To wish it was easy to move to the USA

[Highway65]

I've been watching The Pioneer Woman on Sky the past few evenings. It's utter drivel but I LOVE it!! It's this blog writer/cook living in Oklahoma and it just looks ace! All cowboys, horses and massive ranches. I want to live there.

Infact, there are loads of places in America that I would like to live. Europe has plenty of highlights too of course. Not where I live, it's just grey!! But I reckon I should have been born American.

I have family living in California. They both married Americans to get their green cards. I would be up for that if I wasn't happily married

Cahchah

Make a D-fence sign to hold up

I love hockey. I scream myself hoarse. :)

Fox News is just appalling. It makes the Daily Mail seem balanced and highbrow.

not much of a diy girl... but will see what DH can do, it's his team after all :-p

Isn't the Daily Mail Fox news for people who can read?

I try to avoid Fox; the only time I see it is in clips from Jon Stewart.

Yes CheerfulYank that seems to be what most people do at the hockey. Crazy but fun.

Yeah, I only ever see Fox clips on Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report but that's enough for me!

Chachah Jacksonville Jaguars!

Do you support the Jaguars Scone?

I am not a big pro-football fan, but I live in Florida and so am a Jags fan to the extent that I follow football. And they have an excellent history of giving back to the community (charities, etc.).

It's only pronounced that way in sports for some strange reason; for example the government Department of Defense is pronounced as it is in the UK (spelled differently of course.)

I learn something new every time MN discusses the US.

BTW I feel it's a sign that I have fully assimilated in the US when I called it Home Deeepoh.

There's an awesome photo something along the lines of 'I get my comedy from Fox News and my news from The Comedy Channel' with a picture of Jon Stewart. It's so sad that it's true.

PS Go Steelers!!!

And now Green Day 'American Idiot' is on the music channels

FernArable it's definitely true in our house. We don't have a "proper" television, just Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV, so the previous night's Daily Show is the only televised "news" we watch. I so love Jon Stewart, especially when he gets really angry and passionate about stuff. Colbert and John Oliver are great too.

weebles I think it's also a sign I'm fully assimilated in that I can't even think how else you WOULD say it!

Scone I thought bollocks wasn't a word in the US? God, I hope it's not as that and wanker are the two swear words I let my kids say! It was an in joke in our family, but it might just turn out I'm a bit of a crap parent!

Bollocks and wanker aren't generally used. There was a company near us in Cambridge MA called ... Metabollix. And a weather man called Mike Wankum. Nobody but us thought either were worth noting. Still, lots of Irish and English around - if your children said bollocks in front of me I'd be a bit taken aback :)

No, Spoon bollocks and wanker are not used in the US. That's why I use them; I can be naughty without anyone knowing, except my friend from Glasgow. But she says worse.

the word "Grotty" is a source of much hilarity to my US family ...

Canyou I should probably point out I'm talking about 6' teenagers, not young kids. I'm not THAT bad a parent!

A visit to this little hamlet might be in order:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankers_Corner,_Oregon

I have family who moved to the USA

Earlier this year their world was torn apart thanks to the gun laws

I would never even visit that country after this

god so so sorry Mumof, the gun laws DO worry me on a regular basis in all honesty.

on the subject of words, all my American friends think it's wonderful when I say "rubbish". I might now be overusing the word

Oh Mum I am so so sorry.