New home, new machine

[mr_sparkle]

PassatDoc your response seems to be very passionate, however I have had to re-read the thread in case I missed something, was all that post just from Jon joking that he is going to spike the vicars tea with vodka? Or have I in fact missed something?

As for the kettle thing, well if your used to something boiling fast like we are here in the UK, you take it for granted and assume all kettles boil as fast. Not everyone thinks about vols and watts, rather they are just waiting for the kettle to boil and commenting on it.

As for the thing about British only knowing how to do things right, I am British and you can ask me any day of the week who makes the best engines and I will say AMERICANS! As will any of my family. We fell in love with American enginering living on an American Airforce Base.

Please do not tar us all with some colonial stiff upper lip, funny talking brush as you have done in your very long post. What ever steriotypes you see in the movies playing British bad guys, I can assure you that there are the rest of us, going about our normal daily lives without such complexes about how we are the only nation to know how to make things.

 

[lavamat_jon]

Perhaps time to get the teapot out?

 

[hoover1100]

Perhaps time to get the teapot out?

Perhaps the vodka too

 

[passatdoc]

AquaCycle, I am afraid you have described the majority of my UK relatives better than we can....I know you haven't met them, but some really ARE more or less tea-drinking slugs. Many of them could be described fairly as whingers. Several of them hold honourary knighthoods and various OBE levels...are they pompous? Yeah, baby!

That said, nearly all UK visitors I meet here (other than my own relatives...) are kind and polite. Occasionally I'll get some bizarre questions (in particular, from Disney aficionados who think the locals are all Disneyland history experts---I've actually been asked whether I think "Space Mountain" is better in California or in Florida...) but then again US tourists must ask some idiotic questions too. I never ask anything more intrusive than street directions.

I simply seem to have been stuck with more than my fair share of bizarre UK relatives. If you met them, you'd understand. I visit Europe roughly once a year, but my last time in UK was long ago. When people ask why so long no time in UK (given that I have relatives there), I am tempted to say "If you knew them, you wouldn't ask that question" but I just give a rather nebulous answer like "well, they visit here in the winter, so I see them here."

Five minutes with my cousin R----- and you'd be climbing the walls, too---he fairly oozes pomposity.

PS: I have a set of Margaret Thatcher tea mugs, a gift from one set of the UK relatives. THIS WAS NOT A JOKE, they gave them to me in all seriousness. He was chair of the Tories in Kent at the time. (yes, I have had high tea inside the Conservative Club of Margate....what an experience. It was BYOGM: Bring Your Own Gas Mask, as protection against the cummulonimbus clouds of cigarette smoke).

 

[fl1012]

Im completely lost......

could've sworn this thread was about Jon's new kitchen & new Beko machine, but since it's gone completely off topic i'll make it even worse.

Hi Paul,

I lived in 3 places whilst in Manchester (when i say Manchester i should really say Greater Manchester). First of all i was in Sharston, between Gatley and (sadly) Wythenshawe. It was actually quite a nice place. Had a Zanussi Jetsystem Excel Turbodry there (FJS1397W i believe).

Then moved into the City Centre and lived just behind Picadilly Station. Had integrated Teka appliances there, which i believe were Hoover/Candy but staggeringly never broke or burnt the appartment block down in the 6 months i was there.

Finally i bought my own place and moved out near where you are now. The house is on the Heywood/M62 side of Middleton. I rent it out now and am back down south, but i love my lil house, it's so well located for getting places, albeit not by public transport! May go back one day depending on how work pans out. The appliances that are left behind there and some that i brought back home with me are all Zanussi of varying ages. Can't get enough of Zanussi!

Liam

 

[paulinroyton]

Liam

Hi Liam,

My God Wythenshawe,LOL. I use to live in Bramhall for quite some time, but split up with my partner.

Royton ok, bit bad for buses, but very quiet. I live on Broadway now.

Regards

Paul