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What do you see at British?
Posted by gosmelltheflowers • 4/16/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: british, flowers
Over at our garden fellow founder mike French invites you to list the things you consider British...
Do tell! All nationalities welcome, even the Welsh both here and at flowers...
What do you consider 'British'?
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Excuse our unbritish use of grammar people...
What do you CONSIDER British? -
Jumpers for goalposts -
Yorkshire Pudding-
Yum, I just made some last night.
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You'll have to remove jumpers for goalposts, we have those in Scotland too, and I've seen them in Germany and Ireland. Yorkshire pudding is English not British. Here in Scotland we also have fish 'n chips, but never forget the Scottish inventions tatties 'n mince and salty porridge.-
I didn't think we were allowed to be English these days,and being British is to encompass all the isles.:)
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HP sauce, chicken balti and the never say die bulldog spirit.-
Chicken tikka Masala was voted best British dish a few years ago!!
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Chicken balti - mouth watering!
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I thought you said bullshit spirit, After Winston Churchill made his "we'll fight on the beaches" speech he whispered to Anthony Eden "we'll beat them over the head with broomsticks, that's all we've got"
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Bad teeth.
Chav scum.
Skin so pasty white it often has a blue tinge to it.
High streets covered with vomit, piss and occasional piles of shit on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Pubs.
Football (soccer.)
All night Turkish kebab and burger shops.
British humour (some of the best in the world.)--I know BRITISH humour is obviously British but it's got that certain quality.-
er the high streets are like that all the time
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I was going to argue on a few points, but they are all true.Well I have nice teeth and they all my own
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You mean they are now
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I feel bad about being British now, I'm gonna go and take the union jack of my roof and hide my Franklin mint "Churchill's finest hour" plate.
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Dont forget the boxer shorts
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I don't wear them you big hunk of manliness grrrrrr!
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No kisses I havent put my teeth back in and im of to the pub
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Hey!I have no false teeth.
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@ SportsNarrative
"Bad teeth.
Chav scum.
Skin so pasty white it often has a blue tinge to it.
High streets covered with vomit, piss and occasional piles of shit on Saturday and Sunday mornings."
Ewwwww.
That mental image just turned my stomach a bit.
But British humor is the best in the world (unless you count Father Ted)! -
"Chav scum."
Get lost.
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Lincolnshire Sausage
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chips and chip shop curry sauce, seaside winkle stands, cricket, marmite, teatime.
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Suspicion of anything foreign.-
Showing yer age there, every other person in Britain today IS foreign.
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Seaside Guest Houses, seaside rock, cockles, whelks Donkey rides on the Beach, Dreamland in Margate(now gone) Real Ale
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Charles, may I have a cup of tea?! -
The Tube that's the best British thing ever. -
Judi Dench as "M" in James Bond
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Cool Mish money penny!
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones -
After you...no I insist... -
Standing in a perfect line at the bus stop.-
yeah queues, queues, endless queues
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Grumpy bastards wearing socks with their sandals complaining all day and not tipping when they visit Yellowstone.
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Och that's just tha English, pay them no mind!
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Stuff tipping its what people get paid to do
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Donna Kebab from the Golden Horn at 3am on a Sunday morning -
With extra chile sauce!
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The ability to integrate worldwide races into society without any bad feelings. -
"All nationalities welcome, even the Welsh"
Blimey, you're cosmopolitan. Even the Welsh, eh?
:walks away, shaking head:-
Thats not British for a start
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"Richard! Mind the pedestrian!"
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Seriously tho, "British" to me means the Normans, the aristocracy, the British Empire and the BNP.
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You forgot to mention Iron Maiden.
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I guess Britain can take 'em. England will always have Slade!
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Cum on Feel The Noise
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And all that adds up to taxes, taxes, taxes. We pay the govt.European, national, regional and local + millions of different kinds of purchase tax. I actually believe in high tax and public spending but what we have is ludicrous.
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Stiffness. Of the upper lip. -
Girls grab the boys! I said yeah, yeah, yeah....
Hey, Father Ted is brilliant; maybe you have to be British to understand it!
I'd like to quote a little of Edmund Blackadder which pretty much says what it is like to be British and to understand The Great British Sense of Humour;
"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.’
Hmm, can't beat that really.-
The west coast of Ireland isn't well known as a bastion of unionism...
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My favourite Alan quote to Sonja is: "Ah, I love you in a way."
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Erm...ALAN PARTRIDGE
so many funny quotes but in the Parole Officer I liked
Inspector Burton: Let me give it a shot. If you open your mouth, I won't lay a finger on you. But you'll go to prison. And when those nonces and those perverts get hold of a clever boy like you - and I'll make sure they do - they'll be queueing up round the block. You're going to end up with an arsehole like a clown's pocket.
Alan Partridge quotes
"Do you know what this bathroom says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint. Which, again, to me is a bonus."
"Smell my cheese, you mother!"
‘Oh, butter my arse!’
‘Abso-bloody-exactly!’
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My fave one of partridge's is "Hello is that Currys? I'm looking for two auxiliary speakers apropos achieving surround sound."
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What about the time he argued with the hotel about the porn rentals
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lol Yeah cos he had rented the lady boy film "Bangkok nights" classic.
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I love the Valentines day episode with the chocolate sauce. -
"It's not romantic! it looks like a dirty protest!"
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I'm liking your style Mugshot, but come on Slackbladder is surely the best?!
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lmao all old school british comedy series are the best
only fools and horses
open all hours
black adder as you mention
red dwarf
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I also have to say Black Adder (got the whole box set on DVD) and the Katherine Tate Show - some sketches are too close to reality!
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Am I bothered
Gay dear who dear me do no dear
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alot of these are more english than british, one thing unites us all though, we moan continuously about the weather and are all expert meteorologists by the time we're ten. We just have too much of it.-
lmao your not wrong we can all predict the weather with just a sniff of the wind
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That's true! How does the saying go? Something like, Britain, it doesn't have a climate, just weather.
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My Dad's hip aches sometimes before a storm.
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Aristocratic adventurers with a taste for whisky, a glorious moustache and a deeply-held lust for the Queen. -
Sitting on a cold, windy beach while eating soggy chips and swearing blind you are having a wonderful time.
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then getting a fivers worth of 2p' to stick in a dumb machine
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LOL Yes, the 2p pushers - is it me or does the name sound really dodgy?! I remember playing them as a little girl, convinced my fistful of 2ps would make me a fortune.
Of course, after that, you go to a souvenir shop and spend a small fortune on some strange plastic tat that you wouldn't usually look twice at. -
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Oh, and being understated. If a British person thinks something is 'quite nice' it means the same as 'absolutely fantastic' in most other parts of the world.
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LOL! isn't that the truth. I am often told I am the voice of understatement, but do scream something is brill now and again.
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Yes, I occasionally yell 'brill' too - but only in really exceptional circumstances LOL
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Queuing is a totally British thing and I'm glad of it, Have you ever tried to get on a bus or a train abroad? It's like a rugby scrum.
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Yes, and some foreign people just don't get it.
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I'll never forget the first time I went to Cyprus -- a country populated mostly by ethnic Greeks, but which used to be a British colony. People there stood in orderly queues at bus stops, theaters, post offices, and so on. I couldn't believe it! At the time I had been living in Athens for a number of years, and one thing I knew about Greek people was that they never, ever queued.
When I returned to Athens from my trip, my friends asked, "How was Cyprus?" and I blurted out, "Imagine: A country full of Greek people who know how to queue!"
A case of nurture over nature, I guess...
P.S. Lest anyone should take the above anecdote the wrong way, I lived in Greece for about 12 years altogether, and I really love the country and its people -- but I still wish they would copy their Cypriot neighbors' practice of queuing.
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British is Football and rugby. British is pub. British is fish and chips. British is houses with red bricks with conservatories. British is two-decked bus.
I'm not British but I love those things British
Ivanpw
www.noobpreneur.com
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Thats double decker bus
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My first few days in Nottingham taught me we speak different languages on either side of the Atlantic. When I was given directions to my flat, I was told I could take the lift or the apples and pears. I went to the pub. In class, a girl wanted to use my rubber. When I responded that I didn't have one, she rolled her eyes then took the pencil out of my hand. For lunch we had spaghetti and faggots. I told the cafeteria lady to hold the faggots. I learned to love bangers and mash. Later, at the fresher dance, some bloke wanted to bum a fag. I was clueless. I later asked a girl to shag. (This was years before Austin Powers). I assured her that I was good at shagging. Even explained that I had recently won a shagging contest. She said, "American?" I said, "Yep." She asked what shagging meant to me. I told her it's a dance. We became good friends. -
haha, you're lucky you didn't get a slap
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Well, I didn't say we became friends right away
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When I think of British, I always think of:
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I always thought they were improving with age.
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Tiny Tim and Benny Hill?
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
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Monty Python
and then, later on...
Fawlty Towers -
LOVE Fawlty Towers. Wish they had made more episodes.
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And let's not forget the venerable "Beeb" (BBC)
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Can we change that you Talty flowers?
You know the only ever filmed 12 episodes!
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Love James Herriott's stuff
and York is like a fairty tale village with thatched roofs and vendors roasting Chestnuts in the winter. -
playing rounders after a few beers on the one sunny day of the year -
As someone in the business of nation branding this is a very interesting discussion - thanks awfully for posting it. I think I will start a few more. Is it ok to ask what do you see as American? What do you see as Indian? What do you see as Afghan? Let's give it a go and try not to cause offence. After all, I am not offended.
PS - the streets where I am are not filled with vomit -
Cricket, Shakespeare and Macaulay's Minutes-
Nice!
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Adventureous.. -
The BBC
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Bad teeth-
Ok agreed...
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Instead of bad teeth you could say son of a bitch'n money grubbing dentists and a government too weak willed to take them on.
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bad food and great humor -
Fish and chips -
expensive-
NOT during the recession
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James Bond & Fish & Chips..lol-
"James....you always were a cunning linguist" one of my favourite quotes. Fond memory of going to see the latest Bond movie in Bratislavia with the team from the British Embassy. Men wore a tux, girls cocktail dress. Hilarious!
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streakers definitely!-
Too cold for that bollocks.
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Music Festivals! Glastonbury, Download, T in the Park, VFestival.
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Don't forget the poets, Chaucer, Milton,Browning, Barret-Browning,Keats, and so many more...-
And the Totton Linnet
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A lot of gentle man there, am I right?-
No, very wrong.
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It takes a long time to learn but the true gentle men are the ones who are built like brick out-houses and sound a bit cor blimey
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@ CoolingStar9
Have you read the Barrets of Wimpole Street? Elizabeth was already an established poet when she met Browning who was just beginning his career! -
football hooligans, daily mirror, shagging and beatles (kinda cover the whole spectrum there)
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On a Saturday, right cranelegs?
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Slagging off the Americans when secretly wishing we could be like them.
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Speak for yourself.
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Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Faulty Towers, Benny Hill.-
flowers in those gardens....
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What about British gardens? we chuck all our litter into the high st so that we can have nice gardens, and we train our dogs and cats to crap in the parks.
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Love English gardens!!!!!!!
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All those flowers to smell!!
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I consider you quite British now
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canals and tug boats. (favorite hiking place in UK) -
Seaman. -
Marks & Spencer Knickers -
Burberry, Barbour -
M.United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal,,,that's british:))
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