Help please?

[Whisk_Luva]

Ok so I got given a piece of RE homework today (Oh joy :rolleyes: ) and I have to ask people what they think is British... (like a cup of tea etc) and why they think that....(it can be a very simple reason LOL!)

So people, any help?

Thank you!

[Catty1]

PEAS, the universal vegetable! I have heard that from people who have travelled there, and they said peas were 'served with everything'! :)

I don't know if they were mushy ones or not. ;)

[Karen]

Afternoon tea - the "English aunts" always had this
Kippers for breakfast - described to me and made me go "ewwwww!"
Fish 'n' chips wrapped in newspaper - I don't know, literary culture references I guess
Stiff upper lip - just a cultural thing I've always associated with being very English
Hats and gloves for fancy ocassions - all media coverage, and English ladies of the elder generation I have known in person, hats (and gloves though less often) were de rigeur for weddings, parties, etc. I ended up, for some reason, holding the hat of my friend's English cousin for practically a whole wedding reception, as she couldn't manage her drink and cigarette AND the big hat, too.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Anytime I hear the word "Queen," I first think of Queen Elizabeth, I suppose because she is well known here.

I also think of colonialism, since Great Britain had many colonies.

I also think of British rock- i.e. the "British Invasion" of the 1960's- The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc.

[Muddy4paws]

British bull dogs!

Fish and chips and mushy peas!

Scones and afternoon tea.. ;)

The Royal family

Big ben

Bad weather :D

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Crumpets with your tea. Something called "clotted cream".

Jack the Ripper! Big Ben! The royal family. Scottland yard. The Bobbies (police here). London Bridge.

[Whisk_Luva]

Jack the Ripper! Big Ben! The royal family. Scottland yard. The Bobbies (police here). London Bridge.

Thanks so far everyone :D I have till wednesday night so keep them coming :D

Police here too! :D

[vinjashira]

Fish and Chips and Full English Breakfast

the two things I miss when I leave UK :D

[Freedom]

Cream teas, YUM!

Rain, rain, and MORE RAIN, he he he.

More accents in a small area than any place else I've ever visited! I mean British accents -- Cockney, Liverpool, Yorkshire, -- I'm not refering to foreigners' speech.

Yorkshire pudding, with roast beef, SUNDAY dinner, oh to die for!

Tea MUST be made in a pot, none of this pouring water over the tea in the cup or mug. AND when you DO pour it out of the pot, you MUST pour tea until there is some in the saucer. It just isn't full unless it is over the top!

Bangers and mash; and bubble and squeak. Mom made both for us, often!

And something, I think it was called a Farmer's lunch? Bread, cheese, apple, and CHUTNEY! Oh yes, chutney is defininteely British.

And at the hols, the Christmas pud, which you pour brandy over and light it. Is it bread pudding? I'm not even sure, he he! Mom always bought one of them as well. She'd had quite a time finding one over here, often started looking in November; she didn't make it herself.

[Edwina's Secretary]

How strange...my reply disappeared....again then...

Great literature, ladies in large hats, royalty, The Tube, politeness, pubs, having dinner and calling it "High Tea", country estates with lots of sheep, BBC masterpiece theater, London Monuments, Winston Churchill, Lady Edwina Mountbatten...

[sirrahbed]

fancy hats, the Queen, tea & scones, Wedgwood china, rain, 4th of July, polo....

just things I think of when you said "British" :cool:

[critter crazy]

Since everyone has already posted most of what I would have, I only have one more to add..................The Beatles!!!!:D

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Oh, and Charles Dicken's The Christmas Carol, and the Tower of London. :D

[Alysser]

Harry Potter :D

[Freedom]

History: The British Armada, battle of Trafalgar and Nelson, and 1066 (Mom always made SURE we knew 1066; funny, it never came up on OUR history exams, he he.) Celtic warriors. The Bruce!

Ellie, what does the RE stand for? No one else asked, I must be the only doofus who can't figure it out.

[Karen]

The accent, of course, like "hour" being pronounced as "Ahhh" -
"This is Owen Bennett-Jones of News ahhh" on the BBC.

Which remind me - double last names - Owen Bennett-Jones,
Jonathan Rhys-Davies (I know, he's technically Welsh) and the like, often seem very English.

[vinjashira]

The accent, of course, like "hour" being pronounced as "Ahhh" -
"This is Owen Bennett-Jones of News ahhh" on the BBC.

Which remind me - double last names - Owen Bennett-Jones,
Jonathan Rhys-Davies (I know, he's technically Welsh) and the like, often seem very English.
Karen, you don't have to be English to be British http://www.petoftheday.com/i/our_smilies/biggrin.gif
Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish are just as British as English

[buttercup132]

Those big London buses I forget what they are called but they are red and two story.

Gaurds who wear big tall helmets and can't laugh.


And of course Big Ben.

Eww and bangers and mash.

[Muddy4paws]

The accent, of course, like "hour" being pronounced as "Ahhh" -



Im sitting here saying hour and its coming out as owwer :D Ive been told by people who dont live in london that I sound cockney.


Been thinking of more.

Big red buses!

red phone boxes

purley king and queen

Tom Jones :o

Harrods

the london underground

Millenium dome

London eye

Tower of london

Big ben

Museums

Big lion statues

London zoo

red post boxes

Pie and mash and jellied eels

[G535]

Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.

Royal Ascot.

The Grand National.

[Hellow]

I always think that bad weather and afternoon tea is British things. I also think that an British accent it british because it is!

[columbine]

British humor, both the extra-dry "is she pulling my leg?" variant and the broad, earthy, potty-joke, unconvincing-drag silly version!

Morris dancing and mumming

Guy Fawkes Day

Fox hunting :(

English style riding

And of course ENGLISH ALE!

[CountryWolf07]

Hugh Grant.

[Edwina's Secretary]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid37/pe8fd308f7225750b6c87631c235cb72c/fd174753.jpg

[Karen]

Folks, don't forget she needs the "why" part - why you associate such things with being English!

Muddy4Paws, the funny thing is is that people sometimes guess Paul as having an English accent, which he does not at ALL - but he did watch a lot of Dr. Who when he was a kid!

And there was a receptionist where Paul used to work who thought I was two people - "that British lady who calls" and Paul's wife. I don't know why she thought I sounded British on the phone, I mean, how much of an accent can one convey in 7 syllables "May I speak to Paul Watts, please?" is just about all she ever heard me say before she transferred the call!

[Whisk_Luva]

Freedom: Sorry I shouldnt actually call it RE.... (used to be called religious education)... it is now PR (Philsophy and Religion)

ES: Love the photo :D

Columbine: PMed you

And everyone: thank you :D

[Whisk_Luva]

----Bump----

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Talking about the weather and queues!!!

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

"MIND the gap!!Mind the gap!!" ah, I heard it so often on the underground of London :)
Red phone boxes
Lady Di
fish'n chips, wrapped in a newspaper
Bobbies
Sherlock Holmes
Wet London
etc... I know more, I will post them later :)

[jackie]

And something, I think it was called a Farmer's lunch? Bread, cheese, apple, and CHUTNEY! Oh yes, chutney is defininteely British.

It is called a ploughman's lunch.

Burberry Clothing- the plaid is very British!

The London underground- The only way to travel in London

Buckingham Palace-where the queen lives

Rock music- for reasons already listed

The way they call lunch dinner, and supper tea-time. Oh and they call brunch elevensies!

Bisto Gravy-they serve it on everything

The classic double decker buses

The bear skin hats the guards where at Buckingham palace

Soccer games- the British are football mad (you could also say hooligans are VERY British, but I am going to concentrate on the good things)

[Whisk_Luva]

It is called a ploughman's lunch.

Burberry Clothing- the plaid is very British!

The London underground- The only way to travel in London

Buckingham Palace-where the queen lives

Rock music- for reasons already listed

The way they call lunch dinner, and supper tea-time. Oh and they call brunch elevensies!

Bisto Gravy-they serve it on everything

The classic double decker buses

The bear skin hats the guards where at Buckingham palace

Soccer games- the British are football mad (you could also say hooligans are VERY British, but I am going to concentrate on the good things)

Tea-time? Guilty :o :D

Ha ha! Yes! My dad and brother are football mad! :D

[Catty1]

The hats the BP guards wear are bearskins, but often called 'busbys' (plural???).

My mom calls my fluffy black kitty Cole "Busby". I have NO idea why! :rolleyes: :)

HOWEVER:

http://www.foolsparadise.co.uk/fools07pix/pix2007/rex_boyd_guard1D.jpg

Rex Boyd
The Coldstream Guard

A parody of the classic Coldstream Guard. The only way you could tell the difference is a busby hat that looks distinctly like a cat. Rex stomps, screams, salutes and stands to attention. For cabaret, this walkabout can become a short stage routine as a tribute to Tom Jones’ ‘You Can Leave Your Cat On’.