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

[Trivun]

OH! And they love Cadbury chocolate! Every place we went to had a vending machine of JUST Cadbury chocolates.

Of course we do! Cadbury's is a British company after all, I don't live too far away from their main plant (which is also where Joseph Cadbury built a whole village to accomodate his workers. Treated them very well for the time, in the Industrial Revolution workers weren't often treated as well as Cadbury did with his staff ).

And thanks for the kind words about Britain

 

[xxDarlenexx]

OH! And they love Cadbury chocolate! Every place we went to had a vending machine of JUST Cadbury chocolates.

Of course we do! Cadbury's is a British company after all, I don't live too far away from their main plant (which is also where Joseph Cadbury built a whole village to accomodate his workers. Treated them very well for the time, in the Industrial Revolution workers weren't often treated as well as Cadbury did with his staff ).

And thanks for the kind words about Britain

Thank you BRITAIN! I loved every second I was there. If I had to live for a year abroad that's the place I would choose!

 

[Himo]

I'm not British, I'm from Yorkshire.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

- Tea (yep, drink it)
- Crumpets (yep, eat 'em)
- cucumber sandwiches (cucumber on its own? are you crazy?)
- Fish and Chips (yep, we take something healthy like fish and cover it in batter!)
- Complaining (yep)
- Rain (yep)
- Sense of superiority over US (yep)
- Irony and off-kilter humour (yep)
- inventing cricket then losing at it (always)
- warm beer (cold please!)
- Funny hats (we need more!)
- Sexually repressed (just me)
- Love of queueing (yep)
- Miss the empire (maybe a little)
- posh (ha!) sophisticated (ha!) sauve (ha!)
- Big and bad teeth (most people's teeth are fine thanks to free dental care and fluoride in the water, however mine aren't)
- Super Villain tendencies (hell yes!)
- That we know the queen (we dated for a while now she won't return my calls)

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Everyone outside of Britain has their stereotypes on what we in Britain are all like. For example if someone mentions Britain, what do you think of?
The stereotypes I frequently hear are that we are posh, drink tea and live in a country where it always rains.

Well, if everyone in America watches Family Guy and The Simpsons they will.

But this may be interesting, may come back to this later on, as I want to see what people think I'm like.

 

[Charley]

all of you brits are stuck up pricks who think they're better than everyone else

Spoiler

I kid, I kid, but that is a stereotype

It's true, that *is* a miguided stereotype. We actually are better than everyone else. On the condition it's at something that we didn't invent.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

The usual tea and crumpets.

Not much else, I mean the USA has wiggers and we have chavs.

 

[Grab-bag]

- Tea (yep, drink it)
- Crumpets (yep, eat 'em)
- cucumber sandwiches (cucumber on its own? are you crazy?)
- Fish and Chips (yep, we take something healthy like fish and cover it in batter!)
- Complaining (yep)
- Rain (yep)
- Sense of superiority over US (yep)
- Irony and off-kilter humour (yep)
- inventing cricket then losing at it (always)
- warm beer (cold please!)
- Funny hats (we need more!)
- Sexually repressed (just me)
- Love of queueing (yep)
- Miss the empire (maybe a little)
- posh (ha!) sophisticated (ha!) sauve (ha!)
- Big and bad teeth (most people's teeth are fine thanks to free dental care and fluoride in the water, however mine aren't)
- Super Villain tendencies (hell yes!)
- That we know the queen (we dated for a while now she won't return my calls)

You are a genius! That is all correct!

 

[isay]

People tend to assume that everyone who comes from London hates everyone else.

 

[iron codpiece]

I just know they aren't actually as cultured as they think because I'm Native American and I resent the poor treatment I recieved in England. Staring, asking about my penis, asking if I can dance for them. These questions were asked more than a couple times.

Scotland was great though. They'd ask 'what are ya?' I'd tell them they'd say "Wow never met one of ya before' and then they would proceed to drink.

 

[brainfreeze215]

I spent a significant amount of time living in London and traveling around England and Europe as much as possible. Any stereotypes I may have had have fallen through the cracks.

 

[Cheesus333]

Really bad teeth, hats, tea and biscuits, silly walks (probably the best thing to ever come out of brittain) and a society where everyone is in love with the queen.

1: I have decent dental hygiene. Just because I don't pay to have it chemically whitened so that people are stricken blind when I smile, doesn't mean they're bad.
B: I do wear a hat, actually: it's a grey beanie.
III: I can't abide tea but I do like biscuits.
Four: I have no idea what you mean by silly walks and I don't really like the Queen. She doesn't do much. In fact we only keep our monarchy for the sake of national pride. We're a proud country.

Also, if we got rid of her, there'd be no-one to put on our money and our stamps. And there'd be no more protection for the swans.

I'm happy to live here: from the news (specifically the notoriously fear-mongering Daily Mail) I hear only that all the other countries are filled with death, pestilence, poverty or... the other horseman of the apocalypse. Still, it could be better. Obesity and teenage pregnancy is on a very hasty rise, as well as chavism and discrimination. But these are patterns you'll find all over the world. It's becoming corrupt; shallow; hollow. What will you do about it?

 

[Fronken]

Really bad teeth, hats, tea and biscuits, silly walks (probably the best thing to ever come out of brittain) and a society where everyone is in love with the queen.

1: I have decent dental hygiene. Just because I don't pay to have it chemically whitened so that people are stricken blind when I smile, doesn't mean they're bad.
B: I do wear a hat, actually: it's a grey beanie.
III: I can't abide tea but I do like biscuits.
Four: I have no idea what you mean by silly walks and I don't really like the Queen. She doesn't do much. In fact we only keep our monarchy for the sake of national pride. We're a proud country.

Also, if we got rid of her, there'd be no-one to put on our money and our stamps. And there'd be no more protection for the swans.

I'm happy to live here: from the news (specifically the notoriously fear-mongering Daily Mail) I hear only that all the other countries are filled with death, pestilence, poverty or... the other horseman of the apocalypse. Still, it could be better. Obesity and teenage pregnancy is on a very hasty rise, as well as chavism and discrimination. But these are patterns you'll find all over the world. It's becoming corrupt; shallow; hollow. What will you do about it?

Well as the poll said, this is about Stereotypes, meaning they are only true on a minority, but are overblown in the media, making people believe that its the majority.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

- Tea (yep, drink it)
- Crumpets (yep, eat 'em)
- cucumber sandwiches (cucumber on its own? are you crazy?)
- Fish and Chips (yep, we take something healthy like fish and cover it in batter!)
- Complaining (yep)
- Rain (yep)
- Sense of superiority over US (yep)
- Irony and off-kilter humour (yep)
- inventing cricket then losing at it (always)
- warm beer (cold please!)
- Funny hats (we need more!)
- Sexually repressed (just me)
- Love of queueing (yep)
- Miss the empire (maybe a little)
- posh (ha!) sophisticated (ha!) sauve (ha!)
- Big and bad teeth (most people's teeth are fine thanks to free dental care and fluoride in the water, however mine aren't)
- Super Villain tendencies (hell yes!)
- That we know the queen (we dated for a while now she won't return my calls)

You are a genius! That is all correct!

Thanks! I would do a victory dance, but that would ruin my quintessentially English repression of emotions...so instead I'll just shake you strongly by the hand old boy!

 

[Ginnipe]

"Tea and crumpets guvna"

 

[DigitalJedl]

I'd just say tea. Lots of tea.

 

[macapus]

Everyone outside of Britain has their stereotypes on what we in Britain are all like. For example if someone mentions Britain, what do you think of?
The stereotypes I frequently hear are that we are posh, drink tea and live in a country where it always rains.

You don't use the letter H. Alo? Ow, are you today? I 'ate that tv show. I'm really appy today.

You are all snobby, rich, aristocratic perfectionists who leave amazing lives.

You ***** about having todo manual labor and work and are all crybabys.
You all have high pitched voices.

You drink tea and eat crumpets. A LOT!!!

You all are so rich you have maids.

You have no self pride-Oh I'll just get my maid to do it. Henry!!! Wipe my ass!

You have bad, really bad teeth.

You're king and queen are loaded yet have little defined political power(they are diplomats and win the people over)-One of the reason we assume everyone is rich, 'cause you can waste taxpayer money one castles and lavish dinners for members of the monarchy.

All your children are annoying, unmasculine retards.

You're all pussys and wimps 'cause your police force can't have guns.

You're also considered more pathetic by americans 'cause you pulled out of Iraq first and 'cause you have less nukes.

You are inferior 'cause you lost america in 1776(one of the more retarded ones).

You listen to REALLY gay music. British pop and a lot of other british music has pretty much got a rap as....what's the word......wimpy, unmasculine....

You have a shit military because you would've (probably) lost World War 2 without american intervention(yes and the other way around, but nobody talks about that).

You eat really lavish food.

Poverty is almost nonexistant and no british people have ever seen it.

Your dicks are small.

You're all blond and white with blue eyes.

Your not muscular.

You don't like REAL sports.(football, basketball, baseball, etc.)

Um.... that's ALL I've got

And these are not my views, these are stereotypes I've heard and are aware of.

 

[Spirit_Of_Fire]

*Snip*

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Wow thats alot of sterotypes. Most of them aren't true, but they are funny anyway. =D