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I would like to thank the British for The Office, Crass, and Twinings English Breakfast Tea! And Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout! Mmmmmm.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

fucking up the world before the US did, yay!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Monty Python and Douglas Adams.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's nice to see that the God of Cheap And Tasty beer is smiling upon our colonial cousins as well as our good selves.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You know that time you thought I stole the Jasmine Minks single in Camden Market? Thanks for not assuming I like rap :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

crass?! wtf scott?!?!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Um..America?

― winterland, Monday, 23 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

the band?

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

battenburg cake

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for The Specials, esp. Jerry Dammers & Terry Hall. Thanks for Michael Caine. Thanks for The Office.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the band! And Muriel Spark and The Subhumans too! Thanks England!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, my girlfriend - don't you have something to thank the British for?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

jim broadbent! doves (the band)! fanciful nicknames for the penis and pudendum!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, my girlfriend - don't you have something to thank the British for?

Visa restrictions?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

England /= Britain.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for making everyone look more attractive by comparison.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for jean rhys and i'm alan partridge and mr.kipling products

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you really think we're ugly dean, or are you just being provocative?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Likely both.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to thank the British for Terry Gilliam, Newcastle, The Young Ones, constitutional government, divorce, all The Beatles except Paul, and most especially Keira Knightley.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Vincent motorcycles, BSA motorcycles, Norton motorcyles, Brough motorcycles, Vox amplifiers, Cat Stevens.

― andy, Monday, 23 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.planetinternet.be/~pvandew1/avengers/fotos/rigg02.jpg

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for mcvie's biscuits w/chocolate

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Good grief that is a sexy photo. Diana Rigg come back to me from the past.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Terry Gilliam's American, isn't he?

― Pedantic fucker (Bryan), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Good grief that is a sexy photo. Diana Rigg come back to me from the past.

Her daughter looks like her a lot...

http://www.allthingsttv.com/ttv66.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I was very disappointed by her daughter. All that promise! Genetics! Lesbian drama! Daily Mail outrage! No fun.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

andy OTM! also pls add royal enfield and some of the triumphs. oy those electrics though.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

*a google search later*

Oh my God, Terry Gilliam IS an American! Born in Minnesota! Minutes away from where the Coen brothers are from! Holy shit, my brain be trying to adjust.

FUCK YOU BRITAIN I'M TAKING TERRY GILLIAM BACK!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised you didn't know, Nickalicious! Then again I suppose you actually have to hear him talk to be sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hear him talk outside of a Monty Python skit in particular.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

But I would like to thank George Harrison, apart from his Beatlery (and solo goodies and Traveling Wilburyness) for fronting Terry the money to make Life of Brian.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh sometimes he puts on the accent but sometimes he doesn't. Remember this bit?

http://images.quizilla.com/F/fenchurchgal42/1044897976_iam_viking.jpg

Said boldly and flatly in his American voice: "This is my only line." *off screen protests* "But it's my only line!"

And yes, what George did was a wonderful thing -- but Terry Jones actually directed LoB, though Gilliam did the production design. Handmade Films did back Time Bandits, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

And Shanghai Surprise.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ilxor was started by a British type....

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that was a really good move.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to thank the British for KILLING JOKE, the Stranglers, Monty Python, Judge Dredd, "Blow-Up" (despite it being directed by an Italian) and, most of all, my wife!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope you win an Oscar one day, Alex.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'd also like to thank the Brits for "Prime Suspect" with Helen Mirren and the inexplicably loathed "Cold Feet", which shits from a great splattery height all over "Friends", "Coupling", "Thirtysomething" and every other crappy relationship-sitcom by being exceptionally well-written.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I second thanking the Brits for the Young Ones. Also I'd like to thank them for Anthony Head, and I'll thank them for Paul since he was left out of the last "thanks for the Beatles."

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to the Brits for inventing football and cricket.
Oh, and cheers for helping to stop the Nazis.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and how i could i forget eastenders? thank you, england, for eastenders. especially thank you for the wedding marathon that was on a few weeks back.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, for america, england.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

forget all other brit tv ever - it's all about The Office!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Father Ted in the hizzouse

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

not british or english

: ((((((((((((

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, Channel 4 funded it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

you're persian.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, man...hamstrung on a technicality yet again!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear British colonialists, thank you for inventing the gin and tonic.

Thanks as well for Frances Yates, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, David Bowie, and Throbbing Gristle.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

British colonialists invented Throbbing Gristle?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord Curzon's favourite band, dontchaknow

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

British colonialists invented Throbbing Gristle?
Well, the address to the colonialists was only for the first item, not the others.

That said, sure, why not?

Oh, and thanks to the Victorians for giving Foucault a nice point of departure.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Terence Stamp! Wire! Bass!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The fish?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the fish, the ale, and the instrument are all wonderful!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for apple pie, Aero bars, and David Bowie, Britain.

14 year old Tep would really, really like to pipe in with his thanks for Samantha Fox, while we're at it. 28 year old Tep is a bit put off by that, but so it goes.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

For the English language which us Americans have totally screwed up!!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do you think that, Aja?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"we" Americans

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha.

Yeah, ok.

'which we Americans have srewed up'

It's all the slang that's now in the American version of the English language that bothers me.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

bollocks to that, ye gobshite

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

actually I sort of agree

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you not?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You think the English language hasn't always had slang?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

do you also think it has?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

america has enriched the english vernacular, english is very flexible and extensible , that's the great thing about it,very hard to screw it up

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for Shakespeare, too. And all his made-up words.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, so maybe it's not 'screwed up', but it has changed quite a bit.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

enriched

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It has not been enriched!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I do however like the "American" spelling, 'airplane'

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer Airplane II

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

how can you say it hasn't been enriched by everything from Steinbeck to Public Enemy

american spelling is ludicrous though, trying to impose logical rules on the spelling of english, pah

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah.

And Dave Grohl is American. But, he spells the BRITISH WAY!!

What the Hell?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a self-hata, like you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry.

What the bloody hell!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

self-hata

What does that mean?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It has not been enriched!

Someday, when you're a little older, you'll understand.

I do however like the "American" spelling, 'airplane'

Why is "American" in quotes in that sentence? Is it slang?

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

One who puts hata (plural for hat) upon oneself.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Language must be brought to heel, Ed, and if you don't agree I'll break your nees.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you england for the darkness, marc bolan, absolutely fabulous, slade, queen, and george michael.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jamaica leads the US in creative devlopment of the english language though, and in preserving great old works like vex

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw Ed you know you're ALL that, AND a bag o chips.*

* (c) Bell Biv Devoe

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yeah.

Queen. Them too.

Yeah, and Killing Joke too, of course!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you for Stephen Fry and Momus (are we including the Scottish with the British here?). And for fish and chips.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

we should thank iran/persia for freddy though

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Scottish, with the English, in the British.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

time for a geography lesson here I think. The country is calle 'The United Kingdom of Great Briatin and Northern Ireland'. Gread britain comprising the kingdoms of England and Scotland and the principality of Wales.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Only Ed calls it Gread Britain, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

we should thank iran/persia for freddy though

And for me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Drunken Scientists Say...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm am using a version of the spelling of great that was current between october 15th 1254 and november 2nd of the following year

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed's lesson is otherwise correct, though bear in mind that 'Britain' (without the 'Great', or 'Gread') is the official abbreviation for the entire UK (inc. Northern Ireland).

Bear in mind also, that in some respects, people have to be allowed to declare their own ethnicity. So if you insist to some people in Northern Ireland that they are 'British' you will not be very popular. I suppose the same could apply to nationalist Scots, Welsh or English, in theory.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

oops. i guess i did mean england though. we could start seperate welsh/scottish/australian/new zealand/canada/ireland/etc threads of course. i have a lot to thank all them for too.

Thanks for The Jam Ol' Blighty!!! From Woking if i'm not mistaken, right? Just got the complete Jam DVD today. Finally. WOO!!!! I completely forgot that the stone roses owe their career to the song "Precious".

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

We call them Jelly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

we should thank iran/persia for freddy though

He was born in Tanzania though. Was he Iranian and Persian?

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this comparison supposed to go beyond the use of a wah wah pedal?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He was Parsee, Aja, an ethnic group that have their roots in Persia (or modern day Iran).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, ok.

So, don't thank the British for Faruck, or however you spell his real name.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

come on that "precious" sound could totally be a roses b-side. especially when they jam out at the end.(no pun intended) not the vocals though. of course.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it's baggy to the max.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The Stone Roses were only ever really baggy for two singles.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

farucking heck

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, then "precious" doesn't sound like the stone roses. the soup dragons then? it sounds like SOMETHING i used to sit thru during 120 Minutes on MTV just so i could catch one measly Loop video.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Northside?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

gosh, i can't remember. it does have that baggy disco beat, dontchathink? it's not just the wah-wah. some of those canned horns i could do with out. what was with paul weller's love for those tinny canned horns? on some songs it sounds okay, but jeez, it could really sound dorky. i only really remember that inspiral carpets video where the marching band comes on stage at that time. i liked that one.i wasn't really paying attention too closely to the rest of those bands.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

'Thanks as well for Frances Yates'

Yay Frances Yates! Partic. 'the Art of Memory'.

And as Terence Stamp's been mentioned, i'll just give myself a pat on the back for Peter O'Toole aswell.

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

IRISH

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

People have already mentioned the language, but I wish to thank you Brits for all of those accents you do. They're smashing!

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for Bovril.

― Spinktron 2000 (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

'IRISH'

Er, indeed, born in Galloway, but brought up in Yorkshire. However the medium through which the world knows and loves him is British film. In any case 'British Isles' covers it.

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

'British Isles' is a geological landmass term only employed for annoying the Irish.

'Galway' not 'Galloway'!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA. eww, no-one should be brought up in George Galloway...

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

okay maybe, but i don't think swift, yeats, joyce or wilde should be left out of studies of british literature

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for all the Redgraves!! You can have Lynn back now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

they all wrot, before Irelands was independant though, so in a way they are both britah and Irish.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

They can wrot in hell.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for T.S. Eliot!! Ha Ha, just kidding.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No Thank YOU.

Ha Ha, just kidding.

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't we do an Auden-Eliot exchange?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i believe that's true. but you got henry james too!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, but wait, you get madonna. and you can keep her, thanks.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You got Morrissey, who strangely hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i was just gonna thank the city of manchester for its decaying industrial landscape cuz without it we never would have had unknown pleasures and the queen is dead. so that'll do for a moz thanks i think.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

bob hope!!!!!! alfred hitchcock!!!!!! junius brutus booth!!!!!!!!

― captain gay, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh that reminds me.. Mark E Smith! thanks!

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to mention Morrissey but thought it too predictable and sad coming from me.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I just didn't want to be the first one to say MES, for it would be too bleedin' obvious-ah

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmmmmm, lessee.

no pax espanol. arguably a good thing.
no pax francais. arguably a bad thing.
american civil war. arguably a bad thing.
no pax deutsch. inarguably a good thing.

so thanks but no thanks but thanks anyway?

― dack, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jcna.com/library/jcc03/images/xke-desert.jpg

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to be in that car.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for my ancestors, except for my aunt Catherine and cousin Edward.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, totally. thanks for me, england! cuz i'm half you and without you there would be no me!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Britain,

Thank you for Duran Duran, Japan, David Bowie, Ultravox, Human League, Spandau Ballet, ABC, Heaven 17, Kajagoogoo, the Bronte sisters, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Antony Price, Tony Okungbowa, the D.J. for the "Ellen" show, "Whose Line is it Anyway?", Trinny & Susannah, Dame Judi Dench, quality comedy, quality drama, quality sandwiches, Walkers crisps, Twiglets, and, first and foremost, the English language.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.contactpakistan.com/images/spice%201.jpg

thank you for making me a feminist and also thank you for giving me wheels

http://www.penny-farthing-fairs.co.uk/images/carpics/Triumph%202000.jpg

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

also dee OTM

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, thank Triumph for making a car called THE DOLOMITE.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Italy was so cool in the 70s, witness also the cortina, capri

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Britain

Thank you for Jungle music, Ali G, Bo Selecta, Adrian Mole, Premier League football, The Asian Dub Foundation, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Fish and Chips, Canada and Benny Hill.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for The Clash, Sex Pistols, Damned, XTC, Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Rolling Stones, Who.

and for AbFab, The Avengers, The Prisoner, I,Claudius

and the beef pies. yes, the beef pies.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Cadbury chocolate, and Fawlty Towers.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

no no the clash, the jam and the damned were not our fault blame somebody else.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete S: hands off my favourite actor. Reports vary as to where Peter O'Toole was born and I think he likes keeping it that way, as in all probability he was born in Leeds, not Connemara. However should he be offered and accept a knighthood the answer will have been proven to be Leeds.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, John Lydon, Stephen Morrisey, Johnny Marr, Shaun Ryder.. the list goes on

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.willowboats.com/washnton/Pete-dud.jpg

― winterland, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you for my multi-year visa.
Thank you for sandwiches.
Thank you for your Victorian train stations.
Thank you for Spacemen 3.
Thank you for the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Thank you for the British Library.
Thank you for my main man Mark.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Awwww!

Who could live without us, I ask in all honesty?

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

dave q not to thread

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

no no he must thread. someone to agree with me abt the awfulness of the clash.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(english is very flexible and extensible , that's the great thing about it,very hard to screw it up - now as per "flexible and extensible" & "srcew it", English sure appears pretty pliable - until one gets some proper taste of swearing in Russian i.e., heheh ;)

Okeh. Thanks a bunch for the BBC World Service ('80-'90 especially). And the 1966 World Cup.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

julio, you really hate the jam? but they were so good.

Oh yeah, thanks for the OED!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricardo to Clash-hating thread!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

OED?

scott- I don't quite what's so amazing abt The Jam (I quite a couple of songs from them) but you not that great, but the hate is also to do with paul weller having pop hits around the mid-90s. be thankful you were in america listening to wild man fischer!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

do you love music, julio?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no i don't like belle and sebastian richard.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

OED = Oxford English Dictionary

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

no wonder.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it might be nostalgia on my part. they were one of the first punk-era bands i heard as a kid and loved. along with the buzzcocks. i still love the albums. i bought the first style council stuff and liked it okay, but then i bought the Shout To The Top 12 inch when it came out and i got so scared i never bought anything by paul weller again.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wasn't the jam before 'punk era'?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

slightly after if anything (that they were famous anyway)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the first album came out in early 77, but they were a band before that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jam started around 1974, I believe.

Anyhow, Who said "Battenburg Cake"? It even sounds German...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jam jumped on the punk bandwagon after dropping their 'vote Tory' stance. This was not a popular political choice among the spikey haired. Weller was involved in Red Wedge in the 80's which basically involved dragging Neil Kinnock along to some gigs he wasn't interested in.

A couple of good songs along the way, I guess. English Rose soundtracks this thread nicely.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Gah, I am too emotionally exhausted to get really worked up about the Clash. They are absolutely shit though.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you are Mr Wronghead and I claim my five pounds.

I heart the Clash

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon, people like me really care what you think, Ricardo. Your posts are often clever and concise.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i would give anything to see footage of the jam's ill-fated tour of the u.s. opening for blue oyster cult! "Get off the stage!! You suck!! Reaperrrrrrrrr!!!"

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for civilizing the barbarians of the subcontinent, the savages of the Pacific etc...

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you for david mccallum.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Things I thank the British for:

The Westminster system of government
National Health
Cricket, golf, rugby union
The unofficial World Tennis Championships (AKA Wimbledon)
The EPL
The Beatles, the Who, U2 (before they went off the planet around 1995), Elton John, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, just about anybody who was anybody in Australian rock in the 60-70s
Blackadder (but NOT Mr Bean in a million years)
Monty Python (and all 'spin-offs')
Douglas Adams
Billy Connolly
Michael Parkinson
Sean Connery
The Lotus Elan, the Mini
Shakespeare, Blake, Yeats, Shaw, the best of TS Eliot
The Scottish, Geordie, Home Counties, South Coast, Cornish, Welsh and Liverpudlian accents
BBC World Service
The Grauniad, the Times, the Independent
Panorama
Martin Johnson, Matthew Engel, Peter Roebuck, Neville Cardus, Martin Tyler, Alistair Hignell
Z Cars, Barlow, The Expert
Tube stations with names like 'Elephant and Castle' and 'Tooting Bec' and 'Barking'
John Le Carre, Alistair McLean

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You know to say thank you for Martin Johnson
Now that's what i call learning your lesson and being grateful for it.

Alistair Hignell?! Haha!

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin Johnson the cricket writer, Pete.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

Still, i see you're a RU man..

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

last i heard, i was still a brit!! i thought that this place was full of love for me!

http://www.newwavephotos.com/GaryNuman/03494GaryNuman.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Balti

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Being smart enough to market Indian food.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah much curry love here

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Coronation Street.

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I will thank the British for Jackson's of Picadilly tea and Second Toughest in the Infants.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://unangelic.org/stupidlogic/uploads/nigella.jpg

http://www.ulujain.org/images/film/lotww3.jpg

http://www.scifilm.org/images2/lairwhiteworm2.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

aw i miss cybele! she was my secret internet crush for awhile.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Iron Maiden!

― jel --, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

thanks for simon amstell

― jerk store (hmmmm), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:49 (sixteen years ago)

thx for psychoville

― wilter, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://media.thedaily.com.au/img/photos/2009/07/09/chef_lead_t350.jpg

and for this motherfucker^^ obv

― wilter, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for cheese, The Prisoner, and Poly Styrene

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for grime

LOL just kidding, wankers

― P2K ft. ksdiddy- "Bump, Bump. Bump" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for gareth southgate

― jergins, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for Black Sabbath tho

― P2K ft. ksdiddy- "Bump, Bump. Bump" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

^^ yeah, seriously

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

chocolate hobnobs

― Neurotypical Pixie's Quarrel (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

Peter Sellers and Dusty Springfield

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks for the Rolling Stones guys!

― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

Actually maybe the Stones should be thanking America. You're welcome guys, you really like American music!

― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:49 (sixteen years ago)

thx for Alan Moore, Robert Wyatt, Monty Python & decent beer. But don't get a big head about it.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

And Eno.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:53 (sixteen years ago)

thanx 4 the hott teacher on the Bill who hooked up w/the dbag copper. she was great.

― wilter, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks for keeping the blue eyeshadow/dyed blond hair movement alive. :/

― svend, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for led zeppelin, fairport convention, and shepherd's pie.

― ian, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

thanx for Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, The Goodies, The Young Ones, Kenny Everett, Catweasel, Worzel Gummidge and pretty much all of ABC Australia's children's programming in the 80's.

And toad in the hole.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

thanx for gin, dudes

― velko, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:46 (sixteen years ago)

Thank you GB, for losing the war for American independence.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, "losing".

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 08:22 (sixteen years ago)

god i hate england

― thomp, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:01 (sixteen years ago)

Well then you probably shouldn't post on a "Thank the British for something" thread.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:17 (sixteen years ago)

Thank you, British, for being active on ILX during those hours when I am trying to pull myself through the lull-stretch of yet another work all-nighter.

― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for match of the day!!

― jergins, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

Thank you for being a friend
Travelled down the road and back again
Your heart is true; you're a friend and a confidante

...And if you threw a party
And invited everyone you knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say,
"Thank you for being a friend!"

― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for suggest ban

― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

thanks again for the monochrome set. appreciate it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:50 (eight years ago)

Thanks for not leaving until you'd at least attempted to solve the unionist mess you made. Let us know how that goes x

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:57 (eight years ago)

Mull of Kintyre is one of the better cheddars I have eaten, and the price is pretty decent as middlebrow supermarket cheeses go

("Mull of Kintyre" is also the title of a bad song by the bad British recording artist Paul McCartney, but I won't hold that against you guys)

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:18 (eight years ago)

Supermarketed cheese indeed

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)

I hate to be that guy again, but Mull of Kintrye is not English.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:47 (eight years ago)

... oops, it's British.. for now.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:48 (eight years ago)

Talking of Unionism and British recording artist, Paul McCartney, have you ever heard "Give Ireland Back to the Irish"? Jesus, that song is terrible.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:51 (eight years ago)

You should hear the b-side

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:42 (eight years ago)

Is it as bad as John Lennon's The Luck of the Irish?

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:21 (eight years ago)

Anyway, thanks for being terrible enough that my family decided to leave in the 17th and 19th centuries!!!

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)

I'd also like to thank the British for Crass tbh

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)

The British Crass Syste, eh? Can't escape it.

Is it as bad as John Lennon's The Luck of the Irish?

Few things are. There's also a hilarious interview with Paul and Linda, shot at the time, where Macca proceeds to get both British and Irish history completely wrong.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:35 (eight years ago)

... and American history.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 23:40 (eight years ago)

also thank you SO much for the dave clark five. i love them.

also thanks for stuff like this. also how have i never started a thread devoted to it....?

http://www.time-themusical.com/Resources/timefrontitunesa3.jpeg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 01:33 (eight years ago)

"Some sleeves had a hologram image of Laurence Olivier on the front top left-hand side of the front cover, while others have the hologram on the front of the 20 page booklet."

― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 01:36 (eight years ago)

Also seem to remember they had a giant hologram of Olivier on stage when the show was on in the West End - Oliver being poorly and unable to perform live, and he died soon after

― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 01:45 (eight years ago)

... of shame.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 08:33 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

billy childish

― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Monday, 7 June 2021 08:58 (four years ago)

mark s

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 09:16 (four years ago)

(hi doo rag!)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 09:16 (four years ago)

phrases like "Up The Duff" and "Bob's Your Uncle."

― henry s, Monday, 7 June 2021 11:52 (four years ago)

for the innocuous sounding "pea-souper" as cheeky slang for lethal clouds of atmospheric pollutants that literally killed people or left hundreds of thousands of them with serious respiratory diseases. Cheers lads!

― calzino, Monday, 7 June 2021 12:41 (four years ago)

Pimm's #1

― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:53 (four years ago)

for ensuring the inevitable collapse of the union

― Left, Monday, 7 June 2021 13:25 (four years ago)

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