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As the saying goes, Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
by erik_seaberg 9y ago
As the saying goes, Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
- boulos 9y ago"We've restored this building to how it looked... Fifty years ago! No, surely no. No one was alive then": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2PbKpsMRk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2PbKpsMRk
- abritinthebay 9y agoTo be fair to us - if you’re traveling 100 miles it’s rarely as easy as it is in the US. In the US that’s likely “sit on this one highway for about 90 minutes”. In the UK you’d have to have do a ton of road changes and work around or through several major towns and cites. It’s just lots more dense. So it’s less that it’s a “long way” - it’s more a pain in the ass to drive 100 miles most of the time.