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on a QI rerun recently, she signed off quoting I forget who, that, British people think a hundred miles is a long way and Americans think a hundred years is a long time,
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I like that. 😀
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@punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke Having driven in both places yes, driving a hundred miles each way in a day is something I do fairly often in the US. I've done 700+ miles in a day before now. Driving Bristol to London or Birmingham seemed a lot harder. I've lived in places in the UK where some of the buildings have existed longer than the US - I do still make jokes about a short course on US history being all that's needed.  @llondel @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer I've owned and lived in -- and indeed you've visited me in, Dave -- a house older than the United States! @simon_brooke @llondel @z3z @HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke @punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer This is true, fun times, those visits. Cambridge has been there over 800 years, and parts of the church in my village near there date back to the 1200s. @punishmenthurts |
@punishmenthurts @z3z @HighlandLawyer hey, in Britain we famously think that a week is a long time... in politics.