What Makes You Proud To Be British?

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Noooooo, exhibit A.

WTF is a ‘rag pudding’?

And I’m guessing they’re not talking about Luke Shaw.

 

[cinnamon]

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

The Sky interviewer asked her guest
- what do you like most about the British? Answer - its politeness
- what do like least? Answer - its racism
- which country is less racist than Britain? Answer ........?

Polite racism - fucking hell..........

 

[mexico1970]

WTF is a ‘rag pudding’?

And I’m guessing they’re not talking about Luke Shaw.

Think steak and kidney pudding but with other meat (Usually the cheaper kind) wrapped in suet and cooked in a cheesecloth.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Think steak and kidney pudding but with other meat (Usually the cheaper kind) wrapped in suet and cooked in a cheesecloth.

Medieval prison food, gotcha.

 

[mexico1970]

Medieval prison food, gotcha.

Tuck in fucker ;-)

 

[JULES]

Your definition of culture is largely administrative arrangements. The rest has changed significantly in my lifetime. We are way more informal. (Christian/forenames the norm, which used to be unthinkable. Much more touchy/feely. It's now quite common for men to hug one another in greeting. This just did not happen fifty years ago. Many men now wear cosmetics - used to be nowt but soap, and maybe aftershave on special occasions. Even funerals are less formal and less religious than they were.)

So what we have is a mixture of admin policy (some of it guided by law, like shop opening) and a fluid social tradition that is unrecognisable from what it was when I was a boy. And given another fifty years, it will have changed again.

How interesting! My idea of an 'uncultured' person is someone who is uninterested in the arts and/or intellectual pursuits.

However, it's a matter of definition and I know of no one with the authority to speak ex-cathedra on this matter.

right! ... culture is something too boring to be called entertainment....simple

 

[mosssideblue]

The NHS. Relied heavily on them recently and they were fantastic.

 

[mexico1970]

right! ... culture is something too boring to be called entertainment....simple

It appears only other peoples culture is important.

 

[JULES]

It appears only other peoples culture is important.

maybe because other peoples culture is entertaining?