All things English/American
 

I thought I would start this thread in the hope this English butchie can learn a bit about your culture and you can mine ..

For example ::

It has always interested me, can you be gay in every state or can you still be arrested and gay clubs raided ?

Is it English slang to call a butch "butchie"?

Yeah it's what a lot of my femme friends say,it's used in a softer way than butch it is for closer friends I guess it's a pet name for Butch :fastdraq:

One can be gay in every state, its just that there are some states more "tolerant" and gay-friendly than others. Actually...even in tolerant states, there can be areas where it can be dangerous to be openly gay. Sigh...sad but true.

I've not heard of gay clubs being raided and arrests being made solely for being gay. I suppose they still are...but I think its done more under another pretense now.

News of the above had hit the shores here.

I was wondering as I would like to visit the states and obviously health,safety and well being is paramount.


Ok my next question corn dog is it meat ?

No. Kinda a good question there. About the same as us asking if Spotted Dick is really meat. A corndog, typically purchased at an event such as a fair, is a regular ole hotdog with a sweet corn breading dip and deepfry. Eaten with mustard or mayo or both. Okay now don't tell me Google spotted Dick..wth is it ?

Lmao I haven't had spotted dick since a child (that sounds wrong lol)

It's sponge pudding with Currants in, can be eaten with custard,cream or ice cream ..

It's the kind of food your granny makes,you don't tend to hear of it much these days unless you go to ye olde English pubs lol.

Most major cities do,but even our local small town has one.

Welcome to the site Merlin. You can also buy corn dogs that are vegetarian at a very popular chain grocery store here in some of the states, Trader Joes.

A lot of people here in the US say Butchie too. :)

Things are usually better in cities than out of them, but from time to time a gay bar gets raided. It seems more directed at gay men though. I live in Nashville and have never had a problem.

Well, sort of....if sausage is meat lol.

I actually did order spotted dick from room service in London....tasted OK lol.

I love a good corn dog. Yummy. As far as the Eagle raid in Atlanta, the APD found out that things like that are stupid and expensive. I do not think we will be seeing anymore jonny law dumbass moves there anymore.

As far as I know any gay bar with Eagle in it's name is actually a gay men's (sometimes women are welcome) leather bar. You can get your ass thrown in jail for having consensual BDSM activities. The Top/Dom/Syr/Sir can be arrested for assault, assault with a deadly weapon (knife play), domestic violence, without the bottom/sub/slave pressing charges.

I am wondering if the raid at the Atlanta Eagle (in 2009) was more about BDSM than about gay. The combination could be irresistable to a prosecutor or the police.

We need changes in federal and state laws to protect those of us who are kinky/leather folks from harrassement and jail time. At IMsL (International Ms Leather) this year, petitions were passed around for signatures to actually put something in a CA proprosed crime bill to ensure consensual behavior was exempted from the law.

Wow...sorry for the derail, but I never realized that this was an issue. I'm stunned that these activities (when consensual, of course) can still get someone in serious legal trouble. Just sitting here like this :blink:

Mostly in the summertime, like here.

London's is the last weekend of June (usually the same weekend as NYC & SF pride), Brighton's is in August.

They usually have a big parade, followed by a rally, followed by a festival with live music etc.

Would love to attend Pride in the UK! :tea:

Google is your friend...Just look up the big city names and Pride.

Manchester is always August Bank Holiday weekend.

Blackpool - my small home town pride is late this year and is the second weekend in June and it's held here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bla...w=1421&bih=832
The Fag Father and I are doing something special for this year's Pride...I'm sure I'll post a picture or two. :cheesy:

You should come =]

:tea: do Americans drink tea ??

Yes! Although I think iced tea would probably show as more popular than hot tea in most places. When I stopped doing caffeine a few years back, I switched to herbal tea then when I decided that not doing caffeine was silly, I switched to just plain hot tea. I drink the occasional cup of coffee now but my warm drink of choice now is usually a mug of hot tea. Nothing fancy, it's usually just Liptons because that's what we keep on hand to use for iced tea.

Do the English drink coffee?

We seem to drink more tea than coffee.

In time of crisis us Brits always put the kettle on .. Tea solves everything lol.

Yuck to marmite*speets*

Ha .. Don't need em .. Butch enough =p

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

I make a goooood sunday roast, my former mother-in-law taught me how to disguise the parsnips as roast potatoes too. :)

I'm not fan of milky tea, and I detest instant coffee...but I managed just fine in blighty.

Not anymore! frying is bad for you . :crybaby:
But Sunday fried chicken yum. Use to too make that alot, with mashed potatoes.

What's a "fry up"?

Formal Sunday dinner here used to be almost a cultural icon, but I think most people today probably are more casual.

Marmite sounds rather... um... powerful. :scared:

I've been enjoying the thread; thank you for starting it, Merlin.

I don't know what a fry up is either.

Growing up, in a rural/farming community in Texas, the midday meal was called dinner and the evening meal was called supper. Dinner was usually a larger meal and, during certain times of the year was packed up and taken to the field so that everyone could eat together. Supper was usually smaller but was still usually something fried. :)