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Being British...What do you think of as being most British?

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I have to do a talk on this for school...

So far I have:

Fish and chips

Sunday Roast

Monty Python

Afternoon tea

NHS

High Quality of Education

Queuing

The Beatles

The Queen

The royal Mail

Anyone got anymore?

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Winston Churchill

Eastenders

Democracy

Going the pub after work on a Friday

Moaning(but only quielty to each other)

Politeness

Pop culture,Indie Culture, the Hacienda!

And the sad fact that nobody is really proud to be British anymore...

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Rain and more rain , and even more rain lol

teens gone crazy/yob culture

1 fooked up government

X factor

coronation st

curry houses lol
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Only fools and horses

East End
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chavs - america and austrailia don't have them ! haha.

the ability to have two types of tea - ladies tea ( sipped sweet and weak ) and builders tea (strong, no suger )

getting smashed on a weekend, the British have a reputation for binge drinking.

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the word british makes me think of anything from the Victorian age so crinolines, servants, Dickens etc and the Commonwealth (not that I approve), and the Anglican Church and fights between Catholics and Prodestants
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Marmite

Mince pies

Chav's

Slag's

Pub's

Nightclubs

Wimbledon lol

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We do have the dear old BBC, a non-commercial channel that doesn't bombard you with adverts.
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TAX!!!

Inventions!
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Being Irish
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priemier ship football (e.g chelsea man u arsenal liver pool and recently man city)
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Pheasant shooting

Sailing regattas

Cricket

Pims

Apple Pie

Marmalade

Black Pudding

Football

Rugby

Cadbury

Gin

Tonic

Whisky

Morris Dancers

Steam Engine

Jet Engine

BBC

Oxford

Big Ben

Spitfire

Bletchley

English Breakfast

Toasted tea cakes

Civil War Enactment

Tea

High Quality Broadcasting and Journalism

Urban park lands

Bravery in the face of adversity

James Bond

Rolls Royce

Mini Cooper

Rubbarb and vanilla together in puddings.

Beefeaters (not the pubs)

Indie music

Betfair

Inclusive

Comedy
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Cup of tea

Pint of beer

Pubs

Football

Cricket

Politeness

The BBC

Bank Holidays

Rain

Moaning about the weather

Day at the seaside

Queen's speech on Christmas Day

Council Houses

Chips

Oxford

Cambridge

Shakespeare

Jane Austen

The Bronte Sisters

Charles Dickens

God Save the Queen

Trooping the colour

Battle of Britain

Edward Elgar and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches

Rich Tea Biscuits

Brown Sauce

Queues

Moaning about Queues

Wimbledon

Strawberries

Making fun of Americans

Big Ben

London

Brit Pop

Rule Britannia

Bloody h**l

Bollocks

Wanker

Sodding

Shagging

Tw*t

Git
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Eastenders ha

London!

Quality Universities

World Class Reputation

So So Much Music/Art/Shakespeare

Rivals With Other European Countries

The Old British Empire

Football!

Cricket

Rugby.

The Pound

ya know
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Benny Hill

Tweed

A stiff upper lip

g*y tenors (Freddy Mercury, Elton John, Boy George, George Michael, etc)

BBC

"Knickers" (the word, not actual underpants)

Bugger

Bollocks

Sodding

Shagging

Git
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Time after time

After crime after crime

They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered

Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name

So he could take the blame if it's not all a game

With bible in one hand and a sword in the other

They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers

And fathers, and sisters and brothers

With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art

Way of life and culture

Tribal in structure

We had a civilisation

When they were still neanderthal nations

We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia

Aboriginal Australia

The African people with their history so deep

And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap

You came from Germany, from France, from England

And from Spain

From Belgium and from Portugal

You all done much the same

You took what was not yours

Went against your own bible

You broke your own laws

Just to out do the rival

But did you ever apologize

For the hundreds and millions of lives

You destroyed and terrorised

Or have you never realized

Did you never feel shame

For what was done in your country's name

And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane

And still they teach you in your school

About those glorious days of rule

And how it's your destiny to be

Superior to me

But if you've any kind of mind

You'll see that all human kind

Are the children of this earth

And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free

Inside our minds we hold, hold the key

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Bangers N Mash

Cockney

Haggis

Angel of The North

Remember Scotland is part of Britain and I think Wales too.

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