Timmy Elsewhere

D’ye know, I think Clarkson might be talking about me:


The fact is, I’m afraid, that anyone who emigrates from Britain, no matter
where they end up, is a bit of a dimwit.

Honestly, every single expat I’ve ever met is the same; hunched at a bar in a
stupid shirt, at 10 in the morning, desperately trying to convince
themselves that they are not alcoholics, that the barman really is their
friend and that it’s only 11 hours till bedtime.

However, I comfort myself with the thought that not all emigrees are indeed dimwits, even if the shirt part is true.

5 responses

  1. >Honestly, every single expat I’ve ever met is the same; hunched at a bar in a stupid shirt, at 10 in the morning, desperately trying to convince themselves that they are not alcoholics
    Wouldn’t this mean that when abroad, Clarkson hangs out in bars at 10 in the morning? (I’ve no problem with that myself, but it does mean you don’t get to know the expats who don’t go to bars at odd hours, or who don’t go to bars at all because they’re happy at home or with friends).

  2. What Simdgeon says.

  3. I work fifty hours a week in an office. There are indeed a goodly selection of barflies I know that are as Clarkson describes, but there were a bloody sight more reasons to quit the UK than the ability to get pissed before lunchtime.

  4. Why go abroad?
    “There is nevertheless a real difference between North and South, and there is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards. For climatic reasons the parasitic dividend-drawing class tend to settle in the South. In a Lancashire cotton-town you could probably go for months on end without once hearing an ‘educated’ accent, whereas there can hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.”
    http://www.george-orwell.org/North_And_South/0.html

  5. Lounge-lizards at leisure on the beach at Brighton:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6964891.stm

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