typically british...?

[swedeheart]

Evening ChatterBankers, can I be a nosey foreigner and ask what you would add to this list and what you would remove? http://www.metro.co.u...ically-british-traits

Just for fun!

[boxtops]

Queuing's not on that list, in my travels I have found this to be a peculiarly British custom!

[Greedyfly]

I am not quite a lot of those things and I am British...

[Greedyfly]

Number two Boxtops =)

[boxtops]

The inability to read other people's lists should perhaps be on there then, greedyfly :-)

Making lists though, I can't live my life without lists...

[Greedyfly]

I am not/do not take part in - 4, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15 (I do complain a lot), 18, 19, 23, 24, 28, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 49 and 50 - who came up with this list lol

[Greedyfly]

Lol Boxtops - I agree I do love a good list

[swedeheart]

Boxtops there's a Swedish artist (a painter) who has had her shopping list (milk, bread, coffee...) tattooed to her upper arm:) There's an idea!

[Greedyfly]

Very cool but a little extreme =) What if you become lactose intolerant and need a different type of milk, I suppose you would have to add to the list

[boxtops]

How does she do on-line shopping, scan her arm into the order form?!

[swedeheart]

Ha ha ha...! Here it is. Her name is Helene Billgren http://i46.tinypic.com/2dagkci.jpg

[sandyRoe]

I'd get rid of number 14. Schadenfreude isn't a British trait.

[swedeheart]

I did wonder about that one sandyRoe! Greedyfly I'm gonna have to check your removals out one by one... would you add anything?

[cazzz1975]

apologising for no reason, thats a good british trait..

[swedeheart]

That's a typically Swedish one too cazzz so I know what you mean. (Sorry, should that have been cazzz1975...?)

[imhotep]

Oh my giddy aunt, where do I start on this one?????

Ermmmm, ahem....I will have to say....
No 39......I don't think so (obsessed with the Royals.....not likely!! Don't get me wrong, I know they are good people,but to be obsessed with them.....a no, no from me)
No 12......gossip with the nieghbours over the garden fence....on one side we have a very large hedge...so no go there either!! I guess we do on rare occasions talk to the neighbours on the other side.
No 6......oh yes, I do love a bargian!!
I could go on endlessly, but I will leave it there for now!!

[swedeheart]

I was thinking when I read the list it's very much like the British in television series, where characters are - for instance - chatting over the fence a lot...