[CP] What it is to be British
10 Downing Street
Oh, hello there. Fancy meeting you here. Fancy a cup of tea?
I was planning to pen one of my regular Presidential Updates. But, frankly, there are more pressing matters to which I must attend.
The past five days have been a little … peculiar. Firstly there was a certain amount of kerfuffle surrounding our membership (or lack thereof) of the European Union. Then, yesterday eve, our association soccer chaps had a little slip-up against some excitable-looking Icelandic fellows. You’ll now find them on the Orient Express heading back to Blighty, along with strange brazen-haired people from Ireland and Northern Ireland (but not, it seems, Wales).
A very rum do indeed.
And eRepublik has offered little in the way of comfort or solace. Events here have taken a turn for the strange as well. It’s all very testing. Very testing indeed.
So it’s at times like these we need to pull ourselves together, stand shoulder-to-shoulder (but not too close, obviously) and remember that we are British, and therefore immune to the kind of hot-blooded perturbation that may afflict those from … ssshh … foreign lands.
Confusing
So, without further ado, I would like to take this opportunity to announce a little contest.
The rules (and by Jove there must be rules) are pleasingly simple. After all, this contest is open to both Brits and those less fortunate than ourselves. Simply send in the most British thing you can possibly think of in whatever format pleases you. I imagine most entries will take the form of hyperlinks, but the method is yours to choose.
I may even reward those entries I find the most acceptable. Extra points will quite possibly be awarded to those entries that reference God's own game (cricket).
So that’s all there is to it. As the fun is all in the participation, the following is an example of something very very British indeed…
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eUK CP
Government propaganda machine…
CP paper (this one): http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/prime-minister-s-office-181812/1
MoF: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/bank-of-england-news-2217/1
Mo
😨http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/mod-news-2762/1
MoHA: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/euk-home-office-news-184299/1
MoENT: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/ministry-of-entertainment-291724/1
MoE
😨http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/education-gov-uk-247504/1
MoFA: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/uk-foreign-office-239373/1
Speaker: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/parliament-of-the-euk-203529/1
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The premise of Assassin's Creed Unity, British Voice Actors with heavy British accents play french people during the French Revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMOBxg8jTrQ
Best part, the voice actors even have French Names, that's got to sting. "We do your history but our way."
To think people worried about European movement, they don't bloody move for work when it would make loads of sense; and you know they're doing the same thing.
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Selling space on the prime ministers newspaper - British Ingenuity!
I dunno, it feels very American to me
Hmmm. Damn you, it does sound american now.
This is a wonderful time to be British if you are in the British Patriot party.
(tumbleweed blows through the scene)
It sucks to be British these days I guess
Never!
Good Lord, no
Sometimes I think that, but then I just imagine being French...
pls do not use the F word here
Flagellation!
I'll rephrase that, it sucks being english these days 😃
https://s32.postimg.org/u3nw6pel1/16249288156_5607e7be01.jpg
Can't get much more British than Marmite!
And here's a special cricket edition!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01840/marmite-marston_1840740i.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War
A masterpiece of stout English heart jingoism, and a stanza dedicated to cricket to boot:
THERE'S a breathless hush in the Close to-night
Ten to make and the match to win -
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,
But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
The sand of the desert is sodden red, -
Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of schoolboy rallies the ranks,
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
This is the word that year by year
While in her place the School is set
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget.
This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life like a torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind -
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
British paranoia. #usepens trending number 1 in the uk on referendum day.
Yeah that shit's funny. I mean good luck to em if they want to rub one out, I mean WTF takes an eraser to vote, in case they make a mistake 😉 Pretty sure that would render them 'spoiled' Typ Daily Mail 😃
Sheep fucking.
i think thats specifically Welsh or NZ?
it's the biggest UK cultural export for sure
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A roast dinner, stripping off at the first sight of sun and apologizing all the time 😃
And now serious: A traditional British roast dinner with roast beef, roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings:
https://s31.postimg.org/efnkepk8b/British_roast_dinner.jpg
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Post reported. Кeep up the good work multi.
So far Hail Astrid's abuse is the most British thing I've seen. Keep up the good work chaps.
British police in action: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-10/25/3/enhanced/webdr09/enhanced-buzz-16080-1445759406-5.jpg
Step outside in Britain an this is a typical picture of what you will see: http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/awx2B68_700b.jpg
Top sekret: https://i.imgflip.com/y5g4z.jpg
Oh hey Max.
Max and luke back to life. Brexit zombie apocalypse ?
Yea, Brexit brought me back.
HUMOUR
A wonderful mix of unique humour (Monty Python, Chris Morris, Basil Fawlty, Douglas Adams to name but a few) utilising cutting satire, specialised slapstick, silly sidekicks within various formats whether writing, film, tv or radio, commenting on daily life with faultless self depractory 'digs' at our relationship with the weather or our attitudes whether nationally or internationally.
RIP Caroline Ahern
Well being British is in the same level of being garbage so idk
Inspirational.
I guess I'll have to take a picture of the mosque near me, with all those men wearing skirts...
In before someone asks why are there Scottish people at the mosque.
Being knocked out by minnows.
In the spirit of all that is british I present as assumed a hyper-link. Obfuscated for comedic timing, perfectly safe - PG.
The spirit of British is to take that which is given and return something unexpected - the essence of humor, which we understand seemingly better than many other countries. The darker side of being British is the (successful) subjugation of a large part of the planet (either by ownership or imposing/birthing the majority of our ideals on other peoples), of course referring the colonialism; But it's in business and sport that we do so well by introducing something and then winning at our own game (for a while at least) and finding a way to make money from it, winning or losing matters not it's the making money that matters. So here I fulfil your request - god's great game, embodying everything that I've mentioned here: https://goo.gl/7Uh5Ko
The essence of being British is being trapped on an island where every nation that constitutes your union has a joking/not joking hate of your own... And yet none more so than you yourself.
You can't do anything to us world, that we haven't already done to ourselves!
Results!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-britishismness-winners-2604336/1/20