[Closed] Proud To Be British Day

This sort of thing:

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It was wet, it was muddy, it was Wales and it was awesome 😉

Happy days....

What if you're northern Irish?

Or Scottish

What if you're northern Irish?

Or Scottish

You're British. deal with it 🙂

northern Irish are not British. the united kingdom of great Britain and northern Ireland. Great britain is just the island that comprises Scotland England and Wales

Quelle surprise, the misreablists arrive nice and early.

Well, stuff you!

With some of this;

Village cricket
BBQ in the rain
The art of the queue
Being polite (except when the situation merits rudeness 😉 )
Steve Redgrave
Proper beer
Welsh Lamb
Scotchish beef
Fresh watercress, plucked from a chalk stream. With trout from that same stream.
Hedgerows
Elgar
Salisbury Cathedral
The Museums in That London
And so, so much more!

Not for long 😀

Freedom

What if you're northern Irish?

Or Scottish

what if you're english, republican and a non unionist ?

Well, I'm not British, but I like living here, and would rather be here than NZ or Aus, where I [i]could [/i] be if I wanted.

I found this shirt from Howies just a bit sad, actually, though I guess it's just meant to be self deprecating.

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what if you're english, republican and a non unionist ?

Go ride your bike and keep out of the way.

HRH Lord Sir Duke Bobby Moore OBE CBE MBE

Quelle surprise, the misreablists arrive nice and early.

Well said Flash- although you missed out strawberries and cream at Wimbledon 😉

That t shirt follows a common misconception - the Great in great britain means big - as in once Scotland was assimilated

And for me personally (and anyone else who also goes fishing in Britain), this : [url= http://www.fishingmagic.com/features/coarse_fishing/general_fishing/15789-winter-grayling.html ]Winter Grayling[/url] 😉

No misery here, just pointing out a common mistake.

Some say the English assume it's all about them, I think it may be due to their inferior education system 😉

TandemJeremy - Member
That t shirt follows a common misconception - the Great in great britain means big - as in once Scotland was assimilated

I'd heard another theory that the great was there to show it was bigger than Brittany... greater brittany, or something.

Well loads of you will think I'm mad... but that London is pretty special.

I honestly don't think there is a city in the world that mixes so much history with cutting edge contempory so well.

There as so many iconic sites and thing to see.... If you were a foreign tourist in London this weekend you'd be wishing your country was this Great.

Quite happy to buy into this, rather than the Olympics..
At least the Royal family actually have a connection to Scotland (not talking bout them owning half of it!!)

Real ale in a thatched pub with friends.
Haddock and chips on a Friday night.
Wet droughts!

Go ride your bike and keep out of the way.

can i keep out of the way though ?

we're led to believe that..........

the £10.5m budget has been raised from individual donations and corporate sponsorships

yet........

The Greater London Authority has budgeted £2m for outside screens, road closures, signage and similar expenses. It will pick up £100,000 and pass the rest of the bill to the Department for Media, Culture and Sport. Some of the costs will be offset by revenues from commercial sponsorship.

The Royal Household has been given an extra £1m to cover the cost of administration and increased correspondence in the jubilee year. That comes from taxpayers via the Sovereign Grant - and it's more than double the contribution made for the Golden Jubilee in 2002 (£450,000).

On top of those costs, the Metropolitan police will put over 6,000 officers on duty on the busiest days. 21 police boats will patrol the river. All these costs will be met from the public purse.

The Ministry of Defence is also making a big contribution.

The MoD and Met police would not supply cost estimates for their participation, but it is likely to run to millions of pounds.

But the biggest cost of all will come from the time off that the public take to watch it all. The Bank of England warned that the impact of people not working on the bank holidays will knock 0.5 per cent off GDP for the second quarter of the year - wiping over £1bn off the national output and prolonging the country's double-dip recession.

all so people can tug their forelocks and wave a little plastic flag whilst at the same time people are losing their jobs because there is no funding available for them.

i can't keep out of the way of that.

The right to roam... Er, whoops!

The freedom to establish a political party to change things if you really care about it.

Or, you could just whine on a relatively insignificant cycling forum instead. Good, innit?

Oh, and a few more;
Aston Martin
Scotchish whisky
Clotted cream tea and scones
The village fete
The British Legion, Help for Heros and more such brilliant charities
The RNLI

althepal - Member

Quite happy to buy into this, rather than the Olympics..
At least the Royal family actually have a connection to Scotland

Really? Saxe coburgh gotha - such a good scottish name

The freedom to establish a political party to change things if you really care about it.

no need, there are already some political parties out there committed to change. i'll just vote for them.

Good, innit?

not really, i'd say democracy is just a bare minimum requirement in a so called civilised society. nothing to brag about.

And the fact that we in Britain always cheer on the underdogs. What other country would give the underdog a chance 😆

You forgot the roman wall ( we built it for them ;-))

Wonder what Fred would be saying about today's celebrations in Larndaarn village and on the Thames

Like New York, they had to build it twice. 1 wall was just not enought to stop us giving them a tanking.

Hail to the duke??
Right TJ, I know they're not Scotchish (as CFH puts it elfin style) but at least the royals have a bit of a link to Scotland and prob quite like it here for 2 weeks of the year..
But I'm not buying into all this Olympics shite- its either the London Olympics or its not..
The London part seems to be the majority part of the games.. The rest is the fact that we're all paying for it and there's a few minor football matches bring played in Glasgow- anyone fancy Columbia v Korea DPR women's football? Apparently not many other folk do.. But hey- it's Olympic football eh?
Anyways, gawd bless the Queen and all that, apples and pears etc..

northern Irish are not British. the united kingdom of great Britain and northern Ireland. Great britain is just the island that comprises Scotland England and Wales

Yes they are. Great Britain currently includes all the islands of the archipelago except: the Channel Islands, Manx, and Eire. The Northern Irish are part of the political union so they get a special mention in the name.

The freedom for the minority of voters in one geographical area of the country to decide who governs another part of the country furthest away despite almost no one voting for said party?

A tesco on every corner

Northern IReland is not part of Britain.

Greatt britain is simply the single largest island of the united kingdom. It does not include northern ireland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/britain/britain.htm

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The Isle Of Man TT- where else in the world can that happen? Well, Macau..... 😉

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Wiggins, Thomas, Pendleton, Peat, Hoy, Cavendish, etc.

🙂

Northern Ireland did not exist when Great Britain was formed we had yet to ignore the all Ireland vote for Independence, send the troops in , partition the country and keep the Ulster plantation lot as ours...I can t see how that put the Great in Britain

the isle of mann is a self governing crown dependency of the UK but it is not part of the UK

Can I say I most proud of our education system , especially relating to geography, history and what Great Britain means 😉

😆

I'm not as patriotic as I used to be , but I'm still glad to be born and live In Scotland. My grandad came from Northwich In Cheshire and a greater man I have yet to meet , despite some of the social issues in the UK Its still not a bad country to live In .

By the way this thread just proves 'Seosamh77' must still be banned .

One HUGELY great thing about Great Britain in this day and age, is that I can be an Atheist Republican or any other damn thing I choose to be and no-one is going to chop my head off for it. In fact, I'm protected from having that happen. 8)

I'm a proud Englishman.

Republicans and other riff-raff should be shipped off to an overseas territory, somewhere like Montserrat maybe. 😀

Long live the Queen.

🙄

Stuff I love about the UK

Attitudes - diversity and tolerance ( in the main)

Countryside - endless variety from the farmlands to the green rolling hills to the jagged mountains

History and tradition - from the morrismen to the beltane fire folk

And of course the people

We are the minority in our own country now!
How Great is that?

Thanks for (eventually!) joining in, TJ! 😀

Who is we? and how are you a minority now?

Sod this I'm going out to play in the mud.

bren2709 - Member

We are the minority in our own country now!
How Great is that?

I think we know where that's going...

I'm not a bandwagonist flag waver, but it its nice to see everyone come together over something which isn't poxy football... 🙂
Gawd bless the queen and all those who sail in her.

it its nice to see everyone come together over something

^^This^^

Lots of people smiling in the rain today!

I think we're "coming together" about the country in this thread, not Royalty, specifically.

Oh and beer. real beer served in real pubs. From
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I think I'm quite fortunate to have been born into an ordinary family in the UK in the late 20th century, although being born in most other (northern, non-communist-bloc) European countries would have been fine too.

Mr Woppit - Member

One HUGELY great thing about Great Britain in this day and age, is that I can be an Atheist Republican or any other damn thing I choose to be and no-one is going to chop my head off for it. In fact, I'm protected from having that happen.

Indeed,

....but the masses are ignorant Daily Mail/Express/Sun reading pseudo-christian (eg. very-non-practising CofE) royalists and no politician would dare to suggest changing that.

Let's be grateful for our pleasant, comfortable, accommodating country, but let us not confuse that with an anachronistic, pseudo-divinely-apppointed, feudal, hereditary, life-long monarch sailing down the Thames.

I used to cycle past the Bay Malton on my commute.

As someone on the tellybox said yesterday - why couldn't we have such a large celebration of [i]British-ness[/i] when it was VE Day? That would at least have been celebrating the contribution of the ordinary man and woman in the street, of all races and religions, and not the dubious contribution of a wealthy, unelected, white christian elite.

rossi46 - Member

The Isle Of Man TT- where else in the world can that happen? Well, Macau.....

Ireland, every other weekend.

Proud to not be British. 😆

I see a republican joke going round at the moment:

"Typical. It's Jubilee weekend and it won't stop bloody reigning"

Shame really, I'm going to a Jubilee BBQ with a street party outside and it looks like we're going to have to set the gas cooker inside to 'burnt'.

Jubilee? stuff the jubilee 🙂 of no interest to me whatsoever and judging by what I see around here of little interest at all here.

I have no great hatred for the royal family - merely considering them an irrelevance to modern britain

TJ - so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

So you cannot be lazy and also dislike/be indifferent to the royals?
I dont believe in god but I dont work easter either mainly because the place i work is shut and I have no choice just like Tuesday

Odd point

merely considering them an irrelevance to modern Britain

+1. They do represent the pinnacle of what I don't like about this country.

We have stagnated, we need to evolve beyond monarchy. They sit atop of a very crooked tree.

bren2709 - Member

TJ - so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

I work in a 24/7 profession so it makes zero difference to me

bren2709 - Member
TJ - so you will be working the bank holiday you get for the jubilee?

ROFL! Is the standard then that you don't have to work it? I have had to work every single ****ing bank holiday there is in my job as a contractor at a location open to the public on bank holidays, where the permanent staff are on a rota, but I receive no cover, and I only get paid time. When time = minimum wage, you'll perhaps sympathise.

When attacks on bank holiday working are the tool of a bully, am I the bullying victim also Bren?

[b]The Duke of Edinburgh[/b] (AKA Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) [b]does me proud[/b]

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The quintessential English gentleman.

Another thing I am proud of that the UK does is the contribution to popular music - for many decades in many forms of music teh UK has been a key player and remains so to this day.

Creative arts in general but in popular music we really are major worl power

I think we're "coming together" about the country in this thread, not Royalty, specifically.

This!

Ireland, every other weekend.

Well yes, I love Ireland too 😀

The Duke of Edinburgh (AKA Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) does me proud

Still don't get the texting dog, Ernie, but that made me laugh like a drain!

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To add to CFH's list

Real Ale Pubs
Steak & Kidney Pudding
Pims
Great British Breakfast
Pork Pies

Fish and Chips, fine stout/ale/beer/cider.....

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Amusing place names......

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Pretty castles in pretty landscapes....

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Mint Sauce.....

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I'm not proud to be British.

Being able to spell barbecue correctly, and knowing what is, and perhaps more importantly what is not, an acronym.

Pimms No.1
Gin & Tonic
Lawn bowls
Croquet
A room temperate real beer instead of a blast frozen [s]piss water[/s] lager
Ploughmans lunch
Afternoon tea
Motorsports
Roundabouts
Discussing the variable and unpredictable weather
Loving the French and despising the Americans (or vice versa for the lower echelons)
Lawns, and mowing of

TuckerUK - Member

Being able to spell barbecue correctly

Barbeque?

Sitting in a Scittish cafe bedecked inUnion Flags.

EDIT: the cafe not me!

I'm not proud to be British

I sort of agree. You should be proud of what you do and how you behave, not what you happen to be and have no control over...

There's loads I love about the old place though.

Being characteristically under excited about the jubilee, rather than whopping and hollering. Cause I is English innit.

Really though? Tea. Uncompromisingly a habitual stalwart englishism that has a wide variety of reputable capabilities whilst it's use is globally known as an "english thing" (although it's not).

All hail Tea.

Being able to spell barbecue correctly, and knowing what is, and perhaps more importantly what is not, an acronym.

Doesn't it make you ashamed rather than proud ?

After all I'm deeply embarrassed that the education offered to the masses is so poor, that many cannot correctly spell this vital foreign import into British culture.

"British Institutions" that are in fact not.

Tea
Curry
English Naval Rum

Love it 😆

(i hate tea, im a coffee kinda bloke)

After all I'm deeply embarrassed that the education offered to the masses is so poor, that many cannot correctly spell this vital foreign import into British culture.

Good point.