What are British famous for in the whole world?

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Reply 60

helen.allan123

moaning! the brits are great at it :P

Queuing.

Complaining, tea and the British accent.
Which is ridiculous, because most Brits don't have the stereotypical well-spoken accent, but there you go :tongue:

Reply 63

Macpro

Fish and Chips and Bangers and Mash

Reply 64

Macpro

Original post by Limoncello

I KNOW THAT THEY ARE Stereotypes :

Yellow teeth
Tea (with milk)
English breakfast : bacon, eggs and baked beans
Bad weather, "It rains everyday"
Don't speak foreign languages
Girls are easy and "dress inappropriately" (no offence)
Drink till they get drunk
Rude
Snobbish
Bad food
Cold people
Fat girls
Reserved people

This..!

..and "Yellow teeth" - hahahahahaha :biggrin:

Chavs

Couple of things that I've learned living in the US that we're known for:

1) Bad teeth
2) BBC
3) Drinking tea
4) The Queen
5) Still banging on about the empire
6) Calling the colonials the colonials
7) Being stuck up
8) Boarding school

Unfortunately, I seem to compound all of these beliefs except bad teeth.

Reply 67

tusac

Here, almost all football fans you see would be saying "we shall win this weekend" and I would be like when the hell did league matches start in India but they would be talking about the ManUs, Chelseas and Arsenals etc :rolleyes:

For me, it would be (not in any order):
-Sherlock Holmes
-The Beatles
-Somerset Maugham & Shakespeare
-Football ofc, David Beckham being the major reason :redface:

-Inventing Cricket, which is like a religion here now :s-smilie:

-In the film fraternity, as the homes of Jason Statham. Christian Bale.. :bandit:

-And ofc, the atrocities committed during the 200 years of ruling...still alive in the History books and being passed onto generation after generation, but nobody seems to care so much these days
-Finally, the Oxford and the Cambridge..

Reply 68

FoxxyCleopatra

many good things.

gorgeous accents. high tea. etiquette. stiff upper lip. black cabs.

and....the exorbitant pound. unfriendly londoners. rain. and i could never understand why people shun eye contact and stare into space on the tube?! :wink:

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 69

lolimemma

Original post by escape

Do you always quote Hugh Grant?

Actually, Hugh Grant! He's quite famous innit!

I think this is the first time!

Original post by Drewski

The bit he's quoting was actually said by Hugh Grant...

I'm a girl :frown:

Reply 70

tehFrance

Original post by street.lovin'

But before coming to UK, I heard that England is very posh country! I didnt know about Scotland though.

Something to do with the fact that outside the UK Scotland is not recognised as a seperate country (nor is England)... Wales doesn't exist :lol:

THough it would help if the countries marketed outside of the UK for holidays :smile:

Reply 71

508836

Art, Literature, monarchy, industrial revolution, Shakespeare, Churchill, James Bond, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawkings, The Beckhams, Simon Cowell, The Beatles, Posh and old fashioned, conservative, reserved, Oxbridge, bad teeth, bangers and mash, tea, fish and chips, football, London, diverse accents, epic history (e.g Victorians, Tudors, Battle of Hastings).