Can we have a nice thread about British culture?

[Gobbeldegook]

Without goady fuckers spoiling all the niceness.
I vote seaside fish and chips.

@mayonegg

I am in love with our gentle but varied countryside, the greenness, the woodlands and the trees, the fields, dry stone walls, hedgerows, the neatness and purpose of little towns and villages, our buildings, cottage gardens. Our coastline, our folk tales and folk music, traditional pubs (are there many left?) with their dark cosy wood and nicknacks amassed over the years. Roaring fires with the wind howling outside. Gentle humour, kindness, the willingness to see the best in people, the tendency towards politeness and courtesy, our willingness to help each other out, beautiful old bookshops, our rich language with all it's wonderful nuances. Our weather and climate, not too hot not too cold, our very defined seasons and everything about them, rainy days and dramatic skies. I love our tradition of Christianity and church hymns and tea and biscuits, but also the fact we're still very pagan at heart with our maypoles and halloween and other local customs that vary from place to place. I think if you strip away the politics (which I have no interest in for the sake of my own mental health) and the 'culture' of materialism and celebrity and selfishness and fakeness perpetuated by the media, I think we have the most wonderfully rich culture with our roots in the nature and spirituality of the island. I'm not sure if what I've written is culture or just snippets of things I love about the place, but I feel like that's what's in my soul. I think I am a little bit pagan though. Sorry this isn't as well written as posts usually are on MN, I'm not as articulate as most on here but felt compelled to post on this thread because I feel so weary of being made to feel ashamed of being British (English).

That is simply lovely. Bill Bryson would be proud of you @mayonegg

I forgot to add: carpeted stairs, having an upstairs, garden centre tea rooms, bonfire night, sainsburys clothes, ready meal curries, crumpets, hot cross buns, lots of novelty in supermarkets.

Our optimism, that we can somehow save all of the above previous posters. Our National Trust. Our English Heritage. We all have a link to this. Our tea rooms. Our villages. Our pubs and their names.

Church spires. Church bells ringing. Is that because a church bell signals the way home for a field worker? Is that why there's a spire Show Me the Way to go Home? LOL!
Sorry sorry. Being a Geek, and probably very wrong. Someone here knows better, I'm sure. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Not yet.

Afternoon Tea
Sunday Roasts
Chippy Tea
Big regional differences for such a small place.
Castles
Endless cups of tea, everywhere you go.

The creative and experimental fashion sense. (No safe elegant timeless chic here!)
Tea
Pub beer gardens
Our love of dogs
Days out to National Trust properties
The seaside- the penny slots, fish and chips and funfair
The Lake District
Yorkshire Dales
London
Our music
Sense of humour, the self deprecating laughs

Afternoon tea

Royal family
History
Heritage
Great architecture

NHS
British politics
Pub grub
Food , fish & chips , Sunday roast , cheese , Bacon
British love of animals , British vets
British humour
countryside
London
Fab cities Oxford, Cambridge, York etc etc
Stiff upper lip

And how could I forget how simply beautiful the UK is?? Or fascinating?

Lake District
Isle of Skye
Bamburgh beach
Warwick castle
London skyline
Malham cove
Cornwall. All of it.
Aysgarth Falls
Yorkshire Dales
Isle of Mull
High Force waterfall
Shropshire hills
Belfast docks
Liverpool
Glastonbury Tor
Corfe Castle
Puzzlewood
Pembrokeshire

.....I could go on....

And also the fact that we have designated paths to go and have a good mooch along it all. Brilliant.

I love going abroad etc but I love coming home to the enclosed fields with hedgerows.

Also I love our gardens... even the smallest yards are given love and attention ( and we are obsessed with showing where our 'land' begins eg walls and fences)

I was not born here, but lived here since I was 10 , also been living as an expat in the Middle East and Malaysia. Love the U.K.and the culture of all the places I have lived. The politeness and sense of humour. U.K. will always be our home.

Feel quite down with all the self loathers and all the negativity and self flagellation really. Caught a glimpse of Train Spotting the other day, and reminded me of a time when Scotland felt like the Same country but with its own accent.

It’s also one of the least racist countries I’ve been to, whatever other people try to guilt people into believing.

our gruff kindness
funny impromtu banter
post men and women
diverse media
tolerance
individuality
semi detached houses which look completely different
our "muddling-through" attitude
our sense of silliness

Visit to a National Trust property followed by a cream tea in their tea room

Pubs.

Oh yes, rather Stiff Upper Lip and Keep Calm and Carry On, than all the emotional diarhea and hysteria and attention seeking woke rubbish.

I live in flat country. It's called The Fens. I have lived here, since 1999, and I'm still an outsider. I have yet to meet a more welcoming group of people.
Yes, they're brusque. Yes, they seem to have no patience. No, they don't eat eels, not anymore. LOL LOL!!!!
People here are the same as anywhere else in Britain.
We are a caring people, whatever politicians say. We care about our neighbours. Why wouldn't we? We live on an Island, and we need to take care of each other. Please, come and take a look at our wetlands. The bird sanctuarys. Our reed beds. I love our litle peice of Britqin. That's all it is. A little piece.

Our ability to apologise for everything... even when we are not at fault

Village fetes/agricultural shows/ music and dance festivals/sports days etc. There are some events in our area that have been going for hundreds of years with relatively few changes and I love the community spirit and connection with the past. We live in a fast paced, complex and technological world most of the time and I think there is something quite magical about how the same simple pleasures bring people to the same fields at the same time, year after year.

Tea
Cheddar cheese
Double cream, in France I have to whip cream with mascarpone if I use it as a filling.
Hot cross buns
Country pubs
Jersey potatoes
People standing at gates talking in summer
Victorian buildings especially libraries and museums
Port Sunlight and Saltaire
Bakers where they sell cream horns, vanilla slices and tea cakes.
Dry stone walls
Cornish pasties

Humour. When people stop poking fun at those in charge, that's the time to worry. We have a long and celebrated history of doing it, long may that continue.

The fact that I have never held a gun or seen one other than in other countries or held by the police.

That my Yorkshire accent sounds closer to Danish than it does to my Londoner partners voice.

All our cheeses.

British daring - sometimes we seem like arseholes but other times we seem like we have no sense of danger. Anything for the rush.

Walking, alone, on the moors in the cold and dark. And getting back to the pub, finding my dad/boyfriend/sister and supping a pint by the fireplace.

I love how we are a number of nations but one nation and if you are bored, you can start great arguments about that.

I really don’t like tea, but I still feel very British/English (delete as appropriate). I’ve lived here all my life, but can now proudly make an English cup of coffee.

Tea solving everything
Nicknames for everything and everyone no matter how important they are
Slang that changes per generation
Our sense of humour
Sarcasm
The pub and how if you go to one regularly enough it's like your own little surrogate family
Fish and chips
Scotland and battered haggis (and battered anything if you ask nicely enough)
I even don't mind the weather
Camping and it immediately starts pissing down (or is that my holiday)
Carry on style naughty humour

Fish and chips. Afternoon tea.

Me and dp used to say britain had no culture but it really does.

The little things - fish and chips.

I reckon an "indian" is fairly ingrained in our culture now, along side the pub, sunday roasts.

Love a stately home
Sunday afternoon walk

Can culture evolve? Or does it have to be old?

Indian, chinese and fish and chips now as British as each other.

Do we count burgers as well??

Chain resturants allowing the general populace a meal out. Weatherspoons (some of them are actually great).

Coffee shops? Thats relatively new but its a thing?

Sorry, am out of it on a cocktail of pain killers probably nit making too much sense.

British stoicism in the face of bad weather.....pissing with rain, put yer wellies on and take a flask!!

Orderly queues

Moaning - god we love to moan i dont consider that a criticism, it promotes community!!