This should be fun
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...)
"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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Voted S:t George and Stiff upper lip. Many of the things there I do consider english though.
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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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Tipped my hat to 'Tea'.
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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?
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
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...no Monty Python ? Fawlty Towers gets fairly close, granted.
"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."
-Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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I voted for chavs.
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