Back in Soton..

[green_amber]

and going to sleep! No, not really connected..

From someone else's LJ.. this "British" citizenship test thing. If it had a practical session, what would it involve?

I came up in 5 seconds with: "Eating picnics outside on freezing cold beaches in force 8 gales while not choking on the sand, eating cockles and mussels, singing Cockney songs round the piano in an "East end pub" TM, and watching cricket without being driven to eating the dog out of boredom."

And, of course, enjoying a nice cup of tea.

Any more?

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

1. As said previously, queueing. A lot.

2. Accent spotting - despite UK regional accents being radically different from one another (and I'm almost qualified to say that officially), non-Brits apparently often have trouble.

3. Quoting Monty Python? Question marked because non-Brit geeks prolly can.

4. Ironic patriotic self-loathing.

5. Lasagne with chips. Say it with me: carbs and cheese.

6. Alcohol tolerance. Well, for Scots at least.

7. (a) Ability to expound at length upon the British class system.
(b) Ability to expound at length upon religion - any religion.
(c) Ability to do the above but when pressured will admit to not actually giving a shit as long as whatever's going on doesn't happen in one's back yard.

8. Worrying excessively about the goings-on in one's back yard when one shares it with six other people who one hates, and hasn't actually been in it except that one day last summer when one thought one would dry one's washing in the warm, only then it rained and the laundry came in grubby. Not doing that again.

I'll let you know if I come up with any more.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I love the way this seques from the general to the particular..

In Edinburgh I think we are very unBritish in being much more worried about what happens on our own stair than in our own backyard. My friend Mandy was traumatised for years when she found a couple shagging in public on her stair..

Carbs and carbs is a Scottish horror. In the rst of the UK they Do Not Regularly Eat Macaroni Pie and Chips.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Pasta with chips weirds me out (also ice in brandy), but they do seem to be New British indicators.

What about a practical dining challenge? - eating peas off the back of a fork, holding the knife correctly, bonus points for using a knife and fork to eat a banana...