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http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons
Someone at the DCMS seems to have taken one of those pub conversations and made a career out of it. Anyway, here is is in all its glory, a website asking you to nominate and vote on icons of Englishness.
Of course I'm sure all you naughty foreigners wouldn't do what the English would do and try to vote a pair of knickers top of the poll...
(I voted for the Spitfire and the stiff upper lip myself, hurrah for Blighty...)
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Voted S:t George and Stiff upper lip. Many of the things there I do consider english though.
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Tipped my hat to 'Tea'.
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HmmThe combination of a practical yet beautiful design with the immense skill and courage of the pilots make the Spitfire a powerful icon of wartime England
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Well, stiff upper lip being originally an American phrase, I can't honestly go for it... Being a good honest (well...) expatriate though... 'And did those feet, in ancient lands...' etc.
Also went for the panto, and our sense of humour - it's not our fault no-one else has one worth a damn... Also our countryside - though to be honest, it's pretty much just the largest garden known to man...
Several others caught my eye - a good proper afternoon tea for example - with cucumber sandwiches! But since they weren't together... no. Oxford nearly got it as well, the grand sneer - I mean tour too.
The people of England sadly do not exist anymore - well, not in England - they're all abroad!
Can't even go for St George either - he's Armenian, plus, Georgia gives him his proper due as a patron saint, we don't, so we don't deserve him.
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Magna Carta?
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...no Monty Python ? Fawlty Towers gets fairly close, granted.
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I voted for chavs.
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I voted stiff upper lip and Spitfire and the our sense of humour...
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The Sandwich - no other country in the world understands. Even the Scots try to deep fat fry them. John Montagu is a genius.
You'd get that impression if you spent all your time down south, come up north to the land of Yorkshire and you'll see real English people, not the metrosexual-faux-californian-parisian-mocco-choco-latte-lardy-da-likely-lads of London.The people of England sadly do not exist anymore - well, not in England - they're all abroad!
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Ah yes, two southern men, one an underwear salesmanthe other a conceptual artist and part time poodle groomer
greet each other in the traditional restrained London fashion.
You voted for the flat cap I take it, Al Khalifah...?
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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chip chip cheerio and all that, and meat pies, WTF is a meat pie?
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Stiff upper lip and the White Cliffs of Dover
It's good to be British
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
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Pie with meat in it. You get what you pay for.Originally Posted by master of the puppets
Hopefully it's beef.
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Spitfires and Cricket all the way, old boy.
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The FA Cup, and Tea
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As the man says, a pie with meat in. Often served at football matches. At Gillingham I think they are mostly rat.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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No-one really knows. But yet we still eat them.
I couldn't be arsed clicking on the link. But I think the most iconic English thing as opposed to the many British things that have been appropriated, is cricket.
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Noooo..it just HAS to be mutton.Hopefully it's beef.
Should I inform PETA?As the man says, a pie with meat in. Often served at football matches. At Gillingham I think they are mostly rat.
I'm going for Whippets, black pudding, boiled tripe and bicycle clips.
NB: thas nowt lyke parklin grumpet
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When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
Proud Supporter of the Gahzette
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it's mostly chicken balti these days. it is at Leyton Orient anyway.Noooo..it just HAS to be mutton.
anyone can build aeroplanes...but only Brits can do panto.
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All together now.....OH NO THEY CAN'T.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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OH YES THEY CAN!!!
It's BEHIND you.
All the non-Brits on these forums will either be a) scratching their heads..or b) thinking, those Brits are weird.
I have another one.
Complaining about the weather. (wether it's too hot or too cold)
For the benefit of our overseas friends....
http://www.its-behind-you.com/
Last edited by InsaneApache; 01-10-2006 at 16:42.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Business as usual then.b) thinking, those Brits are weird
No one will ever understand the British who doesn't understand that a man wearing plastic breasts is funny.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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BOOM BOOMComplaining about the weather. (wether it's too hot or too cold)
well, it's never right is it? and Michael Fish always gets it wrong too.
i would say fish and chips is quintessentially British, but curry is actually the most commonly eaten food in the country and has been for ages...
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as if meat pies werent bad enough, i just learned about black pudding...BLOOD, black pudding is stinking BLOOD, i don't think i've ever felt so much respect for the brits until i realised they were a bunch of tea drinking blood eating (eat blood?
A nation of sheep will beget a a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. —1 John 2:9
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pigs i think. i like black pudding. tripe and jellied eels are a bit more than i'm prepared to stomach though. and i shall leave haggis to my Celtic brethren as well...as if meat pies werent bad enough, i just learned about black pudding...BLOOD, black pudding is stinking BLOOD, i don't think i've ever felt so much respect for the brits until i realised they were a bunch of tea drinking blood eating (eat blood?
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Black pudding is indeed pigs blood and pigs fat but to be fair we are fair from the only people to eat it, why even the French have their boudin noir I believe.
Haggis is nice. Sheeps lungs yum yum.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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Yes but only when they're 'in season'.and i shall leave haggis to my Celtic brethren as well...
BTW did you know that in the wild the haggis' left legs are longer than their right ones. That's so they can run around the hills and stay upright. Only if they run clockwise though, if they run anti-clockwise then they fall over.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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you can also get sheep blood black pudding but pig blood is by far the most common.
I love eating scabs.
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