British pride

[Sandyman]

Spot on. Brits are anyway much of a mongrel race - my paternal ancestors are Irish, maternal are Dutch - go back far enough and few are genuinely French aristos from 1066 or even less the original Anglo-Saxon.

As for the dodgy past, what does it matter? No one alive today is responsible for the many atrocities perpetrated, which makes it absurd to apologise for them, nor is it logical to be proud of something historical, hanging on the coat-tails of other, braver souls long gone. But that's typical for those who, to quote a national leader, have: "A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war"

I rest my case

Maybe Keithgdg you need to travel this world a bit more to realise the UK is not all its cracked up to be.

 

[capnsensible]

Maybe Keithgdg you need to travel this world a bit more to realise the UK is not all its cracked up to be.

I have. It is. And more.

 

[SamanthaTabs]

I have. It is. And more.

Agree. Have spent just over 1/3 of my life in the UK, part as a child then as a grown up (debatable..), certainly wouldn't go back unless I had to.

 

[keithgdg]

I have travelled extensively and worked in many countries. Perhaps you need to travel in the uk a bit more.

 

[GHA]

Everywhere has good and not so good sides.
As far as weather and cheap street food goes the UK isn't particularly high up the list

Nice pubs though

 

[keithgdg]

It saddens me to think that the English denigrade thier country so much when I have been forced to watch the stoning of a human being in another country.

 

[NormanS]

It saddens me to think that the English denigrade thier country so much when I have been forced to watch the stoning of a human being in another country.

Make up your mind. Are you talking about Britain or England? You may be amazed to find that they are not one and the same.

 

[macd]

Make up your mind. Are you talking about Britain or England? You may be amazed to find that they are not one and the same.

Bit like Britain and the UK, then

In passing, it also saddens me when people 'denigrade' what is arguably the UK's biggest contribution to world culture: the English language.

 

[NormanS]

Eh?

 

[Sandyman]

Eh?

Must be all that pride getting in the way