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Old 04-18-2015, 05:26 AM
 
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Yeah I agree there are alot of Engish people who have an arrogant attitude and think that the world owes them their service, definitely noticed this in some locations but I suppose this is the class thing.
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Old 04-18-2015, 06:12 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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Sorry, but i consider Germany also as a small country. Big countries are China, USA, India for example. Not that it is necessarily a good thing, but in the future or even today they have more to say than we do. Most Brits like to breast themselves with their Empire and what not, but that's long gone now. Germany also had an Empire so what.
Saxonwold is American, not British. I've never met a British person who wasn't alive during WW2 who actually cares about the British empire.
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Old 04-18-2015, 06:57 AM
 
Location: London, UK
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Britain is not a small country but I do agree that Brits forget that they are an island country sometimes.

Some do need a reality check.
What as being an island got to do with anything? Its a fairly big island you know....
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Old 04-18-2015, 12:39 PM
 
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I don't understand why the UK or England is such a class divided country. Is it a clsss divided country? I often read comments like "I shop at Waitrose, because I don't want to get in contact with riff-raff people" Are those comments meant seriously? I also read that some people shop at Aldi or LIdl, but they repack their purchases into a bag from Waitrose. So other people think they have shoped at Waitrose. Very strange. What is so special at Waitrose? I have looked several photos of this store, but it looks like an ordinary supermarket. Maybe a little bit above average. Similar to a somewhat upmarket Edeka or Rewe store in Germany.
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Old 04-18-2015, 12:44 PM
 
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I don't understand why the UK or England is such a class divided country. Is it a clsss divided country? I often read comments like "I shop at Waitrose, because I don't want to get in contact with riff-raff people" Are those comments meant seriously? I also read that some people shop at Aldi or LIdl, but they repack their purchases into a bag from Waitrose. So other people think they have shoped at Waitrose. Very strange. What is so special at Waitrose? I have looked several photos of this store, but it looks like an ordinary supermarket. Maybe a little bit above average. Similar to a somewhat upmarket Edeka or Rewe store in Germany.
Haha, that is true people actually do that. I don't though, we shop at like 4 supermarkets for our food because each one has its benefits, the luxury supermarkets aren't good though because they are small. I have yet to see a Marks and Spencer's that is bigger than a Tesco Express.

I could afford to buy luxury food but I just stick to Tesco because its bigger and its better, I am not a snob either. No one is better than anyone just because they have money but there a lot of people who think that. No one actually cares where you shop, we have more things to be doing than worrying about that.
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Old 04-18-2015, 12:44 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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I don't understand why the UK or England is such a class divided country. Is it a clsss divided country? I often read comments like "I shop at Waitrose, because I don't want to get in contact with riff-raff people" Are those comments meant seriously? I also read that some people shop at Aldi or LIdl, but they repack their purchases into a bag from Waitrose. So other people think they have shoped at Waitrose. Very strange. What is so special at Waitrose? I have looked several photos of this store, but it looks like an ordinary supermarket. Maybe a little bit above average. Similar to a somewhat upmarket Edeka or Rewe store in Germany.
A lot of people all over the world will have this attitude, it has nothing to do with what country they are from.
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Old 04-18-2015, 12:45 PM
 
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What as being an island got to do with anything? Its a fairly big island you know....
Its really not that big. People in England go on like their country is the size of Greenland or something, I have flown in larger countries for 3 hours and I still didn't get to the other side.

You can go from the South Coast to the North Coast in 90 minutes MAX.
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Old 04-18-2015, 01:05 PM
 
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Its really not that big. People in England go on like their country is the size of Greenland or something ....
Oh dear. What are you going on about?
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Old 04-18-2015, 04:53 PM
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Location: London | Atlanta
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Oh dear. What are you going on about?
Indeed. Laughable.
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Old 04-19-2015, 04:23 AM
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Location: Surrey/London
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Its really not that big. People in England go on like their country is the size of Greenland or something, I have flown in larger countries for 3 hours and I still didn't get to the other side.

You can go from the South Coast to the North Coast in 90 minutes MAX.
It's only the 9th largest island on the planet. Really not that big at all
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