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>>The world was very small in those days! :) Why if you were not French or British, you were not civilized! :)
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>Err, that still the case! (well, minus the French part) :-)

I've heard once that the proper British expression is not "there's a dense fog on The Channel", but "the Continent is cut off". Is that really the prevalent spirit on the isles, or it just was once upon a time?