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What Makes You Proud To Be British?
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Wonnie pickerwingWho?
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ChicagoBlue
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I specifically did NOT include midget gems because of the licorice ones!! :-PLion's midget gems (or whatever alternative name they have now) are also lush. Especially the licorice flavoured ones.
ChicagoBlue
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Brilliant! My niece from Vietnam brings up that video to me all the time! :-DHaving amazing fellow citizens such as….Ronnie Pickering
ChicagoBlue
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Showing my age!I thought galaxy choc was American ?
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Perhaps pride is the wrong word. Admiration may be a better term. I admire the output of the likes of Dickens, Shakespeare, The Stones, The Beatles, Blur et al; I admire and cherish the likes of Only Fools and Fawlty Towers; I love our beautiful countryside; I love that you could look at an old, industrial-age photograph and definitively say "that is Britain".You contradicted it in the second which was the subject if my reply. You can't separate a culture from its country so if you are proud of it then you are proud of the country you happen to come from in that regard. There may well be other aspects you are not proud about of course.
My biggest issue is the default, unavoidable association of Nationalism with chest-thumping over a flag. And I loathe nationalism. You have zero control over where you're born, and I'm not going to assume a superiority complex because I happened to be born on the British Isles. If I ever have children, I will take immense pride in raising them correctly and seeing them live a rich, happy life. That's the kind of thing people can take pride in.
big gaz
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Being able to debate Barm or Muffin ;-)
jimharri
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There's no debate to be had. It's clearly barm; anyone who says differently needs professional help.Being able to debate Barm or Muffin ;-)
big gaz
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;-)There's no debate to be had. It's clearly barm; anyone who says differently needs professional help.