British stereotypical views ironed out.

Don't some people get fed up each time someone associates Britain as a Tea worshipping country? Does it also get wierd when they say we are quite eccentric.

Well for us Brits, lets iron out a few of the long running stereotypical views of British.

Additional: No one really wears Shakespearian clothes or speaks Shakespeare anymore.

 

I have a great respect for the british dignity....I dont consider brits stuffy....just more refined and dignified !!!

 

Oh yeh, there are some people I know who live in France who think the Brits are all snooty and dressed like Monopoly man with his car.

I wonder why people assume Britain is a nation of tea drinkers when we have a Nestle factory smashed in the middle of Hayes and providing us with coffee? When you go to the supermarket, the coffee range out does the tea range.

 

The Brits I know have a verry wild and crazy side...they just have more common sense than most and let it go when the time is right !!!

 

The most common Brit stereotype over here would be the 'bad teeth' one.

 

We are a stickler for crazes. We do love our gadgets and new items. Still have three crazy frogs hanging around my computer terminal.

 

i love tea and am eccentric

 

Where Did the Bad Teeth Thing Come From?

 

Being from England also i am not 100% but from what i have heard from American friends; it came from the austin powers moveis.

 

Oh...So it is Only a Recent Concept?

Pretty Lame Thing to Base it All on...

 

Seconded

 

The teeth thing has been around before Austin Powers - that's why he used bad teeth, he was playing on the stereotype.

 

mmmmmmm cuppa tea

 

so no bowler hats and jane austen novels while sipping tea and eating little cucumber sandwiches? crying shame.

 

Typical English casual attire:


I never sit up to the computer without dressing properly.

 

are there any good domestic british stereotypes or do folks import the sony's and panasonics from japan?

 

The empire was built by people with bad teeth; I have a theory that since teeth have improved in the UK we have become gradually weaker and weaker.

Look at the best soldiers in history people like the Spartans or the Mongols, generally they have had hard home lives, living on thistles and gristle and old bones this makes them mean and desperate.

Desperation is the key to being a good fighter, its the key to the samurai, a happy man wouldn’t stand up to his waist in blood and guts in a thin red line in some god forsaken desert in the middle of nowhere, no he would run like rabbit, but a desperate man will stand and die like a bloody hero.

We used to have great slums where people grew up with bad teeth, often stunted into near dwarfs or in someway slightly misshapen , this made them angry and tough, mix this with a sort of jingoistic patriotism and a feeling that they are better than anyone else alive and you have the basis for a great army

Add to this officers who have been tortured and driven slightly crazy in public schools and you have a world beating formula....which built the biggest empire the world as ever seen
Anyway all this was spoiled by dentists and people who knocked down perfectly good slums and other such tomfoolery

Do you think Iraq would have bothered us when we had worse teeth, a walk in the park compared to some of our early colonial campaigns, and until our teeth get worse I don’t see things in anyway improving

 

interesting theory

so the downfall of the british empire was when teeth stopped falling out

 

In a nutshell yes , fancy ways leading to the downfall of a fine nation .

You used to be able to buy false teeth taken off the bodys of frenchmen killed in waterloo now they would have been fine teeth, a war trophy and replacements at the same time

 

so in this light, napolean actually won the battle of waterloo as the french inroads made into british culture led to its ultimate collapse... sneeky guy that napolean