101 Great things about Britain.

[accountantpete]

My last post on this .

The one and only the best game in the world played with style and real men.

I give you Rugby League.

Give me something better if you can than The Challenge Cup Final.

God bless Eddie Waring.

Big Jim Mills - a punch-up guaranteed

 

[ianrauk]

Red Telephone Boxes
(very few to be seen now)

 

[dellzeqq]

Bakelite

Belgian. Sorry.

 

[Fnaar]

Village greens

 

[swee'pea99]

Cricket whites

 

[Fnaar]

Feeding the ducks in the park

 

[Hover Fly]

Parkesine was the first mouldable plastic, apart from softened horn or hoof.

 

[Hover Fly]

The steam engine, reciprocating or turbine.
Lathes in the modern SSSC form.

 

[swee'pea99]

Pimms on a summer's day, with just the right amount of mint.

 

[GilesM]

Swearing, the British defiantely do it better than anyone else.

I know it's already been mentioned, but I just need to make sure it gets into the 101. the Pork Pie.

Also
British Sports cars (past and present)
The Spitfire (plane not the sports car, the sound and look just does it for me everytime)
The Harrier Jump Jet, a plan that can fly backwards, that's just mad

 

[Fnaar]

Swearing, the British defiantely do it better than anyone else.

Yes, we do this well, but other languages have their moments! My favourite Spanish one translates as "I sh!t in the milk of the prostitute mother who gave birth to you" :-)

 

[accountantpete]

Yes, we do this well, but other languages have their moments! My favourite Spanish one translates as "I sh!t in the milk of the prostitute mother who gave birth to you" :-)

Good one -although in the TDF that Spanish rider who who was incensed by a press car getting in the way of the peloton had to resort to the Harvey Smith way of expressing his displeasure.

Sorry about the bakelite - Belgian eh - who would have thought it.

 

[Aperitif]

Greggs the 'Bakers'...can they go in the Salon des Refusés? Or just in the refuse bin?

 

[GilesM]

Yes, we do this well, but other languages have their moments! My favourite Spanish one translates as "I sh!t in the milk of the prostitute mother who gave birth to you" :-)

This is true, other nations have their moments, but any nationality that does not regularly use the word bollocks has a serious gap in their ability to get a point across

 

[dragon72]

PG Wodehouse
Could you imagine any other country producing a writer like him?