendance was 43,921. Metro Sunderland only has ~ 300,000 people. A few miles north and you’re in Newcastle with your own Premier League team. ~ 15% of the city was at the football match. There’s absolutely nothing like that in the United States. Sunderland doesn’t even have a very good team. They’re mid-table in Championship League with low odds on promotion to Premier League.
The NFL does around $10 billion in television revenue. It is shared among 32 teams. The Premier League is now around $7 billion and more than half of the revenue is international. It’s shared among 20 teams so the big teams are now out-earning the NFL teams. The other top European leagues can’t keep up with that giant revenue stream so all the best players will eventually land in the Premier League.
Sunderland's support is not confined to the city, they also have supports in South Tyneside, Gateshead and vast swathes of County Durham.
The Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear was formed in 1973, however until then everything South of the Tyne was County Durham and everything North of the Tyne was Northumberland.
The Metropolitan County of Tyne and Wear consists of Newcastle and North Tyneside to the North of the river, where everyone generally supports, however if you go to the other side of the Tyne, there is a much bigger split in terms of support the closer you get to Sunderland and it's surrounding boroughs such as Gateshead, and South Tyneside, as well as surrounding areas of County Durham.
In terms of the NFL. it's not that much bigger than the premiership when you take in to account the European competitions that a number of premier league clubs plays in, and which are extremely lucrative.
or any particular village? Everywhere you go there's a different accent. Sometimes you can't even understand a word they say.
I've never had a problem with accents except when I moved from Yorkshire to Sussex and started to date a Sussex girl. Sometimes she said words that went right over my head and she had the same situation with me.
Where I've been there has only been like one cold lager on tap at a time. A lager. And a bad one at that. Something like Carlsberg.
Ok, now we have two things I dislike about British culture.
I'm not sure where you've been, lager is generally thought of as pish by many 'beer snobs' in the UK, its full of chemicals and can sometimes be like drinking a soda, there are some decent lagers but a decent real ale is a cut above. Personally I quite like a pint of Old Speckled Hen which they describe as 'malty taste with a smooth raisin finish' :-D, I do like the odd IPA, I also quite like a 'Blue Moon' which is (I believe) an American version of a Belgian wheat beer? If I am out and about and am offered a Carlsberg then I will drink it, lager can be refreshing on a hot Summers day though on such a day I will usually go for a cider. Cider and beer gardens go together so nicely!
Which one in particular? Cockney, southern home counties, Welsh, west country, Yorkshire, Scouse, Geordie, Brummy, Scots, Northern Irish, BBC ?
My sister works for the NHS and has to travel a bit she is always a bit 'put out' when people call her a 'Cockney', something I get sometimes when I meet 'northerners' (we're actually originally from Kent) but she is even more 'put out' when people tell her she has the 'estuary accent'!
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