Are you suggesting that North Americans haven’t read enough Jane Austen? Or are we simply too crude for polite society?
Oh, I’m sorry, I seem to be standing on your mother. :smack:
Me, I like some English accents, most Scottish accents, and any Irish accent.
Sorry, my bad - yes, it’s the English accent I don’t care for. It’s fun telling them they talk funny when they visit Calgary, though. 
Perhaps it would make you more attractive to them if you slather yourself in Marmite.
The only English accent I like is, apparently, one that few people use in real life, the real classy one you hear from Pierce Brosnan, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, etc.
Only to freaks like my cousin who actually like the stuff.
“Received Pronunciation” - deliberately created to be non-region specific.
My record for meeting potential romance-partners at Dopefests is poor (i. e. nonexistent). Maybe I should try Dopefests on the other side of the pond…
Thanks. 
Will do! We are going to the movies tomorrow night (March of the Penguins-my choice!) so i figure if we have a drink afterwards that will give us something to chat about.
Might work. There’re a fair few BritDopers who are now coupled up thanks to Dopefests…
Heh. Stands to reason a girl who’s prepared to buy a round would be taken already. 
:dubious: …and the next one would be when? clears calender 
That is the exact opposite of a rant I could have written.
In Canada I grew accustomed to spineless men, so afraid of being percieved as an asshole that they would never make the first, nor the second, nor the third move. (I had a boyfriend that would ask permission to do sexual stuff, many years into our relationship.)
British men made no bones about their intentions towards me, and I loved it. I think Canadian men need to take some lessons. (And once I picked up a lovely one on the Tube, so it’s not entirely a romantic dead zone.)
'Course, upon seeing some of these replies, I wonder if maybe I was just seeing the lower-class ones, who never learned that women should be approached carefully. Or maybe it was, indeed, that I was only seeing Northern ones. (Although there was one fellow from the Isle of Man, isn’t that in the south?)
Also, I had a number of (Southern) British men as friends who had been scarred by Canadian women. I heard one of them remark “I’ll stick with shallow English women from now on, thankyewverymuch!”
When would you like a Dopefest, I think is the appropriate question. Although, be warned, we get raucous.
Just a thought–you’re name in RL isn’t Mr Jim, right? That might be a bit offputting to any guy (can I say bloke? Can an American say bloke?).
I think that if you like him–no reason you shouldn’t give him a quick peck on the cheek or similiar–after the film, of course. If you meet him at the door with a kiss, you may never see the film! Hmmmm…let’s think about that for a minute.
Hope all goes well.
Oh, man, you’re breaking my heart.
Um, I’m a bit crap aren’t I?
We’ve been out several more times and things are going really well. It did take him til the 3rd date to kiss me and even then I had to ask him to…hehe. I am still the dominant one but hey, I can live with it.
Nice. I’m sure eventually he’ll become trusting enough of himself and you to make the first move - it just takes time to realise how fast/slow the other person wants to take the relationship, I guess. One false move too fast and that could scupper the whole thing, and he might be more unsure because of the culture differences. Just make sure he knows what you want.