Things that make you proud to be British

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We give ourselves a tough time, often justified, but let's take a moment to celebrate all things blighty...

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-44536052

 

Bakewell pudding sent to the edge of space goes missing

 

A Bakewell pudding which was launched to the edges of space, with tracking devices attached, has gone missing.

Pupils at S. Anselm's Preparatory School in Derbyshire launched the dessert, attached to a high altitude balloon, on Monday.

Tracking devices showed it was at 52,500ft (16,000m) over Saxilby, near Lincoln, when contact was lost

 

The annual cheese roll in Gloucester.

 

 

 

 

Ancient civilisation, does it build pyramids? roads? aqueducts?

 

No, it draws a man with a big cock.

 

 

 

Julius Caesar's description of ancient Britons:

 

 

All the Britons paint themselves with woad, which produces a dark blue color; and for this reason they are much more frightful in appearance in battle. They permit their hair to grow long, shaving all parts of the body except the head and the upper lip.

 

Even back then, we all had taches.

[Tony Moanero]

Chips and gravy.

[TheBitch]

Brexit.

[Captain Turdseye]

Chicken Tikka Masala

[rubble-rouser]

Anglo-saxon terminology.

 

Monty Python

 

Ivor Cutler

[Mook]

Foreigners.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

The very fact that we give ourselves a tough time.

 

Oh, and Chocolate Hobnobs.

[Bjornebye]

British humour. 

 

Inventing concentration camps.

 

The chippy. 

 

Real Ale. 

 

The Royal Navy. 

[moof]

Sticking with the drawing big cocks on a hillside theme

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2018/09/04/vandals-turn-giant-tour-britain-bicyclein-devon-penis/

 

 

 

*plays land of hope and glory*

[Remmie]

Marmite but definitely not baked beans

[Jairzinho]

Humour.

Manners.

Treatment of animals.

[Elite]

Tommy Robinson

[Dr Nowt]

Whoever actually did it, the national intolerance to posers, twats and berks encouraging someone to fly a hamburger outside of that Blaine bellend’s perspex tank via a mini-helicopter.

[Bjornebye]

Not being on or that near to a fault line 

 

Not having volcanoes

 

No dangerous cunts like deadly spiders, crocodiles and polar bears native to our island

 

Nessie 

[Tony Moanero]

Tunnock's Caramel Wafers and Tea Cakes
 
Shortbread
 
Chips and gravy
 
Dunking biscuits in tea
 
Fry-ups (no beans, obviously)
 
Pork Pies
 
Scotch Eggs
 
Crumpets

 

[Dr Nowt]

Similar to above, but that glee at the misfortune of others which innately makes British people so marvellously cuntish.

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Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island summed it up when he said the British are the only people who'd find fun sitting in the rain at the seaside eating fish and chips.

[Jairzinho]

Yes, clapping and cheering ironically.

[Tony Moanero]

Cream Tea

 

 

[Denny Crane]

Tony Moanero.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Cream Tea

 

What the fucking hell is that? One Cornish and one Devonshire... makes me ashamed to be British.

[Section_31]

The fact there are different factions and styles of Morris Dancing who don't like each other.

[Tony Moanero]

The fact there are different factions and styles of Morris Dancing who don't like each other.

 

 

Out of rep. Morris dancing is boss.

[Tony Moanero]

Tony Moanero.

 

 

Is that you, Dad?

[Dr Nowt]

Tony Moanero.

Seconded.