23 Weird things about Britain that confuse the rest of the world

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23 Weird things about Britain that confuse the rest of the world
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1. Cheese Rolling at Cooper’s Hill

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The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper’s Hill near Gloucester in the Cotswolds region of England.

Due to the steepness and uneven surface of the hill there are usually a number of injuries, ranging from sprained ankles to broken bones and concussion.

Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling has been summarized as “twenty young men chase a cheese off a cliff and tumble 200 yards to the bottom, where they are scraped up by paramedics and packed off to hospital”.

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6 thoughts on “23 Weird things about Britain that confuse the rest of the world”

  1. I don’t agree with all. Most of this is so so so far from the truth. 8 alcoholic drinks a day? Most dont even have 1.

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  2. I can explain:

    Tea: Well, it just is

    Carpeted bathrooms: We have wooden floors and it’s cold. A winter in UK would show that getting up with ice on the window and trotting into a heated bathroom with fitted carpets, is the way to go.

    Queueing: It’s civilised – you may have been standing in a queue for train tickets for an hour, then 100 people push in front of you because they are bigger, and fill the train, leaving you to wait for the chance to get on the next one? Sounds “survival of the fittest” to me; we gave that up when we stopped painting ourselves blue.

    Weather: We talk about the weather so much because we get so much of it. It’s a great ice-breaker. No one in the Arabian Gulf starts a conversation with “It’s hot today, isn’t it?”

    Other daft stuff: It’s what makes us what we are – basically daft. It’s an endearing trait.

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  3. That photograph of tea reflects nothing that ever happens in my house, and I am as British, no damn it English, as a Texan born GOP member with a room full of guns and devoted to God is American. It is not a ceremony but merely a refreshment taken when I am not drinking coffee.

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  4. I am a native from UK can assure you I certainly do not have a carpet in my bathroom- we did in the 1980s it went in 1990s to be replaced with what was called “cushion flooring” a sort of washable decorative plastic flooring material that was cut off a wide roll. This was replaced by wide ceramic floor tiles with a textured non slip finish in the next bathroom complete refurbish.

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