# What % of Dopers are Brits? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698 "2003-03-07T13:37:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/21 "2003-03-07T18:25:48Z")
There’s a few more Scots than I see mentioned here, but I can’t think of them right now. **owlstretchingtime** ’s a Brit, too. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/22 "2003-03-07T18:28:16Z")
Tir is in North London, not Dawrn Sarf. Don’t forget Gartog, and Ianzin, and many many more. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/23 "2003-03-07T20:42:58Z")
Oops! ---
**Author:** ![LittleBabyNothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LittleBabyNothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LittleBabyNothing)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/24 "2003-03-07T20:48:20Z")
I’m from the midlands, no London dopefest for me! ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/25 "2003-03-07T20:50:44Z")
Hi there. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/26 "2003-03-07T20:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curly chick \* > \*\*Another Brit ex-pat here, so unfortunately I won’t be much in evidence at a London DopeFest. > But make sure you raise a glass of Theakston’s Old Peculiar and think of us. \*\* [nitpick] It’s “Peculier”, in this context. [/nitpick] I remember back in my student days quaffing a pint of OP in the “Traveller’s Rest” in Durham. It was 51p a pint, and in those days, that was real premium-rate beer. Well worth it, though. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/27 "2003-03-07T21:04:15Z")
And me! But London is also too far… Co Durham ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/28 "2003-03-07T21:27:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LittleBabyNothing \* > \*\*I’m from the midlands, no London dopefest for me! \*\* Oooh, another Midlander. Where are you from, **LBD**? For the record, I wouldn’t go to London if the streets were paved with gold, the beer was free and if Vanessa Williams was waiting for me with a bucket of baby oil - and I would pretty much go anywhere for Vanessa Williams and a bucket of baby oil. Maybe one day we’ll have a DopeFest in the North or Midlands. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/29 "2003-03-07T21:28:52Z")
Hey, I’m pleased that **Tansu** namechecked me. 🙂 I felt small and insignificant merely being “someone else who lives in Scotland”. Oops, I _am_ actually small and insignificant. Oh well. Possible for me to go to London (though I recall being _delighted_ to get away from the place), as I have friends there to put me up. I’m a bit of a hermit though, so I can’t be sure I’d go. Maybe the Scots, Geordies and Yorkshire folks should form a splinter group. ---
**Author:** ![odd-socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/30 "2003-03-07T21:42:26Z")
London is also out for me too. ---
**Author:** ![Infectious\_Lass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/31 "2003-03-07T22:02:07Z")
_jumps up and down excitedly_ Me too! I live near london, but not actually in London itself. But here I am. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/32 "2003-03-07T23:35:20Z")
I’m a hybrid, born in Sussex, moved to the States when I was a toddler. I’ve only in the past year found out that Americans don’t know that a flannel is what they call a washcloth and that they have no idea what a dogsbody is. I’m out for a London Dopefest for now, but next time I get over to visit my relatives, I know I’d _better_ let **Kal** and **Washte** know at the very least! By the way, I think **I, Brian** , is a Yorkshireman. I remember kidding him about it recently in Great Debates, being descended from a long line of Lancashire peasants, myself. Another denizen of GD, **Steve Wright** , is from Oxford. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/33 "2003-03-08T00:50:31Z")
- ME ME ME ME ME!!!\* I say coloUr, mathS, favoUrite, etc. I’ll be up for a LonDope if exam revision allows… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/34 "2003-03-08T01:32:22Z")
I suppose I have to post in this thread. I haven’t got anything interesting to say though (what’s new) (I am a brit) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/35 "2003-03-08T01:58:42Z")
Eh, does that tax haven in the Irish sea really count, anyway? 😉 [sub]Always watch your TT though. And I hear mr. Mansell’s got a nice crib on that lovely patch of rock.[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/36 "2003-03-08T04:27:31Z")
I was born in Blackburn - England. Lived in this tax haven for 2 years now. I like the place, but I am a bit homesick. Regarding mansell - read my last post in your F1 thread. Ever _been_ to the TT? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/37 "2003-03-08T04:28:30Z")
The Dutch one in Assen, yes. Never been to your fair isle. Hope to do so one day! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/38 "2003-03-08T04:28:32Z")
So do I count as an ex-pat? ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/39 "2003-03-08T09:29:01Z")
I’m in London. Sitting in an internet cafe in Oxford Street right this minute! ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698/40 "2003-03-08T11:41:34Z")
Another ex-pat checking in. Originally from Yorkshire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-of-dopers-are-brits/159698.md?page=3)