# Omigod, I'm British! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302 "2004-04-27T16:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/41 "2004-04-28T10:26:30Z")
Ah, go crawl down a coal mine. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/42 "2004-04-28T10:27:19Z")
Can I ask the provenance of the survey - who was asked these questions/clichés? Where was it published? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/43 "2004-04-28T10:28:25Z")
> [@garius](#): > > Ah, go crawl down a coal mine. Ah, go water your pansies! ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/44 "2004-04-28T10:28:38Z")
> [@garius](#): > > Ah, go crawl down a coal mine. I can’t - you bastards closed them all! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/45 "2004-04-28T10:31:00Z")
Looks more like _English_ than British. Anyhoo, no mention of the national dish - Chicken Tikka Maslala - how come? And the art of noble\* looserhood cite: Scott of the Antarctic **Enola** We don’t hate the Irish. It’s some Irish hate some other Irish. And as for hating the French, who doesn’t? The Prime Minister is Catholic and what on Earth gave you the idea we hate Hindus 😕 \*aka stupid/incompetant ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/46 "2004-04-28T10:31:09Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Can I ask the provenance of the survey - who was asked these questions/clichés? Where was it published? Would be interesting to see - i was wondering whether it was a “Which out of these things…” style survey or an open question. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/47 "2004-04-28T10:39:47Z")
Wow! its turning into NADS! and as Angua says, I was indeed serious about Fish and Chips. Just another shitty survey that reinforces utterly outdated stereotypes. I suppose the survey also states we all talk in either cockerney rhyming slang or with posh home counties accents too. Tha knows. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/48 "2004-04-28T10:41:23Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Wow! its turning into NADS! Well, let’s face it, most of the Americans are probably still asleep, and our own little playpen i broken, so we’re running wild over here! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/49 "2004-04-28T10:42:07Z")
**Enola Straight** , I hope you were joking. There may be the odd grain of ancient historical truth in your bollocks assertions, but you’ve missed the mark by a long chalk (perhaps if you’d been Gay you would have been on target, boom boom). > [@Small Clanger](#): > > **Enola** We don’t hate the Irish. There was quite a bit of anti-Irish animosity during the 1950s and up until the Troubles when bombs were going off in London, but it seems that’s largely over. Being Irish appears to be rather trendy in the UK now. > [@Small Clanger](#): > > And as for hating the French, who doesn’t? Sigh. I don’t. This one’s kinda true though, although I’d say it’s more of a love/hate thing - though personally I think some of the anti-French sentiment is jealousy. > [@Small Clanger](#): > > The Prime Minister is Catholic No, he [isn’t](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair); his wife is, his kids are, and he’s “Catholic-friendly”, attending mass occasionally and so on, but he’s Anglican. However, you are correct in there being very little anti-Catholicism outside of Northern Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/50 "2004-04-28T10:44:13Z")
We drink more tea that you lot on the big Island anyway so all you tea drinkers can be Irish if you want. You’ll have to work on being a functional alcoholic and pissing in your sink. Once these have been mastered you’re all set. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/51 "2004-04-28T10:44:30Z")
We should start a stealth campaign - see how many innocent threads we can hi-jack before they catch on. Wily band of renegades that we are… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/52 "2004-04-28T10:44:37Z")
I realise my tremendously confusing post indicates that I’m correcting **Enola Straight** via the medium of chastising **Small Clanger**. I actually just wanted to correct the Blair Catholic thing, but got carried away. Show’s over, move along now, nothing more to see here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/53 "2004-04-28T10:45:23Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Wow! its turning into NADS! > and as Angua says, I was indeed serious about Fish and Chips. > Just another shitty survey that reinforces utterly outdated stereotypes. I suppose the survey also states we all talk in either cockerney rhyming slang or with posh home counties accents too. Tha knows. Cor Blimey, love a duck, apples and pears, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/54 "2004-04-28T10:46:17Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > We should start a stealth campaign - see how many innocent threads we can hi-jack before they catch on. Lots and lots and lots and lots. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/55 "2004-04-28T11:03:54Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > No, he [Blair] isn’t… he’s “Catholic-friendly” Wow, thanks, I got that wrong! At least I didn’t thing he was a Hindu. To beat up on **Enola** some more, where does the “Indian hating” idea from? The Germans I can understand (it’s still wrong\*) but Indians? _just don’t mention the war_\* \*\*I’m _joking_, it seems to be necessary to point this out to some people. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/56 "2004-04-28T11:12:48Z")
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/57 "2004-04-28T11:13:54Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > Haddaway n shite, ya great Southern ponce. Which reminds me of a uniquely British treasure. . . _Viz_ magazine. Can’t get more British than The Modern Parents, Sid the Sexist, Biffa Bacon, or The Fat Slags. Other items that typify Britain to this Seppo: Dr. Who Terry Pratchett Cold beans for breakfast Strongbow cider Shawarma kabobs UBT milk in boxes Irradiated produce Derek Jarman Patsy and Eddy Takeaway vindaloo Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced boo-KAY) The spectrum of newspapers betweeen the _Sun_ and the _Times_ ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/58 "2004-04-28T11:43:29Z")
Ahh, Viz, one of the two publications I buy every month. You want the best in cutting edge satire that knows what its talking about without being up its own arse? look no further. [Viz website](http://www.viz.co.uk) enjoy. and check out Doctor Poo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/59 "2004-04-28T11:52:51Z")
Page 3 girls, maybe? And people buying newspapers carrying them for the articles? Just a suggestion. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/60 "2004-04-28T12:05:58Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not a monarchist, but I wouldn’t actively try to murder a sitting figurehead You’d give her a running start, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302.md?page=4)