Us Brits

[ian]

being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer,then on the way home,grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab to eat on a Swedish sofa whilst watching US tv shows on a japanese TV,and most of all being suspicious of anything foreign.

oh and only in Britain can you get a pizza to your home faster than an ambulance and only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counter.

also supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.

we might be proud to be British,but by god we are funny.ian.

[Giga]

British humor: world famous. If you see a Brit smiling/laughing, you know there is trouble.

[traveller]

Thanks Ian, everything above is me.

[oldjiver]

Talking of Supermarkets one Morrisons puts their disabled buggys at the entrance and the keys in information at the far side of the store!!

[mrbleu500]

also supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.

If supermarkets know one thing, it is how to make money...

Did some work on some Sainsburys stores, and we had to put in a special ventilation system to duct the smell of fresh bread from the bakery to the entrance

BTW: My local Morrisons has a pharmacy at the entrance

[Plessy]

I may be a Paddy ! but I hear yae M8 !

Tis a topsy turvy state of affairs so to speak . lol

:-)

[aslat]

The irony in all of this is that we are all nodding

[maxpayne3]

Naw! Belgian Chocolate and Dutch beer. Oranjeboom

[Detlef]

Ace

It's better than being a German - which I am not.

Living in Germany is only tolerable if you have a sense of humour (which most Germans don't have) but it is a much fairer society than the UK.

[mrbleu500]

Belgian Chocolate AND Belgian beer !!

Duvel, Chimay, Leffe... Beats Dutch brews hands down.

What's the difference between Dutch beer and fornicating on a boat...?

[mrbleu500]

Living in Germany is only tolerable if you have a sense of humour (which most Germans don't have) but it is a much fairer society than the UK.

Come on...

You gotta appreciate the irony in making David Hasselhoff a legend

[Detlef]

Roger Whittaker is a legend over here too.

He sings in perfect German but has learnt it phonetically for each song as he doesn't speak a word of it.

Now that is irony

[mrbleu500]

Ever seen the Kelly Family?

Were very big in Germany when I was living there 15 years ago, sort of like a cross between the Corrs and the Partridge Family

http://www.kellyfamilysite.de/

[Detlef]

I've seen Jimmy and Joey Kelly doing a sort of country rock number but hadn't realised they spend most of their time in Europe. A good barber could make a fortune out of them.

There are still loads of traditional/country/folk singers on German TV shows here.

Of course if the Germans like an act they are very loyal - I'm sure they think the Beatles are German.

[oldjiver]

I lived in Germany for a while and I think its wonderfull that they try to hang on to their traditions and culture. I love watching the old 50s bavarian films on the German regional channels.
Shame they try exporting their culture to Poland/France every so often

[aslat]

Come on...

You gotta appreciate the irony in making David Hasselhoff a legend

But as Hasselhoff is American, he would understand irony

[simon 2003]

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Shame they try exporting their culture to Poland/France every so often

[goran]

Brits can't possibly complain about ANYbody exporting ANY bit of their culture to ANYone at all... Or Yenks, for that matter... [Honestly... ]

A Q: Les Humphries' Singers - anyone heard of them? They were big in Germany for quite a while... a while back.... And recently they went on a tour again... Germans have a very good memory!! But anyone knows them nowadays in the UK? [I worked with a backing vocalist they took to the the tour, so I know... suspiciously.... ]

[ian]

goran
i think you missed the point there mate.they were refering to the war.ian.

[goran]

Hmmm, silly me, I thought they were referring to their music, literature, drama etc. etc. You know, Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mann, Brecht, Duehrer etc. etc. etc.

On the other hand, re. the "war shots": not that "other countries" haven't had any complicity in those lovely 2 world wars, i.e. the very causes [not talking about who started it, i.e. who fired the first shot etc.]...

But that's an in-depth analysis of the global geo-political system and hence a bit much for a forum like this, I suppose...