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What Makes You Proud of Your Country?
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This will undoubtedly be banned but following the other posts got me think about the fact that only the negative things get promoted in the media. I thought about all the things that make me so proud of my country (I live in England but I am actually 1/4 English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish so I have a foot and hand in all countries lol!) that it moved me to tears. My question applies what ever country your from by the way.
1. The crowd spontaneously singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' when we lost the bid for the Manchester Olympics.
2. War Veterans at the Cenotaph and Chelsea Pensioners.
3. The way complete strangers helped those injured in disasters such as the July 7th bombings/ Hatfield Train Crash/Moorgate Tube.
4. Spitfires.
5. The way we support the under dog.
6. The way despite the media saying no-one was interested in the Queen anymore middle england turned out in their hundreds of thousands just to prove them wrong! ( I'm not particularly a Royalist but I loved the dig at the media).
7. Our great sportspeople who every now and then make the world sit up and take notice, like Torvill and Dean, Steve Redgrave, Linford Christie etc.
the list goes on..................
1. The crowd spontaneously singing 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' when we lost the bid for the Manchester Olympics.
2. War Veterans at the Cenotaph and Chelsea Pensioners.
3. The way complete strangers helped those injured in disasters such as the July 7th bombings/ Hatfield Train Crash/Moorgate Tube.
4. Spitfires.
5. The way we support the under dog.
6. The way despite the media saying no-one was interested in the Queen anymore middle england turned out in their hundreds of thousands just to prove them wrong! ( I'm not particularly a Royalist but I loved the dig at the media).
7. Our great sportspeople who every now and then make the world sit up and take notice, like Torvill and Dean, Steve Redgrave, Linford Christie etc.
the list goes on..................
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Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? - Suspicion of anything foreign. Oh and...... Only in Britain ... can pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Britain ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke. Only in Britain ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.
Only in Britain .... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage. Only in Britain ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
Only in Britain ... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue. 142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts. 58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while
the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate. British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents. 101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet. 18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
Only in Britain ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Britain ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke. Only in Britain ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.
Only in Britain .... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage. Only in Britain ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
Only in Britain ... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.
NOT TO MENTION...
3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue. 142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts. 58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while
the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate. British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents. 101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet. 18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
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I'd also like to say
Death by battery?
Urban myth!!
http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/28/the_odd_ body_death_by_battery/
or do you have proof?
Death by battery?
Urban myth!!
http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/28/the_odd_ body_death_by_battery/
or do you have proof?
1. Walking over the fells where there is no other person in sight but just the sound of the birds.
2. Driving at night when your car is the only one on the motorway.
3. Living along a country lane when all the neighbours kids have gone to school.
4. When there is a strike at the airport and all planes are grounded.
5. Sitting alone with my wife drinking wine and eating after eights.
2. Driving at night when your car is the only one on the motorway.
3. Living along a country lane when all the neighbours kids have gone to school.
4. When there is a strike at the airport and all planes are grounded.
5. Sitting alone with my wife drinking wine and eating after eights.
Would that be the Empire that made Britain great by sending soldiers with cannon everytime the "fuzzy-wuzzies" wanted us out?
Or the Empire that thought that the best way to show how great a nation we were was to flog opium to the Chinese and to send gunboats when the Chinese Emperor tried to ban it.
I feel a tear welling up in my eye
Or the Empire that thought that the best way to show how great a nation we were was to flog opium to the Chinese and to send gunboats when the Chinese Emperor tried to ban it.
I feel a tear welling up in my eye
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