What makes Britain Great?

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Oct 18th 2013, 3:03 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

GLAXOSMITHKLINE, a Great? British company, maker of headache pills, amongst other things.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:03 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

Cryptic crosswords.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:05 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Originally Posted by roaringmouse

I personally prefer the second option for title of the thread.True, it does depend on if you originally meant just yourself or any other pedants. The implication was multiple pedants, the way I read the post.

Or, it could be a paradise that only admits one pedant at a time.

More great British things to appease those who have all fallen asleep or shot themselves by now:

Over 1,000 years of rich and varied history
Strikingly beautiful countryside
Pub lunches
Concorde
The EE Lightning
The FA Cup
Jumpers for goalposts

Not taking ourselves too seriously ...

Oct 18th 2013, 3:05 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Originally Posted by Bud the Wiser

Oh no, not another one ......

Oh christ, worry ye not, I was being facetious.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:06 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Keep it up, at least you're distracting him from posting links about the crapness of Britain

Not for long I fear

Oct 18th 2013, 3:08 pm

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Yes, all things that make Britain GREAT.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:08 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

Here is something great in Britain - the cost of renting a home. It's a record high, so therefore very much great.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:09 pm

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Not for long I fear

You underestimate me, old bean. I can go all day.

Said the priest to the altar boy.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:10 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Oh christ, worry ye not, I was being facetious.

Phew!!!! so long as 'facetious" is not an anagram puzzle.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:11 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Concorde

Surely that should come under Anglo-French things rather than British?

Oct 18th 2013, 3:15 pm

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Re: What makes Britain Great?

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Originally Posted by roaringmouse

Surely that should come under Anglo-French things rather than British?

I think the French and the British can claim it equally. Concorde, in British Airways livery is an iconic British sight, that was my angle. It's rather tenuous but I think I have a case ...

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Originally Posted by Bud the Wiser

Phew!!!! so long as 'facetious" is not an anagram puzzle.

No, not this time.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:24 pm

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I think the French and the British can claim it equally. Concorde, in British Airways livery is an iconic British sight, that was my angle. It's rather tenuous but I think I have a case ...

You will be suggesting the Channel Tunnel next if you're not careful.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:26 pm

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You will be suggesting the Channel Tunnel next if you're not careful.

No, I won't.

I will suggest the Forth Rail Bridge though, as a prime example of great British engineering.

Oct 18th 2013, 3:28 pm

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Although, good old fashioned barneys with complete strangers over completely unimportant and irrelevant things (since we both live in North America anyway) is another great British tradition. It'd be doubly spectacular if you happened to be French as well