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Today my wife has been living in the UK as a British Citizen for the past 20 years. We want to compile a photograph album of her doing brisitsh things. Things like queuing etc. The funnier the better. Any ideas?
Moaning.
Passive aggressive eye rolls
Huffing
Tutting
Eating ice cream in the rain.
Sitting on the beach in the rain.
Being laughed at by the rest of Europe..
And blue passports..
Apologising when someone treads on your toe.
An inability to cope with ambient temperatures exceeding 21 degrees centigrade fir more than a week.
A bullet wound in the foot?
A timeline of a night out. Preloading with cheap booze. Crap chain pub. Bad danceing. Vommit. Kebab. Passed out hugging kebab on front lawn.
Parkrun.
Enjoying our beautiful countryside on a mountain bike.
Boating on the Thames in the summer.
Raving.
Chilling out with a cold beer at a festival.
Drinking in a traditional pub (especially in winter with a real fire on the go).
Eating fish and chips(especially at the seaside)
Enjoying a roast dinner with the family.
Going out for a curry !
Standing on top of a mountain in Snowdonia on a clear day.
Surfing in Cornwall or Devon.
Being polite.
Pondering The Henge and other stone circles.
Laughing at ourselves.
The Detectorists
Dogging?
A fanatical devotion to the past.
Having a picnic in an A40 layby.
Queuing.
Opening every conversation with a statement about the weather.
1966 world cup.
Relating everything in Europe back to either WW1 or WW2.
Bowler hats.
Tweed.
Whiskey.
Stilton.
Getting knocked up at 16
Really bad tattoos
Cooking lager in Wetherspoons
Casual Racism
Crap tattoos
Inability to have just one drink and not get smashed
Casual racism
Overt racism but had no idea hating Jews or Poles was racist (as they're not black)
Obsession with white trainers
Inability to string two words together without swearing
Dropping litter everywhere
Football hooliganism
Petty vandalism
A belief we single handedly won the second world war saving America and Russia in the process and could do so again tomorrow
Tacit acceptance of Islamaphobia / Antisemitism
`Fish and chips out of newspaper. But I guess you'd have to supply your own newspaper these days. I hate change. Alternatively why not stage a reenactment of this classic scene...
https://images.app.goo.gl/SXppNFboDy36Pfkh7
Try again
Nope.
.
oh - bow locks
bacon sarnie & a cup of tea!
Go abroad on holiday and make drunken ****s of yourselves.
A stubborn refusal to look beyond our shores at places that do things better, and appropriate that good practice for ourselves. But that's hard to capture in a photo.
Today my wife has been living in the UK as a British Citizen for the past 20 years. We want to compile a photograph album of her doing brisitsh things. Things like queuing etc. The funnier the better. Any ideas?
My wife has been living in the UK as an EU national for a large part of the last 20 years, but now owing to some time spent out of the country is at risk of being kicked out in the event of no other deal being agreed, so I'm finding it hard to see the funny side of being British just now.
A stubborn refusal to look beyond our shores at places that do things better, and appropriate that good practice for ourselves.
Or an ability to see the good things in other countries, claim them for Blighty and then plead ignorance about who cocked up the world.
The ability to go on holiday to Spain and then complain it's full of Spanish people....
Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.
Lots of immigration over a lot of years.
Most of us are immigrants, just a generation or two removed.
Queueing and a stiff upper lip !
Boring answer, but it is having a british passport.we don't choose the country of our birth so why would we feel some random allegiance to it?
Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.
This is true, it's also a British thing to fail to acknowledge it.
I’m going to share this thread with MayBot and LyingBloHard.
Y’know, just so they fully understand the underlying feelings the UK citizens have for “their” country.
If most were posted as a joke, there seems little humour in the written word.
Being the most multicultural and least racist nation in Europe. Easily.
Second by the looks of it..
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https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2018-being-black-in-the-eu_en.pdf
£2 000 000 (usually from some Russian bureaucrat who's meant to earn £20k a year).
https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-investor
Hating everything and doing **** all about it except whining
Strolling along the prom prom prom, where the brass band plays.
being disliked by the rest of the world. deservedly.
being disliked by the rest of the world. deservedly.
No that’s just the English
morris dancing
the pearly kings and queens.
raving.
What made me British?
383,337 other people 😈
No that’s just the English
True, the scots also hate themselves.
Lots of immigration over a lot of years.
Most of us are immigrants, just a generation or two removed.
What is most truly British is patting ourselves on the back for our fantastic <your attribute here> while assuming this attribute is non-existent elsewhere - though even this isn't particularly British.
But to answer the OPs question I'd say a trip to a seaside resort (out of season!) would be a mine of photo opportunities, followed by a visit to that London for some jellied eels and middle-eastern food from a pop-up.
Lots of immigration over a lot of years.
Most of us are immigrants, just a generation or two removed.
Many people are in denial of that however 😉 See 'casual racism' above.
No that’s just the English
I'm not so sure about that, many people outside the UK don't care/know that it's made of smaller countries, so they simply dislike the British. Deservedly.
Going to ****ing ikea for a family day out.
The appalling food, a cuisine with few redeeming features, with the exception of the bacon sandwich.
Drinking huge volumes of weak beer.
Apathy.
This photo page sums it up, for me:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/jul/28/your-underwhelming-uk-holiday-photographs
Having a Queen that demonstrates that we never lost our sovereignty.
Overstaying your welcome in some countries.
Being outraged on behalf of others about something that isn't really as bigger problem as media coverage suggests.
The class system from the outsider's perspective.
The Royalties - The tourist attraction.
The Upper Class - The niche ones with inherited wealth.
The Middle class - The educated snobbish ones good and bad.
The Working class - The ones that just keep worrying ...
The feral class - The ones that spoil it all for the rest.
🤔
Driving to the beach in four hours of traffic to sit in the car park and have as picnic.
According to the King of Brobdingnag: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth".
Covers it.
Stoner
According to the King of Brobdingnag:...
Spoken like a true Irishman. 🙂
But you're not really odious vermin, he was just seeing the Etonians...
Living on the island with the mild climate just off the coast of France and an utterly embarrassing inability to deal with snow or sun.
Impossible to define since Brits have nothing in common with each other. I mean, you lot down south don't even put gravy on your chips.
We have the best biscuits, cakes and pies in the world plus the tendency to binge drink alcohol.
Maybe some are tongue in cheek but some of the answers on this thread make me a bit sad. Sad that so many people who live on these islands seem to hate them and their fellow inhabitants so much. I'm no tub thumping nationalist, but as unfashionable as it may be, I think Britain or any one of the countries within it are great places to live. Not perfect, going though a divisive period in our history sure, but you are still pretty lucky in life's lottery IMHO to live here. I totally get why the Aussies call us whingeing poms.
The faux middle class/sneering working class snobs. Unfortunately the barriers to entry are much lower than they used to be!
Good old fashioned service.
Ooooo how things have changed! They all speak English anyway don't they!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vm0tbSBBl8
blokeupthe road
...I totally get why the Aussies call us whingeing poms.
They usually reserve that for the folk who live in the part of the mainland called Britain, not the whole island.
And even then it's not aimed universally but at those who continually complain Oz isn't like "home" - probably the same subset we call gammons. 🙂
(Based on 30 years living in Oz)
Apparently knowing the answers to these questions - have a go. 75% needed or its out you go.
https://lifeintheuktestweb.co.uk/british-citizenship-test-4/
The other way is to be of " good anglo saxon stock" ie descended from Danes or Germans.
79.17% So I get to stay, but only just. I'd guess unless they swotted up for it the majority would fail the test. Unless it's only me who doesn't know as much as the thought 😳😳
An interesting series of videos that seem to sum up present day Britain
Not being English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh.
Bugger it passed the test ☺️
However I did notice that according to Q6 The National Trust has been given the role of protecting coastline, important buildings etc for the whole UK.
This will come as news to NTS and others.
1966 world cup.
When britain won it?
I like the sweeping statements that no body likes the British, specifically English. Highly doubt that is true at all. The people I hear on here disliking us, tend to be one of us.
You get a much nicer reaction from people in mainland europe if you say you are" from Scotland" rather than "english"
I like the sweeping statements that no body likes the British, specifically English. Highly doubt that is true at all. The people I hear on here disliking us, tend to be one of us.
Never experienced general dislike for British people on my travels. Obviously the actions of a few aren't welcomed, but I remember English football fans fighting in Marseille one world cup or something. It was reported that in some quarters the Marseillais showed appreciation for the English "fighting spirit". Chapeau les Rosbifs.
Ah, but is the reaction negative? And historically things like football hooliganism of old would not have given us a good rep. Whenever I am in Europe, never had any negative reactions or receptions. But I dont look like a hooligan I think.
The class system from the outsider’s perspective.
The Royalties – The tourist attraction.
The Upper Class – The niche ones with inherited wealth.
The Middle class – The educated snobbish ones good and bad.
The Working class – The ones that just keep worrying …
The feral class – The ones that spoil it all for the rest.
I don't fall into any of those catagories 🙁
Failed the test! Woo Hoo! Where do I get deported to? It seemed to be 90% a history test, which I have little interest in. Fail to see what bearing it has on being a British Citizen. When did we last fight the French? Who gives a ****?
You get a much nicer reaction from people in mainland europe if you say you are” from Scotland” rather than “english”
Oh do you now.
Jelly and blancmange
I passed the test, but by a much narrower margin than the German one Alpin posted. The question about an American who lived much of his live in Switzerland, Chaplin, seemed a little out of place and I've never seen any ironage coins so how the hell would I know what's on them, as for the status of the Isle of Mann - it's a tax haven!
100% les yeux fermés on the French one.
This:
With a sprinkle of this:
NOt knowing how to use a bidet?
A full cooked breakfast? Certainly English and Scottish varieties (not sure about Wales or Northern Ireland), but is a full cooked breakfast a generally British thing? Brown sauce must be?
As someone else said; Detectorists!
I like the sweeping statements that no body likes the British, specifically English. Highly doubt that is true at all. The people I hear on here disliking us, tend to be one of us.
It’s another great British trait. The ability to always want to put down the successful.
You get a much nicer reaction from people in mainland europe if you say you are” from Scotland” rather than “english”
No you don't, at least not in Spain IME.
Can't think of any one standout feature that makes the British, British. Other than the same passport, and even that's a source of division these days.