[Cromwell1900]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

I currently hate this place. I didn't realise how nice and good people were in Singapore until I met the idiots at this boarding school I'm stuck at.

I apologize on behalf of my fellow Brit's as i say i am not at all proud of some of them. It's the ones that don't understand reason that disgust me completely.

[InOne]

If you go to the right places, English people are the most friendly people you will ever meet

[Shaun]

The Beatles, the countryside, scones and Stephen Fry.

[Chuck]

Countryside, accent, people, history, culture, music, literature, London and sense of humour.

[InOne]

The fact you all speak English

[Kerry]

Could sit here and list alsorts

For now..... the humour, the friendliness, the sense of community and how when crap happens we WILL pull together (infact even when it doesn't), the smiles in the street, the roast dinners and fish and chips, the diverse weather, the fact we get 4 very seperate seasons, the sport, that we can laugh at our sport, the music, Where we are - without major threat of natural disasters, our accents (most haha), the countryside and greenland but also the massive and beautiful cities.........

[MTVN]

I'm not really a great patriot but it annoys me when people are like "this country's gone down the toilet" or "it's not what it used to be". Bulls**t. This country is a great place to live and I can honestly say there's nowhere else I'd prefer to be. No sudden disintegration happened in the UK, things have changed but that's just life; times change and so does society. If you look at other European nations you've got major countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal all in a far worse situation economically than we ever got near to

I find it hard to find any other country on the map and say that they do things better than we do here, there are so many great things about this country and it seems that they are all too often taken for granted

[Princess]

It's hard to articulate into words why it's such a good country but off the top of my head-Wembley Stadium, Harry Potter, The Beatles, tea, TopShop, the accents, the telly, the fact there is always something going on. I'm more patriotic for a country I'm not even from than my own.

[Stu]

Topshop?

Oh Princess.

[Tom4784]

Our humour, music and general epicness when it comes to the various arts.

[Shaun]

I'd probably argue we've got the greatest set of literature if we're looking at it nationally as well. Music certainly. TV... joint top at least. Pretty decent films.

The only things I'd say we're lacking in are architecture, food (and you can get sentimental about roast dinners all you like; we haven't got jack **** on the Italians or the French), art, philosophy and...well...weather.

[Tom4784]

I can't stand french food, I hardly consider dishes I can make from the inhabitants of my garden haute cuisine.

[Lee.]

Chocolate! Nobody makes it like the Brits! Confectionary in general actually...

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Chocolate! Nobody makes it like the Brits! Confectionary in general actually...

Milk chocolate came from Sweden if I remember right or one of the Nordic countries at least. We pionered plain chocolate though I think.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Milk chocolate came from Sweden if I remember right or one of the Nordic countries at least. We pionered plain chocolate though I think.

No matter where it originated, nothing compares to Caburys or Galaxy.. my SIS brought me some Belgian chocolate and it still wasn't as good as ours.

[MTVN]

Nah out chocolate isn't that great, the Swiss do it better

[Ninastar]

I don't really see the appeal for Great Britain either. I mean sure we don't have famine and natural disasters but I think the general attitude of GB sucks. Most of the time people here are nasty. Society in general is a lot more shallow here. I never really noticed it until I went back to America during the Easter holidays.

I think the culture here is brilliant, the countryside and everything too. I just think that the people here in general make it not so great

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I can't stand french food, I hardly consider dishes I can make from the inhabitants of my garden haute cuisine.

That's a bit of a sweeping generalisation of the country that gave us croissants, brioche, basically all good bread, crème brulées, terrine, omelettes, foie gras, camembert, crepes and champagne

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Australia off the top of my head are rising. They actually had an economic growth during the recession.

Australia is only rising because China is rising, an Australia is selling a lot of minerals to china. Australia is just destroying it's own enviornment for chinese devolpment. Australia is not rising in terms of innovation or technology or any kind of real sustainable growth. They are just selling a lot of metal an minerals that they dig out of the ground to the Chinese just like the Africans and the South Americans. Just like the Middle east sells oil.

China an India are certainly rising though, an it's genuine growth.

[lostalex]

I dunno what makes Britain great lately, i think most western countries are pretty similar culturally these days... I think the world is getting more an more similar and smaller, an there are much less differences between nations now. We watch the same movies, listen to the same music, watch the same TV shows, use the same technologies an websites an computers an ipods, wear the same fashions. I think it's hard to find anything UNIQUELY "british" these days.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Shaun

That's a bit of a sweeping generalisation of the country that gave us croissants, brioche, basically all good bread, crème brulées, terrine, omelettes, foie gras, camembert, crepes and champagne

Meh, I don't like most of that list. French food is overrated.

[Shaun]

still better than ours

[Patrick]

The Banter.

[Marc]

I'm not sure, but I wouldn't want to live in America either.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I can't stand french food, I hardly consider dishes I can make from the inhabitants of my garden haute cuisine.

What about those in the UK who have small holdings and raise chickens, pigs, lambs for their own consumption etc....... they could be in their 'gardens' and they figure highly in every day British menus, haute cuisine or otherwise.