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Steve Cooke's avatar

I am English. The first commenter is correct about pesky and being in not on a queue. Hair splitting though.

Every single word of this is true and also extremely funny.

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Quinn Larrabee's avatar

The howl of the English Internet at "on a queue" compelled me to edit the text. I shall never again wrote (or stand) *on* a queue. Thank you for reading and for the kind words.

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Steve Cooke's avatar

Great Britain is so great I moved to Australia 30 years ago. You’ve got your work cut out for you there…

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Steve Cooke's avatar

I’m in the process of going back through your posts. I’m glad that the issue of travel constipation is getting the thorough airing it so richly deserves.

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Quinn Larrabee's avatar

Doing what I can to make Europe european again and Great Britain great again by deterring American tourists.

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Ian Winter's avatar

Sorry (of course) but I have to correct a couple of things. “Pesky” is American; to English ears it goes with “varmint” as a refugee phrase from the Old West. And we stand “in” a queue, not “on”. There is no double-decker queue.

This reminds me of the observation (maybe here, maybe a tweet) that “queue” has very appropriate spelling: the letter at the front is important, the rest just line up doing nothing.

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Quinn Larrabee's avatar

This is spectacularly useful and clever feedback, sir. Thank you for reading. I’ll never again look at the word “queue” without think of this.

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Saul's avatar

Your droll observations are not entirely without merit.

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Quinn Larrabee's avatar

This is the highest praise imaginable in the UK. [sheds single tear] Thank you, sir.

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Greg Dimiczky's avatar

I lived in the UK (England) for most of my adult life and none of these twee bullshit things exist. The real UK is not Paddington or Benny Hill.

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Quinn Larrabee's avatar

But the world loves twee bullshit things, just like the world loves Times Square and dirty water hot dogs even though New Yorkers hate them

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