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Proud to be British?
Topic Started: May 19 2007, 03:01:11 PM (117 Views)
Pommygirl
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Proud to be British

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of all things foreign!

Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Britain do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Britain are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION..

3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.

British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents.

18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.

5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.

And finally...

In 2000 eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.


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Snappy
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PMSL brilliant PG :lol:
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coco
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Ah surely that must be the english your talking about.
lol.

There's a thing, when I go to Oz is a scot a Pom ??
I'm not Brittish, hate the word. Never ever would I fly that flag.

Scots and Irish for me.


Nothing against the English by the way, they should also be proud to be English.
An the Welsh welsh.
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Pommygirl
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Haven't a clue coco - that was just an email sent to me. TBH I thought it could apply to anyone.

My grandparents were Welsh and Scottish. :blink:
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ohippy
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true about pizzas being delivered quicker !!
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TopCat3
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Yes I bloody well am. :yes:
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Soapy


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19th May, 2007 - 09:37pm

There's a thing, when I go to Oz is a scot a Pom ??

NO!
for some reason they all think they are Scottish :whistle:
i once met an australian who thought he was more scottish than me :blink:

he claimed (going on marks out of 10) that he read a book once (or something like that) and he was related to Robert the Bruce :whistle:
so he thought that made him an 8/10. he would have been a 9/10 if he had visited scotland he claimed.
he then asked me what i thought i would rate.
i told him that being born in the country should at least give me 10 points and going on his reconing of visiting, well i have been in an oot that many time it should give me a score of 372/10

he didnt see the funny side for some reason :S

for some reason they are very bitter towards the english. to their face they call it friendly bander, but its not that when they talk about the english to the scottish.
i find myself in the strange situation of defending the english just about every day :blink:

oh and im not british either. not that i have anything against england. i just prefer to be callled scottish :)
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It's the same with the Welsh and the Irish as I'm Welsh and OH is Irish but we are never considered Poms.

Soapy you made me laugh about the "I'm more Scottish than you" type scenario as that has happened to me as well. If I say I'm Welsh to an Aussie I usually get met with the "Ooooo I'm part Welsh my great great great great grandfather was from there". :lol: usually met with "Do you know anyone with the name Evans in Wales?" :blink:
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:lol:
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Snappy
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Forgot to say I usually ask if his first name is David :lol:
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coco
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:lol: It was the same every time I've gone to Florida. Could you say some thing scottish. ??? That one always got me. The wife once gave me a row. for saying F@ck off. I complained, but that is scottish I told her lol.

Ack well hoot in nanny... lol


:piper:

We're both of Irish grand parents.
Jeese I wish the wife hadn't got the temper of her Irish side :)
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Yes, Soapy, you are right

for some reason they are very bitter towards the english. to their face they call it friendly bander, but its not that when they talk about the english to the scottish.
i find myself in the strange situation of defending the english just about every day


I find it tiresome and disappointing.It is very subtle most of the time, sometimes overt, but it's there as an undercurrent all the time. :(
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