English quirks - Help me newgrounds

[HitIer]

I'm doing a project on representing the UK in the form of postage stamps.

I want to focus on little humerous quirks that make britain britain. Things that coudl happen in wales, england, scotland or northern ireland...

Only one I have so far is: Old people swimmign every day of the week in the sea no matter what the weather.

[Sheizenhammer]

Queuing where you don't actually have to comes to mind.

Also: Fish 'n' Chips, and moaning about the weather.

[yurgenburgen]

Underage drinking. Traffic. Noise. Stabbings. Immigrants. Football. Rain.

[ilikegames12]

Tea and crumpets

More tea, vicar?

[Donut]

At 5/20/10 09:22 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: Underage drinking. Traffic. Noise. Stabbings. Immigrants. Football. Rain.

This could also be said for the U.S

[Gagsy]

Scotland : Ginger people who eat fried Mars bars, drink Irn Bru soda and hate anything English.

Ireland : Drunk wife beaters who are short and enjoy horse racing and talk too fast

England : Posh twats who like tea and crumpets or common chavs who like teenage pregnancy and just being cunts.

Wales : Sheep shaggers

[Shikamarana]

At 5/20/10 10:42 AM, Gagsy wrote: Ireland : Drunk wife beaters who are short and enjoy horse racing and talk too fast

and potatoes

[Hoeloe]

At 5/20/10 10:42 AM, Gagsy wrote: Wales : Sheep shaggers

Don't forget that they really suck at spelling too. I mean, when was the last time you ever saw them use a vowel?

[Coop]

At 5/20/10 10:44 AM, Shikamarana wrote:

At 5/20/10 10:42 AM, Gagsy wrote: Ireland : Drunk wife beaters who are short and enjoy horse racing and talk too fast

and potatoes

A pot of golden potatoes at the end of a rainbow, with a little man, dressed in green protecting them. There is possibly a pint of Guinness and some shamrock involved here.

England. We complain about the weather a lot. We drink tea, invent sports that we're not very good at and we used to stamp most of the known world under our colonial boots. Also, we're still at war with France.

Wales. Damp wool is the smell there, their national dish is cheese on toast, their main political party wants people to learn Welsh, though none of their parliamentary candidates actually speaks Welsh.

Scotland. Grease and booze, with ginger pubes and you're not wrong. As Gagsy said, deep fried Mars Bars and anything else that tends to be deep fried is the order of the day. Football hooliganism over the "Old Firm" of Glasgow Rangers (Protestant) and Glasgow Celtic (Catholic) makes this place more volatile than a night on the town in Belfast, dressed as a catholic priest, with the name "Pete O'Phile" emblazoned across your back.

[EnglishClock]

nothing in this thread if you're looking for actual facts

[Hoeloe]

At 5/20/10 11:17 AM, EnglishClock wrote: nothing in this thread if you're looking for actual facts

I dunno, I like tea and crumpets...

Fish n' Chips are nice too.

[Gagsy]

At 5/20/10 11:19 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 5/20/10 11:17 AM, EnglishClock wrote: nothing in this thread if you're looking for actual facts

I dunno, I like tea and crumpets...

Fish n' Chips are nice too.

And I like complaining about every single thing in life even when something is going right.

And fooball.

[Wunderbar]

At 5/20/10 10:42 AM, Gagsy wrote: Scotland : Ginger people who eat fried Mars bars, drink Irn Bru soda and hate anything English.

Ireland : Drunk wife beaters who are short and enjoy horse racing and talk too fast

England : Posh twats who like tea and crumpets or common chavs who like teenage pregnancy and just being cunts.

Wales : Sheep shaggers

Exactly what i was going to say

[Quicksmasher]

At 5/20/10 11:21 AM, Gagsy wrote: And I like complaining about every single thing in life even when something is going right.

And fooball.

And I already thought u were deeed :)

[andhination]

Scotland : Hates England
Wales : Hates England
England : North and South hate each other
OH THE HATE <3

[Hoeloe]

At 5/20/10 11:21 AM, Gagsy wrote:

At 5/20/10 11:19 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 5/20/10 11:17 AM, EnglishClock wrote: nothing in this thread if you're looking for actual facts

I dunno, I like tea and crumpets...

Fish n' Chips are nice too.

And I like complaining about every single thing in life even when something is going right.

And fooball.

I try and be optimistic when I can, plus I hate football, it sickens me that kicking a ball around can make you a millionaire.

[Gagsy]

At 5/20/10 11:27 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

I try and be optimistic when I can, plus I hate football, it sickens me that kicking a ball around can make you a millionaire.

That is the fault of footballs popularity, not the players.

Also Footballs Coming Home just came on the radio. First time I've heard it on the radio this year. I feel like I do at winter when you see the Coca Cola Christmas ad for the first time.

[AlexCo]

Accents.

[elcriz000]

At 5/20/10 11:27 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

I try and be optimistic when I can, plus I hate football, it sickens me that kicking a ball around can make you a millionaire.

anyone who says that football is a game where you just kick a ball around is narrow minded,
its alot more than that. it takes, exersise dedication and hard work. to become a professional football player. you need to learn techniques suck as long passes short passes going around defenders without losing the ball, getting the tackles exactly right so you get the ball before the defenders legs, where on your foot to hit a ball in certain situations e.g. striking, goal kick, free kick.
knowing when and where to pass, when to start looking for space to attack, how to hold your position so you dont look like a lunatic running around the pitch for the ball. mastering those skills like professional football players do doesn't come over night, it takes years of pratise and deadication. so dont tell me its just "kicking a ball about" because its not, its much more than that.

[Hoeloe]

At 5/20/10 11:50 AM, Gagsy wrote:

At 5/20/10 11:27 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

I try and be optimistic when I can, plus I hate football, it sickens me that kicking a ball around can make you a millionaire.

That is the fault of footballs popularity, not the players.

Exactly right. Most of my hatred towards football is the popularity.

Although, the players themselves are annoying. They just... annoy me.

[Sentio]

A few suggestions:

Cheese rolling.

Fox hunting

Cockney rhyming slang

A monarch with no actual power (but then she is on enough stamps already)

[Bassanova-001]

have a stamp that spells color Colour.

[HeartbreakHoldout]

At 5/20/10 11:27 AM, Hoeloe wrote: I try and be optimistic when I can, plus I hate football, it sickens me that kicking a ball around can make you a millionaire.

It's all about sponsorship. If people were more entertained by watching someone mow a lawn, then people would get paid millions to do that. As it is, lots of people love football, and you are in a minority.

[Rude-Awakening]

At 5/20/10 11:50 AM, Gagsy wrote:

At 5/20/10 11:27 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

Also Footballs Coming Home just came on the radio. First time I've heard it on the radio this year. I feel like I do at winter when you see the Coca Cola Christmas ad for the first time.

Ive just heard it aswell. The singer near the end, with the really high voice gave me goosebumps, that and the Carlsberg advert, the full length one.

[Gagsy]

At 5/20/10 01:23 PM, Rude-Awakening wrote:

Ive just heard it aswell. The singer near the end, with the really high voice gave me goosebumps, that and the Carlsberg advert, the full length one.

Ah the one in the tunnel with loads of great English sporting heroes and Kasabian? I love when they go to Bobby Robsons image and that moment of silence for it, plus Phil 'The Power' Taylor. He truly deserves more credit for his darting skill and how much he has helped the sport.

The ending with the lion at the top of the tunnel? Does make me quite proud.

[Centurion-Ryan]

At 5/20/10 10:42 AM, Gagsy wrote: Ireland

Since when is Ireland part of the UK again?

[BioEthanol]

At 5/20/10 12:01 PM, elcriz000 wrote:
Shit aboot football. Which is a gay sport for gays.

I wanna hurt you. Also Norhtern irelands full of terrorist scum who killed people for Jackshit, wanna unite with eire so fucking what its nuthin to kill people over.
Also London is full of so many non whites it might as well just be called people zooland or summat.

[BioEthanol]

soz for dubble post but i just realised the OP is called Hitler and no one has said anyhting aboot that.

[Biodegrade]

At 5/20/10 12:03 PM, Bassanova-001 wrote: have a stamp that spells color Colour.

You mean the correct way

I have proved my next statement

argue about pronounciation and spelling of EVERY WORD

don't beleive me?

scone

[Dogbert581]

Northern Ireland: A paramilitary lobbing a petrol bomb