Your Favourite British Thing(s).
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Yeah, St Nicks has The Rock Shop, which is awesome. Proper ol' fashioned market.BrokenBoySoldier said:
Moderate to the point of absurdity - illustrated beautifully by the still baffling concept of our current Lib Dem-Conservative coalition.
Also badger hair; the Germans may make the best razors but we still make the best creams and brushes for shaving.
Also badger hair; the Germans may make the best razors but we still make the best creams and brushes for shaving.
pride in country? linguistic fluency? cant say I know what any of that is like. But ill tell you that from what i can see from across the pond in this shit hole i live in, there isn't much that you don't do better than us. If i had to pick one though how about the not killing people? And Doctor Who of course.
I agree with the gentlman on the first page who cites David Tenant! I almost must add Stephen Fry to that list though. Legend.
Also they make the best TV imo. I can't think of a TV series from the US I'd rather watch than something from the UK...actually no - I really like Stargate...but apart from that there's none! Dr Who is a bit like marmite in that you either love it or hate it, I love it, but other shows like Party Animals, Coupling, Sherlock, Doc Martin, Hamish Macbeth (I'm really showing my age here) are things I keep coming back to. I like CSI and all but sometimes you just need a bit of Taggart.
English food is also amazing - though I think that's more of just a cultural thing. I grew up with pasties, pies, battered sausages, potatos etc. Oh man, I'm making myself hungry. Nothing wrong with the food in any other nation but nothing hits the spot quite like a steak and kidney pie, some beans and a bit of creamy whipped mash. Oh god now I really am hungry.
Other than that there's only one thing left to mention...the accent. Now I'm not talking about your mad scouse or your undecipherable geordie or the permenantly depressed brummie. I'm talking pure, old school, posh British. Think Hugh Laurie. Oh my, nothing makes me quiver quite like it.
Also they make the best TV imo. I can't think of a TV series from the US I'd rather watch than something from the UK...actually no - I really like Stargate...but apart from that there's none! Dr Who is a bit like marmite in that you either love it or hate it, I love it, but other shows like Party Animals, Coupling, Sherlock, Doc Martin, Hamish Macbeth (I'm really showing my age here) are things I keep coming back to. I like CSI and all but sometimes you just need a bit of Taggart.
English food is also amazing - though I think that's more of just a cultural thing. I grew up with pasties, pies, battered sausages, potatos etc. Oh man, I'm making myself hungry. Nothing wrong with the food in any other nation but nothing hits the spot quite like a steak and kidney pie, some beans and a bit of creamy whipped mash. Oh god now I really am hungry.
Other than that there's only one thing left to mention...the accent. Now I'm not talking about your mad scouse or your undecipherable geordie or the permenantly depressed brummie. I'm talking pure, old school, posh British. Think Hugh Laurie. Oh my, nothing makes me quiver quite like it.
While everyone agrees on British sarcasm, what about British irony?
I mean, just look this: Bentley and Rolls Royce, possibly the two greatest British automotive marques, sold to the Germans (nemesis of WW2, and the butt of every joke not aimed at the French); TVR, manufacturer of the craziest British sports cars, sold to the Russians (nemesis of Cold War and subject to Churchill's hilarious Operation Unthinkable - British humor at work); and Land Rover, Jaguar and the East India Company, quintessentially British companies, sold to the Indians (who've been property of the British for well over 200 years through the arms of - the greatest irony of all - the East India Company).
(Just to be clear that I'm not trying to troll, here's my original post)
I mean, just look this: Bentley and Rolls Royce, possibly the two greatest British automotive marques, sold to the Germans (nemesis of WW2, and the butt of every joke not aimed at the French); TVR, manufacturer of the craziest British sports cars, sold to the Russians (nemesis of Cold War and subject to Churchill's hilarious Operation Unthinkable - British humor at work); and Land Rover, Jaguar and the East India Company, quintessentially British companies, sold to the Indians (who've been property of the British for well over 200 years through the arms of - the greatest irony of all - the East India Company).
(Just to be clear that I'm not trying to troll, here's my original post)
Raiyan 1.0 said:Top Gear (especially James May, his articles are priceless), Yahtzee, Black Adder, Dr Who, Simon Pegg, Black Sabbath... Hell, f**k you Brits, you've raised my expectations so high, I can barely watch anything else!
Gordon Murray, Alan Moore, J K Rowling, the NHS, BBC (no love for making the Yank and Aussie version of Top Gear, though).
Lotus (please, please Lotus, don't make that horrible overweight piece of shit Elise you showcased last year! The current one is so much better! Go with the new Esprit, though), Aston Martin, the Jaguar CX75, the Peel P50, and the McLaren F**kin' F1 (Veyron, you might be faster on the straight run, but the 18 year old McLaren F1 will make you its ***** in a circuit). Also, the AV-8 Harrier (PLEASE don't waste your bucks on that piece-of-shit F-35: it's either the F-22 or go off making something of your own) and the Avro Vulcan.
Oh, and lets not forget Psygnosis. Rest in peace.
Bolly!Bigsmith said:
Call me when you replace it so we can sit around the fire complaining about things and twiddling our moustaches.
I got a lot of odd looks when I wore it on a walk down the lane today.
You do know we have more than one, right? I mean, generally speaking, you've got:Ace of Spades said:I'm American, and my favorite British thing has to be the accent. I just love the way it sounds
Western Highlands
Eastern Highlands
Lowlands
Shetland
Orkney
Hebridean
Northern Irish
North Yorkshire Dales
North Yorkshire Moors
Vale Of York
West Yorkshire
Teesside
Sunderland
Northumberland
Tyneside
Glaswegian
Geordie
Peak District
East Midlands
Brummie
Black Country
Nearly Welsh
Southern
Somerset
Devonian
Cornish
Essex
London
Cockney
... et cetera
That's far from all of it, though. Up to twenty or thirty years ago and still to some extent now, people from the Dales could tell which part of which Dale someone else called home by the accent. Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield are three different accents within the West Yorkshire dialect. The same can probably be said of the Derbyshire Dales, the Highlands and so on. I stopped for fuel on the north coast of Scotland once, years ago, and the girl who came out to serve me had a local accent that was a long way from Edinburgh or Glasgow. I'd have asked her to marry me but that legislation hadn't gone through parliament yet.
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