What should English people be proud of?

[Dick Head]

Dad's Army
Tommy Cooper
Only Fools and Horses
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
Peter Sellers
Reginald Perrin
Steptoe and Son
Alf Garnett

 

[The Camel]

Dad's Army
Tommy Cooper
Only Fools and Horses
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
Peter Sellers
Reginald Perrin
Steptoe and Son
Alf Garnett

I get what you mean, but putting the bottom 3 with the top 6 was a bit of a misfit.

Reggie Perrin ffs?

 

[banjo]

Carry on films.

 

[Dan Aitch]

Knotted hankies on heads... sadly dying out now.

 

[Driver8]

The English led the way in abolishing the slave trade which had been going on for millennia.

Didn't we mostly start it too though?!

 

[Eeyore]

I'm proud that, for most of us, our love of our country does not extend to the hatred of all others.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Didn't we mostly start it too though?!

I doubt it. Slavery was going on for centuries before we were even a country. See Romans and Greeks.

 

[Norman Potting]

IKB came to mind when I opened this thread.

Son of a French Asylum Seeker/political refugee. However both he and his dad were engineering geniuses (genii?).

 

[DNB_Seagull]

I'm proud that, for most of us, our love of our country does not extend to the hatred of all others.

Excluding France, Germany, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Argentina.

 

[TheJasperCo]

The Police.

And the police.

 

[Eeyore]

Excluding France, Germany, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Argentina.

I have no problem with any of them. Except Germany, their wine is not as good as it used to be.

 

[DNB_Seagull]

I have no problem with any of them. Except Germany, their wine is not as good as it used to be.

Funnily the only one that I have affection for is Germany. Germans are efficient and down to earth. Their football is sorted out properly by the fans.

 

[Winker]

Think previous generations had more to be proud of being British (not necessarily English), not that I think pride, particularly excessive pride, is a healthy thing at all.

Sorry, but I personally now spend far more of my life being embarrassed by British and particularly proud English behaviour and attitudes. It's a good question though, but I really can't think of a positive general answer relevant in the present day other than the generosity of the public toward charitable events.

You have used your computer to post on an internet chatroom using the English language, that's three things to be proud about isn't it?

 

[W.C.]

I think pride is the wrong word. Can you technically be proud of something you had no input into? Admiration is probably a better word.

Indeed. Much prefer the word love. E.g. I love British music.

Always find people who have a lot of pride some of the worst.

 

[W.C.]

Apologising when someone walks into you.

Yes!

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

I'm proud that, for most of us, our love of our country does not extend to the hatred of all others.

This............oh and Morris Dancing

 

[cunning fergus]

Son of a French Asylum Seeker/political refugee. However both he and his dad were engineering geniuses (genii?).

Not quite, as an avowed Royalist Brunel Sr had fled to US when the revolution broke out, and subsequently took out US citizenship.

If anything he was an economic migrant; money was where his loyalty was.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Back then you guys just did as you were told!

That was WW1. We paid dearly for that folly.

 

[portlock seagull]

Has HP sauce been mentioned? I remember on safari a proper English dry up being served in the bush and thinking this is almost perfect if only we had some HP sauce...and then the cook pulled out a bottle for the perfect come dine with me 10/10! Only thing missing was my Pith helmet!!!

 

[drew]

Didn't we mostly start it too though?!

Fair to say that we helped to take it global but my understanding was that slavery was rife in Africa long before we came along. Warring tribes would make slaves of those they defeated.

I get what you mean, but putting the bottom 3 with the top 6 was a bit of a misfit.

Reggie Perrin ffs?

Do you mind if I ask how old you are. If, as I am guessing, you are referring the remake of Reggie Perrin then I would agree but the poster was, I believe, referring to the original with the late Leonard Rossiter. Apologies if you are in fact referring to the original and if you are, then it is just a difference of opinion.

That the rest of the World has a very short list. Do keep up..

Read in a rush, apologies.

Can I add 'tolerance' to the list?