08 Jun
This is what I love about humanity. A person who doesn’t believe in the divinity of the Bible, who is not a Christian or any religion, can go to ancient beautiful Christian churches and feel the presence of what she perceives as God, but that is surely very foreign from the idea of God [...]
Posted in American in the UK, Britain, Religion by: Rachel Lucas
85 Comments
27 May
If you ever thought that other countries hate the U.S. more than anyone else, think again my friend. Take the British and the French. My god. I haven’t been to France and even if I had, I don’t speak much French so I wouldn’t know it if I heard it, but [...]
Posted in Britain by: Rachel Lucas
109 Comments
19 May
There’s something strange about watching and being fascinated by another country’s scandals. It’s totally none of my business, but I can’t take my eyes away. Feels sort of like being at your cousin’s house for a holiday, and your cousin and her husband get into a big raucous fight, and all you can [...]
Posted in American in the UK, Britain, Politics by: Rachel Lucas
72 Comments
13 May
This cracks me UP:
This is the moment a have-a-go hero reduced an armed robber to tears - by grabbing his gun and pinning him down until police arrived.
Leslie Shott, 34, confronted the hooded youth after he burst into a shop brandishing an airgun.
The yob pointed the pistol at Leslie’s face but the brave welder simply [...]
Posted in Britain by: Rachel Lucas
30 Comments
03 Apr
People are beaten to death in the streets of America, too. Of course it happens; I guess. I don’t actually see a whole lot of reports of that outside of gangbanger neighborhoods, but whatever. The difference is, at least in America, there’s the possibility that a law-abiding citizen could step in and [...]
Posted in Britain, Guns by: Rachel Lucas
324 Comments
02 Apr
Yesterday I gave Obama’s gift of an iPod to the Queen of England a 7 out of 10 on the lameness scale, but that was before I knew what all was featured on said iPod. We’re gonna have to bump this up to a 10 out of 10, folks.
Uploaded onto [...]
Posted in Britain, Politics by: Rachel Lucas
75 Comments
01 Apr
Sorry, I can’t HELP but think that every time this doofus does something stupid.
The goods news out of London is that Barack Obama has reaffirmed America’s “special relationship” with the U.K. The bad news is that the “affinity and kinship” that the U.S. president spoke of apparently only extends to England.
…On Wednesday at [...]
Posted in Britain, Politics by: Rachel Lucas
81 Comments