Morning from the UK

[trouttimes]

Welcome from Colorado high country. I've spent many a day, week, month in your fair lands. I was an exchange student at Oxford many, many years ago.

 

[Patrick_Green]

Evening, all !! Is that an Eldritch pipe up there ? ;-)

I see what you did there.

 

[peregrinus]

Hello and welcome from a sunny Seattle, USA.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Welcome from Chicago! I just visited your fine country (the home of Kate Beckinsale, McLaren & BAC Mono sports cars and my Dunhill pipes) in August. I learned a few things. 1. The food is as awful as reported. 2. The countryside is stunningly beautiful. 3. Architecture is amazing. 4. Your toilet seats are all too small but your toilet paper is better than ours. If our two countries shared our toilet technology, we'd be unstoppable!

1.) There is plenty of excellent food in England.
2.) Yes
3.) Much of it
4.) Never had great TP in England, but it's way better than it was decades ago. US TP is the best, by some definitions of best. (more expensive)

 

[jpmcwjr]

Dave-

A big welcome. Only one question for now: City or United??

Spurs here. But we can overlook footie favs....

 

[hauntedmyst]

1.) There is plenty of excellent food in England.
2.) Yes
3.) Much of it
4.) Never had great TP in England, but it's way better than it was decades ago. US TP is the best, by some definitions of best. (more expensive)

1. We never found it during 8 days. My son said the Indian food is excellent but I'm not a fan.
2. Nope, even Charmin red doesn't come close.

 

[stbruno70]

Older hands in the UK may remember something that wasn't a loo roll but wax-like individual sheets made by a firm whose name escapes me. Jevons? Horrid.

 

[stbruno70]

And yes, Brit nosh has improved tremendously since rationing was eased after the war.

 

[jpmcwjr]

1. We never found it during 8 days. My son said the Indian food is excellent but I'm not a fan.

Where were you? In any event, your lack of success does not prove your statement.

2. Nope, even Charmin red doesn't come close.

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! When I lived in England 50 years ago, the TP I experienced was single ply and had a wax-paper like feel.

I concede the TP issue.

 

[ukbob]

stbruno I think the tp used to be called jeyes, and it was horrible stuff.

 

[jaytex1969]

In the army, we used a bathroom tissue we lovingly referred to as "John Wayne",

because it was rough and tough and didn't take shit off of anyone!

Oh, yeah... Welcome to the forum!

 

[cigrmaster]

Welcome from Florida.

 

[paulfg]

Older hands in the UK may remember something that wasn't a loo roll but wax-like individual sheets made by a firm whose name escapes me. Jevons? Horrid.

Izal,oh no that was on a roll,I think the sheets were Jeyes as stated above by ukbob

 

[Elric]

In the army, we used a bathroom tissue we lovingly referred to as "John Wayne",

because it was rough and tough and didn't take shit off of anyone!

Oh, yeah... Welcome to the forum!

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We referred to it as DA-1000; Department of the Army Form 1000 (due to everything being a DA Form and there being 1000 squares on a roll).

Welcome from Bear Lake, MI & Largo, FL by the way!

 

[UncleRasta]

Welcome from Chicago! I just visited your fine country (the home of Kate Beckinsale, McLaren & BAC Mono sports cars and my Dunhill pipes) in August. I learned a few things. 1. The food is as awful as reported. 2. The countryside is stunningly beautiful. 3. Architecture is amazing. 4. Your toilet seats are all too small but your toilet paper is better than ours. If our two countries shared our toilet technology, we'd be unstoppable!

Unstoppable lol

 

[UncleRasta]

Welcome from a Brit residing in sunny California. Born in Rustington, Sussex (1961). I'm 12 pipes in and just beginning to expand my baccy horizons beyond the Lane 1Q my local B&M recommended and the Proper English and Burley blend that I asked to try. My tin of Three Nuns (recommended by a forumite) is on a usps vehicle and within 50 miles of here.

 

[pagan]

Howdy from West Texas