Where there are sets of double doors, e.g. entrance to offices or department stores, waiting to walk through behind a queue of people instead of opening a different door. Typical british behavior
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]saying we let too many foreigners in to our great country then moving abroad to do exactly the same
Point of order oohaah; whilst I am not one that moans about too many foreigners and lives abroad, in defence of those that do there is a marked difference. Immigrants into Britain almost all come for economic reasons, and a number of them send their money out of the country, to the land they originally came from.
Most Brits abroad move there for social reasons, many retire to warmer climates. They bring their money with them, and invest in property, and spend their pensions locally, bringing money into the country they have settled in. Or like myself, they set up businesses and spend the profits locally.
Still does not excuse them moaning about foreigners I grant you, but the circumstances are a little different.
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]saying we let too many foreigners in to our great country then moving abroad to do exactly the same
Point of order oohaah; whilst I am not one that moans about too many foreigners and lives abroad, in defence of those that do there is a marked difference. Immigrants into Britain almost all come for economic reasons, and a number of them send their money out of the country, to the land they originally came from.
Most Brits abroad move there for social reasons, many retire to warmer climates. They bring their money with them, and invest in property, and spend their pensions locally, bringing money into the country they have settled in. Or like myself, they set up businesses and spend the profits locally.
Still does not excuse them moaning about foreigners I grant you, but the circumstances are a little different.
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]saying we let too many foreigners in to our great country then moving abroad to do exactly the same
Point of order oohaah; whilst I am not one that moans about too many foreigners and lives abroad, in defence of those that do there is a marked difference. Immigrants into Britain almost all come for economic reasons, and a number of them send their money out of the country, to the land they originally came from.
Most Brits abroad move there for social reasons, many retire to warmer climates. They bring their money with them, and invest in property, and spend their pensions locally, bringing money into the country they have settled in. Or like myself, they set up businesses and spend the profits locally.
Still does not excuse them moaning about foreigners I grant you, but the circumstances are a little different.
[cite]Posted By: oohaahmortimer[/cite]saying we let too many foreigners in to our great country then moving abroad to do exactly the same
Point of order oohaah; whilst I am not one that moans about too many foreigners and lives abroad, in defence of those that do there is a marked difference. Immigrants into Britain almost all come for economic reasons, and a number of them send their money out of the country, to the land they originally came from.
Most Brits abroad move there for social reasons, many retire to warmer climates. They bring their money with them, and invest in property, and spend their pensions locally, bringing money into the country they have settled in. Or like myself, they set up businesses and spend the profits locally.
Still does not excuse them moaning about foreigners I grant you, but the circumstances are a little different.
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
Fish and Chips on a Friday
Spotted Dick and Custard
Christmas with the Family
Paddling in the sea
Mug of Cocoa
A Pint of Best Bitter
Walks in the Countryside on a warm summers day
Queing
Seasons (weather not football)
Roast dinner on a Sunday
Thinking we've a god-given right to win every sport we think we're good at (maybe that's actually Englishness!)
Who are the people who think we have a God given right to win everything? I have thought long and hard, and I don't actually recall ever meeting anyone who thought we would win anything, except for a few days in summer 1996, before we lost to the Germans in the Euro semi-final , and in summer 1990 before etc...etc... on both occasions we were in with a realistic chance at that point.
Most people I meet think we will crash and burn at everything before it even starts, and are totally pessimistic i.e. dismissing Capello before he is even appointed.
So two more Britishness things:
Perpetuating urban myths about our people
Glorying in pessimism about sport.
Gallows humour That annoying type of rain that isn't heavy enough to warrant a brolly but still leaves you looking like a drowned rat if you're out in it for long enough. Cream teas Bonfire Night Marmite The BBC(as much as people whinge about the licence fee)
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Curry - the curries over here are lamentable compared to the ones we get back in Blighty
Things aren't the same as they were in my day.
Football on Saturday.
Point of order oohaah; whilst I am not one that moans about too many foreigners and lives abroad, in defence of those that do there is a marked difference. Immigrants into Britain almost all come for economic reasons, and a number of them send their money out of the country, to the land they originally came from.
Most Brits abroad move there for social reasons, many retire to warmer climates. They bring their money with them, and invest in property, and spend their pensions locally, bringing money into the country they have settled in. Or like myself, they set up businesses and spend the profits locally.
Still does not excuse them moaning about foreigners I grant you, but the circumstances are a little different.
Fecking Immigrant.......
LOL...
Shouldnt that be emmigrant? ;-)
moaning
use of humour to deflect real confrontation (see puttng :-) after insults on this site)
Fair play
Moaning about things but rarely to the actual people concerned and hardly ever enough to go out on the streets about it anymore
Disliking groups of "others" but always sticking up for the ones you know as they are OK
Decent pop/rock music and street fashion.
More moaning
Pubs
Here here, we have the best beer on the planet.
Pint of Broadside anyone?
Fish and Chips on a Friday
Spotted Dick and Custard
Christmas with the Family
Paddling in the sea
Mug of Cocoa
A Pint of Best Bitter
Walks in the Countryside on a warm summers day
Queing
Asking for brown sauce when abroad
Moaning that they can't make a decent cup of tea abroad
Making it known to most Europeans that they'd be German if it wasn't for us.
Roast dinner on a Sunday
Thinking we've a god-given right to win every sport we think we're good at (maybe that's actually Englishness!)
Most people I meet think we will crash and burn at everything before it even starts, and are totally pessimistic i.e. dismissing Capello before he is even appointed.
So two more Britishness things:
Perpetuating urban myths about our people
Glorying in pessimism about sport.
That annoying type of rain that isn't heavy enough to warrant a brolly but still leaves you looking like a drowned rat if you're out in it for long enough.
Cream teas
Bonfire Night
Marmite
The BBC(as much as people whinge about the licence fee)