Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home,

grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of all things foreign!

Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy

people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

to note i am british

so am i ,sometimes not always proud of it though

You better watch out for the PC brigade Boater. Maybe there is a TV member from Pakistan who can scream "racist" for us

You better watch out for the PC brigade Boater. Maybe there is a TV member from Pakistan who can scream "racist" for us

well i read the topic, reread it, then reread it again, and then sent it to my brother who read it, who then sent it to his boss, again they read it, then they forwarded it to the Human Rights Council to recheck for racial contents who in turn sent it to the international department for racial awareness who concluded that it was OK............

But after this i am sure the PC brigade will be after me again, but this time i have checked lol

Maybe there is a TV member from Pakistan who can scream "racist" for us

no reference to pakistan mentioned

so am i ,sometimes not always proud of it though

only mentioned this for the PC people

Well, I'm Irish and we do exactly the same. Couldn't we say the same from most 'western' countries?

Well, I'm Irish and we do exactly the same. Couldn't we say the same from most 'western' countries?

Absolutely, I find it racist and offensive to assume that these things are purely British

I take offence to the offensive, rascist comment " purely British ". It is a total nonsense to type such drivel, as all know the great people from the sainted Isle are ALL !!! pure by nature................It does not need to be said.

I take deep offence to this - I am ENGLISH and to be lumped togrther with all those skirt-wearing caber-tossing sheep-strangling primitives to the North of us or the sheep-chasing choir-singing whingeing set of trolls to the West is unacceptable.

Then there's the Geordies, Scousers, Mancunians and Brummies.

But I like me Mum.

I take deep offence to this - I am ENGLISH and to be lumped togrther with all those skirt-wearing caber-tossing sheep-strangling primitives to the North of us or the sheep-chasing choir-singing whingeing set of trolls to the West is unacceptable.

Then there's the Geordies, Scousers, Mancunians and Brummies.

But I like me Mum.

Well said and good for you ( although I prefer a Fa spray myself )

I take deep offence to this - I am ENGLISH and to be lumped togrther with all those skirt-wearing caber-tossing sheep-strangling primitives to the North of us or the sheep-chasing choir-singing whingeing set of trolls to the West is unacceptable.

Then there's the Geordies, Scousers, Mancunians and Brummies.

But I like me Mum.

Well said and good for you ( although I prefer a Fa spray myself )

I adore mater - but my roll-on is 'demob'

I take deep offence to this - I am ENGLISH and to be lumped togrther with all those skirt-wearing caber-tossing sheep-strangling primitives to the North of us or the sheep-chasing choir-singing whingeing set of trolls to the West is unacceptable.

Then there's the Geordies, Scousers, Mancunians and Brummies.

But I like me Mum.

Im deeply offended! (although I admit to one of the accusations...although which one it is i leave up to you to decide). You have offended my delicate sensibilities, you southern pansy you

Perhaps just a good shower & soap is needed - but I don't want to start another international incident after John Coates, the head of Australia's Olympic team, commented on the 2 British girls that won medals yesterday, "not bad for a country that has no swimming pools and very little soap".

Needless to say the headlines in Britain read something like, "Aussie Games play gets dirty!" and this from The Australian, "Poms in lather over hygiene crack"

http://www.theage.com.au/news/off-the-field/poms-in-lather-over-hygiene-crack/2008/08/13/1218306954327.html

It all seems like a bit of banter to me, or is this the sort of sledging the English sports teams object to.

I'm off for a shower ....

Perhaps just a good shower & soap is needed - but I don't want to start another international incident after John Coates, the head of Australia's Olympic team, commented on the 2 British girls that won medals yesterday, "not bad for a country that has no swimming pools and very little soap".

Needless to say the headlines in Britain read something like, "Aussie Games play gets dirty!" and this from The Australian, "Poms in lather over hygiene crack"

http://www.theage.com.au/news/off-the-field/poms-in-lather-over-hygiene-crack/2008/08/13/1218306954327.html

It all seems like a bit of banter to me, or is this the sort of sledging the English sports teams object to.

I'm off for a shower ....

Heard Coates say that live on tv. Couldn't believe that someone in his position, and on that occassion, would make a soap dodger joke!

Although I did have a good laugh.

With the N.Zeders, the Brits have a sense of humour for this type of banter most of the time. Couldn't do so with many nationalities.

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home,

I'm not British so can't comment on most of the observations, but I have to admit that the above highlighted quote shows a discerning quality.

cheers

onzestan

Oh no, not another Britain bashing thread! Look if you lot don't like it here why don't you all just bu66er off back......................................?

Hold on a minute, a lot of us aren't "here".

Okay, Okay. Look if you don't like it in Britain why don't you just bu66er off back there and get something to complain about. And for those of you in Britain I offer my sincere condolences and a bar of Wrights Coal Tar soap (used only once).

Not offended. Not amused. It's just not funny.

Do you know the best things to come out of Britain?

Yeah we don't know either.

(it's a joke Joyce)

CB

The google ad at the bottom of this page is for "Emigrate to Canada" Apparently if you have a nett worth of $300,000 you can leave Britain with all that horrible weather and emigrate to Canada.

CB

The google ad at the bottom of this page is for "Emigrate to Canada" Apparently if you have a nett worth of $300,000 you can leave Britain with all that horrible weather and emigrate to Canada.

CB

i just noticed that one as well

Perhaps replacing 'being British' by 'being a Sun reader' would make it that much truer.

Perhaps replacing 'being British' by 'being a Sun reader' would make it that much truer.

The Brits are the only people I can think of that allow Germans to run their country .....since 1714..........

...hope I get away with that one...

And the Dutch before that

People who know their history!

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as Euro English (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f".

This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing"th" by "z" and "W" by "V". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as Euro English (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f".

This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing"th" by "z" and "W" by "V". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

Robski - why have you reverted to American English?

The Brits are the only people I can think of that allow Germans to run their country .....since 1714..........

...hope I get away with that one...

No chance, old son.

The import of Royals has a long tradition in England - in this case it was a hundred years before they could speak English, and another hundred years before they realised that the British thought they were the purveyors of a particularly sweet gateau, rather than Royals. They then changed their family name to Windsor, after the tart.

(They've always been more partial to tarts than to cakes).

But basically the idea was to have a head of state that controlled nothing, committed to nothing, produced nothing and ignored the politicians entirely. So a German was an obvious choice.

Being British means that you could wake up this morning (Monday 18th August) and know that we are THIRD in the medals table in the Olympics, behind China and Phelps.