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Five things or people you like about.....England
Henry Irving
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As it is nearly St Georges Day.
Personally I think we should have kept St Edmund as our patron saint but there you go : - )
1. The English language - spoken all over the world, happily absorbs words from every other language it meets and dropped all the male/female words nonsense that complicates other languages.
2. All the sports we invented
3. Our tolerance of differences and mistrust of extremists, right, left or otherwise.
4. Our sense of humour especially our ability to laugh at and about ourselves and to use humour to deflect or avoid conflict.
5. Our cities, countryside and coasts. Fantastic variety in such a small part of an Island.
Personally I think we should have kept St Edmund as our patron saint but there you go : - )
1. The English language - spoken all over the world, happily absorbs words from every other language it meets and dropped all the male/female words nonsense that complicates other languages.
2. All the sports we invented
3. Our tolerance of differences and mistrust of extremists, right, left or otherwise.
4. Our sense of humour especially our ability to laugh at and about ourselves and to use humour to deflect or avoid conflict.
5. Our cities, countryside and coasts. Fantastic variety in such a small part of an Island.
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BBC
NHS
Open University
English Ale
When you fly into England its always a wonderful green colour from the air.0 -
our football
fish and chips
our summer
jeff stelling
the banter0 -
1. Our ability to embrace and tolerate other cultures when we are abroad
2. The way that we have adopted the shaven head, three-quarter length shorts, flip-flops and excessive beer-gut as our National costume. And don't even get me started on the men.
3. The way that we allow people from all nationalities to do the low-paid jobs that we prefer to avoid, and happily exist on benefit instead. England - we give jobs to the World.
4. Our cuisine.
5. Our inner cities, our traffic and our public transport system.0 -
1. Our ability to queue
2. Sense of fair play.
3. Pubs
4. Eccentric climate
5. Four divisions of professional football0 -
[cite]Posted By: Dave Rudd[/cite]1. Our ability to embrace and tolerate other cultures when we are abroad
2. The way that we have adopted the shaven head, three-quarter length shorts, flip-flops and excessive beer-gut as our National costume. And don't even get me started on the men.
3. The way that we allow people from all nationalities to do the low-paid jobs that we prefer to avoid, and happily exist on benefit instead. England - we give jobs to the World.
4. Our cuisine.
5. Our inner cities, our traffic and our public transport system.
Not sure if you have quite entered into the spirit of positive celebration of Englishness that this was intended to be but I did list our humour and ability to laugh at ourselves as one of our qualities. : - )0 -
1. Nectar points
2. Fry ups
3. Eastenders
4. Tea
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Cricket
Pubs
Ealing Studios
BBC Radio
London
Michael Palin0 -
All our sports
Our ability to take the piss out of ourselves
Full English Breakfast
The wars we've won
Our accent (used properly)0 -
Football
Charlton
Fish and Chips
Pubs
British Sense of Humour0 -
1 Pubs
2 Changing seasons
3 Badgers
Can't think of 5, I'm with Dave Rudd on this one.0 - Sponsored links:
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1. The Language - Spoken by the most diverse amount of people, Chinese may be spoken more, but that because there is more of them, English is spoken everywhere, from Tanzania to Taiwan, Greenland to Greece, Poland to Papa New Guinea
2. The History - Ours is just brilliant, compared to the non-entities of Australia and the US, why do you think we're so chock full of tourists
3. The Land - Such a lot to choose from, beautiful countryside, villages, coast, mountains, lakes, and thriving cities full of culture
4. London - for anyone who doesn't like London, compare it to any other city, and guaranteed you will have to make too many sacrifices in some areas just because the weather/people/air/commute is better)
5. Humour - Again ours is great, the banter, the gentle mental prodding of others, the mockery of all things everywhere, look at the amount of comedy genius that has come out of England compared to everywhere else in the world, we are in a league of our own (Apart from James Corden, the fat twat)0 -
sitting outside the cutty sark pub on a warm summers evening, watching the thames shine orange and gold as the sun sets on london town, good totty spot too..
cricket, its mental its odd we stop for tea and takes 5 days nothing comes close to beating that
music, the beatles the stones the who led zep, alltho infulenced by the yanks took american music and turned into somthing amazing
kent coast, from windswept whitstable round to historical hastings not a year goes by without heading to the seaside at least once a month, current fav is Deal and minnis bay.
politics, despite how anoyed and peed off we get we do have one of the most democratic systems in the world, oliver cromwell wasnt it?0 -
1) Magna Carta
2) NHS
3) The fact that every country in the World really wants to be England.
4) Our history
5) That its legal to burn anyone in a gooner shirt on Blackheath on SGD.
ok 5 might be a wish.0 -
1. Churchill
2. The World Wide Web
3. Music
4. Sense of fair play
5. Kent0 -
The food - Ours is so unique. No other country even comes close!
The pubs - Not just a place to drink but a way of life.
The countryside - lush, green and tranquil.
The Sports - although I do like NFL ;-)
The women - funnily enough i only like women from the UK. When i see other women from other countries they just don't do it for me. I couldn't see myself being with a woman from outside the UK.0 -
Public Parks & Gardens
Public Footpaths
Public Libraries
Public Forests
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Public toilets?0
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1. London
2. Our history
3. Musical heritage
4. Landscape
5. Literature0 -
The Arts
Coast/waterways
Villages (includes pubs and countryside)
Triumph motorcycles
New bird on Countdown0 -
Litter
Out of control dogs
Out of control Chavs
Speed Cameras
Exorbitant parking Charges0 - Sponsored links:
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Orderly Queues
The endless and groundless optimism that greets every football tournament
A nice cuppa
Pints
Full English Breakfast0 -
Charlton
Country Pubs
Err
Maggie Thatcher
Sense of humour0 -
1. Despite the need to do more, our tolerance of other cultures,compared to most other contries world wide
2. Availability of different foods from different nations.
3. Friendliness of people outside london.
4. Public Transport in London
5.The variety of pretty girls on a hot summers day.
NHS, Education system0 -
Aircraft Carriers/Harrier Jump Jets
Higher Education for all (regardless of wealth)
Forests
Our embrace of different nationalities (in limited numbers)
Our sense of independence (unless the US are in need of a yes man)
The good stuff is slowly but surely being eroded. Including the Kent Coast0 -
The climate - especially on a day like today
Our wildlife - very few if any poisonous or venomous plants/animals
All of the engineering and industrial achievements that have gone on to conquer the world produced by little more than men in sheds
London
Ours customs, laws and our language0 -
Lydford Gorge
Shakespeare
The Valley
John Bonham
Driving on the left.0 -
Our History
The BBC
Our Sports
Our Women...seriously
Our Music
Pubs & Clubs
London
Our Currency0 -
[cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]Public toilets?
Good shout, actually. Couldn't find one anywhere in NY recently.0 -
Are your last two points linked?[cite]Posted By: queensland_addick[/cite]Charlton
Country Pubs
Err
Maggie Thatcher
Sense of humour0 -
Crossed my mind, but I didn't want to be branded as a perv.[cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]Public toilets?0
