Ten Words That Sum Up England?

[KarumaK]

I thought of actually making a list, but it's 5am and I'm to tired to be witty so...

1: Old News
2-9: 'Merica's *****
10: Tea

 

[happysock]

crap weather
Big Ben
Tea
Fish 'n' chips
Queen
Sunday roast
Shakespeare
Pinstripe suits
Football
Chavs

 

[chris89]

Just wondering, Since the American one is locked, would it be better to lock this one as well?

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Just wondering, Since the American one is locked, would it be better to lock this one as well?

I hope not - the intention of that was just to provide an alternative to this thread, and it seemed to be quite America bashing because, well, he wasn't American.

I, however, am English, and my intention was to have a good discussion in a thread, not a flame war.

 

[MalevolentJim]

1.Unable
2.To
3.Speak
4.Their
5.Own
6.Damn
7.Language
8.Coherently


9.God
10.Complex


And i'm Irish.

 

[KaiRai]

Chavs, teenage pregnancy, immigrants, football violence, drug addicts, failed convictions.

All quoted accurately from the Daily Mail.

/sarcasm.

Dunno, I'd say tax (cause we sure get a lot of it here), fish and chips, curry , chavs, posh, grarss (phonetic spelling ), Queen (Both the band and the woman )

 

[Circus Ascendant]

We beat you guys in the revolutionary war, haw haw!

Well, sort of.

That or: Foreign guys with nice accents loyal to the queen, colour.

You won, but you didn't beat us. We just gave up and pissed off back to England.

Actually, how I hear it, France saved our bacon and England just decided that it wasn't worth it to keep going. Still a ragtag group of colonist beat one of the most powerful nations on Earth, therefore, haw haw. [/cocky bastard]

Just like Vietnam, that was pretty impressive too!

I also love how it's easy to tell the English folk here from a mile off =P

And I eat crumpets on occasion and they're really nice.

 

[martinsgp1993]

Cold
Wet
Miserable
Windy
Good shopping (yes i mean sainsbury's tesco and morrisons)
Chavs
Crime
Problems
Drugs
Sex

There are meny more i would have said but i only have 10 words

 

[Megacherv]

Fish and Chips
Brown Sauce
Steak Pie
100 Hundred Years War
Better Chocolate than America
Empire
Commonwealth
Monarchy
Peter Mandelson
Speaks proper English

Thanks, I don't need to type all now.

Wait, that last point is becoming less relevant.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

Wet island made of 4 countries, and one cooler one.

 

[Hobo Joe]

Accents
Tea
Metal
Shakespeare
Roast Dinner
Chavs
Class division
The Weather
Monty Python
Proper use of English unlike Americans who bastardise our language

 

[Zersy]

1. Shit weather
2. Annoying Accents
3. Most alcohol full place (after ireland)
4. 75% youths are retarded
5. Tesco
6. Awesome adverts
7. Good games
8. Peer pressure
9. lost idenity
10. easy living

 

[Cmwissy]

Wow, their are allot of people mentioning that America won the revolutionary war, I'm Scottish so don't hold me accountable for being bitter.

But 2 things

Americans won because of the french - who you Americans now shamelessly mock at every opportunity.

I'm sorry - do you want the British troops out of the middle east? - without us, everybody hates you.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Fish
Chips
Cup of tea
Bad food
Worse weather
Mary-fucking-Poppins
LONDON!!

Oh sorry. I was thinking of a movie called Snatch. : )

 

[Hobo Joe]

I'd like to remind everyone talking about the American Revolution of the War of 1812.

 

[Sigel]

1)Tea
2)Tophats
3)Scones
4)Royalty
5)Dr.Who
6)Accents
7)Livestock
8)"Coupling"
9)"Spaced"
10)Rain

 

[A Pious Cultist]

"Pakis"

Because of all the racist fuckwits.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

8)"Coupling"
9)"Spaced"

Are these some TV shows that I am unaware of? It's just I've lived in England my whole life and never come across them!

That said, my life hasn't been considerably long...

 

[Sigel]

8)"Coupling"
9)"Spaced"

Are these some TV shows that I am unaware of? It's just I've lived in England my whole life and never come across them!

That said, my life hasn't been considerably long...

???really?? Both are tv shows. Coupling is a little older(90's) but still fantastically funny, the UK version only. The American version was utter garbage. Spaced is newer, and is geek funny. It only had two seasons though.

 

[wewontdie11]

8)"Coupling"
9)"Spaced"

Are these some TV shows that I am unaware of? It's just I've lived in England my whole life and never come across them!

That said, my life hasn't been considerably long...

???really?? Both are tv shows. Coupling is a little older(90's) but still fantastically funny, the UK version only. The American version was utter garbage. Spaced is newer, and is geek funny. It only had two seasons though.

Yay somebody else who's seen those shows! Love Coupling, great gender and social commentary and nobody does pop/nerd culture references better than Spaced.

OT: 1.Fish
2.And
3.Chips
4.Racism
5.Rain
6.Monocles
7.Football
8.Binge
9.Drinking
10.Violence