Who's the biggest Anglophile on ILX?

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I know email loves our chiselled features, and Alex in NYC has a serious and inexplicable fondness for early 90's grebo bands. Does anyone dare challenge them?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

dave q

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

my love of the ybas knows no bounds, and i adore the anglohomo britten/auden/firbank/isherwood/orton thing

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

not me. R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh-huh. YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned Raggett, obv.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

That's why I always ask him if he's from England in chats and stuff; he's always throwing me off with his anglo-centricity. Were is he from, the Pacific Midwest*?

< julio>*I have no idea where this is; I have heard of it in films; it sounds impressive. < /dalek>

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Beejaysus!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a poorly defined fondness for the U.K., as long as I am allowed to exclude Oasis, Marmite, and anything else that displeases me. But how do you measure "biggest" in this matter.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

That's why I always ask him if he's from England in chats and stuff; he's always throwing me off with his anglo-centricity. Were is he from, the Pacific Midwest*?

Born in Washington, raised in SoCal. Yay.

(Could someone please put me out of my misery and identify who Cozen is?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Cozen = dwh

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Clarity is mine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

And the Claret is mine.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't consider myself an anglophile, especially in the traditional sense, like "ooh I got my bespoke tweed suite on saville row" but i would love to live in london. it is one of my favorite cities evah.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

All Englishmen are woopsies.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

What are woopsies?

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike Skinner=A woopsie

All American girls are jazz-babies.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I wanna eat woopsie's.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's Gareth. Gotta love those British Anglophiles!

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the "Pacific Midwest"?

And what is the term for liking the Irish? Hibernophile?

― JD (JND), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I would be the biggest ever Japanophile (no, I don't suppose that is the right word) in most circles, but we have a Momus here, so I'm not.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Rosemary scores pretty high too. But perhaps her Francophilism cancels it out?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Some say Nipponophile, though I think it sounds dumb. And Martin, I may be able to give you a run for your money.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

So go and revive my thread on 15th Century Zen ink landscape painting in Japan, Mary!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah Martin, I am more of the contempo casual type of J-phile...that Chinese-centric stuff puts me to sleep!

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

It's me. I'm making up for when I hated British music during high school for being to wussy.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

So start one on later Zen styles, Mary. I've been thinking of starting one on pictures of Daruma looking like an animal, or columns of begging monks, or Hotei pointing at the moon. They are all especially Japanese subjects.

I seem to be treating liking Japan as a competitive sport. I apologise!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a big huge flaming anglophile.

my obsession was so immense as a youth that in moments of desperation i would actually watch antiques roadshow, just to hear the accents.

as the obsession grew i figured i had better move there, which i did in 2000. i had a torrid, drunken love affair with england and moved back 8 months later, realizing that while it satisfied something very fundamental in my psyche, it was drawing me further from my life's work.

i've been back since and i'm still just as fanatical about the intricacies and idiosyncracies of british culture. i imagine for the rest of my life i will always be planning my next trip. if i could divide my time between the u.k. and canada i would do it in a heartbeat.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i watch it too

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh those later Zen-ists, while more amiable, are not current enough for me either, though I do like rock gardens and stuff. My real appreciation begins with ukiyo-e, and I also like netsuke. I guess I'm just an Edo-ko after all, wink wink, Martin.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't believe in england.
i mean i don't think it even exists.

― duane, Thursday, 30 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoever claims to be the biggest Anglophile, I will have to come to your house and search for your dozens of Noel Coward records. If I turn up short you are OUT.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i think england is under-rated. a lot of people where i'm from, talk about how shit english music is. and i'm like, what the fuck, yr talking shit, you listen to the fall. i think the idea of music from a particular country being "great" or "shit" is stupid.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

that sounds like i think "anglophiles" suck, i don't think that at all.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-three years ago)

who is the biggest new zealand-o-phile?

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Me? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:34 (twenty-three years ago)

My co-workers treat me like an anglophile, but I'm really not, really. Well, sorta, in some respects.

― Mandee, Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ENGLISH OOT!

(not you N., you can stay)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

There are still loads of people painting in that tradition now, Mary. Google for Nantembo - he's maybe my favourite 20th century zen painter. He was particularly strong on images of Daruma that look like animals. This style of painting has probably survived more strongly than the Utamaro/Hokusai/Hiroshige print styles, which didn't last as a serious art form much into the 20th Century.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i have 8 noel coward records.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Nabisco - born in the mid west of America, lives in the mid-west America, uses 'blimey' as an expression of surprise.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

. i think the idea of music from a particular country being "great" or "shit" is stupid.

Come to Ireland by George! (sorry)

You might change your mind though, although I might have to stop making these jokes since some of my friends now make dance music and are signed.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I know, I just don't like it!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/thread.php?msgid=3261545

― erik, Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

somebody give me an oscar

― erik, Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

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