This is MY feeble attempt to explain to our U.S. Cousins what and why we the Brits are what we are
Firstly a small bit of history our nation has been around a lot lot longer than yours
Secondly we have been running around this globe civilising it for centuries including your pad
Thirdly we have spent hundreds of years spreading democracy around the world only for the ungrateful peasants to kick our arses out when they felt like it (I would think the US who are new to this game (they only started in 1947/8)are starting to feel the same way we do by now and so should start to understand us Brits a little better give it another 150 years and you will have got the hang of it)
Fourth we have been educating people and spreading our language (a mix of every other language Known to man) only to find you have no U in Honour and acclimate instead of acclimatising.
We have also made feeble attempts at exporting our sense of humour but you knocked the U out of that and in spite of Bob Hope (a Brit export) your sense of humOR is running well behind ours
When we started out it was considered bad form to take the piss out of the illiterate a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. We therefore over a fair few centuries have become the ultimate experts in taking the piss out of ourselves and the French who are fair game anyway. Sarcasm the lowest form of wit has also been honed by the Brits into an art form.
So cousins stop taking yourselves so seriously don’t take it personally and just sit by and wait, your time will come, like us you are at the top of the pile as we were long long ago, like us you will take a tumble as the Chinese take over and like us it will be YOR (sarcasm dropped the u) turn to take the piss out of the chinks.
But you must wait your turn and learn Mandarin
A tip learn how to take the piss out of yourselves first it will stop the Brits dead in their tracks if you get there first
And above all else treat all Brit BS as a larf and get a sense of humour (U inserted ) FAST
gorra larf aintcha
