Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

What is something that feels British, but isn't?

2

Comments

  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677

  • Masterbrew
    Masterbrew Posts: 263
    Modern Triumph motorcycles 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    Fish and Chips
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,359
    Garden roses. 
    Cadburys
    HP sauce 
    Premier League Football 
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Branston Pickle (owned by a Japanese vinegar maker called Mizkan which also owns Sarson's Vinegar and Hayward's Pickled Onions.)
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,167
    PopIcon said:
    Polo, the sport, not the mint.
    Or the clothing!
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    Ireland
  • ValleyOfTears
    ValleyOfTears Posts: 1,067
    Caring for the poor. 
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    seth plum said:
    Chizz said:
    seth plum said:
    The language we speak.
    The language we speak is the single most British thing there is
    I'll have a think about that when I slip into my new pyjamas delivered by a juggernaut. That will have to wait until after I've been to the ballet, and then the karaoke club set up by a local entrepreneur on his patio, where you can get served burgers with ketchup by his heavily tattooed wife.
    All languages evolve. 
    Even the Frenchies have got L’internet. 
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Palace.
  • Sponsored links:



  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,781
    Woolworths
    Ford
    Monopoly
  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 464
    Fish and chips: apparently Portuguese origins (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips)
  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 465
    Hoover
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Big William said:
    Fish and Chips
    Jewish and Portuguese. 
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    AddicksAddict said:
    Big William said:
    Fish and Chips
    Jewish and Portuguese. 
    Or Italian immigrants in Glasgow, doubt we'll ever know for sure. Whoever it was, many thanks.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    Stuart Leary
  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    Jaguar
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Blackheathen said:
    Stuart Leary

    In a similar vein this fella -


  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,080
    Freddie Mercury.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Cliff Richard
  • Sponsored links:



  • Stuart_Learys_Boots
    Stuart_Learys_Boots Posts: 90
    Our water and railways 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited May 2024
    Stuart_Learys_Boots said:
    Our water and railways 
    and most of our industry .. (e.g.) Mcvities, makers of quintessential British biscuits, now owned by a Turkish  company, UK lottery and (possibly very soon) Royal Mail owned by Czechs (hope they don't bounce)
    Pilkington Glass, now Japanese owned, Rolls Royce, MG and Bentley cars .. the list is endless ..........

    Britain has been dependant on 'services' for decades and 'service' basically means money men (aka hedge funds, usually American, but some British or European) buying up viable, well known and respected but all too often not particularly well managed or financed British companies, and then  flogging them off to any and everybody (usually foreigners) who can come up with the necessary moolah
    British companies own a lot of foreign assets but no tax revenues from their profits (and they employ few if any British workers) are paid to HMRC as they are not 'British based', similar to what Amazon and Co do in the UK

    Fings can only get better .. fingers crossed

    EDIT .. sorry to be so long winded lol
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,563
    Falklands
    Gibraltar
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    The Black Death 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Kap10 said:
    Falklands
    Gibraltar
    Think you'll find those are things that dont seem British but are, which is the other thread.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    British Airways are registered in Spain
  • stevexreeve
    stevexreeve Posts: 1,386
    Charlton Athletic. 

    Owned by American hedge funds.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    edited May 2024
    Off_it said:
    Racists
    America has cornered that market but we aren’t far behind . 
  • Gisappointed
    Gisappointed Posts: 987
    edited May 2024
    Michael Ashworth. Anthony Bamford. Viscount Rothermere. Akshata Murty. Boris Johnson. Lord Evgeny Lebedev. The Barclay twins.
  • bromleyjohn
    bromleyjohn Posts: 5,985
    Democracy 

Categories

“Marketplace”