(September 14, 2016 at 3:53 pm)Alex K Wrote: When I came to the US for the first time, when people asked me "how was your day" I would actually start going into details, which always led to awkwardness. It's comical in hindsight.
Yeh, in northern England where I live it's a tradition to say "alright?" or "How do lad?" but you never ever EVER reply by actually saying to what degree you are ok or alright or anything like that. You always have to say something along the lines of "Not bad John what about you?" Then John has to reply back with something like "Aye not bad, not bad."
It's just bad manners to actually want people to stop and talk about how you actually are.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
