Can we have a nice thread about British culture?

[Gobbeldegook]

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

Afternoon tea in a hotel and variety of cuisine
Cups of tea. Lots of them, and the fact that tea is offered in pretty much any situation as a panacea.
Deprecating sense of humour
Most people are well travelled and enjoy seeing new countries and cultures
Lovely beaches (when it's not raining) and great cities such as London, York, Durham and Edinburgh (I'm a sucker for the East coast train line)

A nice cup of Earl Grey
Cider festivals
Hunt the scarecrow around the Yorkshire villages
Dry stone walls
Bakewell tart
Free museums
Taking the piss out of work colleagues
Random conversations with strangers in the park about the dog or the weather
Friendly police
Shop assistants that comment of your purchases- yes I actually like that.
Thatched roofs
Brown sauce on bacon and egg butties

@BobISMyUncle My boss once asked me where I had been ( I think I was late for work) I replied Cockermouth. He replied ' I asked you where you had been not not what you've been doing!'

The music

Piers at seaside resorts
Boiled sweets
Yorkshire puddings
Thatched cottages
Wooden beams in houses/pubs
Seasonal flowers- snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils, roses
Garden centres
Club sandwiches
Chutney
Pickle
Greggs
M&S
Choice of newspapers
Architecture
Picnics in the parks in spring
Variety of cheeses
Sausages
Fry ups
Variety of fish
High quality of meat and poultry
Scones
A 99 cone
Travelling funfairs
Beach huts
Wild camping
Caravaning/ caravan parks
Carry on films
James Bond
Comedy
Period dramas
Soaps
Chips in a deep fat fryer
Variety of sandwiches
Custard
Salad cream
Brown sauce
Worcester sauce
Sledging on snow days
Hedgerows
Oak trees hundreds of years old
Country parks
Careful drivers
Animal loving/ lack of strays
Inclusive education
Mumsnet
Freedom to debate
Endless coastline and varied landscape
So many shades of green
Free motorways
Bed and breakfasts
NHS
Self deprecating
Championing of the underdog
Trial by jury
Secondhand bookshops
Cheap books in supermarkets
Lots of new books published every year
Accents and the flexibility of the English language
Record keeping and the ability to do genealogy
Lack of extreme weather/geographical events
Bonfire night
Hillwalking
Nursery rhymes
Car boot sales
Sea glass
Folk music
Creativity in general- theatre, west end shows, pantos, pop music, etc
Pie and pint
Fairly secular civic society
Town cryers
Ravens

Lived and worked overseas so what I like about the UK is : Nobody carries a gun, Police don't pull me over and demand money, I can walk into a pub on my own, I can go to see the doctor without a credit card and my passport, men don't start touching my hair but most of all violence. I 've been attacked in every country I've lived and worked in apart the UK and the US.

that fish and chips were not rationed during WW11, because it was thought that to ration them, would have meant loss of British moral.

I'm not sure if all cafes were unrationed (is that a word) but prices were capped. Although places could have a cover charge so the Ritz and the greasy spoon round the corner charged the same for food, but the Ritz would have a huge cover chart.

'British Restaurants' were a type of canteen open to the public and again not rationed.

Oh and back to British Culture - computing and tearooms. LEO (Lyons electric office) was the first business computer and was developed to manage salaries, orders, overnight production etc for Lyons tea rooms.

Thank you.
And I do wish I had managed to spell morale correctly!

This is making me so homesick!

Honourable mentions to the British countryside, squirrels, bluebells, National Trust, pub beer gardens on those summer nights where it's light until so late, M&S, waitrose, curry, food pub food, ready made sandwiches, Christmas (Britain does Christmas so well!), the BBC and the seaside.

@Gobbeldegook

Holy island is my most favourite place, I love how there is no urgency there, you can stroll along at peace and it's just breathtaking. Everyone is so welcoming. I love to buy home grown strawberries at the stall and eat them as I walk around the island.

The only sense of urgency is when you know when the tide is going to turn and you have to get back to the mainland before you get cut off

I love our annual agricultural shows - they have sheep racing and ferret racing and other bonkers competitions.

I live in brass band Country, and our local brass band plays carols around the village every Christmas.

Food festivals - I can eat my own weight in cheese with all the free tastings.

Ahh pubs! How I miss you. Cannot wait for a pub roast dinner after lockdown

Beautiful varied scenery no one is that far from the hills or the moors or a lake, river or the sea
Scones and cream, and puddings hot ones especially
Rich history some to be proud of, some not so much but one doesn't cancel the other out.

Lovely thread, makes me feel quite emotional! So nice to have a break from the moany f*ckers for a change.

When you go for walks, complete strangers will say ‘hello’ to you.

Brass Bands
Carry On
Period dramas
Jane Austen
Gardeners World. Love the videos from all over the place. My favourites from this year were the Peony lady, the one near Wolverhampton with the shell grotto, the Canadian coastal one, the one on the loch, the guy in the flat with the plant wall. I like that they always acknowledge the fact not everyone has a big garden or one at all and make suggestions accordingly.
Sense of humour
Our appreciation for french stuff. Foods, wine and we are the biggest buyers of Le Creuset in Europe. (Not me, I've only got a couple of mugs)

When you go for walks, complete strangers will say ‘hello’ to you.

That happens in many countries.

I didn't see the other thread. Did the op post to say we had no culture or something?

Other things:
Music
Comedy
National trust places. My kids had so much fun exploring them, climbing trees, paddling in a lake when growing up

That happens in many countries
That's fine. People are posting things they like. Doesn't necessarily need to be stuff that never happens in other countries. This is a positive thread

This is a bittersweet thread.

Whippet racing on the Rec in august.
The scarecrow trail august bank hol.
Firework championships.
Random local festivals with terrible bands and stalls selling terrible tie dye.
The national trust.
Complex queue culture - queue in a line at the chip shop but not at the pub...
Messy back garden nest front garden.
Ice cream at the seaside- 99's.
Jacket potatoes.
Do they still read the football scores with the machine noise? Made me terribly homesick when I lived in oz.
British style mayonaise.

The little dances that you do when you try to negotiate with complete strangers or colleagues who should go through the door first, or which side of the corridor/ pavement each should walk on.

@BolloxtoGender

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

I didnt say everyone has to agree with me.

@skippy67 where is less racist than the UK? Not to say it doesn't have issues, it does, but it is certainly one of the least prejudiced countries I've been to.

Manners. I went to Israel and when I came back, I was so shocked at how polite everyone was to each other. My mum had to tell me people are like this all the time.