Typically British...

[GLCQuantum]

The most successful Brits in the States recently are Simon Cowell, Ricky Gervais and Gordon Ramsey

Ahh, but don't forget the articulate and well-mannered Russel Brand
.
Typically British hmmm.

'For f**k sake'



Oh... and John Cleese.

[richard]

Rhubarb, public schools (IE. Tom Browns schooldays and 'If'), village pubs next to the church, spittoons and sawdust floors, gobstoppers, matrons, Doctor house calls, Carneby street, George Formby, Max Wall, Tommy Cooper, 'That was the week that was', cobbled streets, clogs, mill chimneys, soot, smog, one up and one down with toilet at bottom of the garden, trams, trolley buses, coal holes, steam engines, BR sandwiches, delivery boys, beef dripping with brown bits, impetigo, foot rot, mods and rockers, teddy-boys, hot pants, winkle pickers, bowler hats and brolleys, gentlemens clubs (Browns), horse riding in Hyde park, Prospect of Whitby pubs on the river, pints of heavy, mild and bitter, wheel tappers, smoking anywhere (pubs, tube, hospitals), bustles, garden parties (watch Marrilion) cricket on the green (vicar, blacksmith etc) with cucumber sandwiches.

The list is endless

sign of age I guess don't forget I'm 142

[Siani]

People how can we have reached this far into this thread without anyone mentioning The Royal Family.........are we all a bunch of republicans??...well I know I'm not anyway

I mentioned the Duchess of Cambridge...saving myself for the Queens Jubilee

Changing of the guard
Guy Fawkes night
London red buses
Black cabs
Twiggy
The Beatles

[dtaai-maai]

chavs



the middle class
(and all the other ones, I suppose...)


snobbery


keeping up with the Jones

[Siani]

chavs



the middle class
(and all the other ones, I suppose...)


snobbery


keeping up with the Jones

Times have changed DM...today it's the snobby Jones's keeping up with the Chavs!

[STEVE G]

I know you tend to forget about it because the bad behaviour gets all the news but one thing that people I know here who have visited the UK tell me that surprises them is how polite and helpful people are on the street if you ask them for directions or whatever compared with in other countries.
I've heard stories where people have gone out of their way to take strangers to places that they're trying to find which would never happen here.

[richard]

The village bobby on his bike, Enid Blyton, golliwogs in your jam-pot, tea in Fortnum and Masons, Threadneedle streets Old Lady, tea cakes, scrumpy cider, morris dancing, hop picking in Kent, IOM TT,
cats eyes, cheddar cheese (and the rest), beefeaters, English cars and bikes, goose fairs

[dtaai-maai]

fruit cake (rich, moist, slightly alcoholic - God bless Auntie Dot)

[Siani]

Wind, Hail, sleet and snow...all the seasons sometimes in one day!
Beach huts
The V & A
Natural History Museum
Bowler hats
Barbour jackets
Christmas pudding
Mince pies
Trifle

[dtaai-maai]

narrow boats

[richard]

Conkers, rice pudding, rag and bone men, slag heaps, lawn mowers,

[Siani]

cockles
Ploughmans lunch
cornish pasties
cheese cutters

[richard]

Wellies, Blackpool rock,

[kendo]

Spam, Pants People, Murry Mints, Curly Werley, Conkers how random is that and i have not had a beer yet.

Kendo.

[hhfarang]

Fox hunting