What's Britian like?

[Contun]

BRITIAN IS AMAZING!

....right?

 

[Loves2spooge]

Actually, I've got a single tid-bit which will represent Britain. Recently, Channel 4 held a viewer voted poll of the best song of the decade. The winner:

'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol.

The last molecule of respect I had for this nation was mercilessly obliterated when I heard that news...

I don't believe that for a second, that song is terrible

I kid you not, sir. You can find the full list here http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=2608697&mpage=1&key=&NID=0#2608697

The list itself is generally quite terrible, I mean 'Sex on Fire' by Kings of Leon at number FOUR? It shouldn't even be there on account of it being fucking shit!

 

[Smudge91]

I'm from the Midlands and have gone to uni a little bit north and its alot more friendlier than where i grew up. My fiancee is from Kent, the Medway area to be precise. It is a chav filled area and so expensive compared to home.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Alright place, it's got racists here and there, but what place doesn't?

 

[atomicmrpelly]

Teeee. "You know darling, we could have sex right now." "yes we could" "but let's not"

There's a lot of things wrong with England, and Britain but by God if Family Guy ever manages to put any of those things into a coherent form and incorperate them into the format of an episode I shall jump off the Humber Bridge.

 

[President Moocow]

South is ok, north is a scumhole. Sorry northeners.

haha, not entirely true but I have to agree the South is better

Wet and cold. In summer it is damp and nearly warm or hot with a hose pipe ban even though it rained for the last 8 months.
We do not speak in a dialect like Pidgin, but becuase we invented English (what with being English and all) there are a lot of accents and local turns of phrase in a relatively small country.

If you have seen Brtish humour, you know that we are self depricating and will insult our own country as soon as anyone elses (although we will always insult the French and Germans first). To that end, we may say we hate it here, but your average Brit is VERY patriotic although it won't really be for Britain except for at Olympics time. I don't even call myself British, I am English and any Scot or Welshman will also probably say that they are not British.

Anyway, I digress. The weather sucks, we like to queue (or so foreigners think), we whinge a lot mostly about the government being soft and we have an immigration problem.

I love it here and would never call anywhere else home.

I'm half English, half Welsh and so call myself British :/ speak both languages fluently but when all is said and done most people here speak English. Unlike most American films believe, we don't speak Cockney. Nobody ask about that please!!!!!!

less fat people than America, less attractive people compared to the rest of Europe, good general sense of humor, unhealthy but fucking delicious food and more promiscuous sex.

and you've based that on what evidence exactly? *raised eyebrow*

I kinda LIVE there. Just a little!

I do too ~_~ and I've also been to France, Germany and Belgium. Really, there isn't much of a difference.

Yeah, they are similar but each have subtle and cultural differences. That's what makes Europe so awesome. It's hard to really see some differences unless you live there for a while.

Need an example? France, with it's fashion, has more attractive people than Britain.

 

[emenar]

im from northern ireland in the UK and its pretty good, recently moved from town to countryside and big difference just in that. Plus were my friends live its currently rainin and its snowin here ^^ tons of diferent accents. All really funny and stupid when u listen to em. Ppl arnt any worse than anywhere else im sure for anyone of those talkin bout ppl runnin round with knives and chavs and whatnought. Those ppl are EVERYWHERE. Government sucks though, and so does price of petrols >.< £1.10 per litre, which is like $2.00 per litre i think in USA, somethin like that.

Ulster Fry FTW! who can say no to potato bread, soda bread, fried egg, sausages, bacon, black and white pudding, fried tomato, and if u feel like it baked beans ^^

 

[AndyVale]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Boo, misery-guts. None of those things are really problems compared to real troubles in life. There are some crap bits but as a whole I wouldn't say the country is run-down. I rarely find the trains to be a problem (although they are too expensive IMVVHO) and if the buses run late you get the one before.

Chavs, shut up. Stop being such a baby. I don't have a huge problem with Chavs, treat them as a human and they're often alright. Be a quivering little pencil-knob and they'll see you as a target. However I despise the Daily Mail-esque Chav fearing attitude.

Basically it's an alright place, we have our problems but who doesn't. The chocolate is better than America, there is lots to do and you're never too far from a city or the countryside depending on which takes your preference.

 

[AndyVale]

Actually, I've got a single tid-bit which will represent Britain. Recently, Channel 4 held a viewer voted poll of the best song of the decade. The winner:

'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol.

The last molecule of respect I had for this nation was mercilessly obliterated when I heard that news...

Well that's because of Channel 4's musical audience. If someone else, like Planet Rock, Mojo or Radio 1Xtra did it then it would probably be very different.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

S'alright, we've got Nectar points...

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Boo, misery-guts. None of those things are really problems compared to real troubles in life. There are some crap bits but as a whole I wouldn't say the country is run-down. I rarely find the trains to be a problem (although they are too expensive IMVVHO) and if the buses run late you get the one before.

Chavs, shut up. Stop being such a baby. I don't have a huge problem with Chavs, treat them as a human and they're often alright. Be a quivering little pencil-knob and they'll see you as a target. However I despise the Daily Mail-esque Chav fearing attitude.

Basically it's an alright place, we have our problems but who doesn't. The chocolate is better than America, there is lots to do and you're never too far from a city or the countryside depending on which takes your preference.

I wish I had your chavs in my town. They sound like they actually won't hit you for walking past their part of the pavement.

 

[AndyVale]

I wish I had your chavs in my town. They sound like they actually won't hit you for walking past their part of the pavement.

They're more into sex than violence tbh. I'm okay with that, we all get lonely sometimes.

 

[Angerwing]

Wow, Britian's a lot different than its depicted in Children's literature.

Stop spelling Britain wrong.

Also, don't base your understanding of a nation on children's literature. That's silly.

Edit:

Do you guys have some kind of unique dialect like Pidgin?

Like, you know... ENGLISH!?!?!?

 

[stag3]

The days of sophisticated men in top hats and monacles sitting around an open fire, reading newpapers, sipping tea and muttering "yes, quite" to each other are long gone.

Nowadays England is nothing like people think, its overpopulated, polluted, full of immigrants, the list goes on.

And the government? don't even get get me started the House of Commons turns into a childrens playground when Labour and Tories are in there together.

 

[Jory]

It's a lovely place. I hate the big cities. I avoid them if at all possible.

I'm from the South West, small beach town, dead in the winter, huge holiday destination in the summer.

I'm currently in Bristol (Still pretty much south west) which is a city but not too extreme. Never had a problem with chavs. Where I'm from they're all big talkers with out any balls to do anything, and they don't bother you if you don't bother them. In Bristol there's hardly any chavs to speak of.

Oh yeah, and English is OUR language, don't let anyone else fool you.

 

[RaigairTheOmnipotent]

summed up, the scotish hate the english, the irish hate the english, the welsh like living miles away from a town center, and the english just generally hate. everthing. i live in portsmouth, and they all hate; people from the north, people from scotland, people from ireland, people from france, people from america, people who don't live in their house, people who do live in their house, people who don't have their exact gentic code, ect. never-the-less its a nice country, i'm just a crazy ranting native.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Boo, misery-guts. None of those things are really problems compared to real troubles in life. There are some crap bits but as a whole I wouldn't say the country is run-down. I rarely find the trains to be a problem (although they are too expensive IMVVHO) and if the buses run late you get the one before.

Chavs, shut up. Stop being such a baby. I don't have a huge problem with Chavs, treat them as a human and they're often alright. Be a quivering little pencil-knob and they'll see you as a target. However I despise the Daily Mail-esque Chav fearing attitude.

I invite you to spend a weekend in Birkenhead.

 

[AndyVale]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Boo, misery-guts. None of those things are really problems compared to real troubles in life. There are some crap bits but as a whole I wouldn't say the country is run-down. I rarely find the trains to be a problem (although they are too expensive IMVVHO) and if the buses run late you get the one before.

Chavs, shut up. Stop being such a baby. I don't have a huge problem with Chavs, treat them as a human and they're often alright. Be a quivering little pencil-knob and they'll see you as a target. However I despise the Daily Mail-esque Chav fearing attitude.

I invite you to spend a weekend in Birkenhead.

I spent a week and a half there a small while back. I concede that some of the kids are a bit awful but it wasn't a dreadful place.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I really don't like it, and I live here. Britain is basically a bit crap these days. Completely run down, dirty, with trains and busses that don't run, and chavs everywhere asking for you to go into the off-license for them.

Boo, misery-guts. None of those things are really problems compared to real troubles in life. There are some crap bits but as a whole I wouldn't say the country is run-down. I rarely find the trains to be a problem (although they are too expensive IMVVHO) and if the buses run late you get the one before.

Chavs, shut up. Stop being such a baby. I don't have a huge problem with Chavs, treat them as a human and they're often alright. Be a quivering little pencil-knob and they'll see you as a target. However I despise the Daily Mail-esque Chav fearing attitude.

I invite you to spend a weekend in Birkenhead.

I spent a week and a half there a small while back. I concede that some of the kids are a bit awful but it wasn't a dreadful place.

A bit awful? Such as beating a man up then burning him alive [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7084443.stm] as they film it on mobile phones awful?

My street runs off the road where that happened. I do believe I have a right to complain against chavs.

 

[MasterKirov]

Sucks. Either get out while you still can or don't visit!