What makes Britain Great?

Discussion in 'Just Talk' started by chippie244, Mar 11, 2019.

  1. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    I'm not being contrary at all, you said your daughter thought you were a racist.
     
  2. MrA

    MrA Member

    I'm not racist, but those damn French.......
     
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  3. Odd Bodkin

    Odd Bodkin Active Member

    The art of Donald McGill...

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    Pour a builders brew in there and that's as British as it gets, mate!
     
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  4. gas monkey

    gas monkey Well-Known Member

    Sunday pictures with wife and grandson how to train your dragon
    pie chips in the car watching the waves hit the shore
     
  5. Odd Bodkin

    Odd Bodkin Active Member

    All the suggestions have been either definitively English or Scottish and focused on a national charecteristic but one image that combines two of our nations is The Thin Red Line - an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by Robert Gibb depicting the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War.

    The Welsh at Rorke's Drift lay claim to one of the most famous feat of arms in the long history of the British Army, and the sacrifice of the Ulster Division during the Battle of the Somme, while not inspring a famous work of art, or a fantastic film, is worthy of its own monument on the battlefield where so many lost their lives.

    This is not to ignore the support of sikhs and moslems in the British Army over two world wars, all colours and creeds have come together during our history.
    These men and women are not the preserve of a nationalist/populist section of our society but the collective memory of us, and our descendents. Every year we come together to remember them and i'm ashamed to think they would look at the behaviour of our society today as it splits amidst a crisis of our own making. An unnecessary state of affairs that will only be resolved by cool heads and compromise, not the heated rhetoric of self-serving interests .

    The question "what does it mean to be British" has not a simple answer, but raises another question in these turbulent times: "Do we really know what being British is?"
    I'm not sure we do anymore.
     
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  6. gas monkey

    gas monkey Well-Known Member

    hienze 57
     
  7. Heat

    Heat Screwfix Select

    American
     
  8. gas monkey

    gas monkey Well-Known Member

    sorry not very educated just thought who wants beans on toast and they all said GREAT
     
  9. Heat

    Heat Screwfix Select

    Now beans on toast is probably a British thing. :)
     
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  10. gas monkey

    gas monkey Well-Known Member

    the corner stone of any nutrisuse tea
     
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  11. MrA

    MrA Member


    With a sprinkling of grated cheese and a dash of Worcester sauce.
     

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