First thoughts about The United Kingdom

The UK is one of the most liberal countries in the world re race and gender too.

 

Tea and Doctor Who.
I don't know a lot about it...

 

*Bad Food
*Imperialism
*Confused as to being Catholic or Protestant
*A few crude stereotypes I won't mention
*Mostly due to the high number of American Anglophiles: pretentious
*Harry Potter
*Beautiful Classic Literature

 

Shouldnt exist... Ah well, least its days are numbered

 

Well this might be cheating seeing where I'm from. :icon_wink But to sum it up in 11 points:

• Home
• Villages with pubs and churches
• Big populated towns and cities yet big swathes with very little population
• Liberalism
• History
• Culmination of cultures
• Regionalism (yep, the bad old north-south divide which still seems to crop up every now and then)
• Unique architecture
• Never far from the coast
• Crumbling seaside resorts
• Most importantly, always plenty of self-criticism yet a quiet understanding that we have it pretty damn good!

 

Quaint towns in Kent,
Fish and Chips,
Come Dine With Me,
The Catherine Tate show,
High Tea at Harrods,
So much to say!
So little space

 

Seriously, just read Hexagon's posts in this thread and you've got it summed up completely.

And as for TV shows, yes we have Doctor Who and Sherlock, however we also have some of the trashiest, exploitative, downright offensive reality shows and 'documentaries' ever produced. And it always bloody rains.

 

Benefit street?

 

That's the best example, yeah.

 

Absolutely disgusting, from what I hear. Can't understand why people would give up their time to make or watch something devoted to the demonisation of people. I haven't actually watched it, but I've heard people at college going on about how good it is. *wants to strangle*

 

I haven't watched it either, I'm just going with the backlash from it as well. And I would also be very tempted to strangle anyone who called like that 'good'. What's even worse is that it's not the only 'documentary' about people on welfare that's been shown in the past few months.

 

- Much better than the US
- Arthur Kirkland
- Sherlock Holmes (TV show and books)
- Doctor Who
- The Who
- The Beatles
- The Stones
- Jimmi Hendrix
- Queen (Both)
- Freddy Mercury (He deserves his own slot)
- Fry and Laurie
- Monty Python
- Much better humor than US
- Mods Vs Rockers
- Used to be extremely imperialistic
- Martin Freeman
- Better McDonald's than US
- The Eye
- Big Ben
- Free healthcare
- Marriage equality
- James Bond
- Harry Potter
- Different spellings of certain words
- Drive on the wrong side of the road (admit it)
- Much more colorful language
- Not too keen on the French
- Lots of beaches
- LittleKuriboh
- MasakoX

 

Tea
The Beatles
The Queen
America telling England to piss off in 1776
Daniel Craig as James Bond

 

Like you, I'm hesitant to call it a documentary. It's closer to right-wing propaganda, really.

 

As close as it can get without outright endorsing a political party, at least.

 

Yeah. It endorses the ideology, and that's bad enough for me.

 

I like being British and living in Britain.

I'd rather be living in Wales than in England but I live in hope that I'll be able to arrange a move to Wales one day.

Like all countries, Britain has many flaws and the Xenaphobia of some its residents frustrates on a daily basis. However I am very proud of many things in Britain [most of which the current government are trying to destroy] like the NHS, equal opportunities and so on.

On a less political note, I really love the greenery in Britain ("this emerald isle, set in a silver sea, etc" I don't think I'd want to live anywhere else, except possibly Ireland.

 

Cream teas
Steeple Chase Races
Riding in Rotten Row in the morning
Monty Python/Are You Being Served/Rev...Great serious TV as well
Bricks and waterbottles warming the bed
Lake Country
Scotland -in particular Stirling home of my family
Fields of Heather
the Greatest Writers
London - home of some of the greatest treasures on Earth
rugby/cricket/polo
my 20th birthday...Studied literature at the U. of London for a year
Theatre
unfortunately a society so politically correct it's losing it's identity...read Londinistan
History, cathedrals, charming villages
Walking through Harrod's arcade on rainy days
a monarchy, tradition
Fortnum & Mason's
Kilts...God, yes
a socialist system that sapped a proud people of their grit...too sad
The Black Swan in York
the book stores

 

I forgot roses, beatiful rose all the way through November.
English robins

"Bring me my chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight.
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green & pleasent Land."

Wm. Blake

 

Family (my grandma is from Harleston)
Canal boats
Shakespeare's Globe
London
Llangollen, Wales (everyone should just go there. It is so cool)
Football, the correct kind
Dr. Who
King's Cross
Gatwick Airport
Kidney Pies
Bangers and Mash (yummy)
Gossip Girl... Don't ask why:dry:
Walking about the Countryside
Oh! I nearly forgot sheep! (Ewe lol)