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this site is read by people worldwide but has a tendancy to be american or canadian based as i presume a majority of posters are from those lands...which is great. but i'm gonna try something...how about things british that i love...oh yes lets see....um

The spring
guinness cold and black
irony

[martin ewen]

Sarcasm
The entire english language
The pronounciation of the last letter of the alphabet as 'zed' rather than 'zee' Damn that sesame street, damn it to hell.
Stiff upper lips.
Glastonbury
Bottles of milk on the doorstep
Marmite
Boiled anything
Real curry
Street theatre as viable social expression rather than premasticated preordained corporate pap.
Castles made of real stone.
James Bond
The lower classes.
BBC
Monty Python
Spike Milligan (I know he was Irish, its not pedantic, its pedANTic.)
Hoopal

[Butterfly Man]

A to Zed

Pubs
Lucy Wisdom
kippers
the Mutoid Waste Company
Bobbie's outfit
the Tube
Fish & Chips served in newspapers
the word "bollocks"
double decker buses
Page 3 girls
KeanO
pound notes
Morris Minors
schoolgirl uniforms
building a joint

[Peter Voice]

Jolly good idea.

*The Magna Carta
*Fish and Chips
*Shakespearen comedies
*Absurdist humour and the word "droll"
*Whisk(e)y, whichever way you spell it.
*Stilton cheese and real pork pies
*Their share of the Anglo-Judaic legal system
*Hereford and Angus cattle
*The judge at Bow St. court that believed possession of up to 8 ounces of hashish (for personal use) was legal in Australia
*Guy Fawkes
*The "Museum of Silly Machines", Cardiff, Wales


and, of course, Debbie Robinson.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Austin Powers
the asterix

[worldwidese]

High Streets. You can stroll them, socialize with storeowners and customers, and you don't have to drive miles away to the Mall to buy that one necessary item.

Friendly Pubs.

Smarts. A huge percentage of the Comedy, Drama, Reality and Lifestyle TV shows we see here are knock offs of stuff that originated yhere.

[$cottbox]

hmmmm...

>Arcitecture
>Beatboxers
>Pounds
>Accent
>Bronson guy (Virgin Records)
>The train tunnel to France, watched how it was made on Discovery channel, cool stuff
>Teeth
>Ali G
>Buckingham Palace
>Double Deckers buses
>Manchester United
>Queen on Canadian Coins
>Fergie
>Altoids
>Man Made forests
>Right beside Ireland
>Bush X
>Beatles
>Use to be the command and conquer country(job for the States now)
>Posh Spice

[newyorkstreetdean]

Izzard


"I think the gun helps"

[Daniel Craig]

Boddingtons.

The CREAM of Manchester!

[le pire]

White Lightning
the Wurzels
Countdown
Mushy Peas
Hidie-Hi!
Anne Robinson
Mr. Men
Morris Dancing
Tesco
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Bognor Regis
Everything for £1
Harry Ramsdens
Daily Sport

[ben woodling]

heres my bit...

• bowler hat
• john clease
• rowan atkinson
• haggis and charlie
• covent garden
• teletubbies *shudder*
• handlebar moustace
• pronoucing sounds as words e.g "air hair lair" = "oh hello"
• faggots
• school girl uniforms
• queen (the band)

[Woofnah]

...and now for ... oh never mind

Gary Numan
Monty Python
Wallace and Gromit
Shakespeare
The Crown Jewels
The word "git" (as in "you stupid git")
The spelling "grey" (as opposed to "gray")
The "our" at the end of words instead of just "or"

and my all time favorite: Ben Jennings.

[Evan Young]

My fav Brit contribution:
the USA


I think we already had this thread last year and everyone came up with the same crap as they are now. the only thing I like about that island is it's high standards for theatre. lets do europe instead.

[grOmmet]

Things British that I love...

Traditional cask conditioned REAL Ale..

The PINT glass with handle..

My Imperial measure Quart pewter tankard..

Inventors!! [We so often come up with ORIGINAL concepts over here.. ]

The Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band [RIP Viv]..

Characters and Eccentrics..

Mymate Marmite..

That's really got me thinking, now.....

[Danny Hustle]

Two words..

Jammie Dodgers

Everything else is Shite when compared to a proper jam filled biscut.