The British Isles Is Awesome Thread

rsvmark

Port and Stilton

Fish and Chips

Pimms and lemonade

Haggis neeps and tatties

Sunday Roast

Marmalade on toast

Ploughmans lunch

Gin and tonic

Pubs

Curry

Pie and peas

Bacon and eggs

Sausage and mash

Lancashire hot pot

Shepherds pie

Victoria sponge cake

Scone, jam and cream

Trifle

Sticky toffee pudding

Cheese on toast

Red sauce and brown sauce

Door step sandwiches

Custard

Fruit cake

 Single malt whisky

Bread and butter pudding

Ribena

Cider

Marmite

Cadburys

Flapjack

Branston pickle

scrumhalf

Clarky said:

strawbs and cream on a nice summers afternoon…..

Food or music?

Clarky

scrumhalf said:

Clarky said:

strawbs and cream on a nice summers afternoon…..

Food or music?

awesome… lol...

Clarky

Temple Bar, Dublin

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Clarky said:

Temple Bar, Dublin

British Isles?

Temple Bar is very good to see how expensive beer can get, and people will still pay for it.

Clarky

yes it's expensive.. but it's still a fun place..

once I went into a bar there for a beer on my own and a Trad Irish band was playing..

when I ordered a beer, the fella next to me heard my accent noting that I wasn't Irish and we got chatting..

he asked me what I thought of Irish music.. I said [truthfully] that I love it.. it's fun sounding

he told me that he played the fiddle.. and I replied that I'm a guitarist..

one thing led to another and I ended up playing with the band all night [on an upside down guitar.. lol]

from that point on, the beer was free..

what an awesome night that was… so much fun..

at the end of the night, the fella I got chatting to came up to me smiling and shaking my hand and said

you're not a bad paddy fer an English foker ya

Clarky

The British Police force

ok.. so not exactly perfect, when you look at many others around the world and how they be have..

our lot are not so bad after all 

chillidoggy

At least you haven't got much chance of being shot.

RandallFlagg

India Pale Ale

RandallFlagg

Cricket

RandallFlagg

Eccentricity

RandallFlagg

Battle of Britain

RandallFlagg

The AVRO Lancaster & Vulcan

RobDavies

Football. 

 Proper football. 

 None of this champions league, poncy premier league, euro 2016, overpaid, highly strung, rich kid, corporate entertainment bollocks. I'm talking about lower league football with proper old fashioned grounds that have character. 

Where you can get so close to the pitch that you can smell the embrocation oil. Where you can have a couple of pints in a supporters club bar with history on the walls, instead of a grey concrete concourse. Where the players will still stop outside a pub for a chat after the game, and pose for photos with your kids. Where the club values it's supporters so highly that junior fans can train with first team players as a Christmas present. 

 Proper football is bloody British and bloody brilliant.

RandallFlagg

The London Black Cabs, built in Coventry

Clarky

RobDavies said:

Football. 

 Proper football. 

 None of this champions league, poncy premier league, euro 2016, overpaid, highly strung, rich kid, corporate entertainment bollocks. I'm talking about lower league football with proper old fashioned grounds that have character. 

Where you can get so close to the pitch that you can smell the embrocation oil. Where you can have a couple of pints in a supporters club bar with history on the walls, instead of a grey concrete concourse. Where the players will still stop outside a pub for a chat after the game, and pose for photos with your kids. Where the club values it's supporters so highly that junior fans can train with first team players as a Christmas present. 

 Proper football is bloody British and bloody brilliant.

going even further than that… youth footie leagues and summer tournaments..

both of my boys played in local teams U8 through to U14

I helped out with the goalie coaching..

it was so much fun.. especially the summer tournaments..

Bygone_Tones

Low percentage of the population is religious.

Thank god!

hungrymark

Clarky;1143889" said:

The British Police force

ok.. so not exactly perfect, when you look at many others around the world and how they be have..our lot are not so bad after all 

I'd echo that. I was with a French bloke I know last summer in London, not sure of the way to find the lunch venue. I suggested we ask a policeman and my friend looked at me like I was mad. As it happened, the copper was no help, but he was very friendly.

jonnyburgo

This and curry houses

XTC "Love on a Farmboy's wages"

And hankies at the readies for "My Old Man" by Ian Dury and the blockheads wjich has the cheekiest bassline of any song ever.

JezWynd

bonkers folk music