The English and British have some very quintessential habits. Some are listed below. Do please feel free to contribute Eleven very British habits Sponsored by please log in to view this image 885 please log in to view this image Quintessentially British: the full English fry-up 22 APRIL 2016 • 8:00AM HP Sauce, cups of tea to remedy almost anything, our predilection for queueing at every opportunity – we Brits certainly have some curious quirks, says Norman Miller Brekky “Double egg, bacon, sausage, beans – and do you want toast with that, love?” Is anything more loin-girdingly British than a morning fry-up? So good is it that it isn't even restricted to mornings, since the promise of all-day breakfast is a mark of a great British caff. Bubble & squeak counts as a gourmand bonus. Talking class Within 10 seconds of any British person opening their mouth to speak to another British person, each mentally deduces the following about the other: likely address (to within a mile); schooling; income; politics; dining habits; reading habits. Often with considerable accuracy. Understatement Brits have made understatement an art-form. Desperate situations other nationals would call a life-threatening crisis are softened into just “a bit of a pickle”. As his limbs are lopped off, the Black Knight inMonty Python and the Holy Grail dismisses each blow as “only a scratch”. And no matter how bad their life really is, a true Brit will respond to well-being queries with “Mustn't grumble”. Psycho-geography All over Britain, locals take umbrage if you confuse their locale with a neighbouring spot that to untutored eyes seems indistinguishable. In the capital, “Sarf London” devotees face condescending sneers about “south of the river”. Brightonians mock neighbours who insist they live in “Hove, actually”. Rage rains on folk who conflate “English” with “British”. And never call anyone outside Tyneside a Geordie. Weird sports Forget the Olympics. Put the Brits in charge and they'd replace boring old sports with Great British traditional alternatives. We offer the 200m downhill cheese chase, 400m egg & spoon race, tin bath rowing and 100m bog snorkelling for starters. please log in to view this image On your marks... the great British egg and spoon race Imperial units Metric shmetric. Old-school Britons prefer measures based on far more interesting numbers than 10. Weight? That'll be stones, each of 14 lbs. Height in feet plus inches. Horse races are run over furlongs of 220 yards - equal to 40 rods, of course. And weren't £s more fun divided into 20 shillings or 240 old pence? Sorry! Do the British really blurt out apologies far more than anyone else? Afraid so. Sorry. A recent survey found the average Briton says sorry an average of eight times a day – and some up to 20 times. And in a social anthropological experiment, researchers deliberately bumped into hundreds of people across the country, and found 80 per cent of people barged into apologised. Illogical much-loved phrases In Britain, a “damp squib” is a disappointment - but if something is “the bee’s knees”, that means you think it’s excellent. Sick parrots are invoked when a football game goes the wrong way. And when a Briton “pegs out” they also “kick the bucket”. Simple really.... Drinking Some people wring their hands over the orgiastic Bacchanalia that hits many British town centres every weekend, but it's just a part of the deep-seated British passion for boozing that goes back centuries. Beer festivals let connoisseurs of fine ale get pleasantly plastered, while posher folk quietly knock back a bottle of nice wine every night. Cheers! Glorious failure Other nations love winners, but Britons often show their greatest appreciation for plucky losers. Terrible ski-jumper Eddie the Eagle is now being celebrated in film, while the papers regularly highlight local football teams that have just lost their 112th game in a row while conceding their 1,000th goal of the season. Comic smut Double entendres are as British as double-barrelled surnames, with sex wrapped in the sort of diaphanous cloak of euphemism that kept the Carry On films going for years. Who can forget Bernard Cutting’s classic response to Matron’s pleas: “Doctor, please, I want to be wooed!” “You can be as wude as you like with me”?
don't forget boris johnson... only in the uk could he be replaced by a muslim labour party candidate. America goes the polar opposite replacing a muslim african american with... donald trump! or Cameron.. oh you ****ed a pig's dead head and evaded tax there... ah well thats ok. you've a blue tie. For sure the house of commons is unique. in russia they punch each other. In italy they only let women in to have mistresses in the house of commons we have a much higher threshold of wit. corbyn got destroyed on europe.. destroyed.. and it goes back year upon years. churchill's classic etc. Afternoon tea... the cheese...
both need more bacon. I don't like leaving the stalks in on mushrooms either personally. white not black pudd too...
Pancakes...soda Farl, potato Farl and the vegetable roll appears to be missing...and there's only one egg...poor show lol
oh yes.. orderly queues too. I laugh when in airports. you can tell who is who. the swedish, they don't queue they all toddle up like they've all day. the irish.. its a scrum, same in a bar. screaming over each other The english.. orderly line...
Well you can't queue at a bar lol...and if someone skips the queue it's mumbling grumbles rather than "oi! Feckbag!" Although I shout in shops when there's 4 in queue and some punter cause he's only got petrol decides he doesn't need to..."get ta **** back here mate!"
Oh and inability to deal with weather despite discussing and boasting in great detail about four seasons in one day...two days of sun, snow or rain in a row?....national emergency!
Plenty of Iron lol... Not a fan of Vegetable Roll myself...like a burger with herbs in it....the Pancakes are too sweet for my taste but the other fried breads are a necessity!
I have literally sat in airports after trade shows and seen engilsh peoepl queuing and others covering the length of a bar... thats not a pub no but....
Uoure not one of them annoying people that do your weekly shop in the petrol station where I want to just pay for petrol but you're taking an age are you
