“Up to 30 sunny days a year!”
“We invented whiskey. Show your gratitude.”
“Nos pervasor vestri terra.”
Fish/chips or chicken tikka?
We Always Muddle Through
Britain: the land of superfluous "u"s!
Slight change: make it "Britain: the laund ouf superfluous “u"s!”
Britain: we can spell ‘randomise’, ‘apologise’ and ‘whisky’, too 
(And to Indistinguishable: yes.)
Not all the women look like Camilla.
But no, we don’t.
How about: Rumours about our food being shit have been somewhat exaggerated.
Cup of tea, love?
Or the less pithy: A nation mixed for centuries, more xenophobic than ever…
I know this thread is mostly humor, but wasn’t Brit food mostly shit until about 20 years ago? I remember even 15 years ago the drastic difference in quality and amount between Scotland and Northern England was noticeable and pronounced. Scotland being far better in both. (Besides their Ales & Beers were served cooler too.)
My understanding was things only changed about 20 years ago and took at least 10 years to spread across England. Is this wrong? Was the Lake Country notoriously bad for food?
Sorry for the hijack, if this is involved I’ll start a thread in Café, but it might have a simple answer.
Jim
Thirty, but yes, largely bad. But not so any more. Largely due to the massive popularity of ethnic food, but this has pulled British food up with it. Modern British cooking is really rather good, and even pub grub is on the up too.
Sadly Scotland now has a reputation for being crap, and deep-frying everything too.
Funny you should mention the Lake District. My dad was on vacation there in the 1960s, and was being served a plate of egg and chips, the height of haute cuisine at the time. The waitress had a cigarette in her mouth with a long trail of ash dangling from it. The ash fell from the cigarette into the chips. She put the plate on the table anyway. Dad said “excuse me, you’ve dropped ash into my food”. The waitress said “oh, sorry love,” picked the plate up, blew on the chips, and returned it to the table.
BTW, haute cuisine was only if the egg and chips were accompanied with beans and/or mushy peas
Thanks for the quick answer.
Thanks for the great laugh. That broke me up.
Jim
The best motto was already used in The End of the World:
'Bout that time, eh chaps?
Righto.
Sigh. You deep fry one Mars bar…
Judge for yourself. (N.B.: “Bramble jelly” = blackberry jelly. “Marrow jam” = zucchini jam.)
I love the Brits so this is all meant in the friendliest manner.
Dentistry, cuisine, weather: 0 out of 3 ain’t bad.
If it wasn’t for the UK, there wouldn’t be a US.
Elton and Elizabeth: It’s hard to beat a pair of queens.
Hey ladies. Wanna see Big Ben?
The Empire Struck Out.
We gave you cricket, Simon Cowell and Boy George. Sorry.
You all drive on the wrong side, not us.
Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, [del]America[/del], [del]Australia[/del], [del]Ireland[/del], [del]India[/del], [del]Canada[/del], [del]New Zealand[/del], [del]Hong Kong[/del]…oh, bollocks.
Want that one.