Weird things about the English

[DualityNSNO]

That's right, we are all friends here at Grand Old Team Forum. Confess your Englishness and the rest of us will give you a big hug.

With our wangs.

 

[Calvin]

Their obsession with ballet

 

[the golden visionary]

Bulldog tattoos and vest tops

Neck tattoos and XL bully’s

That's Bangor covered, what about england

 

[Calvin]

Their degenerate and perverse obsession with “bottoms” and spanking each others with wooden canes, bats and any other implement they can lay their hands on

 

[Kurt.]

That's Bangor covered, what about england

Let’s leave Northern Ireland out of this

 

[the golden visionary]

Let’s leave Northern Ireland out of this

Well played gringo

 

[Calvin]

Call me “Crazy” but I believe there is something inherently weird about a people who chase cheese down a hill

 

[efcste97]

Their obsession with ballet

Leave Billy Elliot out of this!

 

[Ferguson1878]

As an Irish person, yes we do and we resent it quite a lot

here’s a question i always ask my bird and she can never answer for all the moaning irish people do about england , would the hundreds of thousands who have emigrated to america and australia etc have done so well out there if they’d never been invaded ?

 

[Nymzee]

Thread is tame. Had your shot to come for us and failed miserably.

 

[efcste97]

Call me “Crazy” but I believe there is something inherently weird about a people who chase cheese down a hill

Some of those weird inbred towns have some weird traditions, nettle eating is my personal favourite

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Can I also just say that I have seen a lot of anti American ‘we don’t want no yanks’ rhetoric in the past few months and would just like to say I find this extremely cringy and want no part of it.

After centuries of being treated as second rate citizens by the upper classes, many English have an unrealised internal anger that they direct towards anyone foreign.

 

[ChesterBlue]

here’s a question i always ask my bird and she can never answer for all the moaning irish people do about england , would the hundreds of thousands who have emigrated to america and australia etc have done so well out there if they’d never been invaded ?

I have to say, that’s kinda a insane question. Firstly the first Irish immigrants to the US were treated absolutely horrendously, and secondly there’d be nothing stopping the Irish having migrated to those countries regardless - what would definitely be different is that the Irish language would still be being predominantly spoken in Ireland not English, and realistically we’d have been genocided a lot less - but we also wouldn’t have our best rebel songs… so swings and roundabouts

 

[Rita_Poon]

Can I also just say that I have seen a lot of anti American ‘we don’t want no yanks’ rhetoric in the past few months and would just like to say I find this extremely cringy and want no part of it.

After centuries of being treated as second rate citizens by the upper classes, many English have an unrealised internal anger that they direct towards anyone foreign.

Few else can understand the words though, 'there is no anger if there is no audience.'

 

[Calvin]

Some of those weird inbred towns have some weird traditions, nettle eating is my personal favourite

I can see from whom the Americans inherited their need to name a “local” event, “World Championship Nettle Eating Competition”, Dorset.