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17 Jun 2010, 10:15 am

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Being British means driving to a Irish pub in a German car to get a Belgian beer then get some Indian or Italian food on the way to your Polish home to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV with your Chinese phone.

Has anyone mentioned a full English breakfast. The epitome of British cuisine.

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17 Jun 2010, 10:16 am

Doctor Who.

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17 Jun 2010, 11:36 am

- The BBC
- Absurd humour or quite a good sense of humour in general (Monty Python, a bit of Fry and Laurie, Allo Allo, Coupling, Two packages of crisp and.... lots of other shows and ind. comedians)
- Premier League football (and cricket)
- Marmalade
- English Breakfast
- Old Time motorcycles (like Brough, Norton, Matchless, Triumph, BSA, others )

Well, lots of other things also. (maybe later)

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17 Jun 2010, 12:13 pm

-Mock The Week (came to my mind when I saw Erminea mention humour).
-Fish and chips, English breakfast, etc.
-Football, and lots of it. Though it's not actually a British game, we certainly adopted it a lot.

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17 Jun 2010, 12:19 pm

gemstone123 wrote:

Has anyone mentioned a full English breakfast. The epitome of British cuisine.

Combine it with a famous British (well, formerly) company like Cadburys and the Britishness just exceeds.

http://www.fatuous.co.uk/2010/01/30/cad ... breakfast/ You'd have to try it once. :wink:

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17 Jun 2010, 12:20 pm

Bentley and Rolls-Royce used to be sings of British luxury. Now they're both German.

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17 Jun 2010, 9:18 pm

British sweets (Crunchie, Mars, Smarties, anything Cadbury, etc.)
Driving on the left (not strictly British, but still)
Double Decker buses, especially Routemasters
The Beatles
Sausage rolls
Top Gear, Coronation Street, Mr. Bean, Rainbow, Sooty, etc.
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17 Jun 2010, 11:11 pm

Riding on the left side of the road.

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17 Jun 2010, 11:30 pm

The great British drummers of the 60s

Mick Avory
Ringo Starr
Charlie Watts
Keith Moon, just to name a few.

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18 Jun 2010, 1:26 am

Bad Teeth
Reaaaaallly old royalty
Epic Failure at keeping land in it's possession
Techno(More Europe in General)
The Beatles
Monty Python
Tea & Posture combined in one Meal
A failure to be fat
The English language
Confusing Soccer with Football
English Muffins
Top Hats
The overuse of "Ello Guvna"
Doctor Who(Have they EVER been to America, or any earthly location outside of the United Kingdom?)
Confusing Fries with Chips

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18 Jun 2010, 3:20 am

People's brazenness.
People's sense of humour.
Social and moral liberalism.

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18 Jun 2010, 3:28 am

Cold and damp

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18 Jun 2010, 3:41 am

The cockney accent of course.
The real old one that only natives can understand.

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18 Jun 2010, 3:52 am

The British culture is not glamorous at all.

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18 Jun 2010, 4:31 am

Secularism.
Being a nanny state.
Perception of a class structure.

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18 Jun 2010, 4:41 am

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Epic Failure at keeping land in it's possession

Wanton cruelty to the common comma and failing history forever in the same sentence, nice going.

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Confusing Soccer with Football

The world plays football. Americans "strap on forty pounds of protective gear to play rugby."

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