# Britian searching for new national motto **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930 "2007-11-18T17:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/61 "2007-11-20T07:47:25Z")
Yeah I know. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/62 "2007-11-20T08:35:07Z")
Britian - stil leeding the warld in edukashun and calcha, inni’? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/63 "2007-11-20T08:49:28Z")
“Bacardi and coke please Myfanwy” ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/64 "2007-11-20T14:27:32Z")
Britain,the Zloty doesn’t stop here. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/65 "2007-11-20T15:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] But no, we don’t. How about: **Rumours about our food being shit have been somewhat exaggerated.** [/QUOTE] I’m pretty close to giving up on trying to argue in defence of our food. Sod it. If people think it’s all crap, let them wallow in their own ignorance and miss out on it - all the more left for me. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/66 "2007-11-20T15:56:48Z")
“UK, not Europe! **We** still have our own money!” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/67 "2007-11-20T18:11:42Z")
to steal from a US State motto Britian is UK ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/68 "2007-11-20T18:14:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] to steal from a US State motto Britian is UK [/QUOTE] Even if the spelling is wrong ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/69 "2007-11-20T18:27:50Z")
Britain; - it’s Great innit. Oh Bugger! Britain, world champion arsekickers 17thC, 18thC, 19thC and 3rd place 20thC, you looking at my pint?? Britain - We invented it before you. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/70 "2007-11-20T18:35:29Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Even if the spelling is wrong [/QUOTE] Well, you got me. I’m a dumb fuck. I’ll ask the mods to change my user name. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/71 "2007-11-20T18:42:39Z")
Britain - nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/72 "2007-11-20T21:08:32Z")
**Britain: if there’s anything finer than a long walk in the dappled rolling beechwoods followed by a sumptuous ale and a ploughman’s lunch in a warm sun-drenched beer garden on a hillside above a green field full of white-clad cricketers, with the whistle and chuff of a steam train passing, I’ve yet to experience it.** (This actually happened to me. Once. In 1994. For twenty minutes. Suppose it’s only England, though.) **Britain: even our banks have the runs.** **Britain: turned out nice again. Might rain tomorrow, though.** ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/73 "2007-11-20T21:31:08Z")
“Our former colonies can’t be beat.” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/74 "2007-11-20T21:44:28Z")
For those nostalgia buffs: “Time, gentlemen, time!” as a motto, it does exclude half your population… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/75 "2007-11-20T21:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] But no, we don’t. [/QUOTE] I remember fondly the many days spent at Ye Olde English pub in my hometown eating boiled chips! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/76 "2007-11-20T22:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] I remember fondly the many days spent at Ye Olde English pub in my hometown eating boiled chips! [/QUOTE] Well, to be fair, chips are _supposed_ to be boiled. ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/77 "2007-11-20T23:01:44Z")
French fries? Boiled? That’s horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/78 "2007-11-20T23:03:35Z")
[QUOTE=ForumBot] French fries? Boiled? That’s horrifying. [/QUOTE] What do you think a deep fat fryer does? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/79 "2007-11-20T23:10:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’m pretty close to giving up on trying to argue in defence of our food. Sod it. If people think it’s all crap, let them wallow in their own ignorance and miss out on it - all the more left for me. [/QUOTE] I will hereby cease and desist disparaging Brit cuisine, if you all will stop saying “bang, bang” or “Al Capone” when I tell you where I’m from when I visit London.‘’ Kay? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930/80 "2007-11-20T23:17:10Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I will hereby cease and desist disparaging Brit cuisine, if you all will stop saying “bang, bang” or “Al Capone” when I tell you where I’m from when I visit London.‘’ [/QUOTE] Alaska! Am I right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britian-searching-for-new-national-motto/426930.md?page=5)