Send her victorious, etc

[stubbleupdate]

Based on chat in another thread, I got to wondering how many posters here are blessed enough to be either British or living in Blighty. Can we have a quick British roll call, if you'd be so kind? (And by using that phrase, I got myself lost in an hour of watching Bioshock videos. Oops).

(People from other countries should feel free to comment in this post too. It's got drinking, singing, open top sports scars, a man pissing in a field... it's got EVERYTHING!)

In the interests of posting something in a British spirit I had a little rummel through my collection. I've already posted Clubbing and somebody had beaten me to the punch for Gerry and the Fucking Skrull Pacemakers. So, how about some more Queen and Country engaging in that most British of activities; getting pissed and indulging in some quiet vandalism.

The main context is that Tara and Tom are two Special Ops agents who have had to visit the sister of another Special Ops agent and give her the official lie about her brother dying in a plane crash, instead of the truth that he died doing the government's dirty work. Tom and Tara repair to the pub to get smashed. Then, they leave the pub.

Comments

[valtyr]

Pip pip.

[icon_uk]

Cheers old bean... I'll see if I can dig out the "Excalibur go to the pub" issue.

[curlyjo1]

Was that the "Moira is unintelligible when she's had a few" issue? Fun one.

[tellitslant]

Canadian transplant ahoy.

[18lemons]

Another Brit here.
In addition to wondering how many Brits we have here, how many of us are going to the British International Comic Show this year? Would anybody fancy a scans daily meet up or anything?

[whitesycamore]

Huh, it's in Birmingham! That's actually not too bad, considering I live in Nottingham...

I just assumed it would be in London or something. So yeah, I guess I might go.

[18lemons]

It was in Birmingham last year too. It was pretty fun, even if I did spend 3 hours in a line to see Yanick Paquette before we all got kicked out by security. Still, Yanick was cool enough to sit in the cafe downstairs with me and sketch for me.

[kenwyn89]

Celt be here 'dreckley.

I'm from a tourist town. We open late, shut early and stare evilly at anyone who feeds seagulls.

[korvar]

I was born in Australia, but I would have been in the UK for nearly thirty years, were it not completely impossible for me to be that old.

[kusonaga]

Not a Brit, but I have lived there.

[curlyjo1]

Same here.

[20thcenturyvole]

Thirded. Brother and sister settled there.

[greenmask]

Certainly not me, of course.

[greenmask]

..Youth in Kent, teens in the West Mids, uni a bit northern and back in Shakespeareland now, since everyone else is being all precise.

[feyandstrange]

Not a Brit, but I did four years in London and have much affection for it.

[cainofdreaming]

Closest I come to being a Brit is that my mom's second cousin lived there, before moving to Germany. But I'd like to think we've got a certain Bran Mak Morn in our ancestry.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Pansy Southerner transplanted to the Grim Oop Narth :)

[shadeedge]

Evening, all. Another Londoner (well, Greater) checking in.

[arysteia]

From the Realm of New Zealand, of which HM the Queen is queen in her own right (that is to say she's not the Queen of England when she's visiting us).

[whitesycamore]

Brit here! English by birth, although Welsh/Italian by blood.

I think we ought to specify countries of origin, if only because it really gets my goat when people just use British to mean English, and forget about the other countries in Britain...

[18lemons]

In that case, my mother is English, my father is Scottish, we live in England but I was made and born in Germany.

[whitesycamore]

Hah, it's just... Britain is a varied place! I kind of hate seeing all these distinct countries with their own cultures subsumed into England, the imperialist overlord (sorry England, you know I love you).

And don't even get me started on when American talk about someone having a "British accent" *eyetwitch*.

[stubbleupdate]

Even within one country there's massive diversity

[18lemons]

Oh I agree with you, Britain is a very varied place. I go to university in Leicester and live in Stafford, that's only 70 or so miles and they both feel like very different places.
The talk of a British accent makes me laugh too, I'd love to see an American reaction to a British university. Everybody I lived with last year had a different accent, most of us were from the Midlands though, so we all found it quite funny when our Southern flatmate started saying things in ways we weren't familiar with.

[whitesycamore]

Midlands 4ever! I totally think we should reinstate Mercia as an autonomous region. :D

[18lemons]

I'm fairly sure that the rest of the country would have something to say about that, although it does sound a lot more badass than the Midlands ever did...

[morwen]

You should totally join my political party, then. :-)

[endis_ni]

I'm in the next city along (the dubious end of the A52). Mercia for the war-chariot-riding win.

[kenwyn89]

Narcs me too. I'm born in Cornwall, with Welsh and Irish blood. But better British first than English right off the bat (which can be irritating).

There is a surprisingly strong urge for recognition as a Celtic Nation in Cornwall which the rest of the country doesn't really care about. This included the county council itself no less encouraging people to put their nationality/ethnicity as Cornish on the census. There's a sense when you live down here that you're not *really* part of England. Strange things happen when you live that far away from London. I need to stop sounding like a crazy local, but it's true. It has a lengthy wikipedia article that has even more crazy things.

Regional variances can be deeply amusing on occasion. I had a friend from Yorkshire that I couldn't understand 70% of when I first knew her.

[whitesycamore]

My sister went to uni in Bangor, and she said that her Welsh-speaking and Cornish-speaking flatmates could actually talk quite well with each other in their respective languages.

I know there aren't many Cornish speakers left, but I'm aware that culturally Cornwall is far more Celtic than English.

[kenwyn89]

They're starting to teach it in some primary schools, which is cool. With the celtic languages I think Irish and Scottish are another similar pair. I think Welsh and Cornish influence has to do with the mining heritage, as they swapped a lot of the workforce.

I only meant to say proper English people tend to be more surprised at the independence movement itself, rather than celtic roots :)

Speaking of Cornish Culture, we have one of the worst drinking songs ever, called Camborne Hill. The main lyric is "Going up Camborne Hill, going down." The singing style is somewhat reminiscent of this (even if it is Somerset): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc

[icon_uk]

Oh in that case, Scottish

[christianconnor]

English here: another soft southerner.

[misterbug]

Moonlighting in Canterbury during the Uni years, resident in peaceful, dull old GLoucestershire the rest of the time.

[proteus_lives]

Broke the window, I say.

[blackruzsa]

AH
I HAVE A THICK PAPER BACK OF THIS IN MY BAG FROM OUR LIBRARY. How could you tell? Are you trying to tell me that I should read it RIGHT NOW?

Aheh :D

[skjam]

Just stationed there for a year at a military base that no longer exists. (Last I checked, it was a parking lot.)

[shatners_bassoon]

Brit here too, Londoner to be precise.

[golden_orange]

What-ho! [adjusts monocle]

Englishman abroad here (Australia to be precise).

Ever so late to the post, terribly sorry about that

[jazzypom]

Hail from the sunny(!) East Midlands.

Re: Ever so late to the post, terribly sorry about that

[endis_ni]

I know, it's weird and unnatural, isn't it? Where's my protective layer of drizzle?

[blunderbuss]

From Australia, which is technically a part of Britian via the Commonwealth.

Also those two ops are assholes. "Nevermind that it's late, we want you to stop going home and serve us!" I just wish I was allowed to tell my customers to piss off too.

[stubbleupdate]

Never mind that if you sell booze outside of licensing hours then it's the Tower for you.

[red_cyclone]

British, spending my life shuttling back and forth between London and Brighton. Still very proud of the 1/4 of me that is Maltese though.

[endis_ni]

Okay, who shone the Brit-signal?

Grew up in Kent, now living in a city in the East Midlands. We-ell, I say city...