Scattered Strawberry Summer

Top 50 Typically British Traits

A list of things British do that I find weird, unusual or just funny:

• Put milk in their tea.
• Carpet their bathrooms.
• Hot & cold taps.
• Having a bag of crisps with lunch.
• The authentic British way to prepare vegetables is to immerse them in boiling water for a fortnight.
• Temperature is in celcius, speed and signs in miles, food  in grams and kilograms. Makes perfect sense.
• They don't rinse the dishes with water after using washing up liquid.
• They talk about weather. All the time.
• "Alright? Yeah, you?"
• Public schools are actually private schools.
• National panic over 1 inch of snow.
• Talk about Europe as if they’re not in it.

1. You tutt when you see someone trying to jump the queue.
2. You know how to correctly pronounce Leicester, Worcestershire,  Warwick, Edinburgh.
3. The day the office ran out of Yorkshire Tea and you had to drink Tetley was one of the worst days of your life.
4. You have sarcastically applauded when your train arrived 20 minutes late.
5. When you're so good at sarcasm no one can tell if you are serious or not.
6.  You squirm if you see someone making tea in this order: tea bag in, then milk and finally hot water.
7. You find yourself talking about weather rather a lot.
8. You started using words like bollocks,can't be arsed, fancy and knackered.
9. You started saying quid instead of pound.
10. You are proud of NHS.
11. You have developed a personal relationship with mature cheddar.
12. You never leave the house without an umbrella.
13. When somebody bumps into you, you apologise.
14. You eat chips, not fries.
15. You get angry about American TV programmes when the “English” characters always sound like the Queen.
16. You start grumbling under your breath at anything from bad drivers to poor customer service or the weather.
17. Summer is your favourite day of the year.
18. Your inner voice is that of David Mitchell.
19. Queen having 2 birthdays is perfectly normal to you.
20. You judge people based on the football team that they support.

• Eloquent
• Gutted
• Bugger
• Tosser
• Bollocks 
• Chuffed 
• Knackered
• Not my cup of tea
• Bloody
• Bob's your uncle
• Ta
• Shite 

• People think I'm a weirdo for drinking tea without milk
• "All right?"
• I find it hart to understand why Britain goes into panic mode then it starts snowing
• I never know when people ask me where I from, do they ask where I am from originally or where I live here in Britain, I always get the wrong answer 
• People like to guess where I'm from and they all get it wrong
• People find it weird I do not eat jacket potatoes or fish & ships on a regular basis
• Going back to home country and feeling like a stranger
• When back at home accidentally saying thanks to the bus driver
• Not knowing if I said "Thanks" enough times
• British eat too early
• Sandwiches are considered a lunch food here
• Not knowing whether it's dinner,tea or supper
• People change their attitude towards you as soon as their hear your accent
• People can't tell your gender by your name.I can't tell you how many times I received letters starting with "Mr [last name]".
• Nobody can pronounce my name right, not unless I repeat it 100 times. 
• Sometimes when people overhear you speaking different language, they assume your English is very poor and they start talking to you  loudly and slowly.