Air & Angels

Okay this is freaking me out a bit

I’m watching K-On: The Movie, in which the adorably ditzy do-these-bitches-even-like-music teen girl school band club visit London. And the English people they’ve encountered so far have spoken normal-sounding, idiomatic English, with English accents. 

And one of them (a Customs officer) was black!

On the other hand, as their plane approached London Heathrow, the BGM was a spirited bagpipe tune. So there was clearly some thorough research and/or actual experience on the part of people involved… but it wasn’t entirely comprehensive.

Also, they got confused, as many visitors do, about the difference between the city of London in general, and the City of London, which is the historic financial district. They went to the Ibis London City, not realising their Ibis hotel is actually in Earl’s Court… which is, somewhat less historically, the Kiwi expatriate area of London. I hesitate to call it a Kiwi ghetto, but it does tend to be where you hear our accents the most in London. So I kind of like that.

The little dipshits are going to an English sushi restaurant. Okay, I’ve done things like that. One of the odder experiences of my life was eating in a Chinese restaurant in Rome… and having to speak Italian to Chinese people. I realised how irrational it was that I’d assumed Chinese people would speak some English as a second language wherever they were!