Britishness

[jonesthecurl]

So this question is mainly for non-Brits:

What (apart from crap food and bad teeth) says "Britain" or "England" to YOU?

Shakespeare? Sherlock Holmes? Queen Victoria? Stonehenge? Fish and Chips? Boadicea? Agatha Christie? Rain? Big Ben? Bobbies on bicycles two by two? The Beatles? Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson, etc? Curry? Florence Nightingale? The Battle of Britain? Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan? Dr Who?

or what?

You can be serious or not, complimentary or insulting,whatever.

[mrswdk]

Are you researching a play about crass racist stereotypes or something?

The only stereotypes that come up with any consistency in the Far East are afternoon tea and English gentlemen.

[Dukasaur]

So this question is mainly for non-Brits:

What (apart from crap food and bad teeth) says "Britain" or "England" to YOU?

Shakespeare? Sherlock Holmes? Queen Victoria? Stonehenge? Fish and Chips? Boadicea? Agatha Christie? Rain? Big Ben? Bobbies on bicycles two by two? The Beatles? Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson, etc? Curry? Florence Nightingale? The Battle of Britain? Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan? Dr Who?

or what?

You can be serious or not, complimentary or insulting,whatever.

All of the above, plus:

• Magna Carta
• William the Bastard
• Richard the Lionheart
• Robin Hood
• Wars of the Roses
• Falstaff
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• C.S. Lewis
• Oxford
• Monty Python
• Fawlty Towers
• Sweeny Todd's Flying Squad
• Police Call Boxes
• The Three-Penny Opera
• Oliver Twist
• Striking Coal Miners
• Maggie Thatcher
• Churchill w/cigar
• Disraeli
• "we are not amused"
• boarding schools
• riding crops
• bland food
• people with teeth too large for their face
• Battersea Power Station
• Trafalgar Square
• H.M.S. Dreadnought

Of course, I'm a little older than most of the people here, so some of those, like "Fawlty Towers" might result in blank stares from most of this crowd.

[muy_thaiguy]

Funny accents, tea time, royal guard outside of Buckingham Palace, Monty Python, James Bond...
All I can think for the time being.

[Bernie Sanders]

Men liking to dress up like women

[waauw]

negative: loud, drunk, still act as if they're an empire
positive: great writers, British premier League, the spitfire(most awesome fighter plane), great humor

[DoomYoshi]

Pink Floyd's The Wall, Shakespeare and James Bond. Maybe the Sex Pistols in an ironic way.

[2dimes]

The upper class outfit with bowler hat as seen in many a Python sketch.

The Union Jack.

Bulldogs.

Bucking ham and tower bridge.

Excalibur and related legends.

Cream ale.

A good fry up with brown sauce. (House of Parliament brand here in the colonies)

[riskllama]

homosexual internet trolls & multiple account deniers.
oh and Napalm Death.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Crap weather.

-TG

[Dukasaur]

There isn't any subject that can't be pushed into the gutter with the application of a little llama spit.

[riskllama]

*patooey*

[tzor]

What (apart from crap food and bad teeth) says "Britain" or "England" to YOU?

To me:
"British" is Victorian (which therefore includes Gilbert and Sullivan)
"English" is Elizabethan (which therefore includes Shakespeare)
"True English" is Harold Godwinson (which, more or less was slightly after Beowulf was composed)

[jonesthecurl]

All good. Keep 'em coming.

[TeeGee]

[BoganGod]

Submissive inverts.
Inventing games for other nations to dominate them at.
See Cricket, Rugby, Soccer, and Darts.

[mrswdk]

Inventing games for other nations to dominate them at.
See Cricket, Rugby, Soccer, and Darts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/36634138
http://wrr.live555.com/

Sorry Bogie, but no matter how short the Aussies make their shorts, England will stomp all over them in a game of oval ball any day of the week.

We can ignore NZ given that, despite their attempts to masquerade as a national team, they are in fact the supranational Whole Pacific RFC, so I guess that makes England world number one \(^0^)/

[saxitoxin]

it's freezing cold all the time but everyone refuses to turn on the heat

if your friend moves 3 hours away you'll basically never see him again; too far to ever travel, he might as well have moved to Antarctica

mrswdk

great British films like this one

[Lootifer]

Inventing games for other nations to dominate them at.
See Cricket, Rugby, Soccer, and Darts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/36634138
http://wrr.live555.com/

Sorry Bogie, but no matter how short the Aussies make their shorts, England will stomp all over them in a game of oval ball any day of the week.

We can ignore NZ given that, despite their attempts to masquerade as a national team, they are in fact the supranational Whole Pacific RFC, so I guess that makes England world number one \(^0^)/

Lootifer bait successful.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/ar ... d=11278276

Also for Jones: Whinging and generally negative disposition.

[Bernie Sanders]

The British had the best humor in the 70's

[Serbia]

Peep Show.

[jonesthecurl]

Nice one.

[jonesthecurl]

it's freezing cold all the time but everyone refuses to turn on the heat

if your friend moves 3 hours away you'll basically never see him again; too far to ever travel, he might as well have moved to Antarctica

mrswdk

great British films like this one

Leave it aaat! Innit?

[mrswdk]

Awks.

[Dukasaur]

rubbing linseed oil into the cormorant.