Being British?

May 2021 11 105 Report

Being British?

do you agree with the following?

BEING BRITISH.

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of all things foreign!

Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Britain do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Britain do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting

Update:

By theres some perdantic people out there this morning , go in the kitchen , get another coffee , sit back , relax and have a laugh! Lifes not long enough to pick holes in everything! CHILL!

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Social Science Lady

I am English, not British.

I drive an English car .

I do not go in pubs and do not drink beer.

I have never eaten an Indian, Turkish or any other foreign take-away food.

I have no Swedish furniture, and generally watch only the BBC news on T.V.

I do not have a Japanese television.

Having visited most parts of the world, I am certainly not suspicious of foreign things.

I have never had a take-away pizza

and have never required the service of an ambulance.

If I needed a prescription, I would take it to a chemists` not a supermarket.

I do not smoke.

I have never eaten any sort of burger and fries

and do not drink coke, diet or otherwise.

I look after my car, when not in use, it goes in the garage.

Britain is not the only country where banks chain pens to the counter , it is done in America Holland New Zea-land and Brazil, to name four other countries.

I do not have an answering machine,

or call screener

or call waiting service.

I do not fit very well into your stereo-type list do I ?

But then, as I said, I am English not British. There is a great deal of difference between the two or haven`t you noticed?

Possibly you meant this as a bit of light-hearted `patter`, but unfortunately some people will take these statements and assume them to be true. As a nation, we are good at laughing at ourselves, but this isn`t laughing, it is mocking.

Anonymous

Much gleaned by the sound of it from the Darwin awards, for people who do stupid things to take themselves out of the gene pool. And much also applies to US, never forget that.

Anonymous

they chain the pens to the desks in banks in australia and america too...

the pizza delivary takes forever in my area, i bet an ambulance would be quicker...

im not suspicious of things foreign, i just spent two weeks in thailand!

Anonymous

All true which reminds me to tell my grandson not to test his battery out on his tongue. Were're such a lovable lot aren't we?.

Anonymous

no, its not only in britain, the things you state in your question happens in USA too.

as for screening calls with an answering machine, i thought they were to answer when you arent in, i thought i only screened my calls haha and i wouldnt have call waiting... ;-)