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[Rahul]

Even if it hadn't, the "warm fuzzies" are priceless. People in London actually spoke to their neighbours, ffs. They learnt their names and spoke to them!

You had to hold some big event for that to happen?

I talk to my neighbors all the time. One couple the father is a Russian mathmatics professor at the local university and the mother is from Manchester, England. They have the cutest little boy.

[frankiej]

Even if it hadn't, the "warm fuzzies" are priceless. People in London actually spoke to their neighbours, ffs. They learnt their names and spoke to them!

You had to hold some big event for that to happen?

I talk to my neighbors all the time. One couple the father is a Russian mathmatics professor at the local university and the mother is from Manchester, England. They have the cutest little boy.

Geez, you might act like you are from Australia, but the British are miserable bastards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8YTc74s4WA

[Rahul]

Geez, you might act like you are from Australia, but the British are miserable bastards.

We're pretty friendly down here in Texas. Don't let the press fool you. They only focus on the idiots. Most polite society in Texas avoid those people ourselves.

[NoraBrimstone]

Even if it hadn't, the "warm fuzzies" are priceless. People in London actually spoke to their neighbours, ffs. They learnt their names and spoke to them!

You had to hold some big event for that to happen?

I talk to my neighbors all the time. One couple the father is a Russian mathmatics professor at the local university and the mother is from Manchester, England. They have the cutest little boy.

Brits, especially Londoners, don't talk to people outside their circle of friends and family. Even if you see someone in the street who you know, but they aren't actually a friend or relative, you don't speak to them. A nod and a smile is probably the maximum you could get away with without creeping them out.

[thesummerqueen]

Brits, especially Londoners, don't talk to people outside their circle of friends and family. Even if you see someone in the street who you know, but they aren't actually a friend or relative, you don't speak to them. A nod and a smile is probably the maximum you could get away with without creeping them out.

You would be excessively creeped out in the American south then. People strike up conversations with strangers all the time over the stupidest shit and talk for hours to amuse themselves. Small talk is bread and butter.

When I went back to visit my mother in northern VA, I stopped at a Starbucks and while waiting for my coffee at the bar, somehow got into a random discussion with another patron. She was visiting from NC too. We were the only ones in the entire place talking, except for the staff asking for orders.

[Rahul]

Yah. Down here in the South if you don't smile and say hello to people you walk past in hallways you are considered rude or stuck up.

[NoraBrimstone]

Yeah... Doing that here would end up a discussion topic when you arrived at work, probably starting along the lines of "OMG! Some nutter started talking to me when I was on my way in!" "Oh no, I had one the other day when I was waiting for my bus!" Lol

[thesummerqueen]

It happens up north too. The small talk to strangers thing seems to be mostly southern in nature. I don't know about mid west or west coast.

[Rahul]

Yeah... Doing that here would end up a discussion topic when you arrived at work, probably starting along the lines of "OMG! Some nutter started talking to me when I was on my way in!" "Oh no, I had one the other day when I was waiting for my bus!" Lol

Awww. They wouldn't call me a "bloody wanker"?

Next time I visit the UK I'm wearing a T-Shirt that says, "I'm not a nutter. I'm just a tourist."

I partied with two brothers from the UK once at New Orleans that me and my friends just ran into at a bar. They seemed pretty cool with us.

Oh yeah. And those British guys in Venice. They seemed ok blokes as well.

[frankiej]

Awww. They wouldn't call me a "bloody wanker"?

Next time I visit the UK I'm wearing a T-Shirt that says, "I'm not a nutter. I'm just a tourist."

I'd rather talk to a nutter than a tourist.