FabSwingers.com forum: Very British

By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

What makes someone ‘very British’?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

- discussing the weather at length

- having a stiff upper lip

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apologising at all times, regardless of fault

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being born in Very Britain

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By *ussexualMan
over a year ago

Brighton

Queuing, and only tutting when someone cuts in

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"- discussing the weather at length

- having a stiff upper lip"

Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Wearing Union Jack/flag y-fronts

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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago

Milton keynes

Moan to self because someone didn't say thank you when you open the door for them that one time

Or..

Someone not acknowledging your kindness for letting them thru out of a junction lol

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Using words like 'Cheerio' and 'whoopsy daisy'...

...and 'you plonker!'

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Marmite on toast for breakfast

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..

eating an ice cream cornet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Using words like 'Cheerio' and 'whoopsy daisy'...

...and 'you plonker!'

!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..

eating an ice cream cornet. "

IM HOWLINGGGG

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Using words like 'Cheerio' and 'whoopsy daisy'...

...and 'you plonker!'

And saying TTFN.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"- discussing the weather at length

- having a stiff upper lip

Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first

It's not a discussion to be had, it does go in first. Stops the hot tea cracking the china

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

They laugh with Jim Davidson.

Had to be careful not to use at.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

They never watch tennis any other time but are stuck rooted and are an expert on all things tennis for 2 weeks when Wimbledon is on.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

No idea...because I'm Scottish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queuing and tutting at how long the queue is, grumbling with the person in front of you about it and having a full on psycho bitch moment if someone jumps in front

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Very Scottish then..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Moan to self because someone didn't say thank you when you open the door for them that one time

Or..

Someone not acknowledging your kindness for letting them thru out of a junction lol"

Haha, I sarcastically say thank you when drivers don't stop at the give way sign, or when I let them past and they don't acknowledge. It really grinds my gears. (pun intended)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..

eating an ice cream cornet. "

Those are always the best days though, especially when the waves are coming over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drinking tea with your pinky up.

Danish x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chips with everything

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queuing, and you're the only one there.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queuing at a sex party and then saying "no, go on, I insist" to the men trying to cut in in front of you...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chips with everything

And a few pieces of bread to make whatever you're eating into a buttie, or for 'dippin' or to clean the plate at the end

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

A Sunday Roast

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Being Welsh, reminding people that Britain isn't just England. That we definitely don't speak posh English, cockney or any other kind of English accent.

Being British to me is about loads of diversity in such a small area.

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"Being Welsh, reminding people that Britain isn't just England. That we definitely don't speak posh English, cockney or any other kind of English accent.

Being British to me is about loads of diversity in such a small area.

It’s just an expression. People don’t tend to say ‘Very English’ as much. Many mannerisms are typically English but I’m sure many expressions are said as much by Welsh and Scots as us English.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Queuing at a sex party and then saying "no, go on, I insist" to the men trying to cut in in front of you..."
Sums it up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??"
Don't open that Pandoras Box

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having your picnic regardless of the weather.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??"

Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.

When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)????

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Drinking tea in a cup with their pinkie finger pointing out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

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Love that song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Passive aggressive behavior

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When they class themselves as ‘British’ rather than Scottish, English, welsh etc

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??

Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.

When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)????"

I say Cambridge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Yes, same. This, always

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queueing

Putting ‘xxx’ at the end of a text message - apparently no one else does this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Queuing and tutting at how long the queue is, grumbling with the person in front of you about it and having a full on psycho bitch moment if someone jumps in front

Im a serial tutter and eye roller

But if someone behind me has like 3 items and I have 58391057 I usually let that person go before me cos I’m a top notch lady

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Being British :-

Wake up in your SWEDISH bed , between your EGYPTIAN sheets. Step onto your MOROCCAN tiles and walk downstairs to eat your AMERICAN cereal and your IRISH sausages. Take in the news on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Dress in your ITALIAN suit put on your FRENCH shoes and drive your GERMAN car to work for a JAPANESE technology company. East a light CHINESE for your lunch. Travelling home, stop by for an INDIAN meal before watching a KOREAN film , arriving home and downing a small glass of AUSTRALIAN or NEW ZEALAND white while your partner sips a good CHILEAN red.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

When they go to beautiful exotic destinations with the chance to experience different cultures and food...they have a full English for breakfast and a roast for dinner.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saying mate and bollocks and bobs your uncle!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The weather

Queuing

Moaning

Cups of tea

Getting up at dawn to put a towel on a sun bed on holiday

Bank holiday piss ups.

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Same here, Rampant Lion always ready to fly!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thinking they're different to everyone else because of their nationally - oh, wait ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fish,chips and cups of tea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Invading other countries and declaring their raw materials and people to now be your property

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"Invading other countries and declaring their raw materials and people to now be your property

Worked quite well I thought.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Laughing at nothing, bloody annoying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We just love to que

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Driving a British Racing Green Morgan Sports car with the hood down in the middle of winter, wearing the obligatory flying jacket and cloth cap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Invading other countries and declaring their raw materials and people to now be your property

Worked quite well I thought.

To the Victor goes the Spoils and the ability to write history!

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"We just love to que"

Isn’t that inept Spanish waiters?

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By *elfordstevieMan
over a year ago

Telford

Riding noisy, boneshaking old (British) motorbikes, in the middle of winter, with a massive grin and frostbite.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Being British :-

So.. Supportive of all economies and cultures but our own... I see.

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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago

Terra Firma

Knowing all the words to Rule Britannia

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Disliking the French! ??????????????

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

"Knowing all the words to Rule Britannia "

As well as Land of Hope & Glory

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By *oadsafun79Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynea

Slapping thigh and saying “right, I really must go”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's no discussion....milk should never go in first

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pompous, arrogant, believe the world revolves around little England

And that Britain is great …… Brexit has fucked that up lol

Btw am English living in Ireland, it’s funny watching from afar

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

“There is no land like England, where’er the light of day be

There are no hearts like English hearts, such hearts of oak they be

There is no land like England, where’er the light of day be

There are no men like Englishmen, so tall and bold they be!

And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free

To foil and spoil the tyrant beneath the greenwood tree”

– Alfred Tennyson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not being an entitled little know-it-all.

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South of Ipswich

“The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.”

– Bill Bryson, American travel writer and author

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

"Apologising at all times, regardless of fault "

I’m very British then. Sorry.

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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago

Fareham

"Pompous, arrogant, believe the world revolves around little England

And that Britain is great …… Brexit has fucked that up lol

Btw am English living in Ireland, it’s funny watching from afar "

The luck of the Irish eh? Poor sods.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Wondered how long it would take for brexit to be thrown into the mix. It wasn't long.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What makes someone ‘very British’? "

Eating at an English themed pub on holiday anywhere in the world..maybe that's more just the English tho.

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By *AURA6969TV/TS
over a year ago

RUGBY

"- discussing the weather at length

- having a stiff upper lip

Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first

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erm no it shouldn't tea bag water brew tea bag out milk then sugar if wanted

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Apologising if someone walks into you

Tea and biscuits

Telling everyone you meet how bad a service was without actually complaining to the company providing the service.

Asking a taxi driver or barber what time they finish and if they've been busy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Going to the seaside in the middle of winter to walk up and down the seafront in a force 8 Gale with horizontal rain……..

eating an ice cream cornet. "

My husbands idea of an ideal Sunday

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Entitlement.

Moaning..

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Riding one’s Penny farthing down the promenade and shouting, ‘Jolly good show old chap!’ at random passers by.

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By *andering Welsh GuyMan
over a year ago

All over the place

Queuing

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Trifle

....and trifling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Putting milk in after letting the tea brew and not the other way around

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh, also being hated by everyone who isn’t British

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago

Terra Firma

Having a disliking for other British nationals and their terribly common ways.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I’m a really pretentious plonker and now call it, Crème anglaise (after seeing John Torode list it as such on Masterchef)

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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago

Terra Firma

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I love custard! The French love their creme anglaise and have you ever had the Portuguese tart Pasteis de Nata

mmmmmm custard

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I’m a really pretentious plonker and now call it, Crème anglaise (after seeing John Torode list it as such on Masterchef)

Blasphemy surely

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I love custard! The French love their creme anglaise and have you ever had the Portuguese tart Pasteis de Nata

mmmmmm custard

...and what's wrong with good ole' English custard tarts

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

Cups of tea in extremely hot weather

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shaking hands at a swingers meeting before getting down to the nitty gritty

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"- discussing the weather at length

- having a stiff upper lip

Tea with milk and discussing whether milk should go in first

It's not a discussion to be had, it does go in first. Stops the hot tea cracking the china

buy better cups: simples.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I’m a really pretentious plonker and now call it, Crème anglaise (after seeing John Torode list it as such on Masterchef)

Blasphemy surely

Creme Anglaise is a halfway house between Brandy sauce (minus the brandy bit) and custard.

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Pickle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“Cuppa tea?” After everything.

Someone dies, someone’s had an argument, to celebrate etc.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Flavoured crisps and a a taste for foreig foods and adopting them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Radishes, cucumber sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??

Yes. But since I was born in Scotland...I'm Scottish.

When people ask 'where were you born"....Do you say Britain or England (insert any other place name)????"

I say English, cos that's my country of birth and mother tongue.

What's your mother tongue?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Custard

...not sure anyone else anywhere else gets custard

I love custard! The French love their creme anglaise and have you ever had the Portuguese tart Pasteis de Nata

mmmmmm custard

...and what's wrong with good ole' English custard tarts

The pastry is always too soggy. I hate soggy bottoms on pies. Just pierce the foil tray, when the go in the oven. Natas are light and make a helluva mess, just like sausage rolls.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Pickle

And chutney is Indian. Aah the Raj and Viccie's era!

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy

...are you sure they were so wrong on that front?

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Pickle

And chutney is Indian. Aah the Raj and Viccie's era!"

...and Picalilli..??!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There are certain saying that only British people understand. Recently I said to an American ‘you have to know your onions’ they looked at me like I was crazy

...are you sure they were so wrong on that front?

Maybe not the crazy part

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Being British :-

Was this typed on an AMERICAN phone, built in CHINA? Did you go DUTCH went you nipped out for a curry?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hp brown sauce !

Yorkshire tea !

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"What makes someone ‘very British’? "

Not a question which really needs asking. British people just know. That should be good enough.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

The fuss about using a spoon with your right hand , but a fork with your left. seems a bit silly when comparing pie and gravy with pie and custard.

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Beds (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"What makes someone ‘very British’?

Not a question which really needs asking. British people just know. That should be good enough."

How British!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"What makes someone ‘very British’?

Not a question which really needs asking. British people just know. That should be good enough.

How British!

Now run along and don't make a fuss!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No idea...because I'm Scottish

Is Scotland not part of Britain then haha ??"

True Scots don’t accept it

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