English Culture, What!

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 13:24

A celebration of English culture,Page 2 Cyprus Today March 19th,



The "Phoenix" Line Dancers..............?????????????

Deniz1


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 13:31

Know what you mean! I thought line dancing originated in America. Now if they were Morris dancers? Maybe.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 16:14

I love a bit of culture. )

oldshep


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 16:23

morris dancing sound fun who does it in TRNC

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:26

Morris dancing requires dressing up in silly clothes and waving you arms and legs about,a bit like ,Oh yes,Line Dancing,..........Morris dancing is usually performed by shall we say, people of a strange persuasion...

Roomy


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:28

You have to wave your stick and bells around as well

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:30

Roomy. I bet you were careful when you wrote that?

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:37

Bill

And I thought culture was bacteria found in a test tube!



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:39

Richard. I guessed you had thought that. )

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:43

Back on topic please..(watch out for AJ)although its fun

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:51

I once went on a full cultural trip of the antipodes, spent three weeks in New Zealand and a day in Australia, Job done!



Richard

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 17:57

Did you on your Cultural trip meet any "Dame Edna" morris dancers?

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 18:04

Msg 12

No, but came across a lot of bloody gladiola's!



Richard

newscoop


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 18:23

New Zealand culture;



Wearing face paint and sticking tongues out.



Aussie;



putting shrimps on the barbie.



South African



Getting the servant to put shrimps on the brill.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 18:58

So come on...What is "your" Idea of English Culture.......?????????

philbailey


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:02

Msg 15 , Jeremy Kyle ?

X-Factor

Groucho



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:12

BBC

British Pub (a proper one)

British Music - starting with Thomas Tallis through Elgar and all the way to the likes of Adele...

British television and film drama

British cuisine - proper food not fast food

British literature - From Chaucer to date...



The list is long

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:39

Groucho gets one vote so far ,but the question was "ENGLISH CULTURE" .....not British,,Come one ,I can think of a few and I'm not even English

Lilli



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:43

Glynbourne, Royal Ascot, Henley Wimbledon. Tea at the Ritz. Harrods. Fish n Chips

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:47

May I suggest 'The Dark Ages'!



Richard

newscoop


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 19:54

Last night at the proms



Wimbledon



Rugby union and league



Football



Cricket



The list is endless.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:05

What about the writings of Samuel Johnson,and Boswell,and Sir Robert Peel ........Not bad for a Guernseyman

Blackbird



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:09

The Beetles????

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:14

Afternoon tea dances, Ballroom dancing, Lancashire Hot Pot, Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding, Bury black puddings, Mushy peas.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:15

The 'Bronze Age', nothing changes that much!



Richard

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:15

And just for Groucho ,,,William Shakespeare,Not the BBC, come on mate !

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:19

msg24WH00000000000000 don't,it's all to much !!!

philbailey


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:20

Is everyone living in a time-warp

or been out the UK too long

How about teenage mothers

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:22

Does Groucho speak with RP or forked tongue?!



Richard

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:23

msg 23 blackie, the Beatles?.......Possibly .... But Historically Livapudlians were more interested in the Slave Trade

Tootie


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:31

What a load of rubbish folks... Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding, Royal Ascot, Mushy peas, William Shakespeare. ??

The most "English" thing is the English Heritage. NO?



PS. Lilli, Harrods? Oh darl pls x

Lilli



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:33

toots tongue in cheek love xxx

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:47

Tootie, the English Heritage is built from the above posts ...... So What else can you think of that makes you English....

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:49

Okay, I'll suggest the 'Iron Age', I believe they still use the stuff these days so yet again, nothing changes that much!



Richard

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 20:55

We are discussing" English Culture" Richard............... not "any old Iron".........

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:10

Msg 35

So, no culture in the Bronze or Iron Age in England? What a shame that current civilization and culture never matured from those era's! I'll stick to Stonehenge with the pagans and druids for philosophical and cultural needs!



Richard

Groucho



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:12

British literature - From Chaucer to date...



Includes Shakespeare I think...



OK I made it British not English, because I don't think there is anything that England has that Wales and Scotland don't have in some measure....



Also I'd hate to leave Rabbie oot..

rowlo



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:27

old farts wandering around the beach wearing a vest , hankie tied on the head , jesus sandles with white socks on , and stuffing a 99 into theyre oriface , whilst moaning about the price of everything ? bless em

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:29

We need some Shakespeare on here.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:36

Now folks read Groucho's post..37...This is how to be Wrong but convince yourself you are right ...I love this man

Groucho



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:36

2B or not 2B that is the pencil....

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:44

A cameo role for Groucho, Don John the Bastard Prince, Much Ado About Nothing!

Played it myself a few times and a good role it was too!



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:46

Richard. I knew you were something if an actor. )

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 21:51

Bill

I was a giant of the stage and my bottom was known throughout the Western World!

(Joke!)



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 22:05

The language I have learned these forty years,

My native English, now I must forego:

And now my tongue's use is to me no more

Than an unstringed viol or a harp.

Lilli



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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 22:11

martin do you do any strange dances in guernsey then xxxxx. i do very many strange versions of riverdance here x

Zoots


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Message Posted:
20/03/2011 22:27

newscoop msg 14,

The Afrikaans for barbecue is "braai".

http://www.south-africa-tours-and-travel.com/food-in-south-africa.html

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 00:55

Now, this is culture!





Http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html



Sorry, can't get the blue on line link to work but well worth a visit.





Richard

philbailey


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 01:45

Maybe the the old english Bobby

as seen here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP2Lp5ql-Xg&feature=player_embedded

Groucho



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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 06:45

MartinD41,



Which bit? Where am I wrong but convincing myself I'm right? I'd like to be able to correct myself...

martinD41


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 09:26

msg 46 Lilli...The only "Strange Dances" I remember were performed by Fishermen coming out of the Pub, full of Calvados...........

Groucho



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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 10:54

Grimethorpe Colliery Band or The Brighouse and Rastrick Band



You can't get much more English than that... but then Wales and Scotland have silver bands too.

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 11:52

Umbrellas, McIntoshes, green Hunter wellies and, endless inaccurate weather forecasts, plus of course webbed feet.

hattikins


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 11:57

The Last Night of the Proms, can't do much better than that.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 12:21

Dawg



The Macintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 15:45

I know that but they are worn in English weather. Now tell me about Dunlop.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 15:59

Dunlop,a mild Cheese from Dunlop, Ayrshire, hence not English....Fort Dunlop Tyre Manufacturers Birmingham England ...but I don't see the Cultural relevance Unless it has something to do with Birmingham and the Colour of tyres.

rigsby


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 16:29

Everyone going to the seaside on bank holidays and moaning about the traffic.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 16:39

Hattikins. The last night if the Proms = Proper culture.

martinD41


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 17:04

The Great Gloucestershire down Hill Cheese Race....

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 17:17

MartinD41. Going around in circles. I added to the list of English culture a tradition for being besotted by the crap weather and all it's paraphernalia not the origin of the items mentioned. For some reason Groucho saw fit to remind me that MacIntosh invented rubber raincoats so I thought I should remind him that I also knew that a scot Dunlop invented rubber tyres. As you mention Calvados, I believe it is a French drink but that does not invalidate your comment on how Fishermen add to the culture by getting p......d !

Groucho



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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 17:41

Yeah Dawg, but he invented it because Scottish weather is worse than English weather and then some!

You can hardly claim English weather is cultural... can you? Seems to me it's geographical.

The British are so inter-mixed culturally I don't think many things are pure English anymore, other than maybe Morris Dancing, already mentioned, which seems suitably eccentric enough to be classified as 'English' through and through. As in - no other nation would want to claim it...

martinD41


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 19:33

Village Green Cricket,"Ah" the sound of "Leather On Willow",,,Men dressed in white innocently rubbing their "Balls",,Sadly nowadays marred by the sound of mobile phone ring tones and kids screaming..........Oh! and I almost forgot the Morris Dancers...

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
21/03/2011 20:12

Of course weather is geographical and universal. The weather is more severe in Wales and Ireland as well as Scotland. It is how it is dealt with which is the cultural element. The English, in the main, treat the weather as the be all and end all of their lives. They dash around in the rain dressed for a gale thrusting umbrellas forward and trying to take eyes out on every street corner and pedestrian subway. When they make an indoor haven they leave their umbrellas open to dry underfoot on the floor and talk about the weather usually boasting that they have studied the long range weather forecasts and there is worse to come. Not even an English style, genteel cup of tea, let alone a wee dram, will stop them. Any mild inclement weather never fails to cause chaos to transport systems. Every Bank holiday is preceded by days of discussing the likely weather and is followed by protracted discussions of how the holiday was ruined by bad weather. Go fishing and who cares ! (

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 21:43

Richard (Brinsley) has asked me to post this on his behalf.



It's truly stunning. Proper culture!!



http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 21:55

Thanks Bill

It's 360 degree view by clicking onto the bottom left 'M' on the mouse, zooming in and out.



Richard

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 21:57

It looks like the ceiling of my local bar after too many el vino collapso's

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:00

Looks as if I'm squeezed between two 'mods'! I wonder where Leo was at the time giving way to Mike!



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:05

Do you think Mike used Dulux?

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:07

Dave. Is that when you're on your back looking up? )

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:10

Maybe a new take on the missionary position!



Richard

LooseBoots



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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:26

Beats straing your neck to look at the ceiling.............

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:40

Bill - not sure what Mike used, but I'd say that looks more like a Crown eggshell.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 22:50

Jeanne. I think we should make Richard the cultural attaché to the TRNC.

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
23/03/2011 23:06

Bill - absolutely. I'm sure you'll remember Les Patterson, Cultural Attache for Australia?