One HUGELY great thing about Great Britain in this day and age, is that I can be an Atheist Republican or any other damn thing I choose to be and no-one is going to chop my head off for it. In fact, I’m protected from having that happen. 8)

I’m a proud Englishman.

Republicans and other riff-raff should be shipped off to an overseas territory, somewhere like Montserrat maybe. 😀

Long live the Queen.

🙄

Stuff I love about the UK

Attitudes – diversity and tolerance ( in the main)

Countryside – endless variety from the farmlands to the green rolling hills to the jagged mountains

History and tradition – from the morrismen to the beltane fire folk

And of course the people

We are the minority in our own country now!
How Great is that?

Thanks for (eventually!) joining in, TJ! 😀

Who is we? and how are you a minority now?

Sod this I’m going out to play in the mud.

bren2709 – Member

We are the minority in our own country now!
How Great is that?

I think we know where that’s going…

I’m not a bandwagonist flag waver, but it its nice to see everyone come together over something which isn’t poxy football… 🙂
Gawd bless the queen and all those who sail in her.

it its nice to see everyone come together over something

^^This^^

Lots of people smiling in the rain today!

I think we’re “coming together” about the country in this thread, not Royalty, specifically.

Oh and beer. real beer served in real pubs. From

to this

to this

I think I’m quite fortunate to have been born into an ordinary family in the UK in the late 20th century, although being born in most other (northern, non-communist-bloc) European countries would have been fine too.

Mr Woppit – Member

One HUGELY great thing about Great Britain in this day and age, is that I can be an Atheist Republican or any other damn thing I choose to be and no-one is going to chop my head off for it. In fact, I’m protected from having that happen.

Indeed,

….but the masses are ignorant Daily Mail/Express/Sun reading pseudo-christian (eg. very-non-practising CofE) royalists and no politician would dare to suggest changing that.

Let’s be grateful for our pleasant, comfortable, accommodating country, but let us not confuse that with an anachronistic, pseudo-divinely-apppointed, feudal, hereditary, life-long monarch sailing down the Thames.

I used to cycle past the Bay Malton on my commute.

As someone on the tellybox said yesterday – why couldn’t we have such a large celebration of British-ness when it was VE Day? That would at least have been celebrating the contribution of the ordinary man and woman in the street, of all races and religions, and not the dubious contribution of a wealthy, unelected, white christian elite.

rossi46 – Member

The Isle Of Man TT- where else in the world can that happen? Well, Macau…..

Ireland, every other weekend.

Proud to not be British. 😆

I see a republican joke going round at the moment:

“Typical. It’s Jubilee weekend and it won’t stop bloody reigning”

Shame really, I’m going to a Jubilee BBQ with a street party outside and it looks like we’re going to have to set the gas cooker inside to ‘burnt’.

Jubilee? stuff the jubilee 🙂 of no interest to me whatsoever and judging by what I see around here of little interest at all here.

I have no great hatred for the royal family – merely considering them an irrelevance to modern britain

TJ – so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

So you cannot be lazy and also dislike/be indifferent to the royals?
I dont believe in god but I dont work easter either mainly because the place i work is shut and I have no choice just like Tuesday

Odd point

merely considering them an irrelevance to modern Britain

+1. They do represent the pinnacle of what I don’t like about this country.

We have stagnated, we need to evolve beyond monarchy. They sit atop of a very crooked tree.

bren2709 – Member

TJ – so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

I work in a 24/7 profession so it makes zero difference to me

bren2709 – Member
TJ – so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

ROFL! Is the standard then that you don’t have to work it? I have had to work every single fcking bank holiday there is in my job as a contractor at a location open to the public on bank holidays, where the permanent staff are on a rota, but I receive no cover, and I only get paid time. When time = minimum wage, you’ll perhaps sympathise.

When attacks on bank holiday working are the tool of a bully, am I the bullying victim also Bren?

The Duke of Edinburgh (AKA Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) does me proud

The quintessential English gentleman.

Another thing I am proud of that the UK does is the contribution to popular music – for many decades in many forms of music teh UK has been a key player and remains so to this day.

Creative arts in general but in popular music we really are major worl power

I think we’re “coming together” about the country in this thread, not Royalty, specifically.

This!

Ireland, every other weekend.

Well yes, I love Ireland too 😀

The Duke of Edinburgh (AKA Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) does me proud

Still don’t get the texting dog, Ernie, but that made me laugh like a drain!

To add to CFH’s list

Real Ale Pubs
Steak & Kidney Pudding
Pims
Great British Breakfast
Pork Pies

Fish and Chips, fine stout/ale/beer/cider…..

Amusing place names……

Pretty castles in pretty landscapes….

Mint Sauce…..

I’m not proud to be British.

Being able to spell barbecue correctly, and knowing what is, and perhaps more importantly what is not, an acronym.

Pimms No.1
Gin & Tonic
Lawn bowls
Croquet
A room temperate real beer instead of a blast frozen piss water lager
Ploughmans lunch
Afternoon tea
Motorsports
Roundabouts
Discussing the variable and unpredictable weather
Loving the French and despising the Americans (or vice versa for the lower echelons)
Lawns, and mowing of

TuckerUK – Member

Being able to spell barbecue correctly

Barbeque?

Sitting in a Scittish cafe bedecked inUnion Flags.

EDIT: the cafe not me!

I’m not proud to be British

I sort of agree. You should be proud of what you do and how you behave, not what you happen to be and have no control over…

There’s loads I love about the old place though.

Being characteristically under excited about the jubilee, rather than whopping and hollering. Cause I is English innit.

Really though? Tea. Uncompromisingly a habitual stalwart englishism that has a wide variety of reputable capabilities whilst it’s use is globally known as an “english thing” (although it’s not).

All hail Tea.

Being able to spell barbecue correctly, and knowing what is, and perhaps more importantly what is not, an acronym.

Doesn’t it make you ashamed rather than proud ?

After all I’m deeply embarrassed that the education offered to the masses is so poor, that many cannot correctly spell this vital foreign import into British culture.

“British Institutions” that are in fact not.

Tea
Curry
English Naval Rum

Love it 😆

(i hate tea, im a coffee kinda bloke)

After all I’m deeply embarrassed that the education offered to the masses is so poor, that many cannot correctly spell this vital foreign import into British culture.

Good point.