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How many Brits are here?

Doc Average

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unless you're Basil Rathbone, obviously

Or Billy Childish... :)

Another Limey here. Born and brought up in Blackburn, West Lothian in Scotland (- it's just outside Edinburgh, and is Susan Boyle's home village!). Spent the best part of the '90s in Dundee, and have lived in Manchester since 2003.

Och jings!
 

dragonaxe

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Or Billy Childish... :)

Another Limey here. Born and brought up in Blackburn, West Lothian in Scotland (- it's just outside Edinburgh, and is Susan Boyle's home village!). Spent the best part of the '90s in Dundee, and have lived in Manchester since 2003.

Och jings!

Billy Childish? another Kent-ite :eek:

Hi Doc. Is that you on your avatar?
 

Doc Average

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Billy Childish? another Kent-ite :eek:

Hi Doc. Is that you on your avatar?

Hi there!

That's not me, that's my grampa - Petty Officer Bobby Docherty, R.N.. He was a bit of a character... :)

I'm glad you know who Billy Childish is - for a moment there I thought I was being a bit obscure! I forgot he's from Chatham.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/thee_headcoats

Hey - whaddaya know! I'm a familiar face at last!
 

Miss sofia

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Hi there!

That's not me, that's my grampa - Petty Officer Bobby Docherty, R.N.. He was a bit of a character... :)

I'm glad you know who Billy Childish is - for a moment there I thought I was being a bit obscure! I forgot he's from Chatham.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/thee_headcoats

Hey - whaddaya know! I'm a familiar face at last!

Congrats familiar face! :eusa_clap

Actually your grampa looks like he had a bit of a twinkle in his eye, good pic.

Actually i saw Billy Childish in the sweet shop in Rye, not that you could miss him really!
 

Carnage

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Another one here, Cotswolds born with stops all over the place 'twixt, now.I reside I. Hertfordshire.

I've even met a few Lounges.....
 

dragonaxe

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Hello and welcome. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting any myself, but hopefully in the near future who knows?

It would be nice to meet others from here. A bit odd, at the same time though. Typing on a keyboard just isn't the same as talking. But where else can you have a conversation with people all across the world at the same time :D
 

Miss sofia

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Exactly, and be privy to such inspiration and information from such esteemed individuals as all the guys and gals on here!

Perhaps a future brit meet up could be a good idea tho'. I'm game, i don't get out nearly enough. ;)
 

Doc Average

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Congrats familiar face! :eusa_clap

Actually your grampa looks like he had a bit of a twinkle in his eye, good pic.

Actually i saw Billy Childish in the sweet shop in Rye, not that you could miss him really!

Yes he does have a twinkle! That pic was taken in 1944 when he was 17 and had run off to sea... When I was a little kid, he reminded me of Quint from Jaws!
 

Dave E

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Hi Dave, nice to have you (not in the biblical sense of course, ;))
sorry, I'm in a funny mood today :rolleyes:

lol

I think I've been in that kind of funny mood for most of my life lol

As most are explaining what flavour of Brit they are, I should say I'm a Midlands boy, brought up in the Northants countryside. That's just made me realise I've lived in a 30 mile radius for most of my life, as I don't live that far from the village I grew up in from the age of 4! University years in Oxford and London are as far as I've managed to go, I've travelled plenty, just always seem to have lived in this region.

Oh, and I'm a Brit in the fullest sense, being equal parts English, Irish, Scots and Welsh :)
 

Miss sofia

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lol

I think I've been in that kind of funny mood for most of my life lol

As most are explaining what flavour of Brit they are, I should say I'm a Midlands boy, brought up in the Northants countryside. That's just made me realise I've lived in a 30 mile radius for most of my life, as I don't live that far from the village I grew up in from the age of 4! University years in Oxford and London are as far as I've managed to go, I've travelled plenty, just always seem to have lived in this region.

Oh, and I'm a Brit in the fullest sense, being equal parts English, Irish, Scots and Welsh :)

I think that's rather lovely really, if it ain't broke don't fix it and all that!

I always used to come to my town when i was a kid for holidays and always said i would live here one day and after gazillions of years moving from pillar to post i've arrived!

Actually Billy Childish bought cough candy twists in the sweet shop, so he went up in my estimation on that fact alone, and yes, he did sport the most splendid 'tache too!
 

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Ha ha! Brilliant, the Brits are definitely here...the whole first page of this thread is about booze and tea! Another one checking in :cheers1:
 

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