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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..
eating an ice cream cornet. "
IM HOWLINGGGG  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"- discussing the weather at length
- having a stiff upper lip
Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first "
It's not a discussion to be had, it does go in first. Stops the hot tea cracking the china  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Queuing and tutting at how long the queue is, grumbling with the person in front of you about it and having a full on psycho bitch moment if someone jumps in front
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Moan to self because someone didn't say thank you when you open the door for them that one time
Or..
Someone not acknowledging your kindness for letting them thru out of a junction lol"
Haha, I sarcastically say thank you when drivers don't stop at the give way sign, or when I let them past and they don't acknowledge. It really grinds my gears. (pun intended) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..
eating an ice cream cornet. "
Those are always the best days though, especially when the waves are coming over  |
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Being Welsh, reminding people that Britain isn't just England. That we definitely don't speak posh English, cockney or any other kind of English accent.
Being British to me is about loads of diversity in such a small area.
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Being Welsh, reminding people that Britain isn't just England. That we definitely don't speak posh English, cockney or any other kind of English accent.
Being British to me is about loads of diversity in such a small area.
It’s just an expression. People don’t tend to say ‘Very English’ as much. Many mannerisms are typically English but I’m sure many expressions are said as much by Welsh and Scots as us English.
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"No idea...because I'm Scottish
Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??"
Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.
When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)???? |
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"No idea...because I'm Scottish
Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??
Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.
When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)????"
I say Cambridge |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Queuing and tutting at how long the queue is, grumbling with the person in front of you about it and having a full on psycho bitch moment if someone jumps in front
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Im a serial tutter and eye roller
But if someone behind me has like 3 items and I have 58391057 I usually let that person go before me cos I’m a top notch lady
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Being British :-
Wake up in your SWEDISH bed , between your EGYPTIAN sheets. Step onto your MOROCCAN tiles and walk downstairs to eat your AMERICAN cereal and your IRISH sausages. Take in the news on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Dress in your ITALIAN suit put on your FRENCH shoes and drive your GERMAN car to work for a JAPANESE technology company. East a light CHINESE for your lunch. Travelling home, stop by for an INDIAN meal before watching a KOREAN film , arriving home and downing a small glass of AUSTRALIAN or NEW ZEALAND white while your partner sips a good CHILEAN red. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
Driving a British Racing Green Morgan Sports car with the hood down in the middle of winter, wearing the obligatory flying jacket and cloth cap. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Invading other countries and declaring their raw materials and people to now be your property
Worked quite well I thought.  "
To the Victor goes the Spoils and the ability to write history!  |
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"Being British :-
Wake up in your SWEDISH bed , between your EGYPTIAN sheets. Step onto your MOROCCAN tiles and walk downstairs to eat your AMERICAN cereal and your IRISH sausages. Take in the news on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Dress in your ITALIAN suit put on your FRENCH shoes and drive your GERMAN car to work for a JAPANESE technology company. East a light CHINESE for your lunch. Travelling home, stop by for an INDIAN meal before watching a KOREAN film , arriving home and downing a small glass of AUSTRALIAN or NEW ZEALAND white while your partner sips a good CHILEAN red. "
So.. Supportive of all economies and cultures but our own... I see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pompous, arrogant, believe the world revolves around little England
And that Britain is great …… Brexit has fucked that up lol
Btw am English living in Ireland, it’s funny watching from afar |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
South of Ipswich |
“There is no land like England, where’er the light of day be
There are no hearts like English hearts, such hearts of oak they be
There is no land like England, where’er the light of day be
There are no men like Englishmen, so tall and bold they be!
And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free
To foil and spoil the tyrant beneath the greenwood tree”
– Alfred Tennyson |
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By *adetMan
over a year ago
South of Ipswich |
“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.”
– Bill Bryson, American travel writer and author |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Pompous, arrogant, believe the world revolves around little England
And that Britain is great …… Brexit has fucked that up lol
Btw am English living in Ireland, it’s funny watching from afar "
The luck of the Irish eh? Poor sods. |
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"- discussing the weather at length
- having a stiff upper lip
Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first "
erm no it shouldn't tea bag water brew tea bag out milk then sugar if wanted |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Apologising if someone walks into you
Tea and biscuits
Telling everyone you meet how bad a service was without actually complaining to the company providing the service.
Asking a taxi driver or barber what time they finish and if they've been busy
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..
eating an ice cream cornet. "
My husbands idea of an ideal Sunday |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
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Custard
...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard 
I’m a really pretentious plonker and now call it, Crème anglaise (after seeing John Torode list it as such on Masterchef)  "
Blasphemy surely  |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
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Custard
...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard
I love custard! The French love their creme anglaise and have you ever had the Portuguese tart Pasteis de Nata
mmmmmm custard "
...and what's wrong with good ole' English custard tarts  |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"- discussing the weather at length
- having a stiff upper lip
Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first
It's not a discussion to be had, it does go in first. Stops the hot tea cracking the china "
buy better cups: simples. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
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Custard
...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard
I’m a really pretentious plonker and now call it, Crème anglaise (after seeing John Torode list it as such on Masterchef)
Blasphemy surely "
Creme Anglaise is a halfway house between Brandy sauce (minus the brandy bit) and custard. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"No idea...because I'm Scottish
Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??
Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.
When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)????"
I say English, cos that's my country of birth and mother tongue.
What's your mother tongue? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
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Custard
...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard
I love custard! The French love their creme anglaise and have you ever had the Portuguese tart Pasteis de Nata
mmmmmm custard
...and what's wrong with good ole' English custard tarts "
The pastry is always too soggy. I hate soggy bottoms on pies. Just pierce the foil tray, when the go in the oven. Natas are light and make a helluva mess, just like sausage rolls. |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
"There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy "
...are you sure they were so wrong on that front? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy
...are you sure they were so wrong on that front? "
Maybe not the crazy part |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Being British :-
Wake up in your SWEDISH bed , between your EGYPTIAN sheets. Step onto your MOROCCAN tiles and walk downstairs to eat your AMERICAN cereal and your IRISH sausages. Take in the news on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Dress in your ITALIAN suit put on your FRENCH shoes and drive your GERMAN car to work for a JAPANESE technology company. East a light CHINESE for your lunch. Travelling home, stop by for an INDIAN meal before watching a KOREAN film , arriving home and downing a small glass of AUSTRALIAN or NEW ZEALAND white while your partner sips a good CHILEAN red. "
Was this typed on an AMERICAN phone, built in CHINA? Did you go DUTCH went you nipped out for a curry? |
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