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If you think of Britain, what comes to your mind then?

The Royal Family, country villages and fish and chips.
 
Rumpel said:
for me ..... lots of things

for a start ..... the Royal Family .... and driving on the left
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The Royal Family, good and bad. Shared history, political and legal systems. Our cooperation in WWI & WWII.

Some of the world's greatest: museums, universities, towns and cities, music, inventions and medical advances, the good and bad of colonization. Stoicism in the face of adversity. And that absolutely devastating wit.
 
Thanks. As an Englishman I'll gratefully settle for a bit of over praise.
 
Sweden said:
Thanks. As an Englishman I'll gratefully settle for a bit of over praise.
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Which item(s) on my list are over praise?
 
Pyrite said:
London.

Shakespeare.

Churchill and GB's amazing, heroic fight against Hitler's Nazi Germany.
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Oh damn I forgot writers! Dickens.
 
Orcs! The beatles, and fish and chips
 
Infinite Chaos said:
You have to be oldddddd to have seen that first time around or it was sold to Canada years later?



Excuse me, we drive on the correct side of the road. Everyone else has it wrong.
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Not everyone. Japan, Barbados, Ireland and several other countries have held firm.
 
Allan said:
I've always felt that "English cuisine" is an oxymoron.
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Actually pub food can be excellent and diverse. I have never had a bad meal in a restaurant in England. Now my Mom and Nana are a different story,
 
Callen said:
Actually pub food can be excellent and diverse. I have never had a bad meal in a restaurant in England. Now my Mom and Nana are a different story,
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It's a stereotype. I've never had a bad meal in the UK either and pub food is miles away from where it once was.
 
the Highlands in Scotland
 
The coolest castles.
 
Callen said:
Actually pub food can be excellent and diverse. I have never had a bad meal in a restaurant in England. Now my Mom and Nana are a different story,
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Strongly advise you to stay away from pub chains like Wetherspoons and never... ever.... ever..... go anywhere near something called "Toby Carvery."

If you see a sign like this -



just drive past.
 
Allan said:
Which item(s) on my list are over praise?
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Some our cities are dumps. Think Birmingham, filthy, ugly and bankrupt.
 
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