Things that make you proud to be British

scouse
american
german

NHS
Diversity
Trade Unions

The proms

Thats about it realy.

x factor
big brother
each way

Fish and ***** (best food ever)
Sense of Humour
The fact we came 4th in the olympics, only countries to beat us were:

China host and pop 1.3billion about 40 times area of uk
Russia pop 150million? about 70 times area of uk
USA pop 300 million about 40 times area of uk

liverpool
the beatles
ynwa

Thats a strange arguement.

First good olympics we had in about 20 years.......

And when you think our athletes get milions of pounds of lottery funding surely we should be doing well?

I'm sure the Russian athlete's dont have it so easy.

Sense of humour.
Eccentricity.
Sense of fair play.

4th best in the world sounds goot to me Eboue. I don't know what goeson with the ruskies now, but they used to be mega funded, and up to their eyeballs in drugs and stuff too

I think australia coming 6th with a population of 21m is a far greater achievement

THE ARMY
HORSE RACING
NICK GRIFFIN

Being a menace aborad when you go on footie away trips

being great fighters

and being able to drink loads

Sir Henry Cecil, a true Great Briton.

How we conquered most of the globe. People may see this as a bad thing, but when you look at the state of the former colonies, it makes you realise how bad things would be if we hadn't been there in the first place.

Leaders of the Bookmaking Industry

The fact that all Presidents of the USA are British.

BNP

beer bellies
racists
mrs thatcher

The Magic Flea 10 Nov 17:54


I think australia coming 6th with a population of 21m is a far greater achievement


horse cra.p. look at the size of the fkin place. They've had enough time to populate it but have failed to do so. They've got no one to blame but themselves. Either they're all jaffas, or there too busy playing cricket to get on the job. And we beat them at cricket too.

the tv licence

Barack Obama is British?

Since when?

Wasn't his pappy born in the British Empire?

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/War-hero-Bob-McGowan-94.5809826.jp

Though i'd add this from my other fred.

His Mother has Britih heritage. Making him as British as he is African IMO.

ahahahahha all these right wingers claiming Obama as their own.

The Queen
BNP
Alf Garnett

If your mother was Vietnamise and your father a German....

And you were born and lived all your life in Engalnd........

You are English in my book.

I dont fall for that.... my aunty spent 2 weeks in Jamaica therefore I'm part Jamaican bollux.

dirty germans and their child brides....

Not much nowadays, but:

Country pubs
Village cricket
The old soldiers in the Remembrance Day parades

Good shout there fenway

Listen. I shall say this only once.

The United States of America is still a British Colony. Don't you ever forget it. A trick of epic proportions. We still control them. Only they carry out our deeds. And they take the blame.

I would say 9 of the 10 greatest rock bands of all time are British, nay English.



I always think it is funny when you speak to europeans and they've all heard of the beatles, the stones, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Monty Python, James Bond even Benny Hill ffs.

And yet all I know in return is kraftwerk and Proust. The french are absolutely seething that their language got shafted.

Grow up ffs :^0

to man utd dave obvioulsy

The diversirty of the British nation.
Nye Bevan
Chwarae Teg (fair play)

you are not very culturally educated. another proud british moment

positively4thsteet 10 Nov 18:08


I would say 9 of the 10 greatest rock bands of all time are British, nay English.



I always think it is funny when you speak to europeans and they've all heard of the beatles, the stones, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Monty Python, James Bond even Benny Hill ffs.

And yet all I know in return is kraftwerk and Proust. The french are absolutely seething that their language got shafted.

out of interest who was the band that wasn't british?

I'll go for Nirvana or Beach Noys was I right....

N H S ,THE AUTOMIBLE ASSOCIATION,B B C ,


AND LOADS MORE ,I DIDNT REALISE UNTILL YOU ASKED THIS QUESTION

The Eagles.

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

the edgware barbershop quartet

NO WONDER THEY ALL WANT TO COME HERE ,WEVE GOT LOADS GOING FOR US,

IVE JUST BEEN LOOKING WHATS WRONG WITH THE PLACE ,NOT WHATS RIGHT WITH THE PLACE

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
The Beatles
The Who
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
led zeppelin

the above 7 defo in top 10 if u askme.

black sabbath perhaps, fleetwood mac?

and what do we get from the snail eating surrender monkeys in return.

Johnny fkin Halliday. ffs.

there music has always been sh1t

but their films are better than ours, and they are on par with literature

their ffs

How odd, I can't think of much beyond a few fine minds. Stephen Hawkin, Roger Penrose, Richard Dawkins, Martin Amis, that sort of thing. My overall impression of the UK these days though, is its total absence of moral courage, crushing mediocrity and seemingly boundless stupidity.

Maybe it's old age.

chavs
bnp
maggie thatcher
council tax

Roger Waters
Daniela Hantuchova
Billy Connolly

and they gave us sophie marceau and beatrice dalle. we gave them kate winslet, keira knightley and Jordan :(

we beat them in the olympics too magic.

films, well I hate nearly every film i've ever seen that will be the hollywood influence.

Steven Hawking a decent shout. When the republicans were moaning about Obama's proposed changes to the health service and using uk as an example. Hawking came out and said he'd have been dead by now if it wasn't for the NHS. top lad, and another thing we can be proud of - the NHS.

Don't think the french hav better looking women than us. Scandinavians, Eastern Europeans, Brazilians and at a push Italians and Spanish. but not the french.

A true English rose, as opposed to a chav, would knock spots off the average frenchie

a true ebglish rose is harder and harder to find, while feminine and classy french are plentiful

nah. not into the frenchies tbh

in spite of my usual negativity pertaining to all things british, i do think we have the following going for us which u just cant beat anywhere else in the world:

the english cuppa (its the taste)
the gentle rolling hills of the english countryside
great english writers like graham greene, somerset maugham, hg wells etc
english comedy well ok fawlty towers and rising damp
cornwall
fish and *****

It means not being Australian.

Our Scientists.
Our Engineers.
Our Spys.

john fitzgerald kennedy was of british descent ? interesting !
class system
health service
isolationism

Health Service
Parliament (copied the world over eg NZ etc)
The English language (Especially British English, but not forgetting International English, American English etc)

(I also think it's great that our other British languages are preserving themselves, but you said three so that obviously doesn't count...)

Northern Women (Size 14 and Upwards)
Reality TV
The Popularity Of Tattoos

winston churchill: zionist lackey, drunk, war criminal.

the british empire: world's biggest murder machine.still has a detrimental effect on the lands it infested.

sense of fair play. that's a good one: steven gerrard.

croquet.

simpsons


gieves and hawkes,

fortnum and mason

libertys

Andy Murray
Tim Henman
Gred Rusedski

a quality curry

There's nothing left to be proud of.

multiculturalism of the uk.
a welcoming approach to immigration.
free universal healthcare for everyone on earth.

makes me really proud to be BRITISH

fish & *****
jumbo sos and *****
chicken and *****

A Full English Breakfast, best in the world
you can keep yoghurt and salami

'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel'

Samuel Johnson

I'm racking my brains here.....

The NHS
Trades Unions
British humour

last time i looked pride was a sin

COLMANS MUSTARD. I can't believe it hasn't been said.

county cricket
ales and cider
racecourses
education

Nope.... nothing.... I'll think some more.