What does it mean to be British?

[realityhack]

What does it mean to be British?

Look no further than this site...

Top topics discussed or viewed on the first few pages of the CUK General forum:

A word game, embodying spontaneity and quirkiness.
Music.
A detailed commentary on the weather.
2 threads about cars.
A random storytelling thread.
One all about shopping, and the relative merits of M&S and Waitrose.
Social ineptitude.
Work and laziness.
A thread about the popularity of a celebrity, who talks about cars. A lot.
Bank Holiday weekends.
House prices.
Tax.
Socialism.
Bootlegged music.
Getting a bargain.
Governmental ineptitude.


Immigration's not up there at the moment, but it's only a mater of time.

[Bob Dalek]

To be British is to hate all things foreign, but retire abroad.

[expat]

How long would Switzerland have survived if they'd caused problems for the Axis powers? Given that they had German and Austria to the North and East, Italy in the South, and occupied France in the West? They'd have starved into submission pdq.

That's not to say that there weren't some disgraceful actions on the part of the Swiss, or that the myth of "pluckly little Switzerland retaining its independence" is anything other than a myth.

Try Ireland: neutral, no problem. Respectable number of volunteers, even if it meant serving in the British Army (which can't have been many Irishmen's favourite organisation).

Or, Ireland with the Allies. Invaded pronto, Ireland couldn't have defended their Western coast, and neither could Britain. Then we have an occupied country on our back doorstep.