You know you're British when...

[GideonB]

You know you are British when you roll your eyes every time you encounter a British person playing the typical villain in films and computer games.

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You know you are British when every american says to you I LOVE YOUR ACCENT OMG because briitsh accents are cool. Apparantly. lol

 

[Zipa]

You know you are British when you roll your eyes every time you encounter a British person playing the typical villain in films and computer games.

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You know you are British when every american says to you I LOVE YOUR ACCENT OMG because briitsh accents are cool. Apparantly. lol

Yeah that is a good one to lol.

 

[Jazoni89]

You know you are British when you roll your eyes every time you encounter a British person playing the typical villain in films and computer games.

See the upcoming Uncharted 3.

*Shivers*

 

[Vault Girl]

You know you're British when you start using the word "glass" as a verb.

never heard that one before but I'm not British either

The phenomenon known as "Glassing" also known as "Bottling" - to hit someone over the head with a glass pint glass or bottle. quite common in the U.K.

Love the Jim Jefferies refrence.

You know your British when someone pushes in line and you get pissed off over it.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

When you use 'could of' or any variation thereof.

Or being extremely xenophobic.

Doesn't that classify you as a republican?(just a joke)

OT:...when you make a cup of tea for the burglars.

 

[Xanadu84]

I'm not British, so this bit of opinion is pure heresay. Take this as you will, and I concede to an actual Brit disagreeing with me...however, I imagine that a British person, and only a British person, would ever think that Cockney rhyming slang makes a single lick of sense.

Also to be clear, there is sure to be a "Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles" situation here. All people who think Cockney rhyming slang makes a lick of sense are British, there is no one outside of the country who would ever call it sensible, making it a sure fire indication of being a Brit, but plenty of Brits don't think it makes a lick of sense. It can prove that you are British, but it can't prove that your not. That fair to say?

Cockney rhyming slang is easy.

Apples, and pears - Stairs

Dog, and bone - Phone

Pork pies - Lies

Skin, and blister - Sister

Tommy Tank - Wank

You just have to find two things related and rhyme it with another word. It was used in London as a sort of inside language, that most people wouldn't get. I would love to confuse an American with it though, that would be quite the laugh.

And are you British?

Well, no shit Sherlock...I kid, I kid.

Yeah, but i don't see how it's confusing if you know about it, that is.

Unless you don't have a mental capacity to rhyme words, then yeah.

...Meaning you have strengthened my hypothesis.

Every person I have ever talked to about it now knows what it is, and thinks it's just silly. Leading me to think that its got to be a British thing.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

You know you're British when: you're fluent in British, sarcasm and chav

I'm Norwegian and I already fill those demands fine. I speak with a proper British accent, I am the master of sarcasm, and I've got a decent chavvy English.

 

[6unn3r]

...when you had the greatest empire the world has ever seen and gave it up because it was time to retire and live the good life drinking tea and watching cricket.

 

[snugglesgold]

You know your British when your prepared to defend your love of Marmite to the death!
Also when you hear the word wanker used on an american show and fall off your chair laughing becasue,to Americans, it's not that rude a word

 

[Isgandar]

...when, upon being born, you are permitted to keep your foreskin.

 

[Stublore]

When you consider warm beer as the proper way to serve beer!

 

[Liberaliter]

When you speak English the correct way and find yourself cast as the villain in a film/videogame.

 

[Edith The Hutt]

When you use 'could of' or any variation thereof.

Or being extremely xenophobic.

If we were xenophobic we wouldnt have loads of foreigners and a government to spineless to talk about immigraton.

You know your British when you have an instense hatered for the name Thatcher.

Thats more Scottish than overall British, seeing as how-you know-she put our economy on the shitheap.

Most people who grew up north of Peterborough are in this camp.

 

[Plinglebob]

When someone else's inability to queue LIKE A DECENT HUMAN BEING can put you in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

If, whenever important world news breaks, no matter how many news sources are available to you at the time, it somehow doesn't seem real until you've heard it from the BBC.

Both of these are scarily true of me, especially the BBC one. Give all the arguments you want regarding free press, but there's something slightly comforting about having a News Network that is mandated by law to be as un-bias as possible. Doesn't always happen though

Cockney rhyming slang is easy.

Apples, and pears - Stairs

Dog, and bone - Phone

Pork pies - Lies

Skin, and blister - Sister

Tommy Tank - Wank

You just have to find two things related and rhyme it with another word. It was used in London as a sort of inside language, that most people wouldn't get. I would love to confuse an American with it though, that would be quite the laugh.

My two favourites are "Berk" (as in Berkshire Hunt, figure it out) and Brahms and Lizt (Pissed).

To carry things on, you know you're British when:

You think 22 men standing in a field for 4 days is a real sport.
You automatically for a single queue for multiple checkouts without being told too. I work in an extremely chavvy town, but the queue in the Macdonalds is always perfect.
You use comedic understatement, irony and sarcasm without realising it.
You hate your country, but will defend even its most stupid aspects whenever a foreigner says a bad word about it. The anger in the UK regarding American comments about our health service wasn't what you were saying (we've been saying it for years), but that it was somoene else saying it.

 

[Plinglebob]

You know your British when your prepared to defend your love of Marmite to the death!
Also when you hear the word wanker used on an american show and fall off your chair laughing becasue,to Americans, it's not that rude a word

Also this. Whats even better is when American shows try to show they have a British character by using 2 fingered swearing, Bugger, Bollocks and Wanker, but getting the contexts completely wrong.

 

[Aegis A'Sha'Se]

When you get mistaken for Liquid Snake over the phone, you know you are British.


Or at least sound like it.