Your Favourite British Thing(s).

[J3llo]

I could think of hundreds of British things i like, i love British humor, i love the music (not the fucking hipster crap) and i want to turn gay and have violent sex with Simon Pegg, but fuck if its stereotypical of me but my favorite thing is fish'n'chips

 

[spookydom]

I think the only things I've heard that people here in the UK dislike about America, is it's reluctance to consider coffee just as odd a drink as tea, and how patriotic you are. (Also that you were actually the last country to abolish slavery, but we'll leave it there.) America is a truly great place; but it has it's problems just as we in the UK do.

Certainly America has it's problems...big problems...I mean...just look at us. Really. It gets embarrassing. Here is my impression of my phone conversations with my friends in Germany (who are mostly German, but there are a couple of British people there)
Them: "What's going on over there in American with [insert current embarrassing political things]"
Me: "I know, it is crazy. Most/Not all Americans don't actually agree with/participate in [insert current embarrassing political thing]

Note 1: I know lots of Americans who like tea. (Of course, I'm from San Francisco and grew up with lots of hippies--so there's that).
Note 2: America wasn't the last country to abolish slavery. Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Ottoman Empire, Cuba, and some other places all abolished after the US did. But! Big Kudos to the UK for its work fighting the slave trade!
Note 3: Regarding patriotism...when I was doing some joint military stuff with the British, I recall lots of British soldiers singing "Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves! Quite loudly...everybody was drunk and rediculous...and also the level of nationalistic ferver was really, really high during the England vs. Germany European Cup of 1996. Patriotic nationalism all around. I think we are all guilty of that sin.

We are a nation who are more than aware that all our best stuff has already happend. Our only consolation is that Australians are much bigger tossers than we are.

 

[The Red Spy]

Why has this man not yet been mentioned? Through his Leadership, we were led out of times dark when others surely would have folded or given up. He was a man who, the world over, was recognised for his courage, determination and values. The first honorary American citizen (An honor that wouldn't be bestowed again for 18 years).

His passing was celebrated like so:

By decree of the Queen, his body lay in state for three days and a state funeral service was held at St Paul's Cathedral.[195] As his lead-lined coffin passed down the River Thames from Tower Pier to Festival Pier on the Havengore, dockers lowered their crane jibs in a salute.[196] The Royal Artillery fired a 19-gun salute (as head of government), and the RAF staged a fly-by of sixteen English Electric Lightning fighters. The coffin was then taken the short distance to Waterloo Station where it was loaded onto a specially prepared and painted carriage as part of the funeral train for its rail journey to Bladon.[197] The funeral also saw one of the largest assemblages of statesmen in the world.[198] The funeral train of Pullman coaches carrying his family mourners was hauled by Bulleid Pacific steam locomotive No. 34051 "Winston Churchill". In the fields along the route, and at the stations through which the train passed, thousands stood in silence to pay their last respects. At Churchill's request, he was buried in the family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, not far from his birthplace at Blenheim Palace. Churchill's funeral van ? Southern Railway Van S2464S ? is now part of a preservation project with the Swanage Railway, having been repatriated to the UK in 2007 from the US, to where it had been exported in 1965.[199]

Later in 1965 a memorial to Churchill, cut by the engraver Reynolds Stone, was placed in Westminster Abbey.

Spoiler: He is Winston Churchill

 

[thatonekid]

If any British girls actually read this post, I just want to let you know, your accents are hott

 

[redisforever]

Your tv shows, namely, Top Gear, Doctor Who, and Torchwood.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Teh Interwebz... Thanks Tim Berners Lee you will forever be teh baist guy evar!

 

[Squilookle]

Your TV show format. Fewer episodes per series means much better writing quality throughout. Often it's the content you throw out that makes the remaining work so good. That said- your TV shows. It's virtually the only TV I watch anymore. I'm especially loving the IT Crowd, Garth Merenghi, Robin Hood S1 and 2, and Foyle's War.

Also the Spitfire. Sexy, Graceful, and absolute deadly. So glad you gave us some to use back in the day.

And that whole chivalry thing, too. It echoes the way I play online. If an enemy runs out of ammo and switches to his knife, I'll do the same to give him a sporting chance.

Plus when you still beat someone you have now thoroughly destroyed them with no doubt that you are the victor...

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Me, I am my favourite British thing. Also my family.

 

[Squilookle]

We are a nation who are more than aware that all our best stuff has already happend. Our only consolation is that Australians are much bigger tossers than we are.

I would love to see you explain that one, mate.

 

[spookydom]

We are a nation who are more than aware that all our best stuff has already happend. Our only consolation is that Australians are much bigger tossers than we are.

I would love to see you explain that one, mate.

Prisoner cell block H. /End

 

[ensouls]

Never been so much a Monty Python fan, but I do love British authors, especially the funny ones. Pratchett, DNA, Fforde, Wodehouse, classic authors like Dickens. Actors with the accent like Hugh Laurie, Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry too... Oh, and P.G. Tips. <3

 

[Squilookle]

We are a nation who are more than aware that all our best stuff has already happend. Our only consolation is that Australians are much bigger tossers than we are.

I would love to see you explain that one, mate.

Prisoner cell block H. /End

You do realise that show was called Prisoner, but we renamed it so that it wouldn't be confused with your own Prisoner show? And the thanks we get is that we're all tossers? Well gee buddy, thanks.

 

[Stu1701]

Eddie Izzard, Iron Maiden, top hats, fun accent. These are some of the things I love about the British.

 

[spookydom]

We are a nation who are more than aware that all our best stuff has already happend. Our only consolation is that Australians are much bigger tossers than we are.

I would love to see you explain that one, mate.

Prisoner cell block H. /End

You do realise that show was called Prisoner, but we renamed it so that it wouldn't be confused with your own Prisoner show? And the thanks we get is that we're all tossers? Well gee buddy, thanks.

Hey! I'm not your buddy guy Plus we have all your exported soaps. I think you did ok out of us really.

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

Monty Python, Red Dwarf, and your sexy accents.

 

[Necrotech]

As many others have said, The Doctor! ...also I say "bloody" quite a bit even though I'm as American as they come.

 

[XIGBARx13]

The Beatles and Peep Show.

 

[Knife-28]

Red Dwarf, Dr Who and Monty Python.

 

[Karma168]

our love of of beer, tea and crisps. also our hatred of all things foreign - which includes beer, tea and crisps (cookie if you know which comedian said that)