@Moriador
Regards number 3, lol, well I hope you remembered to say Aluminium without that second "i" :-D

Funny stuff, and the American guy, Steve, who appears in the video posted above.  Have to say I like his sense of humour, cause that's something the Americans often don't seem to get right when it comes to us Brits, I think most times they see our humour as belittling.  But yup, it's fun to see an American prepared to laugh at himself, that's the way to do it, we laugh at ourselves all the time.  Maybe the internet is helping, I think the Americans are starting to grasp the way our humour works - they've got us sussed now :-P

Yeah, sometimes it takes a while before a yank will figure out that when you take a snobbish tone it's almost always meant to be SELF-mocking. I mean, c'mon. in a single generation, you go from being an empire that covers 3/5 of the world to a 95.000 sq mile island, from "The sun never sets on the British Empire" to "Sun? What sun?", you either learn to laugh at yourself or give in to hopeless alcoholism. Or both. :D Besides, if we didn't have the yanks to take the pressure off, everyone in the world would still be hating on us. As it is, everyone just laughs at us. As they should! :D

Edit: Oh, yeah. Aluminum. I had already learned to speak Texan. I used to have to "translate" for my mother all the time. I speak in several different distinct accents, and people who are used to my BBC generic get quite a shock when they hear me talking with the family. Of course, when I meet English people, they usually say, "You don't have much of an accent left." But I suppose I'll get a chance to practice: I'm visiting the UK for the first time in 30 years next month.

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