Isn’t it weird that you don’t notice something until it isn’t there anymore? Last week I went back to the UK. It was a visit that was looong overdue and not least of all because I’d started looking at preppy cardigans thinking “ooh that’s nice”. Anyway, what jumped out at me once it was absent was how EARNEST many Americans are. They just take themselves a little too seriously sometimes. So there’s a lot of good that comes out of unwavering self belief – just I think I prefer the British self deprecating approach. I mean, you have to be able to laugh at yourself or you are an uptight prig. Oh hold on…
Clarkson recently captured the difference in a recent article “… when the first four Brits were sent to the new Top Gun academy in California, they didn’t much care for the “Maverick” and “Iceman” style of call sign adopted by their American counterparts. But their hosts insisted, so they came up with “Cholmondley”, “Dogbreath”, “Alien” and “Spastic”.”
On a wholly different note – we Brits really do have fantastically bad teeth compared the yanks. I had never really noticed before.