Mark O

Absolutely Dremble wedge!........there's nothing that can't be solved over a nice cuppa!

Mark

Steve Crook

I'm glad it was a non-Brit who first mentioned him. If we had done so it might be thought we were showing off

But if you're going to include great writers then you should also include Dickens, Chaucer, Hardy, Kipling, Austen, Blake etc. etc.

And some poets as well like Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Byron, Browning, Milton etc. etc.

Steve

TimR

Oh yes - and that's just the beginning.

But the greatest writer in the language deserved his own post.

And as for Blake...my signature...

Steve Crook

It is. I thoroughly agree with you there Tim.
There's a lot that could be said to be wrong with it if you were looking for problems, but that's easily outweighed by all the wonderful things about it.

And there are so many Londons, all interweaved and overlaid, you can find just about whatever experience you're looking for.

Roman London, Elizabethan, Victorian, wartime, sixties, modern.
The London of Jack the Ripper, ghostly, Dickensian, Sherlock Holmes.
The London of Literature, poetry, architecture, artistic London.
Royal London, religious, carnival, parades.
Musical London, from the Rolling Stones to classical music via punk and many others
London restaurants, offering every style of food imaginable - including some great ones offering British food!
Theatrical London, the West End, small theatres, ballet, opera.
It's all there, those and many, many more.

Steve

BristolUK

British TV, queuing, The Guardian, B&Bs, no weather extremes, unarmed police, off licences, beer/wine/spirits available in supermarkets........

Freddie Freeloader

Wasdale Head
Alfred Wainwright
Benjamin Britten
Newlands Valley
J.Sheekey
Charles Dickens
Aonagh Eagach
Robert Farnon
Northerners
Doreen Whitehead
Steve Coogan
Bernard Levin
Richard Dawkins
The Pennine Way
Fresh fish from Newlyn
A.Harry Griffin
Lordstones Cafe
The bacon butty van on the A66 near Keswick
Herdwick lamb
Abbey Road studio 1
Sarah Moores cooking
Monteverdi Choir
Stan Laurel
Wackers Fish 'n Chips in Scarborough
Lady Sonia
Joe Meek
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Banksy
George Galloway
Jenny Agutter wearing spiky seven-inch stilletoed thigh-high rubber boots.
Gracie Fields singing Fred Franakapan
Salisbury Wing at The National Gallery
Tea and cake at the Flock In Tearoom, Rosthwaite
The view out of the window in the Sharrow Bay lounge


.................................................. ..............................and not much else

Freddie Freeloader

........ all the Purple Veined vexated Gervais Bugees and other Resenters.
It's such a negative English trait but to those of us with love in our hearts, it provides many an opportunity to tease and bait.

Steve Crook

Err, what ?
Would you care to translate that into English?

Steve

christoph404

To name a few more writers all from North of the border but still part of Britain of course,
Robert Burns ( Auld Lang Syne)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stephenson
John Buchan
Sir Walter Scott
J. M. Barrie

And architect Robert Adam for some magnificent Georgian Buildings in both Edinburgh and London. London being the capital of England and Edinburgh being the capital of Scotland

Freddie Freeloader

Always happy to elucidate and help those of a lesser education, Steve...

"Purple Veined..." the physical appearance of an engorged and twitchy temple vein,in this particular instant caused by anger and resentment of iconic multi-millionaire comedians.

"vexated" a poetic Unwinesque play on the word "vexed" ( which means to be irritated and annoyed)

"Bugee"...The -ee suffix added to a verb creates a noun meaning “one who does, undergoes, or is
an exemplar of the action indicated by that verb”. In this particular case, it concerns those who are bugged by Gervais.

"resenter".......one who resents.

"It's such a negative English trait but to those of us with love in our hearts, it provides many an opportunity to tease and bait."

Despite this negative and unsightly National Characteristic ,those of us who don't allow persons or situations to have such a thrombotic effect on our lives (and, indeed, carry love and compassion in our hearts) can diffuse the negative influence of these sorry unfortunates by the profitable (and,frankly,all too easy) pastime of teasing and baiting.

Steve Crook

Why not look up "Prat" while you've got the dictionary to hand.

Any more insults, to me or anyone else, and you'll find yourself on a warning or suspension

Steve

Freddie Freeloader

Could somebody please explain what the dancing banana indicates?

David Brent

What's great about Britain?
Hold on for a minute.....I'm trying to think of something.

Only joking! I've always been a proud Englishman.
Britain is a very special place full of very special people.
It's a mystical place, full of beauty and history.
I love heaps and heaps of things about the old country.
I only wish the politicians and powers that be would not meddle with the foundation that is the British way of life.

Everyone knows that God is an Englishman and hence Britain is God's own country.

Dave.

Steve Crook

In this case it indicates people making a prat of themselves, like your hero dancing, and like you trying to be funny by giving a condescending explanation of what different words mean without explaining what your message meant

Steve

batman

Who cares what it translates into .... it's just more boring pro-Gervais bollocks which I, for one, am fed up with. Get a life Freddie and contribute something interesting, instead of simply regurgitating the same old crap.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"