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

[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.