ha ha well 99.9% dont! Sometimes wish England was more about drinking tea, cucumber sandwiches and politeness but afraid that was the 1950's!
Just interested what you think!
2006-11-02 23:40:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Its just funny how some characteristics create the stereotype!
2006-11-02 23:44:27 · update #1
ogloriad - you write as though you are from Norway!
2006-11-02 23:56:28 · update #2
I'm not sure anyone thinks that.
Same way we don't think all americans are either obese or cowboys.
2006-11-02 23:43:07 · answer #1 · answered by lordandmaker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless they were time travelers! That would be like a Brit thinking that all Americans go around dumping shiploads of tea into the ocean.
It is true that most of our ideas of what Brits are like comes from movies and TV shows. In those, Brits are portrayed as quirky but nice people who have their tea and crumpets promptly at 4 and say things like "old Chap", "tally ho" and the like. I've always known that one cannot judge people by a movie or a TV show, but it's hard to get an image of what people are like when one rarely comes into contact with them.
2006-11-03 01:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Avie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No reason why we can't create that era again - it just takes a couple of todays yobs to start behaving well and start being polite and courteous to others - to set off a fashion of 'niceness'.
It'll never happen though, will it?
Such a shame.
BTW I do still say 'old chap' quite frequently - don't wear a bowler though!
2006-11-02 23:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by Phlodgeybodge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 01:05:26 · answer #4 · answered by wicklund 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stereotype still stands. A person may impersonate a Brit using "tally ho" or "cheerio", or "Would you like some tea?" or other things like that. : )
2006-11-03 11:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say old chap, steady on, I mean really, what would one shout whilst out hunting other than Tally Ho!? And I'm rather fond of my bowler hat young fellow me lad if you don't mind.
2006-11-02 23:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by tradcobdriver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not an American but I am from Barnsley and everyone in England thinks that Barnsley people have wippets and the men wear flat caps and keep pigeons. Quite bizare!
2006-11-02 23:47:00 · answer #7 · answered by Mermaid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha...oops...sorry! It's just a stereotype...well at least your views of us are a little more updated (we're all obese, have met the President, are filthy rich). I'm sorry but that is sort of what comes to mind when we think of you.
2006-11-04 17:37:17 · answer #8 · answered by ღღღ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, the Americans only know that English doesn't know who to speak or write english!
2006-11-02 23:52:12 · answer #9 · answered by ogloriad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last time I checked you were rioting in the streets. A rambunctious group of football hooligans upset you didn't win the World Cup.
2006-11-02 23:50:18 · answer #10 · answered by publius 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋