What are considered to be typical english traits?

Question

no english people to answer this one please!

Answer 1

What a cheek! I am English and i don't care, i am still answering this. All you people who are saying the typical Hugh Grant stereotype are wrong, he is a posh london gentlemen, there are many parts of england so be more specific about your whereabouts mate! It's like someone asking oh what are American traits? No americans to answer please. Me saying anyone like Sarah Jessica Parker.

Answer 2

The ability to form a queue and stay in it.

Answer 3

saying sorry all the time..oops i'm english....sorry

Answer 4

They are very proper and polite, to the point of being stiff.  They love to brag about going to Eton and their fourteenth cousin who is a Baronet.  They love to drink tea with milk and sugar.  They look down their noses on the Scottish, Irish, Canadians, Americans, and Australians.  They always carry a bumbershoot, or brolly, with them.  They wear tweed and bowler hats.  They tend to be butlers.

In case you hadn't noticed, these are huge generalizations.

Answer 5

Haha ! my turn....Bad teeth....only bathe Bi-weekly....all drive ugly little jalopies....gloomy...no sense of humor....dry....they think we are a bunch of wankers....BUT...intelligent....peace loving....congenial....proper....friendl... are not at war with us ( the list gets smaller daily) so that's a good thing....They have great writers!....They are close to that place where weed is legal to smoke....They have better house music than we do...

Answer 6

common use of the words "bloody" and "bloke", high tempers, pale skin, quiet women that wear sunglasses and put their chin in the air, obnoxiously hot guys with obnoxiously hot accents.

Answer 7

Witty sense of humor but very aware of their own shortcomings.  Humble to a fault (Hugh Grant types).  Handles things well because they don't get too shocked when bad things happen.  I watched the Open and Paddy Harrington seems like a very grounded, happy guy and that's how I see most british men of that generation.

I love to read Maeve Binchy and all of her great characters.  Her pragmatic Irish women always win me over.  Not English, I realize, but similar, in my eyes anyway.

Answer 8

None of your damned business, we are what we are and will remain so without snide remarks from guttersnipe trailer park wretches from Shitkicker, Mississippi or where ever you reside This sort of question brings out the worst in bad taste in Americans and the best of wit and quick witted answers from true blue blooded Englishmen, note English, not Scot, Welsh or god forbid Irish, but English. Does that answer your inane and puerile question?

Answer 9

OK wish I never opened this one up, prejudice!

Answer 10

Shouldn't that be: quintessentially English traits

The English enjoy satire and wit and, of course witticisms. Their humour is frequently used to gently mock themselves. As a collective they’re quite subtle in their manner and mannerisms. They speak softly, but aren’t oft softly spoken, though can be. They’re usually very grounded and don’t ‘big themselves-up’.

Answer 11

If you want typical English traits, then you need typically English people to answer the question as they know better than anyone else what their traits are.  English people are very straight and down to earth so you will get the truth!!!!!

Answer 12

- Accents

- Words like "bloody" or "cheerio" or "bloke" or "bogey"

- Like to drink tea

- Very polite and proper

Answer 13

Moaning, queueing, saying sorry when someone shoves you, moaning, discussing weather, drinking tea in mugs, catching a double decker bus, and moaning.

Answer 14

I'm not technically completely English. So i'll answer this, drinking lots of tea, playing cricket. It depends if you mean modern day English people, or the traditional stereotype.