British Dream
 

In response to the American dream thread. If there was a British dream what would it be?

Good teeth.

To come to America.

to roll the clocks back to when the sun never set.

my Giant American Penis is currently blocking out all of the light.

Mint flavored meat.
( or is it just a cliché? )

Something simple like a good shoe. Mmm. Imagine that! A good shoe. Mmm.

Decent customer service. Imaginative original programming on television. A general public who aren't ugly, poorly dressed, arrogant, and racist. Sunshine. These are what dreams are made of.

A nice cup of tea and a scone.

a nice orderly queue

semidetachedhouses.

Coronation Street.
An end to Vernon Kay's reign of prime-time terror.
Football played only on a Saturday, at 3.00
A well baked crusty bloomer.
an end to poncified flavoured teas and exotic sausages.
A decent Hammer film at 2.am on a Saturday night.
A decent war film on a Sunday afternoon.
A good shoe (as Glice has already mentioned).
A sunny, but non-humid, summer.
Ronnie Corbett becomes primeminister.
Chip shops run by Italians. (Say what you like in favour of the Chinese but the fuckers really are clueless when it comes to deep frying a skate.)
A well sourced pea.
Every woman looks like Valerie Leon circa 1970.
Every man looks like Kenneth More circa 1956.

From a foreigner observing British people in their own capital city:

-Transport that works better at more reasonable prices

-Less overcrowded capital city

-Streets that can house the crazy amount of cars at peak time

-The window-side seat on the top deck of a bus

-Good food, as in food that tastes of something, whatever it is

-Drinks after work

-A kebab after the drinks

-Sex after the kebab

-Chucking in a sickie after the previous night out

-More daylight, not meaning warm weather necessarily

-Less people walking directionless on a busy street

-Less people talking on mobile phones loudly first thing in the morning

-Less juvenile delinquency

-Reading a book in the park, wishing nobody is going to ask you for the time just to start a conversation

-Friendlier service, rather than fake politeness when you go to a restaurant/shop

-Foreigners who take an interest in the place they currently live in, rather than complaining constantly that ''everything is better at home'' (this applies to any country's dream I imagine)

- More affordable accomodation for key workers

- Sexy children

A good cup o' tea?

tea and bickies followed by some BDSM?

beer and chips and haddock?

no wait, MDMA, cocaine, and D&B?


I guess it depends on what kind of brit, doesnt it.

A nice pint in a proper old-fashioned English boozer.
Cod and chips on the beach
Listening to prime Skullflower on a sunny Saturday morning.
Going for a long walk in your local park.
Coming out of a club at half past sparrowfart and chatting w/friends etc in the nearest local park.
Going to a petrol station at 1am to buy a Gingsters pasty.
Radio 4

Welcome to my life.

wash yr hands first, that's disgusting..

If only the MPs would look at this, this country would be a lot better.

PROPER pork scratchings like you get in twee countryside pubs in every pub in the UK, SPECIFICALLY in London.

Proper drunk-after-one-glass English cider everywhere.

proper propers.

thread done.


he used to live near me in an (ironicaly) big house

All British celebrity chefs rounded up in a barn, which in turn gets locked and burnt to the ground.

surely not nigella!!



just look at that plump deliciousness!

I admit she isn't as bad as the others. I would probably give her a slight chance by embedding a key behind her eyeball.

i'd rather poke her in her ample rump

One thing that I like about British people in general is the defiant attitude when facing catastrophe. I say generally because in so many years I lived here things have changed drastically overnight. Also, the latent no messing around attitude.

I like how the British always turn around just before they tell someone something.

An interesting observation. I wonder if we're alone in that. Equally, are we alone in prefixing anything we say that might be deemed controversial or hurtful with a cautionary 'don't get me wrong, but'

No.
I've heard many times french people say:
"I have no prejudice of any kind, but..."
"Not that I have anything against ***, but..."
"I don't want to interfere with your own business, but..."

you like it when people are being two-faced?

well dressed chimney sweeps

i think italian chefs are the best. For many reasons.

i think atmosphere is the best. also for many reasons.

I think kloriel is the test, for many seasons

"Not being funny, at the end of the day, he turned around and said to me, to be honest with you, you know what I mean?

Saying you're "off to meet a man about a dog" and people not looking at you, waiting for you to explain yourself.

I'm not being funny, but haddock over cod any day of the week.

what about a nice juicey savaloy?