UK! What pops into your head?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Dauphin
You [the British] take a delicious oriental infusion - and dump cow juice in it. You invent a game [cricket] which no one else understands and the whole world still whips you at it. Your favourite dish is... curry!? [Shot of participants in an English Civil War battle re-enactment queueing to use a portable lavatory] Nowadays, even your Civil Wars are...civilised. And when it comes to sex, we all know what you prefer [shot of a cup of tea]

I prefer a cup of tea in a cup to sexual intercourse in a cup.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

A nation of contrasts.

One the one hand we have a truly spectacular megalithic culture of ancient history. On the other hand we spend far more time celebrating the "history" of the crappier parts of the last century. We're spiritually mired in 1950.

We are reckoned to by the global home of politeness, yet are the probably the biggest binge-drinkers in the world, and our tourists are the inheritors of the legacies left by the Huns/Visigoths/Viking raiders.

We are a nation of entrepreneurs and inventors, yet have the largest proportion of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in western Europe.

We are supposed to be sexually repressed, yet have levels of teenaged pregnancy generally associated with the 3rd World.

[General Ludd]

Fried mars bars and fops.

[germanos]

! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

from fascist regime

[Provost Harrison]

She ain't no human being

[alva]

No one mentioning tabloids?

Only European country never to occupy us ( I think, kinda tough to keep up. ).

[Provost Harrison]

Give us chance

[germanos]

Originally posted by alva
No one mentioning tabloids?

Only European country never to occupy us ( I think, kinda tough to keep up. ).

Uhmm... It was the Brits' idea to add you to the Netherlands

[alva]

Uhmm... It was the Brits' idea to add you to the Netherlands

Pfffff....

I've always said Holland is welcome to join Flanders.

Give us chance

You'll have to go trough France before you....hmmm..., bugger.

[germanos]

Originally posted by alva

Uhmm... It was the Brits' idea to add you to the Netherlands

Pfffff....

I've always said Holland is welcome to join Flanders.

That's not what the Brits wanted.

They also put stupid Willem I on the throne here . Now we're stuck with the bloody monarchs

Revolution! Republic!


Which brings me back to the topic at hand:

the Continent...

[Zkribbler]

Glorious military tradition: Half a League, Half a League, Half a League Onward! Nelson, Wellington. Battle of Roarke's Drift. Gentleman Johnny Burgoine. Francis Drake! Once more into the breach! Battle of the Somme. Black Hole of Calcutta. Chinese Gordon.

Great traders: East India Company; founders of Hong Kong and Shanghai. The sun never sets . . . Tea into Boston Harbor.

Aristocracy. Culture and Dignity. Old castles.

Spelling of a lot of wourds with unnecessary u's.

Rain & fog.

[Ben Kenobi]

"What a tragedy to have known, that all my life, I have been speaking nothing but the truth."

"Four gray walls, and four gray towers, envelope a space of flowers."

"From Marathon, to Waterloo, in order categorical."

"So be it when I shall grow old, or let me die!"

"And that one talent, which is death to hide."

"...that he bestride the world like a Colossus."

"Thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun."

"If it be a sin to covet honour, then I am the most offending sinner alive."

"It is the star to every wandering bark"

"Let truth and falsehood grapple, whoever knew truth to be the lesser, in a free and open encounter."

"Our dry voices when, we whisper together."

[Rufus T. Firefly]

People who are very polite, very witty, have no chins, and can't hold their liquor.

That, and superb men's tailoring.

And the only tolerable pop music in Europe.

I love the UK

[Sandman]

Crumbly grey cities perpetually encased in gloom.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Great traders: East India Company; founders of Hong Kong and Shanghai. The sun never sets . . . Tea into Boston Harbor.

Hong Kong or Shanghai had existed before the Brits came along.