Ten Words That Sum Up England?

[Tales of Golden Sun]

Tea
Shortbread
Cliffs
Humour
Beautiful
History
Colonisation
Detectives (like Frost and Dalziel & Pascoe)
Buses
Superiority

 

[Mozared]

Posh, double deckers, milk with some tea and brilliant accent.

 

[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...

???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.

I just checked, and when Spaced came out I was about 8 - I wasn't exactly telly aware back then!

 

[beddo]

Of course, I'm English, and sadly the words 'chav' and 'knife-crime' may slip their way in as well.

Actually, knife crime's at an all time low in twenty years, but the papers wouln't want you believing that now, would they?

Besides that, the victims of most knife crime are other teenages not older people, so I don't really see why 50 somethings are scared about it.

The statistics are far too vague to be able to call that 'fact'. The statistics do not take cases that are not prosecuted into account correctly. Moreover, they take no record of the knife related injuries that end up in hospital but a not reported.

I would agree however, that the media has become hysterical over the subject. I won't be happy until I can walk around the now most 'dangerous' parts of London without fear of attack.

 

[Chechosaurus]

I'm Welsh but really Wales is only a principality of England and not technically a separate nation and so I can still rag on England as much as I like because it's exactly the same in Wales as it is in England only slightly more... Local.

Friday night: Fat girls in mini-skirts being sick on pavement.

(hyphenated words only count as one word right? Right?)

EDIT: Of course; a rough translation would be: Leeds