A few great things about Britain...............
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I used to think Fish n Chips were great.But after tasting foreign food again recently they really are so bland.And fish may go up to £5 a piece soon.Not payin that much
The Tower of London Charles Dickens Shakespeare James Bond Jaguar XK More good rock/pop music than any other country Fawlty Towers Dr Who and of course... Patrick Stewart
Football. Drink. Decent Cigarettes. And a few good bands....and our sense of humour.
That's just about it.
New Order Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Manic Street Preachers Super Furry Animals Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales
Did I mention how great Wales is?
JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER and The Rest of the Manchester Movement
The fact that they can speak American English better, more clearer than the native speakers of the language. This is another reason why I'm taking voice lessons, to reduce my accent.
Oh yeah, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Blur are also totally awesome. (ok Blur are from London, but alot of their stuff is still great)
All them lovely accented attempts at speaking the American language. :D
Decades worth of music:
The Beatles
The Stones
The Who
The Kinks
The Yardbirds
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
The Sex pistols
The Clash 
The Cure
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
The Stone Roses
Joy Division
New Order
Did I mention The Clash?
Public Health Care
London Manchester
Aston Martin Jaguar Austin Healey (late lamented) Triumph (late lamented) MG (late lamented)
Raleigh Mercian Bob Jackson
our contribution to music, the arts, literature, science, engineering, football, cricket, darts, rugby, beer, the countryside, our sense of humour and the fact that we are physically separated from the rest of Europe
darran clarke wrote: our contribution to music, the arts, literature, science, engineering, football, cricket, darts, rugby, beer, the countryside, our sense of humour and the fact that we are physically separated from the rest of Europe
and most importantly, y'all ain't French!!
SHED wrote: MG (late lamented)
I am STILL here mate........MICK GREGSON
Apologies mate! 
Ladies and GENTLEMEN, Mr. MG, Mick Gregson! 
OH and HOOKY, Barney, Stevo, Gillian, Phil, Pottsy, The Pets, Mozzer, Marr, Roarke, Boony, Bez, Shaun, Vini, Wilson,the fucking cunt Hannett, Monty, Monty's Dad Monty's Mum Julie Julie's Mam Julie's kids Hoegaarden (oh fuck not British) Depeche Etienne and Sarah Cracknell. Bansheeman (he don't speak English though) Spam, Missy, Girl Afraid,(well she's adopted Brit!) Minx, Ness, Barmy Army, Al, eveyone else British,cut me some slack,I've got fucking work in five hours time..
Other than the band that inspired this site,
The Beatles The Who The Sex Pistols The Clash The Smiths Etc., etc...
Monty Python Peter Sellers Peter O'Toole Steve Coogan Benny Hill
Nick Hornby John Keats Frederick Forsyth Bill Shakespeare
The Battle of Britain The Magna Carta The British Invasion The recording of "Lola" by the Kinks Rocket Mick's first post here
Eng-er-land!
:p
New Order The Cure Depeche Mode PSB The Smiths Electronic The Whistle Test Mint Aeros Toffee
It's also the country that bore Alan Wilder, Simon Gallup, and Martin Gore.
Cricket... 
Cheese... 
Sense of humour Pubs Football Manners Refuse collections Music Fashion Countryside The roads
Me
The fact that its a small country means I go and see gigs anywhere I want most of the time.
Stockport County
Northerners
Corrie
Top Gear
Kebab Shops
CARBONATED VIMTO
Reality TV feat. D list celebs. 
Andy Cole
Stuart Pearce
vinegar crips mint sauce All your food stuff, really. If you think that's weird, try Dutch food.
the way that as Brits we love a good moan about everything.
Probably why the not so great about Britain thread is longer....
And Guitarists...I LOVE my Guitarists(All the ones I know personally are British.)
New Order Pink Floyd The Who David Bowie
Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier Colin Firth Hugh Grant
English Comedies London Bourton on the Water Chester Llangollen, Wales Edinburgh Red Leicester cheese English pork sausages Mr Kiplings french fancies My mother-in-law Double decker buses Brandy and baby cham Summer creams Tablet (type of fudge)
The inevitable huge long list of bands starting with the obvious (fill it in for yourself).
The sense of humour
The cynicism and pragmatism and absence of enthusiasm for crackpot ideologies like fascism and stalinism
The justified disrespect with which we treat our intellectuals, unlike the French who treat them with undeserved respect and so just encourage them to embrace ideologies like those above.
Our standing up to nazism and fascism when it counted.
The fact that despite the best efforts of the current and previous government there's little corruption in public life, unlike much of Europe.
Likewise despite the best efforts of Blair there's still some residue respect for individual liberty, more so than in some parts of Europe.
The fact that we don't pretend that social class doesn't exist, nor kid ourselves that there's more social mobility than there actually is, unlike the US.
Not taking the Eurovision song contest seriously.
[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:
Refuse collections
Shouldn't that be one of the Rubbish things about Britain 
