oh, for heavens' sake

[winterbadger]

as seen on brits_americans

As a US citizen living in London, Christian Cox says she is shocked at the amount of abuse she receives because of her nationality.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4881474.stm

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

I was a Philadelphian part-Jew.

This year, I finally decide to shut up and accept that Christmas is considered secular here. *sigh* (I'm part Reformed Jew, part Wiccan. :)

I live out in the New Forest; I'm not in London that often. You want to talk about lack of Jews or anything kosher? Okay, there are a lot of Wiccans out here, at least. ;)

[winterbadger]

This year, I finally decide to shut up and accept that Christmas is considered secular here.

One of my favourite Harry Potter comments from an American: "How can you say there's no religion in those books!? They're always going on about Christmas!" :-)

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I live in Finchley. The only way I could get MORE Jewish would be to move a mile away to Hendon or Golders Green. ;)

But you want Christmas fun? The kosher butchers here sell turkeys at Christmas. Not celebrating Christmas here is like the mark of the really frum. Kosher Christmas dinner is not an oxymoron in Britain!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Before I moved here, when I visited England and London, I used to stay in a b&b in Golders Green. I remember doing laundry at a laundrette one Friday morning and smelling the challah baking at a nearby bakery. :)

We buy organic goose from a local organic farmer, but I don't think they're kosher. :) Kosher turkeys? Cool. Of course, one year I was looking for Chanukah cards in Southampton. It took me five shops. At two of them, the clerks didn't even know what Chanukah was. *sigh* I was tempted to say something about how they must not have paid much attention in RE. ;)

[arosoff.livejournal.com]

ooh, which one? we've got quite a selection round this way... my favourite is Daniels for bagels (I mostly don't like the Israeli-style bakeries but the bagels there are really good), Sharons for cakes. (mmm poppy seed cakes)