16 things about the British who amazing the rest of the world
16 things about the British who amazing the rest of the world
The British are an eccentric bunch that occasionally borders on real mercy. From the hunt for cheese on the hills of the country to snorkeling in bogs to experience thrill, the British are as amazing as it is charming. Here are some of our most confusing properties, according to Reddit and the A&B audience on social media.
1. Why our picturesque small cities have a murder rate comparable to Honduras ...
... according to our crime secrets. If you want to believe Midsomer Murders, someone is killed in elegant land cities every other week. As an American put it: "Midsomer is the most dangerous place in the world, literally worse than Mexican antitrust cities."
2. How we can determine the exact place of origin of a person based on their accent
This from a Canadian: "It is amazed and confused at the same time how to listen to the accent of someone and know which part of the country he comes from: 'Oh, you come from East London, Gosterwood Street 51, and when I am not confused, Apartment B?" "
3. Why we take euphemism to the extreme
An American user indicates: "Three soldiers in a ditch with a whole enemy division that is coming to them, and it says: 'We put a little bit in the term.' In the Korean war, British actually died because they did not report openly about the difficulties in which they were."
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5. How we take tea really very seriously
"Tea culture. Now I am Asian Americans and I like tea myself, but when I visited Cambridge I saw a guy who looked around twenty twenty and tea from a Victorian teapot with floral pattern and everything. I speak of these teapots that appear antiquated and seem as if they were not even seeing this kind of legitimate appreciation in Asia, loud, loud To scream, ”says a confused Redditor.
6. Carpet in the bathroom
Okay, we have no defense for that.
7. Why we have two separate roosters for hot and cold water
There was practically a turmoil about the British sanitary system and how foreigners forces themselves to choose between scattering and freezing their hands on our coasts. Here is a brit in a hoodie that explains why.
8. Our love for queuing
Here is an old joke of a user who aptly illustrates this point:
One day I went through the streets of the city when I came across a line. I asked what the snake was for, and nobody knew it, so of course I stood in it, only in case. I waited hours, but the snake didn't move, so I apologized and went forward to look what was going on. I found that an elderly gentleman leaned on a wall at the very front.
I asked him: "Comrade, what is this line for?"
He replied: "I stopped here to lean against the wall and rest, and these people began to stand behind me."
I asked him: "Then, comrade, why don't you just go?"
He mocked. "What and lose my place in line?"
9. Why we apologize so much
To say that they are sorry that they “think” that someone has the wrong number, even though they are 100% sure that they are not a business
- Darybritish problem (@soverybritish) 20. November 2014
Conversation with a man on the train this morning: "I'm sorry." "We're sorry." "We're sorry." "We're sorry." I love to be a Briton.
- Kia Abdullah (@kiaabdullah) March 15, 2011
Even if we are rude, we start and end with "sorry".
#Youknowyourealondonerben you have perfected the "sorry", which makes both you and the recipient clear that you think it is an idiot. - Kia Abdullah (@kiaabdullah) April 22, 2014
10. Why we are so bound in bad weather
An Australian sums it up: "Anyone who looks at the hell of the UK, looks at Australia and sends the convicts to Australia."
11. The uncharacteristic affection in our text messages
Literature agent Carrie Plitt explains: "The first SMS I received from a British did not disappoint me: 'Do you want to go to my round today?", Offered me my new colleague Alice. It was wonderfully British. It was not only an invitation to the tea, but also like quaint, to be asked to stop by, like a Victorian jumping devil. However, one thing confused me, and that was the lonely X in small letters at the end of her message. Nothing I had read prepared me for this little letter. Was it a negation of your statement? A warning of non -youth -free content? An unknown variable? I assumed that it is a typo. But when these little XS started filling the most text messages or emails that I received from my British friends, I had to ask. "Of course that's a kiss," said Alice, now my self -proclaimed cultural leader. 'I started to worry that you never kissed me back.' "
12. "Yes, I have a question, what the hell is the taste of Irn Bru?"
Fair question.
13. Liverpooler
"Scouser. Why do you dress like Russians and what language do you speak?" People ponder a redditor.
14. Why "nonsense" is bad, but "dog bleds" is good
We love dogs, okay?
15. Our obsession of class
Cockney, Mockney, Posh Boy and Toff. Chav, Common, Essex Girl and Snob. There is no nation that deals with class as much as the British. In a way, it explains why it is apparently acceptable to print the topless images of regular women in our newspapers, but not by a duchess.
16. Finally, what is actually the devil Great Britain
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Very British Problems by Rob Temple is a hilarious insight into the British psyche.
Cover picture: The National Trust
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