The Celebration Of All Things Quintessentially British
As the author of the thread (admittedly some years ago now) giving Americans a chance to hoot about what they loved about their country, I think it only suitable that we now have one about the UK.
C'mon chaps, what's not to love? We pronounce vowels properly, we invented everything you ever buggered up (democracy, mail, weapons of mass destruction, the language, global imperialism etc). There must be a billion things (an English billion, naturally) that you think about when you say “English”, or “British”. So what are they?
Is it that we say arse instead of ass (an animal a bit like a donkey to us), not sidewalk but pavement, we call a pussy a fanny and a fanny an arse? Is it that some members of our royal family achieve heights of immense public imbecility George W. Bush can only dream of? Is it that we can sound like Sean Astin playing Sam Gamgee in Lord of the Rings (although to be honest, he sounded more Irish than Westcountry to me), but come across on paper as sounding like Hugh Grant or Colin Firth?
Is it that we call our private school public schools, or that we invented BDSM because of them?
“Perkins, meet me after Latin for six of the best!”
“Rather, couldn't make it twelve, could you?”
Is there something y'all just happen to like our green and Sceptred isle, or is there just something you think is rather notable and quirky, even if it irritates the nipples off you? Then share it for fuck's sake, d'you expect me to do all the writing?
I'll start, even though it's somewhat pointless, because I already am English...
I think it's great we actually ran the world better than you, when we did it.
It's also quite ironic that when said state of affairs dissolved, it was mostly due to interference from American liberals that the Soviets were able to take over three quarters of Africa.
Okay chaps and chapesses, over to you. Please be aware that I will hasten to correct any stereotypical views like bad teeth and warm beer (teeth have been just fine since the marketing of proper dental care in the 70's and beer hasn't been warm since the 60's, following the invention of the draught pump).
As the author of the thread (admittedly some years ago now) giving Americans a chance to hoot about what they loved about their country, I think it only suitable that we now have one about the UK.
C'mon chaps, what's not to love? We pronounce vowels properly, we invented everything you ever buggered up (democracy, mail, weapons of mass destruction, the language, global imperialism etc). There must be a billion things (an English billion, naturally) that you think about when you say “English”, or “British”. So what are they?
Is it that we say arse instead of ass (an animal a bit like a donkey to us), not sidewalk but pavement, we call a pussy a fanny and a fanny an arse? Is it that some members of our royal family achieve heights of immense public imbecility George W. Bush can only dream of? Is it that we can sound like Sean Astin playing Sam Gamgee in Lord of the Rings (although to be honest, he sounded more Irish than Westcountry to me), but come across on paper as sounding like Hugh Grant or Colin Firth?
Is it that we call our private school public schools, or that we invented BDSM because of them?
“Perkins, meet me after Latin for six of the best!”
“Rather, couldn't make it twelve, could you?”
Is there something y'all just happen to like our green and Sceptred isle, or is there just something you think is rather notable and quirky, even if it irritates the nipples off you? Then share it for fuck's sake, d'you expect me to do all the writing?
I'll start, even though it's somewhat pointless, because I already am English...
I think it's great we actually ran the world better than you, when we did it.
It's also quite ironic that when said state of affairs dissolved, it was mostly due to interference from American liberals that the Soviets were able to take over three quarters of Africa.Okay chaps and chapesses, over to you. Please be aware that I will hasten to correct any stereotypical views like bad teeth and warm beer (teeth have been just fine since the marketing of proper dental care in the 70's and beer hasn't been warm since the 60's, following the invention of the draught pump).
