[HPFGU-OTChatter] Recreation

[John Walton]

Ebony AKA AngieJ wrote:

> What are the most common forms of recreation in England, and
> elsewhere in the world?  In other words, what would you do on a
> date, or hanging out with friends?

Pubs. That's the British past-time. All four of my British flatmates nigh-on
live in the pub. Perhaps it's because the drinking age over here (18)
ensures that almost everyone at university is of age. Perhaps it's because
the nights draw in so quickly. Or because there are only four terrestrial
television channels. I dunno :)

> Popular pasttimes here include:
> -dinner and a movie
> -going to sports bars
> -nightclubs/dancehalls
> -casinos/gambling
> -skating and bowling (I always think of those two together, for
> some reason)
> -laser tag (I'll admit, this is really more for families and kids)

Hmm. I can't really talk from my experience, because as a singer, we have
really bizarre social lives, tending to have rehearsals, concerts and all
that jazz in the evenings instead of doing "normal" studenty things like
going out and getting roaring drunk, coming back and being violently ill.
Gee, shucks on me for not being a "normal" student...

To be honest, I far prefer curling up with a good book or a few Buffy
episodes or having a few friends around for dinner and a few bottles of wine
to going out to a crowded, smelly, noisy, smoky pub with overpriced drinks
and people spilling alcohol everywhere, and being unable to hold a decent
conversation. So I tend to be high on the list of dinner party guests/hosts,
especially when one of my friends still in a Hall of Residence wants to
throw a dinner party -- they come around and use our nice big eat-in
kitchen.

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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