What sterotypes do you think of when someone talks about Britain?

[TheBarefootBandit]

Anyone for fisticuffs (or I challenge to a duel)... I always get that sent to me on Tekken

 

[DM.]

I always get told to go eat crumpets or Punch a kangaroo when I go on mic.

what.

 

[Fudj]

Douche-baggy. Seriously, all I think about when I hear "Britain" is a country that likes to grab as much land as possible and then treat the people who live there like dirt.

Ahhhh! back in the good old days where we had the colonies...now known as India and Australia hehehehe

And normally we are very polite

 

[McClaud]

And normally we are very polite

Normally. But when the British get mad ... yeah, they get mad.

Being Scottish, I usually pick on Brits who look down on Scotts.

 

[Rune Laguna]

I think a lot of these things associated with "British" could probably be better defined as "English".

You won't see the Scottish, Irish or Welsh stereotypically sitting down with tea, crumpets, scones, bowler hats or bad teeth. You'd see them with something else - eg. kilts, Guinness and sheep (respectively).

Some people tend to forget that there's more to Britain than just England =/

Yeah, that makes me roll my eyes yet more at the state of humanity.

/is Scottish

 

[Kukakkau]

Stereotypes I've had used on me are tea, crumpets, haggis, heavy drinking, wearing a "skirt" and my old favourite... "if we hadn't joined the war you would be nazis"

And I remembered the ultimate question I was asked on XBL: "You're from Scotland?....What states that in??"

EDIT: Also bad teeth is used on me alot too... which is an english stereotype so I don't get it

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Tea and the Dambuster's Theme spring instantly to mind.

And pilot caps, and people in pilot caps singing the Dambuster's Theme while drinking tea

[small]I want a pilot's cap...[/small]

 

[geezon]

In a lot of movies and games if there is only one guy with a British accent there is a good chance he is the bad guy.

All British villains are the best though.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Don't most people think we all have really bad teeth or something?

A lot of my friends think you guys have bad teeth.
When I think of Britain I think about V for Vendetta and Big Ben being blown to a million pieces to Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture.

 

[Spirit_Of_Fire]

I think a lot of these things associated with "British" could probably be better defined as "English".

You won't see the Scottish, Irish or Welsh stereotypically sitting down with tea, crumpets, scones, bowler hats or bad teeth. You'd see them with something else - eg. kilts, Guinness and sheep (respectively).

Some people tend to forget that there's more to Britain than just England =/

I said Britain in the title and I meant Britain so I would welcome comments on the Scots and the Welsh. People simply have decided to post comments about us English but again any comments on the others are welcome.

 

[Blights]

I think a lot of these things associated with "British" could probably be better defined as "English".

You won't see the Scottish, Irish or Welsh stereotypically sitting down with tea, crumpets, scones, bowler hats or bad teeth. You'd see them with something else - eg. kilts, Guinness and sheep (respectively).

Some people tend to forget that there's more to Britain than just England =/

Yeah, that makes me roll my eyes yet more at the state of humanity.

/is Scottish

Saying stuff like that gets you loved at the Escapist.

Welcome anyways.

 

[El Poncho]

Well ppl usually say to me, that scottish ppl are always wearing kilts, ginger hair, drunk, angry, and eating haggis, which tbh i from scotland most my friends hate haggis and i only have it on rabbie burns day and st andrews dayim surprised no one mentions irn bru though

 

[Rune Laguna]

I think a lot of these things associated with "British" could probably be better defined as "English".

You won't see the Scottish, Irish or Welsh stereotypically sitting down with tea, crumpets, scones, bowler hats or bad teeth. You'd see them with something else - eg. kilts, Guinness and sheep (respectively).

Some people tend to forget that there's more to Britain than just England =/

Yeah, that makes me roll my eyes yet more at the state of humanity.

/is Scottish

Saying stuff like that gets you loved at the Escapist.

Welcome anyways.

How so?

You can tell I've basically just recklessly jumped in into this headfirst and not researched, huh? xD

 

[Jamous]

All sorts of things seeing as I live there.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

i have one of those mate looks spiffy on me

harry enfields and chums do great stereotypes lol...

 

[Agent Larkin]

Evil heathen protestant bastards who will rape and pillage your country for 700 years and thats just what the education system says down here in little old Eire

 

[MrPop]

Don't most people think we all have really bad teeth or something?

A lot of my friends think you guys have bad teeth.
When I think of Britain I think about V for Vendetta and Big Ben being blown to a million pieces to Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture.

That sounds like the best thought of Britain on the list yet. And nobody has mentioned Steven Fry yet. I know he's so niche that not many people will think of him but I will!

 

[Obhraonian]

There are a wide range of sterotypes depending on what area, the North are drunken football yobs, the south are arrogant and a bunch of pansies and so on.

 

[Blights]

I think a lot of these things associated with "British" could probably be better defined as "English".

You won't see the Scottish, Irish or Welsh stereotypically sitting down with tea, crumpets, scones, bowler hats or bad teeth. You'd see them with something else - eg. kilts, Guinness and sheep (respectively).

Some people tend to forget that there's more to Britain than just England =/

Yeah, that makes me roll my eyes yet more at the state of humanity.

/is Scottish

Saying stuff like that gets you loved at the Escapist.

Welcome anyways.

How so?

You can tell I've basically just recklessly jumped in into this headfirst and not researched, huh? xD

No, its just more than half the Escapist seems to hate humanity.