To anyone who doesn't live in England

[Jelly]

What are typically English things? I mean like tea... specifically English rather than British. Need some ideas for my photography project on England.

[ed2funy]

>.>

Wouldn't you ask someone who is English then?

o.0

 

Anyways.....Freaking AWESOME accents! ;D

Though...how you would take a picture of that, I don't know.

kudos if you do. :P

[Jelly]

Typically English things would be the things people from other countries think of, I think...

[Barmacral]

I didn't realise there was a difference between 'English' things and 'British' things.

[Alys Kinch]

I didn't either. But the language differences mostly. Scotland Yard. Bobbies. Crisps for chips and chips for fries. Fags (probably that one will be destroyed by the censor). Biscuits.  Rain all the time.

 

Movies do the whole bad teeth thing.

[Jelly]

Doesn't 'Britain' include Northern Ireland and Scotland?

 

And, thanks Alys :)

 

[Alys Kinch]

The Royal Navy of old.

 

I do try.

[Majsju]

Football, cricket, rugby, RAF, ale, gin, curry, Eton, Oxford, Cambridge, beefeaters, hooligans, white cliffs at Dover, Old Trafford, the Tower of London, the Thames, Big Ben, Rolls Royce, SAS...

[Cadsuane]

Mind the Gap/underground symbol

[shinerfan]

I'm looking at this from the perspective of a N. Louisiana country boy, but dressing formally for a four o'clock

tea, regardless of how much chaos may be going on around you, is pretty hardass. (Maybe I'm just basing this on Magnum. PI and Joseph Conrad.)

[Leatherleaf]

Banksy... no more needs to be said :P

[Alys Kinch]

The Beatles

[Majsju]

Scones, Stilton, Morrissey

[Thorum]

Cricket, the Queen, the Beatles, bad food, ferry, butlers (preferably named James)

[Alys Kinch]

I thought they were named Albert.

 

But yeah, butlers in the very stiff black tie and maids with the ankle length black dress with the white apron and very stiff bun.

[Thorum]

Albert? Never heard of those...

[Kimarja]

Another vote for football and beer from here. Oh, and one for the lovely English rain. You could write sonnets about it, I’m sure Shakespeare did. Combine all three, throw in something red and voila you have captured the essence of England.

[Alys Kinch]

Batman, Thorum, Batman.

[Graendals favourite]

Anything in the film Gosford Park.  :)

[Thorum]

Batman, Thorum, Batman.

 

And I'm not even English ;D

[DPR]

 

I think this says it all...

 

Austin: Listen, dad, if you are are going to say naughty things in front of these American girls then at least speak English English.

[Nigel looks back at girls]

Nigel: All right, my son: I could've had it away with this cracking Julie, my old China. (Subtitle: I was about to make love to this pretty girl.)

Austin: Are you telling a bunch pork-pies and a bag of trout? Because if you are feeling quigly, why not just have a J. Arthur? (Is this true? If you were aroused, why didn't you pleasure yourself?)

Nigel: What, billy no mates? (What, alone?)

Austin: Too right, youth. (Indeed.)

Nigel: Don't you remember the crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint? (Remember Christmas dinner with the Scottish girl?)

Austin: Oh, the one that was all sixes and sevens! (The insane one?)

Nigel: Yeah, yeah, she was the trouble and strife of the Morris dancer what lived up the apples and pears! (She was the wife of the dancer who lived upstairs.)

Austin: She was the barrister what become a bobby in a lorry and... (A lawyer who became a policeman in a truck) [complete gibberish] (????????)...

Austin & Nigel: --tea kettle!

Nigel: And then, and then--

Austin & Nigel: She shat on a turtle!

[Kivam]

Changing of the guard

 

Westminster Abbey

 

Red double decker buses

 

Poor dental hygiene

 

*and Alys - Batman's butler was alfred, not albert*

[Alys Kinch]

Whoops! So not up on my comic book heros. :D

[Moghedian]

Mushy peas! :D

[Rufae]

The Royals /Crown Jewels

 

The Pub / Pint of Ale / Fish'n Chips

 

Fog / Rain

 

Sherlock Holmes / Shakespeare

 

Police Bobbies / Night sticks

 

Knights / Lords and Ladies / King Arthur

 

Sexy Women