Drewe Manton wrote:
"Nick Pedley" wrote:

LOL! You can spot the American tourist in Britain from half a mile
away. In London last week the style was a tartan flat cap, t-shirt
saying "I went to London and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" or a
drawing of a London landmark, shorts, sandals with socks, camera and
camcorder around neck, bum bag (aka fanny pack) and a guide to London
gripped in one hand. A US flag can often be seen somewhere about their
person and they buy overpriced tat from the expensive tourist shops
without question. And they wonder how people know they're American
before they say a word? ;-)

(The variations to the above are endless but the main change is that
if they are ex-military they wear a baseball cap with their unit name,
ship name or the aircraft they flew. These are usually WW2 veterans.)

And they *ALL* seem to have a seriously overweight wife in a blue
trouser suit with curly blonde-ish hair in tow. And those wives are
always, to a woman, called Millie. They must get issued with them at
customs. Next time I'm at Heathrow I'm gonna keep an eye out for the
Millie check-in counter . . . it's probably in the departures lounge
somewhere.
Well. . . whilst we're on the amusing stereotype kick and all!
(Trust me, I'm a Limey, would I lie to you?)

Amusing stuff, but elderly tourists from Jolly Ol' England don't
exactly look like Pierce Brosnan or Elizabeth Hurley, ya' know.
In fact, weight-wise they're just as rotund as any old fart American
couple...the only difference is that in addition to being just as
overweight as the Yanks, the Limeys are pasty white, vitamin-D
deprived, effeminate "fat" old farts with rotten teeth to boot!

-Mike Marron