batman

That'd be Jeb Stuart .... who had his ass whipped by Custer's boys at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Dame Starry

So they had pub brawls in those days too?

DS x.

batman

The Battle of Yellow Tavern aka Jeb's Last Stand.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

CaptainWaggett

I like US tourists. I work very close to a Major Tourist Attraction so I encouter quite a few asking for directions and using our PCs. I don't think I've ever met one who isn't extremely polite and friendly and only too willing to listen to advice about what to see (I take great delight in trying to steer them from the major tourist attraction because it's a complete rip-off!). But London must be an incredibly expensive place to visit (I go to NY every couple of years to stay with friends who I annoy by gloating over the price differential of everything!) And when in NY I've had people comment on my accent and phrasing but always with amusement (or, somewhat surprisingly, with admiration). I'd be stunned if anyone criticised me for talking English like an English person any more than I would criticise a Scot for speaking differently to me.

TimR

Yes, a little tolerance and humor on both sides goes a long way. I lived for many years in a beauitiful coastal town in N.E. that was (and is) a great favorite with Brits. Often they would visit briefly before leaving for Florida, Texas, the Rockies and California.

Some of them might have been unintentionally funny, with their US university sweatshirts and their good-natured confusion about language and money, and sometimes looking inside our ground-floor window to find us eating a meal, as if it were a tourist attraction. (They always apologized )

But those things were minor and even charming in their own way. They were almost always pleasant and good-natured. They had come a long way and spent a great deal of money to visit my home country, and as far as I was concerned, they were more than welcome.