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Seeing as the Jubilympics has got us all feeling slightly less depressed than normal about our national identity, and 'catastrophisation' hasn't been needed just yet. Whats the most British thing [b]EVER![/b]
Speaking loudly and slowly to foreigners perhaps?
I've just sat in a steady grey, northern drizzle eating fish and chips. How British is that?!! 😀 Thoroughly enjoyable it was too
Your nominations please.......
Monarchy and associated pageantry - kettle on!
Radio 4
Muffin tops.
bbq in the rain.
Curry
Subjugating other countries and expropriating all their natural resources?
Fish 'n' chips, sat in a seafront shelter out of the rain, looking out to sea.
Drinking in a Beer garden while it's raining and sheltering under a parasol.
Kebab.
I was going to say curry.
CountZero - I was actually sat by a pond on a picnic bench. Close! 😀
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er.. Britain
Queuing.
Or waiting for a bus and then seeing three come along at once.
If the fish and chips was washed down with a mug of tea, I think you've just won your own thread.
A love of jingoism
Drinking in a Beer garden while [b]it's raining[/b] and sheltering under a [b]parasol[/b].
Misplaced optimism. 😀
well the top google result for "as British as" is actually fish & chips.
I'd have to agree but for the fact that I can't get a decent fish and chips round here for love nor money.
so I'm going to say cuppa tea and a bacon sandwich.
Queuing.
Nah, the Canadians are pretty awesome at that too.
Nothing better than getting to a ski lift in BC and not having rude frenchies scraping all over your snowboard/skis trying to barge ahead.
They form an efficient system of occasionally allowing people in front without even thinking, it's awesome 🙂
The only truly British thing in the entire world is Britain. The island itself.
Colonialism
Sorry to mention it but I think you`ll find it's - Apologising.
Pearly Kings
Probably a guardsman in full kit or Tower bridge
The Class System
David Attenborough
Sand flavoured ice cream on a windy beach in a cheap cagoule.
Humour that makes you wonder if you should be laughing or phoning the police to report an offence.
A fight outside a chip shop....
A kind of weary resignation, with endless cups of tea as a coping mechanism.
ton thats a German!
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Stiff upper lips
And marmite.... BEURKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I once won a monthly photo comp and had to choose the theme for the next month. I chose 'Britishness' and then this was my entry:
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I knew I should have built a sandcastle and stuck a flag in it, but it was pissing down!
CountZero - I was actually sat by a pond on a picnic bench. Close!
But no banana 😆
Were you having to fight off marauding feathered rats trying to steal your chips, tho'?
Sadly, bitterness and grudge-bearing.
slainte ❓ rob
That's a cracking shot Alex! Proper 'speaks a thousand words' stuff!
Punk.
Both rubbish and very good at the same time.
Moaning about the rain/lack of rain, that it's hot/cold, binge drinking, fighting, moaning/not moaning at the same time.
All of the above done in a polite way with a simmering undercurrent of aggression 😆
Saying sorry for things beyond our control (i.e. sorry about the weather) and we used to have the best self deprecating humour in the world.
CountZero. No flying rats but I was being eyed up supiciously by a bloody big Heron stood 6' away from me. And there's the ever-present danger of the Canada Geese mugging you 😉
Cheers Binners!
Some fish and chips on a union jack plate with a union jack flag stuck in them, being carried by Bradley Wiggins in his Team GB cycling top (and bowler hat) with a copy of The Times under his arm, on an open-top London bus going past Big Ben, with Land of Hope and Glory playing very loudly, being cheered by pearly kings and queens who are drinking pint mugs of tea and eating chicken tikka masala. Whilst being rained on.
British to the extreeem.
in a couple of weeks time, I (a Scot) will be piloting a narrow boat across the Pontcysyllte aqueduct (in wales) en route to a pub in Shropshire (England) named after [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mytton ]this guy[/url]
Take your pick of Britishness - awesome engineering, pubs, celebrating mentalness
A monocled bulldog wearing a bowler hat, eating fish and chips in a red telephone box on a overcast day.