are we talking about englishmen here or 'the english' - do we consider women at all on this site?
mostly we have good manners when driving
we (men)(is it the same down south?) love to take the piss out of each other - it's a sign of affection and acceptance
many older guys find it difficult to shake off our old empire arrogance and racist attitudes from 60s and 70s comedy. but some of us try and the rest complain about pc gone mad.
i like to think we were defined by the opening ceremony of the london olympics and despair of how that good feeling has become brexit nonsense and division.
sadly, i think a good many of us like war and having an enemy to despise. we can be self-righteous and pig-headed.
george orwell - we don't like pomposity and arrogance in others, we do like gardens. and small football clubs, and our wonderful pubs and beers, canals, steam engines, gossip and small talk
we like foreigners in ones and twos - but not the idea of them living here
we like to know our place and mistrust those in other places.
are there any women who contribute to mudcat? why is that? do we like women or merely the idea of women?
we bore easily......
that sounds a bit shit, really - some of us love our radical traditions, the music, the writing, the countryside, small unassuming birds. some of us are open to the world and the world of ideas - some of us closed up tight and living in a mythical past.
some of us miss joe strummer and others miss the empire. some like bridges and others like walls