What do you think of when you think of ESSEX?

[Kate]

Colchester Zoo (non-evil giraffe pictured)

 

[GinAg (39)]

Is Gemma Collins from Essex or did I just do the association because of Cheryl Hole?

She's the STAR of TOWIE. Which for better and definitely worse put Essex on Michelle Visage's map.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Colchester Zoo (non-evil giraffe pictured)

Escaped Zoo animals are a local speciality. Sadly the wolves which ended up in back gardens and housing estates didn't make it.

RIP huns.

 

[GinAg (39)]

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

The areas around Stansted airport looked rather lovely so I have a more positive idea of Essex now.

 

[GinAg (39)]

The areas around Stansted airport looked rather lovely so I have a more positive idea of Essex now.

It's border to coast natural beauty, with the highest calibre of people.

 

[octophone]

BEAUTIFUL STANSTED AIRPORT

"London" Stansted.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

It's border to coast natural beauty, with the highest calibre of people.

I mean New Jersey is called the Garden State, so why shouldn’t Essex be lush and rich in all of nature’s colours.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

(Doesn’t New Jersey also have the highest median income in the US or something?)

 

[Kate]

I'm afraid "The Garden of England" refers to Essex's neighbour and rival, KENT

 

[GinAg (39)]

 

[RJN]

(Doesn’t New Jersey also have the highest median income in the US or something?)

I think it’s second to Maryland. New Jersey, like Essex it seems, has a lot of wealthy suburbs and also horrible poverty

 

[Penelope]

The paternoster lift

 

[Tisch]

BO''LE O' WA''AHHH

(also fuck you all x)

 

[GinAg (39)]

The paternoster lift

Did you ever go over the top?

 

[Kate]

BO''LE O' WA''AHHH

god I spent HOURS on Friday trying to teach this to an American. NO NOT WA'AARRRRRR, WA'ER

 

[COB]

The paternoster lift

The LUXURY of this

 

[Penelope]

Did you ever go over the top?

Yes. I couldn't post the Moopyvision Poland results for two weeks

 

[GinAg (39)]

There's to T in water! What nonsense

 

[GinAg (39)]

Sitting in the study area when people were trapped in the broken paternoster lift is a fond memory.

 

[Tisch]

god I spent HOURS on Friday trying to teach this to an American. NO NOT WA'AARRRRRR, WA'ER

I was once told by an American waitress "SIR. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS"

 

[GinAg (39)]

How have we got this far without mentioning 80s hunk JEREMY BAMBER?

 

[GNL]

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Thatcher looks FIT.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Thatcher looks FIT.

She used to live round here.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Thatcher looks FIT.

Someone inform the loveofhuns

 

[GinAg (39)]

Speaking of cunts

 

[Funky]

I think of ridiculously over the top accents, boy racers, fake tans, fake lips, all the blokes dressed the same and a general culture of materialism gone berserk

Thank God that’s NOTHING like where I’m from…

 

[GNL]

All those brylcreem'd, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, suited and booted KNOB'EDS who work in THE CITY.

 

[Marilyn]

Billy Essex

 

[SystemAddict]

I was once told by an American waitress "SIR. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS"

I once asked an American waitress for water and, after asking me to repeat myself "one more time, hon", she brought me a MOCHA.

 

[SystemAddict]

I told another American that I'd meet him at half four, and he replied, "so, you mean like 2 pm?"

 

[SystemAddict]

Anyway, back on topic. The ESSEX Lindsay Lohan:

 

[GinAg (39)]

All those brylcreem'd, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, suited and booted KNOB'EDS who work in THE CITY.

Sounds like a woman SCORNED.

 

[Kate]

I think I’ve also had an American waitress unable to understand “water” even when I said it in RP, so I just said “WAAAADER” in my best nasal Californian impression and that was apparently fine

 

[Saltwater]

I once felt helpless after repeatedly asking "may i have some sugar" to a waitress in Blackpool who couldn't understand my accent. At some point i pointed at some sugars and pantomimed opening it and emptying the content to an imaginary coffee and she replied "oh shooguh".

 

[Soldi]

I once felt helpless after repeatedly asking "may i have some sugar" to a waitress in Blackpool who couldn't understand my accent. At some point i pointed at some sugars and pantomimed opening it and emptying the content to an imaginary coffee and she replied "oh shooguh".

 

[COB]

She could have been concerned you were DIABET

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

English words endings with -r are always hard to pronounce and to understand the way you English do it. It’s much easier in American (or Irish, Scottish…)

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

In fact, word endings in general.

 

[Kate]

We do say sug-er not sug-ar. Never thought about that