a random entry

so to celebrate my new found administrative powers on anglo mango...i thought i would write my first blog under my own log in! margo pointed out and giggled that i'm the anglo and she is the mango!!! i know quite sad....

anyways i thought i would write about international opinions of different nationalities. this first came about while margo was reading a book entitled watching the english. from this she randomly asked me questions each night and then proclaimed that this apparently made me upper middle class, lower middle class or working class - i dont think i ever made the upper class category! for instance she asked what i called the evening meal for which i replied it depends...if its a formal get together where you eat at the table i would probably say dinner otherwise i just call it tea. the subjects went on from what i called the comfortable chair that you sit on in the main room to which i replied sofa in the sitting room...i think she found this very interesting!

so being anglo i think the main international opinion of the UK is that it rains and that we continuously talk about the weather. i can confirm that people do chat about the weather and if you dont know people it is probably second in line behind whats your name? i think i was in my first client meeting and afterwards there was food and chat and my only banter was about the weather (trying to hide my lack of knowledge) - i'll have to work on that....anyways contrary to people's opinions especially while watching wimbledon is that it doesnt rain that often in the UK...the weather is just continuously neither good or bad it just lies in the middle - which gets frustrating!

on to the french...most of my friends and people i've met for some unknown reason are all anti french...i'm on the other hand a great fan! i think the banter between the UK and France is good they call us les roast beef and we call them frogs - basically down to the fact we eat a lot of roast beef and they seem to enjoy frogs legs...i'm not sure if other nationalities do the same? the one thing i will say about the french and you can see this in ski resorts mainly when you ski from france into italy...is that the french are no where near as friendly as the italians!

on to america...america outside of america is an interesting concept and the influence of the america on the rest of the world is in my opinion quite large...particularly in culture...from hollywood movies to tv shows like the simpsons to friends...everyone grows up watching these shows...i guess the average opinion of the states is drawn from popular culture. american politics is also massive...i witnessed this first hand on a trip to norway when my norwegian friend sat down on the sofa and started watching clips of the american election on you tube - i for some reason found this interesting especially after margo has said that she cant understand why the american election gets so much press coverage in the UK!

anyways thats probably enough from my uninteresting entry!....to show off i'm at the start of a easter 4 day weekend...yay!