allblue said:
theprof00 said:
allblue said:
theprof00 said:
They'll need all the hopeful wishing they can get. UK is xbox country. You know for a country that has so much in common with Japan (primary diet of fish and tubers, rainy island country, expensive tiny housing, weird fetishes, bad teeth) it's strange how totally opposite they are when it comes to the consoles. Good luck Sony!
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As a Brit I've got to say what you've just said was a load of bullshit. Except for occasional fish and chips on a day out during the summer, our diet is far from "fish and tubers", in fact seafood is so expensive and difficult to prepare that most of us don't bother. We have occasional salmon but that's considered luxury and is imported from abroad.
Yes the weather is wet and windy but we rarely have heavy rains like I would imagine Japan having. It just occasional light showers but because the weather tends to be grey and gloomy 6-7 months a year it gives the impression of raining all the time while it is not. Our houses aren't tiny, it depends on where you live, places like london are of course very expensive but its no where near crumped up like in Tokyo.
Bad teeth? Maybe in some remote of the england where the majorities are like farmers and well, I doubt they visit dentist even once a year. Our NHS health care might be not entirely efficient but most of us aren't that ignorant of our health, my teeth are very even, healthy and pristine, thank you.
Weird fetishes? I'll leave it to you to elaborate on that one.
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Oh, uh thanks. I'll update my post. Sorry I wasn't very accurate.
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Yeah ok, sorry if I came across angry. Nothing personal, just felt that it incorrectly described us as a population. :)
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To be fair, you've not done a much better job of describing us.
We eat far more fish than people from other countries.
We get our salmon primarily from Scottish salmon fisheries (Scotland isn't a foreign country yet) and while it is more expensive than many other varieties of fish it hardly qualifies rating as a luxury.
UK average house sizes are actually smaller than those in Japan by about 25% and are among the smallest in Europe.
Dental health, like the rest of our health corresponds closely to the prosperity of a location. As such you will find that the greatest health issues are not in the relatively wealthy country, but in our inner cities.
That aside you're pretty much on the money! :)
