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

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

Would like to do a longer and more considered response but still need to get showered and to bed in time for work tomorrow. Re: lazy speeches - every year we go to see comedians in the Fringe who either mispronounce the name of the city (though never as Eedenberg, usually as Edinburro. Seems to be the most common incorrect pronunciation and they never seem to pick up on it being wrong - I don't get where the "o" comes from in the first place) or in the case of Emo Phillips a few years back, refer to "Scotch people". Poor Emo. He got away with it a couple of times, although you could pretty much sense the entire audience counting to ten both times, but when he did it a thrid time someone had to shout him down. They were nice enough about it and his act still went down well, but there should probably be some kind of mandatory Fringe guide for performers that explains stuff like this to them and could stop the less talented (and therefore forgivable ones) from alienating half their audience in the first ten minutes.