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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)

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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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