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[Phoenix]

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 all things foreign!
Only in Britain can a 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.

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 Xmas
cracker-pulling accidents.
18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit
cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after
trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control
Scalextric cars.
and finally...

In 2000 eight Brits were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls
incurred whilst throwing up into the toilet.

[Jito463]

Well, I can't speak for the statistics, but...

Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.

Haven't heard of it, but do not doubt in the least it can and does happen.

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.

Ditto here.

Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries
and a DIET coke.

Ditto again

Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to
the counters.

Yep, gotta love the irony.

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.

Aren't garages just external storage for when your house gets full?

[shawn_nee]

Only in Britain do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries
and a DIET coke.

This one we got you beat.....

I work with people who will go to the caffeteria, order deep fried chicken wrapped in bacon with melted cheese, Large french fries, fried apple crisp, and wash it all down with a Slim Fast drink while smoking a cig next to their car in the handicap parking space cuz they weigh 500 pounds and cant walk very far.

Only in Britain can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.

This one we have in certain spots. When it gets dark in some of the neighborhoods, the deliverymen wont even go in for fear of getting jacked or killed for pizza. Durring the day they are like TY fast in and done quickly... couldnt resist...

[ptolomeus3]

This one we have in certain spots. When it gets dark in some of the neighborhoods, the deliverymen wont even go in for fear of getting jacked or killed for pizza. Durring the day they are like TY fast in and done quickly... couldnt resist...

That´s a good one shawn

[Charalambos]

I don't know if all these things about British are true but I almost died laughing, especially with the last one...

[MaLing]

I work with people who will go to the caffeteria, order deep fried chicken wrapped in bacon with melted cheese, Large french fries, fried apple crisp, and wash it all down with a Slim Fast drink while smoking a cig next to their car in the handicap parking space cuz they weigh 500 pounds and cant walk very far.

This one is extremely funny.

In fact, all the situations which have been mentioned above by all of you do not solely happen in Britain, here in Hong Kong, there is a lot of similar silly behaviour too, which was never heard in the past.

Edited by MaLing, 08 November 2006 - 09:55 PM.

[Charalambos]

MaLing, I'm afraid that those who say that the world has gone crazy are a bit right. But we mustn't be pessimistic. Here in Greece we have a saying: "God is great"( so he can help us with all our problems, whatever they are).

[MaLing]

Yes, we should look forward to the future.

[zamiel]

You can't look forward to the past

[Tron]

So that is where us Yanks learned these things! LOL...... All of those apply to us as well! People can be pretty stupid sometimes!

[shawn_nee]

I guess you could say that our stupidity and craziness was genetic then!!!

Blame the Brits for all of our troubles!!!!

[Number99]

All the above makes me glad I´m a Swede!

[Ljugtomten]

All the above makes me glad I´m a Swede!

Only in Sweden, you can get an Insurance Policy for P2P Downloads

[MaLing]

Just share one thing in Hong Kong here with you:

Some years ago, if a customer bought a set meal in McDonald's, he would be given a small doll. A lot of people loved those dolls, and queued up for a long time to buy sets of meals. I passed by a shop of McDonald's, there were uncountable sets of meals inside and outside a rubbish bin on the street. The meal boxes had never been opened...

Edited by MaLing, 18 November 2006 - 02:38 AM.

[Charalambos]

I saw a documentary on TV about the same dolls in America where the meals have been opened and the result was pathologically fat childs... Perhaps the people in Hong Kong were in fact more wise...

[MaLing]

Well, it is a kind of black comedy, isn't it?