First thing that comes to mind when you think of Britain

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19 Oct 2017, 9:22 pm

High-quality candy (or sweets, as it's called) and chocolate.

Dishes with funny-sounding names like bangers and mash, or bubble and squeak.

Dr. Who, and Jelly Babies.

Stereotypes like bad teeth, a sense of humor no one else gets, and always either being a villain or of royalty in American movies.

My own country really having the Queen of England being our head of state, and most of us not really having a problem with that, and her picture being on our money.

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19 Oct 2017, 9:33 pm

their NHS, something I wished we had a version of.

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20 Oct 2017, 4:32 am

auntblabby wrote:

their NHS, something I wished we had a version of.

It's not perfect but so many of us here are very proud of it. If the current Govt doesn't kill it off and funds it properly it would be even better!

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20 Oct 2017, 5:52 am

The view from my window. Trees, hills, a river one side and a canal the other. The Pennine Way and wild moors a mile away. The village even has its own plague pit and original stocks (recidivists for the punishment of).
The weather's crap, though.

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20 Oct 2017, 8:45 am

Biscuitman wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

their NHS, something I wished we had a version of.

It's not perfect but so many of us here are very proud of it. If the current Govt doesn't kill it off and funds it properly it would be even better!

you are so fortunate to be an English citizen.

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20 Oct 2017, 8:47 am

Castles,the most beautiful gardens in the world,pubs,Mini cars,Ravens in the Tower,Wallace and Grommit,pasties,corgis,Jane Eyre,and on the negative side, Jack the Ripper.

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20 Oct 2017, 8:50 am

Tim Henman
Andy Murray
Johanna Konta (Hungarian ancestry, plays tennis for Great Britain)

Good friends on a cat site I used to visit

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20 Oct 2017, 8:50 am

The Class System.

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20 Oct 2017, 9:30 am

Biscuitman wrote:

Raleigh wrote:

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Wonderful accents.

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on October 17, 2017)

^^^^
This

Yes, agree!

I am interested to know what you mean as I am from the UK. Which UK accents are your favourite? Which can't you understand?

There are probably many more than you realise. Have you ever heard a Cornish accent? I am from the Home Counties but my family are Cornish, I have had a lifetime of understanding them but my now wife couldn't understand anything my grandad said and I would have to translate for her :lol:

I know I have heard of the Yorkshire accent, but tbh, that's all I really know of the different types of British accents. xD sorry!

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20 Oct 2017, 9:33 am

Nice green areas, even in Central London.

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20 Oct 2017, 7:05 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:

edgar allan poe

As a person from the UK myself I WISH Poe was british, he was actually an American though. (I did think he was english for a long time though, he had a very victorian style of writing)

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20 Oct 2017, 10:14 pm

quality fish and chips from the motherland of fish and chips. :chef: