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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:16 pm Post subject:
Do Brits wear short pants in public? Subject description: Inquiring minds want to know.
My wife tells me that sensible Europeans don't walk about in short pants in public, at least in the UK. I have never been to the UK. I have been mistaken for a local more than once in Munich, but I'll be damned if I can remember what clothes I was wearing at the time.
What's the story? Are we marking ourselves as Yankee Interlopers if we stroll in respectably long shorts? Should our pants legs reach our ankles?
This all becomes relevant to us when we travel to England next week. Thanks! _________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:34 pm Post subject:
Re: Do Brits wear short pants in public? Subject description: Inquiring minds want to know.
seraph wrote:
Acoustic Interloper wrote:
Are we marking ourselves as Yankee Interlopers if we stroll in respectably long shorts?
I don't know about the UK but you would be in good company down here wearing shorts
Really? You mean you have a lot of tourists? I thought italians wouldn't be caught dead in short trousers. _________________ Antimon's Window @soundcloud@Flattrhome - you can't explain music
You will have no trouble at all wearing shorts in the UK. In fact, the English here wear them long after the weather here would permit even my countrymen (Norwegians) to...
In pubs and restaurants they will not let you be without a T-shirt but shorts are ok. _________________ Muied Lumens Sub Forum Bandcamp
Joined: Feb 28, 2005 Posts: 4044 Location: England
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject:
Short trousers (shorts) are fine here in public.
Short pants would not be.
Pants are underwear here, wearing underwear in public is frowned upon. You may well get away with it, after all we don't like to make a scene here so people would probably just ignore it and talk about the weather but a policeperson may not be so understanding.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:42 pm Post subject:
Ah, so I can wear 'em, just don't call 'em "pants."
Latest discussion has been over pickpockets. I remember my aunt warning me about those when we went to the NY World's Fair in 1965.
My big thrill there was to use a touch tone phone. My relatives thought I was homesick, but I just wanted to see the touch tones actually work! _________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:37 am Post subject:
BobTheDog wrote:
Union jack pants are fine, even with pockets as long as they are not visible.
So wear a belt so your trousers do not sag, exposing your pants.
And don't bring a "fanny pack" or even think of referring to it as such, it is a "bum bag". _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:56 am Post subject:
What about tipping? My wife says not to tip in restaurants or pubs, but these travels guides aren't coming up 100% accurate. _________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:56 pm Post subject:
BobTheDog wrote:
Always tip in restaurants, I do 20% most do 10% though.
If you are getting table service in a pub or bar then tip, if you are ordering at the bar then don't.
In London, look at your bill before you tip. Most add 12.5% to your bill in "service". 20% on top of that for the "service" you get is, well, to my mind a lot excessive. But I live here. _________________ Garret: It's so retro.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:08 pm Post subject:
The problen is that the included "service charge" doesn't usually all go to the people providing the service. It can be used as part wages by the employer in order to actually pay the staff less than minimum wages where the difference is then made up by using the service charge! The rest then goes in the employers pocket.
The best bet is to not pay the service charge (it is optional so you can ask for it to be removed) and then pay the tip with cash rather than cards.
I have quite a few friends who wait on tables and the cash is very usefull as they get paid shite.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject:
Thanks!
BBC America has got our Huddersfield agenda all mapped out.
_________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:31 am Post subject:
I went to Germany with my grandfather when I was 13. One day, we decided to go swimming at a large public pool. I dressed appropriately - for an American. Which is to say, swimming trunks that came half-way down the thigh. My grandfather's friend looked at me and wondered if I was ready to go. I said yes. She indicated my trunks and said "... und unter?" Me: "Nichts." Her: "Nichts?!" (laughs).
It turns out that German swim-wear are... speedos.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject:
BobTheDog wrote:
Short trousers (shorts) are fine here in public.
Short pants would not be.
Pants are underwear here, wearing underwear in public is frowned upon.
I was about to post the same thing.
I think I only became aware of that from watching Peep Show:
"Socks before OR after trousers, but not before pants. That's the rule. Makes a man look scary, like a chicken." _________________ Looking for a certain ratio since 1978
You should also carry a bowler hat, a pair of daps and an umbrella for those frightfully chilly summer days, what?
_________________ ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject:
v-un-v wrote:
I believe you are in need of a pair of plusfours old chap?
You should also carry a bowler hat, a pair of daps and an umbrella for those frightfully chilly summer days, what?
Forgot to bring one of these (my wife brought one), the borrowed one from the hotel came in very handy today in Ambleside and thereabout.
Survived Huddersfield, a very nice International Computer Music Conference, papers & many concerts. Saw some publically displayed short trousers, not short pants. No short trouser for me.
Strangely, everyone I talked to round Huddersfield said that alcohol-bearing ginger beer is a recent phenomenon, strictly non-alcoholic soft drink before that.
Quote:
The original version, rarely produced commercially since the mid-20th century but often home brewed, is a brewed alcoholic beverage.
I can remember reading Alan Watts' autobiography years ago, wherein he lamented the unavailability of proper old-style, alcoholic ginger beer in his adopted home of the U.S. Apparently it went out of popularity in the U.K. as well.
I've found two brands so far, Crabbie's and Hollows, both good. _________________ When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject:
The Black country based Enville brewery do a frightfully spiffing ginger pint too.
Knocks yer jolly socks off too!!! _________________ ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
The Black country based Enville brewery do a frightfully spiffing ginger pint too.
Knocks yer jolly socks off too!!!
A local brewery here in Trondheim is making a very agreeable Indian Pale Ale. However, you are only being served if you already have your socks off and the feet fairly strapped to a pair of solid sandals.
Well.. it´s actually not a modern modest IPA, but rather a DIPA on steroids. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:30 pm Post subject:
Were the rioters wearing shorts? _________________ ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
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