Do these traits define the British?
Some time ago, I read a short report regarding a survey done on the common traits that define the British. I must confess, I find some of them a bit odd.
Let me go through them and give you my take on these so called British traits.
Apparently, we love queuing.
Let me say this now, and I think I can speak for my fellow countrymen; no we do not like queuing.
We are a reasonable, tolerant people, so we tolerate queues.
When I arrive at an airline check in, I never say
“Oh goody, there seem to be several hundred people ahead of us in the queue. What a wonderful start to our holiday.”
No, I would rather everybody got out of my way and let me go first. But I am British.
We avoid making eye contact on the tube (Subway).
Total rubbish, we avoid making eye contact anywhere. 🙄
Making eye contact may give someone the wrong idea that we are remotely interested in them.
They then may try to strike up a conversation with us, and who on earth would want that to happen?
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It is much wiser to stare straight over the person’s head.
That’s what makes us British and everybody else foreign. 😁
We are always moaning about the weather.
Not true, unless we talk in our sleep.
We put tomato or brown sauce on everything.
Tomato sauce is not sauce; it’s ketchup, so that trait does not exist.
However, it is illegal not to put brown sauce on a bacon or sausage sandwich. But it is illegal to put it on jam apple pies. I do not know who answered this survey.
We think a cup of tea is the answer to everything.
This is, of course, wrong on many levels.
Although many of my compatriots enjoy a good cup of tea, no one thinks it is the answer to everything.
Every British person knows that a nice cup of tea is not the answer to what is the chemical breakdown of water.
Most British people, when asked to explain Einstein’s law of relativity will not reply, the answer is a nice cup of tea.
Although, I will admit I know a few who would. 🙄
Thanks for reading.
