What are the English good at?

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Tuscan Chimaera
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Rugby

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not forgeting

rock'n'roll bands, pop bands, and industrial groove machines.
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and penalty's
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complaining.
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d00mw0lf wrote:complaining.
I believe the term is WHINGING POMS!!!
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d00mw0lf wrote:complaining.
hey, we're better at THAT! :eek:
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randdebiel² wrote:
d00mw0lf wrote:complaining.
hey, we're better at THAT! :eek:
nope Randdebiel²
I have to agrea with dOOmwOlf here, if theres one thing the English are good at its Complaining.
:P :wink:
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heh! following on from my last suggestion - moaning about the weather. it's neither to hottest, nor coldest place on earth, but the way we complain about it... :P
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Blaming foreigners, in my experience.
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Being surprised when a team which has been ranked in the lower reaches of the World top 10 pretty much from the first-ever world rankings loses in the last eight of a major tournament.

Being surprised when a similarly-ranked tennis player loses in the last eight of a major tournament.

Failing to grasp that we're not bad at most things, but will seldom be world-beaters in anything.

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Tuscan Chimaera wrote:Rugby
Pie shops
Are we?? :eek:
Name one :?:
Only a paand.
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christophe wrote:
randdebiel² wrote:
d00mw0lf wrote:complaining.
hey, we're better at THAT! :eek:
nope Randdebiel²
I have to agrea with dOOmwOlf here, if theres one thing the English are good at its Complaining.
:P :wink:
I beg to disagree...the Brits are rubbish at complaining i.e actually stating that they are dissattisfied with stuff/treatment to the right people. What we EXCEL at is whittering about it and yes whingeing about it to the wrong people.

How many times do you hear people in restaurants chuntering about the service or the food when only to blush and go 'mmmnnn yes everything's fine' when the waiter comes up midway through their meal.....

No, the Brits are pap at complaining.

We do lead the world in queuing though!
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Sexygoth wrote:
Tuscan Chimaera wrote:Rugby
Pie shops
Are we?? :eek:
Name one :?:
What Pie Shop? Brown's Pie Shop in Lincoln (in snooty 'uphill' area). Reknowned it is, for it's most excellent of pies. However, I won't eat in there any more.....since the scandal of 10 years ago .... dog poo pie was the order of the day
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Debaser wrote: We do lead the world in queuing though!
Agreed :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Fish and chips. In Yorkshire anyway. And speaking proper English, of course.
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Thrash Harry wrote: speaking proper English, of course.
Nah! They only do that in naff American movies.
Only a paand.
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Guilt ?
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Voting in right wing governments?
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I must say you lot are rather good at taking the pish out of the French :notworthy:
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Debaser wrote:We do lead the world in queuing though!
I thought that was the Russians?

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Building people up, just to knock them down?
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Thrash Harry wrote:Fish and chips. In Yorkshire anyway. And speaking proper English, of course.
Is the latter also only in Yorkshire ? :D
Why do keyboards get so dirty?
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Fancying stunnas across the class divide.
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Mrs. Snowey wrote:
Thrash Harry wrote:Fish and chips. In Yorkshire anyway. And speaking proper English, of course.
Is the latter also only in Yorkshire ? :D
I forgot about making jokes about the Jairmans.

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Thrash Harry wrote:
Mrs. Snowey wrote:
Thrash Harry wrote:Fish and chips. In Yorkshire anyway. And speaking proper English, of course.
Is the latter also only in Yorkshire ? :D
I forgot about making jokes about the Jairmans.

I'm off for a game of snooker while you play the flyer. Give me a shout when the turn comes on.

It's probably just me but I rarely have the vaguest idea what Thrash is talkin about.
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