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Originally Posted by Umihito
I don't know why but I just had to look on Google Maps and I'm gonna take a wild guess that the town is... Solihull? XD
Yeah that seems like a pretty good explanation for it, I'd say Birmingham would be pretty mixed-culture (only ever drove through it on the M5/M6 unfortunately  ) |
Actually the town was Nuneaton, where George Eliot was born and lived. Problem is you say Nuneaton and no one outside of the midlands has heard of it, lol. I've never actually been to Solihull, but I have heard of it, and to be fair from what I've heard it's probably a lot more dead than here, so I should be grateful really XD
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Originally Posted by Umihito
Yeah definately, you could really get lost in all the different districts with so many different shops! There were Korean, Indian, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants all on one street!
Me living in South Wales helps because it's where all the action is, lol  Surprisingly I've never even strayed as far as Mid Wales... |
Ah, I'm too lazy for google maps, but I'm guessing south Wales isn't Barmouth or Snowdonia area? If not then it's probably why I have such an idyllic image of Wales as nothing but mountains, sheep and 'the locals', I don't think I've ever been south or to the cities. It must be great to be in such a multi-cultural place though! It's multi-cultural in our town too, in a very small kind of way, we have a huge Indian cultural but no one from outside of Europe or India, so we kind of lose out on all the oriental, African and American culturals. It must be nice to have such a variety of cultures about you and to learn so much from them
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Originally Posted by Umihito
Woops sorry about that! XD
Definately agree on the price thing. And people wonder why the High Street shops are struggling! ¬_¬
I bought 2 DVDs of a series that is 4 DVDs long in store. When I went online to price up how much the next 2 would cost, I found that online there was a box set containing all 4 DVDs. And the cost worked out that it would actually be CHEAPER for me to get the 4 DVD box set and have doubles of the first 2 rather than just get the next 2 on their own from the shop! I just use those 2 doublers I have now to lend to people. 
That reminds me of something really similar. It's not with manga, but with an anime series I was collecting at the time. It's got quite a few DVDs I think... like 6 or 7. I had bought the first 2 DVDs seems as I had some spending money and they were there right in front of me. When I watched them, I went online to find the rest of the DVDs, but there is no trace of the rest of the series in the UK ANYWHERE! I had read online that after the 2nd DVD, the story started to get REALLY good too! 
But the funniest thing was... on one website I went on, it had given an estimated release date for the 3rd DVD (bearing in mind it was 2009 when I checked)... and it was something like July 2013! Like heck I was gonna wait 4 years for a DVD! |
Omg, I can so relate to that! XD I brought half an anime series once in the high street for £30, went online and the entire series was only £25! So I'd be paying more than twice the price to buy the series in halves from the high street. It's the same with English live-actions too - like Supernatural? In the high-street it's £40, but online it was £15. I totally agree, it's no wonder that the high-street can't compete with the online trade. I know that they have to pay rent, staff etc. but there's no need for prices to be as high as they are. Have you compared the prices to American prices too? I wanted a Wii game once, from America it was £20 so I brought it then and there, because otherwise I'd have had to wait
six months to buy it at £40! It's outrageously unfair!
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No problem, I've enjoyed it
Tell me about it! I find it fascinating enough that people who live so close together can have such different accents (people have told me they think I have quite a thick Welsh accent) XD
Let alone everything else that different lol
Agreed  |
Ah, yeah, the accent thing fascinates me as well! To be honest - I know I'll be hated for saying this - but I always confuse the Welsh and Irish accents XD I love the sound of both, but they sound so similiar to me. People get so het up over accents though. I know the Canadians (generalising, of course) go mad if you confuse them with Americans, I met one once and he went beserk because I asked where in America he was from. . . Accents in English are always the strangest to me. Foriegners always seem to assume that in England there's only Cockney or upper-class, Queen's English - I could go on and on, but I'll stop, I'm not going to bore you with an off-topic accent rant XD