# Would UK Dopers like to stand up and be counted? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969 "2009-10-24T16:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/61 "2009-10-26T19:23:38Z")
Right, now that we’re all here… _Coronation Street_. It’s got to go. I mean, seriously, what the fuck? It’s like a televisual lobotomy. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/62 "2009-10-26T19:26:58Z")
My gran would kill you where you stand for trying to get her Corrie off the air. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/63 "2009-10-26T19:52:03Z")
English, born in Coventry now living in Nottinghamshire. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/64 "2009-10-26T21:59:47Z")
What ho! pip pip! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/65 "2009-10-26T23:05:52Z")
Oh, please don’t. ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/66 "2009-10-26T23:47:50Z")
Corrie is better than the dank and depressing Eastenders but not by much. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/67 "2009-10-27T01:10:50Z")
English born, bred and buttered. ---
**Author:** ![SomeBodyUK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SomeBodyUK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeBodyUK)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/68 "2009-10-27T04:24:29Z")
British (of Indian heritage), born in UK, in Los Angeles since 2006 ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/69 "2009-10-27T11:41:58Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > I’m a south-westerner. I bet that there aren’t many Dopers down here. I’m in Bristol - but maybe you mean ‘Straw Dogs’ territory… ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/70 "2009-10-27T11:59:53Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > I’m in Bristol - but maybe you mean ‘Straw Dogs’ territory… Ooh aar…you city folk don’t know the country ways. Of an evening, we get the sheep and the apples together, and the fun we have feeding them to the combine… ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/71 "2009-10-27T12:53:56Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Heh, I always fill out “English” on those nationality forms. The reason? When I was a reporter, the editor advised me to do this, because “Any c\_nt can be British, but only an Englishman can be English.” 😃 This amuses me. That c\_nt would be me then, I’m an American ex-pat with British citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/72 "2009-10-27T13:25:53Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Ooh aar…you city folk don’t know the country ways. Of an evening, we get the sheep and the apples together, and the fun we have feeding them to the combine… I’m from Yeovil. Oooh-arrr! He doesn’t seem to have posted here, but **AK84** lives in Britain, or did for a while. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/73 "2009-10-27T13:30:52Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m from Yeovil. Oooh-arrr! > > He doesn’t seem to have posted here, but **AK84** lives in Britain, or did for a while. We’re near neighbours. Taunton, me. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/74 "2009-10-27T13:45:34Z")
Wow. I haven’t met anyone else from Somerset since I was… well, living in Somerset. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/75 "2009-10-27T14:04:12Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Wow. I haven’t met anyone else from Somerset since I was… well, living in Somerset. Do you mean you _used_ to live in Yeovil? So I’m still on my own? I was wondering why the streets were so empty. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/76 "2009-10-27T14:06:26Z")
I moved to Sherborne in '90 (okay, not exactly a significant move), Birmingham in '93 and then to the US in '96… but since I’m in Orlando, I can find British people more or less whenever I feel like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/77 "2009-10-27T16:38:22Z")
British too, born and raised in Hamsphire\Wiltshire now living in Kent and working in London. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/78 "2009-10-27T16:53:06Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Ooh aar…you city folk don’t know the country ways. Of an evening, we get the sheep and the apples together, and the fun we have feeding them to the combine… .. then you sell the resultant intoxicating puree to us city-dwellers as ‘Thatchers Traditional’. I know your type… ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/79 "2009-10-27T16:59:37Z")
Just wait 'til you find out who went into that pint of Tetley’s. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/80 "2009-10-27T18:33:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Just wait 'til you find out who went into that pint of Tetley’s. Who? Who? Dead animals is just our southern ways. Dead northern people aren’t the right flavour. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969.md?page=5)