Britain and British Culture

^ Ah but Britains Got Talent has to be the epic win

^ True.
They're both comic gold :XD.

And Outnumbered is on now. A wonderful piece of British humour. It reminds me so much of my own family :lmfao.

Yay I love that show then after is McIntyre: Live & Laughing yay for comedians and yay for the BBC

Britain's got talent is better, just proves we love a good nut job!

I watched X-Factor last night and I was like... what the hell?
But then it was all awesome and I cracked up at Simon and how, for once, he didn't get booed for criticising people.
And then yep, there was Michael McIntyre.
Cracks me up.

Double post but whatever.
I'm watching the news and in east london they've got cash machine that are in cockney rhyming slang.
I think that's hilarious and I want to go to east london now just to read one =]

^That'd be interesting to see cash machines in cockney rhyming slang

It was. I was cracking up. Ypu can get 'sausages and mash' with or without a receipt and when you put in your 'pound of lard' you have to enter your 'huckleberry finn'.
I wanna go east...

Well i dont know much about the culture.but i am British.

Represent!!]

'The sense of humour I would have to say, both by quality and volume. Nothing is taboo, people make jokes about everyone and anything, all the time, even if it might be quite a sensitive subject. The mentality that life must go on, and you should be able to laugh about almost anything. The sarcasm obviously too, almost our entire sense of humour is built on it.
That's the main thing I've noticed about being English, we rarely take anything completely seriously, everything is fair game for satire and ridicule, and everything is a joke.'

Though I don't necessarily agree with the last few words of that, this is one of my favourite things about our culture... not sure if it's always a good thing though

And about the above posts ^^^ my other favourite thing is cockney slang lahv it.

I adore our sense of humour.

Has anyone noticed, though, how people from other countries often seem almost... obsessed by our accents? Not only is "the British accent" (which is a ridiculous phrase in itself, as we have at least 20 different accents/dialects) often considered really charming and cute () but also usually posh. Someone needs to take all these people who view us like that to somewhere like Grimsby. They'd have the shock of their lives.

I personally love British humor. This is due to the fact that I have a British sense of humor even though I'm American. I love British TV due to this and just overall find it better than American television. I like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sherlock and Top Gear.

@Alex; oxytocin I do love all types of accents from the UK. I have to say I like the Welsh accent the best followed by the Scottish one. That's based on the TV shows I watch though. I've never actually been to the UK and I do assume there are probably different dialects in both Wales and Scotland but I don't know of them at all.

^ Yeah, the celtic accents are really nice usually. But there are even loads of different accents in just England itself, e.g. West Country (Cornwall/Devon/Dorset), Merseyside, Newcastle, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc. etc... and even North, East, West and South London have their own accent each.

British Culture, hmm?
Well I've been exposed to quite a bit of it, seeing as my dad's English. (From the Newbury area.)
I'm going to visit my fam over there this summer for three weeks.
I think my favorite part about "Britain" is the culture.
It's such a melting pot. I can get Indian curry or fish and chips where ever.
They DEFINITELY love their football. I can't even call it soccer, and I live in America.
They've produced the punk rock scene (my dad was one, and I can't really see him as one today), I grew up on The Clash, The Ramones, Dead Kennedys and so many more. Then there's Rowling, Tolkien and so many great authors. I love the Cockney accent, just because it's mainly what I hear in Harry Potter. Oliver Wood and his Irish accent <3
Wales, well, I think of sheep as well, as some others noted. I think I went to Lego Land there? when I was little. (not sure if it was Wales)
Haven't got a chance to see Ireland. >.<
I'm visiting the English Channel this summer, and spending the day in London. (I loved the London Eye. I've gone on it the past three times I've been over there)
I honestly would love to travel there more often, maybe even study there in college as a program. I know one thing for sure, I want to live there when I'm old enough. Driving on the left will take some getting used to.

Oh, and my dad says the driving exam is really hard to pass in England. Anyone able to back this up? He thinks American drivers are horrible >.<

I adore the British culture. Tea. Royalty. A ton of the great writers in the world (like my namesake, Jane Austen). The yummy actors (). The accents. Everything. The style. Food. Again, everything. I am in love with it.

White.Kid.:

Oh, and my dad says the driving exam is really hard to pass in England. Anyone able to back this up? He thinks American drivers are horrible >.<

It depends how prepared you are. :p You're allowed 15 minor errors (things that you do wrong but they're not a massive danger to people around you), anymore and you fail. If you get any majors (that includes "serious" and "dangerous") whatsoever, then you've failed. That involves stuff that is likely/bound to be dangerous to people around you.

There are a fair amount of things to learn, but if you're prepared then it's not too difficult. :)

mon amour.:

I adore the British culture. Tea. Royalty. A ton of the great writers in the world (like my namesake, Jane Austen). The yummy actors (). The accents. Everything. The style. Food. Again, everything. I am in love with it.

As a person from Britain I reckon it'd be safe to say that there are probably just as many coke drinkers as tea drinkers here, if not more.

ignore.

I'm not quite sure, but I pretty much think Pete Doherty summed up British culture in the lyrics to Albion. He manages to go from talking 'about gin in teacups' to 'violence in dole queues' without it sounding too terrible.

The Libertines/Babyshambles/Pete Doherty lyrics are the only things in the world that ever make me want to run around in a giant Union Jack flag, they make me feel patriotic. I don't know why... it's like, they glorify things like queuing, my favourite thing to do...

I'll shut up now. Seeing Pete live makes me think these things. :3

I'm not from Britain but I have to say this.
Hollywood has got to stop immitating a South African accent! They always make it sound like a cheap mix between an English and Australian accent. We do not sound like English people.
You just can't do it hollywood so stop bothering.

Bert's eyebrow:

I'm not from Britain but I have to say this.
Hollywood has got to stop immitating a South African accent! They always make it sound like a cheap mix between an English and Australian accent. We do not sound like English people.
You just can't do it hollywood so stop bothering.

To an untrained ear you do. The Latin teacher I had junior year of high school is from South Africa, and it didn't matter how many times she talked about South Africa, students still called her "that British lady." But, you're right, the South African accent is a lot different from any English accent or Australian accent.

A lot of people think Austrailians and New Zealanders sound English, too. So it is for former English colonies. At least Sharlto Copley set it straight. And I don't think DiCaprio did a horrible job, but it sure wasn't perfect. It's much cheaper to find a big actor/actress to sell a movie with an incorrect accent than it is to fly halfway across the world to get a real one.