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Atoz

(aka Dave Stock:) the first person in the world to write to britishexpat.com, and probably the last to send in his biog. After a few useful one-off contributions, Atoz started his irregular A to Z of cultural icons. At the time of writing this, he’s up to “O” – but there’s still no sign of the biog. (Update – he still hadn’t sent it in by the time he’d reached “Z”!)

"Those of us with any sense have been stoutly ignoring the state visit by Emperor Bush to London this week (whilst those of us without sense seem to have spent the week attempting to scale the gates of Buckingham Palace, where the nice guards with silly hats have shown admirable patience...)" Dave Stock writes for British Expat magazine about the Bush State Visit to the UK and the Rugby World Cup final.
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"OK, so you can't buy Baked Beans the way you like them and Marmite's a no-no. OK, so export Guinness is a treacly mess. OK, so you get The Times three days late. I know living abroad isn't all hay and sunshine, but it has one major advantage - you are all about as far away from British Bus Stops as I would wish to be." Dave Stock indulges in a rant at one of his pet peeves...
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In a feature shamelessly “inspired” by The Times’s Culture Vulture, British Expat brings you the above titled (subtitled “Things you should own, if they’re the sort of thing you might like…”).

As the immortal Krusty the Clown would say: Hey, hey kids; as some band in a recent bad song would say: It’s Been A While. I can only apologise to the people who have been left emotionally and psychologically scarred by the passing of time since my last submission (both


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In a feature shamelessly “inspired” by The Times’s Culture Vulture, British Expat brings you the above titled (subtitled “Things you should own, if they’re the sort of thing you might like…”).

Hello boys and girls. Did you miss me? Since I last posted I’ve been to Canada (for slightly longer than anticipated. Bloody WWIII) and come back to Uni. Life is similar to last (academic) year, but slightly poorer and with an ass of a landlord. Drink has been taken, not


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In a feature shamelessly “inspired” by The Times’s Culture Vulture, British Expat brings you the above titled (subtitled “Things you should own, if they’re the sort of thing you might like…”).

I have to give a nod to X-Men: The Movie, otherwise my delectable girlfriend (hey baby) will kill me. Do not confuse the delectable Emily with the unelectable ‘Dubya’ Bush. There’s also an ‘erotic’ film called X, but I wouldn’t know anything about that.

My pretence at not knowing what to


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