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  • What makes us British?
  • womble72
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    Today my wife has been living in the UK as a British Citizen for the past 20 years. We want to compile a photograph album of her doing brisitsh things. Things like queuing etc. The funnier the better. Any ideas?

    TheBrick
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    Moaning.
    Passive aggressive eye rolls
    Huffing
    Tutting
    Eating ice cream in the rain.
    Sitting on the beach in the rain.

    tpbiker
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    Being laughed at by the rest of Europe..

    And blue passports..

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    kimbers
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    BillMC
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    Apologising when someone treads on your toe.

    perchypanther
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    An inability to cope with ambient temperatures exceeding 21 degrees centigrade fir more than a week.

    tomhoward
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    A bullet wound in the foot?

    TheBrick
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    A timeline of a night out. Preloading with cheap booze. Crap chain pub. Bad danceing. Vommit. Kebab. Passed out hugging kebab on front lawn.

    thebees
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    Parkrun.
    Enjoying our beautiful countryside on a mountain bike.
    Boating on the Thames in the summer.
    Raving.
    Chilling out with a cold beer at a festival.
    Drinking in a traditional pub (especially in winter with a real fire on the go).
    Eating fish and chips(especially at the seaside)
    Enjoying a roast dinner with the family.
    Going out for a curry !
    Standing on top of a mountain in Snowdonia on a clear day.
    Surfing in Cornwall or Devon.
    Being polite.
    Pondering The Henge and other stone circles.
    Laughing at ourselves.

    thebees
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    The Detectorists

    stevied
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    Dogging?

    Spin
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    A fanatical devotion to the past.

    taxi25
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    Having a picnic in an A40 layby.

    willard
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    Queuing.
    Opening every conversation with a statement about the weather.
    1966 world cup.
    Relating everything in Europe back to either WW1 or WW2.
    Bowler hats.
    Tweed.
    Whiskey.
    Stilton.

    binners
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    Getting knocked up at 16
    Really bad tattoos
    Cooking lager in Wetherspoons
    Casual Racism

    footflaps
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    Crap tattoos
    Inability to have just one drink and not get smashed
    Casual racism
    Overt racism but had no idea hating Jews or Poles was racist (as they’re not black)
    Obsession with white trainers
    Inability to string two words together without swearing
    Dropping litter everywhere
    Football hooliganism
    Petty vandalism
    A belief we single handedly won the second world war saving America and Russia in the process and could do so again tomorrow
    Tacit acceptance of Islamaphobia / Antisemitism

    johnx2
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    `Fish and chips out of newspaper. But I guess you’d have to supply your own newspaper these days. I hate change. Alternatively why not stage a reenactment of this classic scene…

    https://images.app.goo.gl/SXppNFboDy36Pfkh7

    Try again

    Nope.

    https://i2.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ad191957955cxo0_zswaaaecum.jpg

    qwerty
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    .

    qwerty
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    oh – bow locks

    bacon sarnie & a cup of tea!

    centralscrutinizer
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    Go abroad on holiday and make drunken ****s of yourselves.

    SaxonRider
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    A stubborn refusal to look beyond our shores at places that do things better, and appropriate that good practice for ourselves. But that’s hard to capture in a photo.

    DrJ
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    Today my wife has been living in the UK as a British Citizen for the past 20 years. We want to compile a photograph album of her doing brisitsh things. Things like queuing etc. The funnier the better. Any ideas?

    My wife has been living in the UK as an EU national for a large part of the last 20 years, but now owing to some time spent out of the country is at risk of being kicked out in the event of no other deal being agreed, so I’m finding it hard to see the funny side of being British just now.

    IdleJon
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    A stubborn refusal to look beyond our shores at places that do things better, and appropriate that good practice for ourselves.

    Or an ability to see the good things in other countries, claim them for Blighty and then plead ignorance about who cocked up the world.

    footflaps
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    The ability to go on holiday to Spain and then complain it’s full of Spanish people….

    ernielynch
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    Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.

    igm
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    Lots of immigration over a lot of years.

    Most of us are immigrants, just a generation or two removed.

    trailwagger
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    Queueing and a stiff upper lip !

    grahamt1980
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    Boring answer, but it is having a british passport.we don’t choose the country of our birth so why would we feel some random allegiance to it?

    taxi25
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    Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.

    This is true, it’s also a British thing to fail to acknowledge it.

    bikebouy
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    I’m going to share this thread with MayBot and LyingBloHard.

    Y’know, just so they fully understand the underlying feelings the UK citizens have for “their” country.

    If most were posted as a joke, there seems little humour in the written word.

    footflaps
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    Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.

    Second by the looks of it..

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/2enJ8DJ]Racism in Europe[/url] by Ben Freeman, on Flickr

    https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2018-being-black-in-the-eu_en.pdf

    dogbone
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    £2 000 000 (usually from some Russian bureaucrat who’s meant to earn £20k a year).

    https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-investor

    thestabiliser
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    Hating everything and doing **** all about it except whining

    kayak23
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    Strolling along the prom prom prom, where the brass band plays.

    ton
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    being disliked by the rest of the world. deservedly.

    kilo
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    being disliked by the rest of the world. deservedly.

    No that’s just the English

    trumpton
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    morris dancing
    the pearly kings and queens.
    raving.

    gordimhor
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    What made me British?
    383,337 other people 😈

    MSP
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    No that’s just the English

    True, the scots also hate themselves.

    Nico
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    Lots of immigration over a lot of years.
    Most of us are immigrants, just a generation or two removed.

    What is most truly British is patting ourselves on the back for our fantastic <your attribute here> while assuming this attribute is non-existent elsewhere – though even this isn’t particularly British.

    But to answer the OPs question I’d say a trip to a seaside resort (out of season!) would be a mine of photo opportunities, followed by a visit to that London for some jellied eels and middle-eastern food from a pop-up.

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