Imaginary Conversations and Random Thoughts

Dean has a little piece here about John and Mrs. Glenn getting in an accident. That's not why I'm writing this.

One of the things I like about Dean is that in some ways, I think he and I think alike. He'll take a story about an accident and hospitalization and come up with this:

By the way, have you ever noticed that some people say "at hospital" or "in hospital" instead of "at a hospital" or "in a hospital?"

Commenters note that it's a common British usage. Dean agrees, but notes that he hears it here, too.

So what is it with Britishisms? How can we possibly still have an inferiority complex with England after all this time? Speaking of Britishisms, does everyone who visits England really have to come back and say "wanker" and/or "bloody" every sixth word? We get it. You went to England.

Look, European snobbiness is half the reason all those people came to the new world in the first place. Now you want to come back from a seven day, six night guided tour of places like Boiled Beef Manor and Cabbage Castle and get all hoity-toity on us? If you want to visit someplace and come back using their language, at least visit someplace cool, or that has cool stuff we haven't already heard of a jillion times. Since nothing's cooler than America, why not visit someplace here? Then you can tell me about a cool place, like Waffle House, that I've never heard of here in California.

Or why not really contribute to the cultural exchange and on your next visit to the UK see if you can get them to start saying teabagging at their 4:00pm crumpet parties.