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[denizaksulu]

I'd say these are quintessentially English:

Chavs
Elizabeth Duke at Argos
The Jeremy Kyle Show
Chips with cheese and gravy
Naming kids after brand names (Levi, Chanel, etc.)
'White Van' men
Page 3 of The Sun
The royal family (even though they're not English)
Les Dennis
Laying claim to foreign athletes (Lennox Lewis, Greg Rusedski, Linford Christie, John Barnes etc)
'Land of Hope and Glory'
The half-American 'proper Englishman' Winston Churchill

And on the plus side:
The best football league in the world
Shaun Ryder
The Smiths

You left out the most important aspect of being English. Watching Coronation street and Eastenders time and time and time again !!

ah yes, how could I forget such a tradition? Life simply isn't complete without 12 hours of Emmerdale, Coronation Street and EastEnders on a Sunday.

You must be an ardent soap addict.

[denizaksulu]

Beowulf
Chaucer
Sir Thomas Moore
Sir Philip Sidney
John Donne
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Blake
Thomas Percy
William Wordsworth
Samuel T. Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Shelly
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
William Thackery
Rudyard Kipling
H.G. Wells
Aldous Huxley
E.M. Forster
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell

Oracle should be at the top of this list.

[Oracle]

Beowulf
Chaucer
Sir Thomas Moore
Sir Philip Sidney
John Donne
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Blake
Thomas Percy
William Wordsworth
Samuel T. Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Shelly
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
William Thackery
Rudyard Kipling
H.G. Wells
Aldous Huxley
E.M. Forster
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell

Oracle should be at the top of this list.

.... yes all a bunch of wannabe Greeks

[denizaksulu]

Beowulf
Chaucer
Sir Thomas Moore
Sir Philip Sidney
John Donne
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Blake
Thomas Percy
William Wordsworth
Samuel T. Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Shelly
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
William Thackery
Rudyard Kipling
H.G. Wells
Aldous Huxley
E.M. Forster
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell

Oracle should be at the top of this list.

.... yes all a bunch of wannabe Greeks

.......you are so English, thats why you hate yourself so much.

[Oracle]

....you are so English, thats why you hate yourself so much.

Why do you accuse me of being so English? Are you under the impression they hate the Turks too?

Or is it that you hate both the English and Oracle, so they must be synonymous?

Lovely strawberries for tea earlier. Toasted Muffins for breakfast tomorrow (with Highland Heather Honey )

[Magnus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw

I always liked this one better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsnqQHOwFg

Oh, and of course the all time classic Waterloo Sunset. I saw Ray Davies live a couple of times and he was great, very entertaining. Donovan is brilliant live too, but I have a suspicion that he is actually Irish...

I have a few more for the list:

Sandwiches
Mary Quant (who apparently is English despite the fact her parents are Welsh)
'Penny for the Guy'
Monty Python
Ronnie Barker
Spitfires
Dame Vera Lynn
'Carry On' films (Sid James, gyah hyah hyah)

[denizaksulu]

....you are so English, thats why you hate yourself so much.

Why do you accuse me of being so English? Are you under the impression they hate the Turks too?

Or is it that you hate both the English and Oracle, so they must be synonymous?

Lovely strawberries for tea earlier. Toasted Muffins for breakfast tomorrow (with Highland Heather Honey )

YOU make my mouth water. I bet you are enjoying the cool damp weather of yours, while the Cypriots are frying in the sun.

You do know more about England than you do Cyprus. If they had the Nationality test in Cyprus, you would fail dismally, whereas the English one would be no problem

[Magnus]

You must be an ardent soap addict.

Nah, I can't stand Coronation Street. Emmerdale is ok (I quite like Roxanne Pallet who plays Jo) and EastEnders is fun with all those 'authentic' Londoners

[Oracle]

....you are so English, thats why you hate yourself so much.

Why do you accuse me of being so English? Are you under the impression they hate the Turks too?

Or is it that you hate both the English and Oracle, so they must be synonymous?

Lovely strawberries for tea earlier. Toasted Muffins for breakfast tomorrow (with Highland Heather Honey )

YOU make my mouth water. I bet you are enjoying the cool damp weather of yours, while the Cypriots are frying in the sun.

You do know more about England than you do Cyprus. If they had the Nationality test in Cyprus, you would fail dismally, whereas the English one would be no problem

Funny ..... it was only last week you were all accusing me of being a peasant ...

Or are you just being Turkish with the truth?

[denizaksulu]

....you are so English, thats why you hate yourself so much.

Why do you accuse me of being so English? Are you under the impression they hate the Turks too?

Or is it that you hate both the English and Oracle, so they must be synonymous?

Lovely strawberries for tea earlier. Toasted Muffins for breakfast tomorrow (with Highland Heather Honey )

YOU make my mouth water. I bet you are enjoying the cool damp weather of yours, while the Cypriots are frying in the sun.

You do know more about England than you do Cyprus. If they had the Nationality test in Cyprus, you would fail dismally, whereas the English one would be no problem

Funny ..... it was only last week you were all accusing me of being a peasant ...

Or are you just being Turkish with the truth?

Are you deliberately trying to fail the Nationality test? I dont dig your grammar.

If you called me a peasant I would be preoud of it. Perhaps you will point out to me where I called you a peasant. I dont easily give away honours like that.