Something Typically British?

Question

What things do you think of as typically British?

Extra points will be awarded for unusual answers

Answer 1

double decker bus, red pillar phone box, fry up, wet weather! paddington bear

Answer 2

devonshire cream teas

Cornish pasties

Yorkshire puddings

wallice and gromit

cheese on toast

red and white striped swimming suits

99 ice cream cones

Answer 3

Fish and chips, afternoon tea, crumpets, double decker buses, bad service, unpredictable weather, yorkshire pudding and black pudding.

Answer 4

A hot water bottle.

Answer 5

Afternoon tea!

Answer 6

Very bad food.

Beans at breckfast and fish and chips with to much oil.

I can´t understand that geat britain owns indian dishes for centurys without learning to cook.

But i liked the rest of england.

Best wishes.

Sorry i forgot the terrible weather and a kind of Monarchie

that makes the whole world laugh.

Sorry.

Answer 7

A full english,eccles cakes,the scouse accent,the mersy ferries

Answer 8

Rain, rain

Cream teas

Wimbledon Tennis

The Wombles

Blackpool Rock

Sunday Roast

Watching Mary Poppins on New Years Day cos it always seems to be on then.

Growing up reading the Famous Five

Answer 9

Rain - sorry, but true

Answer 10

Curry and mosques.

What, you think it's not true?

Answer 11

Our dry sarcastic wit.  :)

Answer 12

Colonising, social welfare and never ever letting go of '66! Oh and very dry and very funny humour, many kings of comedy come from Britain.

Answer 13

cup of tea

sense of humour

the ability to laugh at yourself before others can

boasting about your silly mistakes and idiotic moments instead of showing off

fish and chips, sunday roast, british breakfast (yum!)

knowing that foreigns can be a bother, and yet, still welcome them cause they dont have the heart to turn them down

standing proudly for its nation and its uniqueness

be one of the first to give aid and protection to another country in need

I could go on and on

I'm so proud of being British!

Answer 14

Rain!!!

Answer 15

Eating chips out of the bag under a bus shelter to avoid the rain

Cups of tea dunked with Rich Tea biscuits

Drinking too much alcohol

Morris Dancing

Loosing on penalties to the Germans

Answer 16

Unrefrigerated beer, Chicken Tikka Marsala,  Branston Pickle, Queueing, comics like The Dandy, Beano and Viz,  Sir Ian McKellen's 'Richard III', Noel Coward in 'The Italian Job', Last Night of the Proms and the s*x Pistols...

and above all.....Radio 4,

the best non-music station in the world. Especially...

the Shipping News (I still don't know where North Utsire is) and the Archers theme tune.... which I agree with Billy Connolly should be our national anthem !

Actually what I think is so typical about Britain is there's nothing typical about it... it's a land of contrasts... long may it remain so.... we have more of the top 10 world restaurants than any other country... but have a reputation for the worst food...  we drink more champagne per head  than the French... but hate to be thought 'posh' or 'poncy' so declare ourselves a beer drinking nation.

We pride ourselves on our manners, but underneath it all we're a warrior race (esp the Celt part) ...which embarrasses us... but we're proud of it at the same time.

You got to love it .... a country as old as time itself and still changing... Long may it stay that way.