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I Am British

Trying to compile all the ways my Britishness expresses itself.

Tea.
I honestly don't mind queuing.
I'd only ever swear at my best friends.
I know my national football team (this applies frankly to any of England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland) is never going to win the world /european cup. If we ever qualify, I will forget this until we are knocked out.#
Feeling guilty for winning something.
If you serve me awful food, I'll say it was lovely to avoid a scene.
If I don't know what to talk about, I WILL talk about the weather.
If you mispronounce 'scone', I will judge you.
Things can be measured compared to the height of Nelson's Column or Big Ben, and the length of a London bus or football pitch; large land areas may be compared to multiples of Wales.
Having tea from a flask on the beach in the middle of a gale, huddled against a windbreak or sand dune, because we WILL go to the seaside dammit.


I can only apologise for conforming to stereotype...
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EnglishLitLover · 56-60, M
ah but ... when YOU say 'scone' does it rhyme with "gone" or with "phone" ??

.... and which merits your severest judgement??

Just idle curiosity xx
@EnglishLitLover Phone of course. I'm not weird or anything.
EnglishLitLover · 56-60, M
@littlemissdani MUST be with 'gone'! xx
ArtieKat · M
@littlemissdani It rhymes with "Wrong" (the "g" is silent lol)
@ArtieKat it doesn't rhyme with wrong as that would be...not correct.

Scones are the most controversial foodstuff: pronunciation AND order of clotted cream/jam
ArtieKat · M
@littlemissdani [quote]Scones are the most controversial foodstuff: pronunciation AND order of clotted cream/jam[/quote] Totally agree with that
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@littlemissdani I say "skon" like "on". Fight me :P
ArtieKat · M
@littlemissdani I think - but I wouldn't swear to it - that the cream/jam rule is that if you butter your scone then the jam goes next, topped with the cream; in the absence of butter then the cream is spread on the scone.....
@ArtieKat cream AND butter??? Are you actually a monster?
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@littlemissdani actually, he is...
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
@ArtieKat Heathen: Clotted Cream goes on before the Jam. Otherwise the Cream slides off....although I hear the Cornish do this. I went to Devon to see for myself. Cream First.
@KiwiBird in Cornwall it's cream second. Devonians are just weird. But if I've no cream only butter then it's butter first.

Like I say, a double controversial and doubly delicious thing hehe
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
@littlemissdani That's what I meant about the Cornish. Those lil folk have it wrong. Seriously the Devon folk have it correct. The Clotted Cream holds the jam on.....The South Australians have no idea, to many Cornish miners came here.....

I understand if you haven't any Cream, butter would have to be first.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@KiwiBird 🤔 can you have skon, skown, skoon, whatever, with marmalade?

asking for a lost bear...
jackieash · 26-30
@EnglishLitLover Scone as in "gone"
@EnglishLitLover ass as in glass, brass, and mass.