Monday, October 18, 2004
Must be a Brit thing
Hum:
U.S.: How do the newspapers here compare to the ones back home?
U.K.: Lots of adverts. There’s not much content or substance. There is international news but it’s always just Iraq and Israel-Palestine. I feel kind of cut off from the rest of the world. You don’t really trust what you’re reading or watching as much as you do in England. There are so many underwear ads.
Let's put aside for the moment that she's apparently comparing England's major newspapers with The Daily Cal, a student-run campus publication. Our news is untrustworthy, coming from a country that reads things like "The Sun" and "The Guardian" as newspapers, rather than tabloids. Okay, sure.
U.S.: What do you think of California public transportation?
U.K.: Brilliant, it’s free. It’s punctual, but there isn’t enough of it. BART is clean, but there aren’t enough routes. But it’s ridiculous because of how you pay for it. We were standing in front of the machine, thinking, “What do you do?” Plus and minus? Why don’t they just put the stops on and you can press the button? We have that in Yorkshire, they could bloody have it in San Francisco.
It's free? Which public transit are you using? Do you really have that little understanding of where your student fees go? You can't figure out how to add and subtract numbers? BART has flexibility like that, but if you can't add, I guess it bites you in the ass. Do they not use addition in Yorkshire? And they complain about our education system.
Someone came up to me and asked if I wanted to join the fashion society, and I said, “What fashion?” Gray sweatshirt, blue jeans, white trainers, that’s Berkeley.
We call that fashion sense. That is, sensible fashion. We usually have better things to do with our money.
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