# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/61 "2004-04-28T12:23:30Z")
I am drinking tea right now, I sing in an Anglican church, I spell words correctly, and I long for my national health care. My grandfather’s family is from England, and I am in fact related (albeit distantly) to our own Francesca (through a different grandfather). I want Cadbury’s chocolate liqueur and a really good mince tart, which I can’t get in this country. I’m about as English as you’re going to get from a Canadian living in America. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/62 "2004-04-28T12:41:14Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Tally hoe. A British prostitute, eh? Bloody 'ell. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/63 "2004-04-28T13:00:49Z")
Yeah, that list really is a load of nostalgic crap - looks to me like somebody non-British drew it up and then got people to choose the “most British” things on it. Who would volunteer Buckingham Palace, for example? Not an especially memorable building, and not a place particularly dear to the nation’s heart. The only people who go there are tourists, and on a list of things to see in London I’d rank it at about no. 700, just behind a rather interesting telephone box in Islington. And the Beatles? That’s another giveaway - for better or worse, the average Brit would be more likely to cite Robbie Williams or Radiohead as representing popular music. I like the Beatles, but they are only marginally more relevant than George Formby these days. No, **Jennyrosity** ’s list above is much closer to reality. ---
**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, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/64 "2004-04-28T13:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > just behind a rather interesting telephone box in Islington The green one with the broken bottom pane? ---
**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, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/65 "2004-04-28T13:06:44Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The green one with the broken bottom pane? Oh, I’ve always wanted to go there! ---
**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, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/66 "2004-04-28T13:07:39Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > Oh, I’ve always wanted to go there! Meh. The blue one’s prettier. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/67 "2004-04-28T13:09:44Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The green one with the broken bottom pane? They still haven’t fixed it? ---
**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, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/68 "2004-04-28T13:10:13Z")
Yeah, but I’ve heard it’s got too commercial. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/69 "2004-04-28T13:11:21Z")
> [@Usram](#): > > I like the Beatles, but they are only marginally more relevant than George Formby these days. True - yet somehow they still managed to singlehandedly win Liverpool the City of Culture title :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/70 "2004-04-28T13:19:34Z")
> [@Usram](#): > > I like the Beatles, but they are only marginally more relevant than George Formby these days. I loves me some George Formby! “Wif’ me lit’le ukulele in me ‘and, Of course th’ people do not unnerstand! As me muvver used t’ say, 'Son, you’ll never go astray If you keep yer ukelele in yer 'and, son, Keep yer ukelele in yer 'and!” ---
**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, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/71 "2004-04-28T13:22:47Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > True - yet somehow they still managed to singlehandedly win Liverpool the City of Culture title > :rolleyes: Liverpool didn’t win that - it nicked it!!! Bastard scousers’ll pinch anything that’s not nailed down. Newcastle was robbed. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/72 "2004-04-28T13:29:12Z")
I still can’t get over that they’ve renamed Liverpool’s airport “John Lennon International” or something. Why don’t they just rename the city Beatlesville? All of which I only mention as an excuse to relate that joke on _Have I Got News For You_: the luggage handlers at John Lennon Airport have a new slogan - “imagine no possessions” 😃 ---
**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, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/73 "2004-04-28T13:31:23Z")
The words ‘culture’, ‘Newcastle’ and ‘Liverpool’ should never be used in the same sentence. You might as well make Scunthorpe city of culture by the same standards. Unless your idea of culture is armed robbery and/or burberry caps. ---
**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, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/74 "2004-04-28T13:32:50Z")
Oi!! Newcastle’s dead cultural! We’ve got the Gateshead Flasher and everything! ---
**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, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/75 "2004-04-28T13:32:59Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I loves me some George Formby! > > “Wif’ me lit’le ukulele in me ‘and, > Of course th’ people do not unnerstand! > As me muvver used t’ say, > 'Son, you’ll never go astray > If you keep yer ukelele in yer 'and, son, > Keep yer ukelele in yer 'and!” **Eve** , **Jjimm** will be along in a minute to make some comment about Banjoleles or Ukelelettes or something - just you wait 😃 ---
**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, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/76 "2004-04-28T13:45:46Z")
“Moi mavver gave me a tanner, To go boiy a spanner, but oi spent it on chewing gaaam, insteeeeaaaaddd!” ---
**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, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/77 "2004-04-28T13:47:52Z")
If you could see what I can see When I’m cleanin’ windas!" Turned out nice again, hasn’t it! ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/78 "2004-04-28T13:49:16Z")
I would like to apologise for ever mentioning George Formby. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/79 "2004-04-28T13:52:47Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > If you could see what I can see > When I’m cleanin’ windas!" > > Turned out nice again, **hasn’t it**! Ah, **Twisty** , _mo chroi_. Good effort, but that last bit lets you down George Formby and those of us from that neck of the woods would say Turned out nice again, ‘ant i’? Glottal stops and apostrophes a go-go! ---
**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, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302/80 "2004-04-28T14:00:06Z")
I would quite like to dig George Formby up and beat the living (?) shit out of him, stupid leaning against a lamppost buck toothed motherfucker that he was. Some guy back where I come from used to do cover versions of his songs on a ukelel in the pub on a sunday dinnertime. He also wore leather trousers. I would like to kick his arse too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omigod-im-british/242302.md?page=5)