Things that make you proud to be British

[cloggypop]

 

 

Ivor Cutler

Repped

[Tony Moanero]

[cloggypop]

Where's the cheese you wankers?

[aRdja]

My wife would say “NHS” without a shadow of a doubt.

[lifetime fan]

[A Red]

Music

[Captain Turdseye]

Not being Turkish.

[Anubis]

Playing bowls while an enemy armada approaches.

 

Artisan jam.

[mattyq]

Bad shithouse dog aids. Proper aids not like the foreign muck

Pubs. Nowhere outside the British Isles comes close

Sports. We created, codified and popularised pretty much all the great world sports - footie, rugby, cricket, tennis etc

WWW, thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee

[Josef Svejk]

Conquering and then going to war over the Malvinas...

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Granted, though entitled to British citizenship, I'm not British...)

[Carvalho Diablo]

Our NHS, definitely.

[Josef Svejk]

Pubs. Nowhere outside the British Isles comes close

Disregarding the Isles remark... Irish, Czech, German, American, and Canadian pubs are - on average - better in my experience...

[Josef Svejk]

Our NHS, definitely.

Yes.

[Numero Veinticinco]

NHS

All the shit we invented

WWs

Biggest Empire

Pasties

[mattyq]

Disregarding the Isles remark... Irish, Czech, German, American, and Canadian pubs are - on average - better in my experience...

Fuck me, you must have been to some shitty pubs in the UK and Ireland

I've never been to Canada so can't comment but I've spent a lot of time in drinking establishments in those other countries and they do great bars and cafes but the pubs are, frankly, shit

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Cider

Shin-kicking

Danger Mouse

[Numero Veinticinco]

Scientific contribution

[Tony Moanero]

Disregarding the Isles remark..., Czech, German, American, and Canadian pubs are - on average - better in my experience...

Bollocks.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Bollocks.

 

British swear words; best in the world.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Bollocks.

Yeah, not even close either.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Danny Boyle's opening ceremony for our 2012 Olympics was surprisingly, amazingly amazing. Watched it out of curiosity and was completely blown away, absolutely loved it. Incredible.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As0e4de-rI

[Numero Veinticinco]

2012 Olympics was absolutely fucking excellent

[Carvalho Diablo]

The Beatles

Rolling Stones

The Who

Pink Floyd

David Bowie

Led Zeppelin

Radiohead

Jedward

 

British music, best in the world bar none.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Our resolve against tyranny and evil to fight (at times alone) during 2 world wars.

[Jairzinho]

The Beatles

Rolling Stones

The Who

Pink Floyd

David Bowie

Led Zeppelin

Radiohead

Jedward

 

British music, best in the world bar none.

 

And The Kinks as well, who were better than all of those.