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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/19/2008 9:51:43 AM
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manda59
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Well I say "pool" very similarly to the way I say the name "Paul". But then you Americans probably won't get that either, since I think you say "Paul" to rhyme with "ball", don't you? (I don't! lol)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/19/2008 2:56:25 PM
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Well I say "pool" very similarly to the way I say the name "Paul". But then you Americans probably won't get that either, since I think you say "Paul" to rhyme with "ball", don't you? (I don't! lol)
Yes.
How are the academics in the schools over there verses here?
I was an average student in school. My niece is considered advanced academically. The basic concepts of grammar and mathematics that I knew in second or third grade have not even been taught to her yet and she'll be starting sixth grade. They naturally do know more about computers than we did. However, that is pretty limited to how to turn the computer on and how to get online.
Surely, ours isn't the only country suffering academically?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/20/2008 9:01:02 AM
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Surely, ours isn't the only country suffering academically?
Ours is. Dh teaches high school and he is amazed at how different things are from when he was in high school. He says they seem to be dumbing down the curriculum.
Interesting story. Dh came here from Jamaica when he was 15. He had completed grade 9 back home. When he enrolled in school they held him back and put him in grade 9 again because they didn't think the Jamaican school system was up to par with ours. Dh says it was the most boring year of his life. Turns out, they should have put him ahead a year, everything he learned in the next two years he had already been taught back home.
I think the Jamaican school system is (was) very similar to the British system. They finish high school two years earlier than we do here, but having the same amount of stuff.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/25/2008 11:05:12 AM
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/25/2008 7:53:27 PM
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Are you talking quality or price?
There are some things that are more expensive in Waitrose, but the quality is excellent across the store ~ and often they are very similar prices to other big supermarkets ~ and I've noticed that some things are cheaper there.
I'm not rich, but I think I'd save money by shopping there because the quality is so good.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/25/2008 7:53:47 PM
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LOL, I don't know if you've been a Bay Arean long enough to know the old Lucky's before Albertson's bought (married) them. Bleh! I went to a new Lucky's last time I was down there, and it was nice, but it was no Fred Meyer.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/25/2008 7:56:19 PM
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There are some things that are more expensive in Waitrose, but the quality is excellent across the store ~ and often they are very similar prices to other big supermarkets ~ and I've noticed that some things are cheaper there.
Their ice cream is lush - and pricewise it is the same as other supermarkets' ice cream (but tastes so much better!)
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 7/25/2008 8:16:50 PM
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LOL, I don't know if you've been a Bay Area long enough to know the old Lucky's before Albertson's bought (married) them. Bleh! I went to a new Lucky's last time I was down there, and it was nice, but it was no Fred Meyer.
When we first moved here in '76, Lucky's was the cheapest in town. Albertson's was around, but we seldom shopped there. Fry's came later. Fry's was cheaper and closer than Lucky's so my dad started going there.
Albertson's is now gone. So is Fry's. Lucky's is now where Fry's used to be. (The old Lucky's is now a Staples.) Now we have two Safeway's. They are more expensive than Lucky's and have horrible produce. We have a Foodmaxx that is fairly inexpensive but they are understaffed, bare shelves, dirty store, meat and produce are horrible. I'll pay the extra and go to Lucky's.
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