http://video.aol.com/video-detail/walken-snl-colonel-angus/11109665

You’re right about boiled sweets, though.

I think cricket can also be quite stereotypical, depending on how you play it. Cricket with a woolly jumper and a hat and afternoon tea is surely about as English as you can get.

I like to think of monocles are pretty British, too.
Monocles are really cool.

I guess I fit the I-Think-I’m-Worldy-But-I’m-As-Much-Of-An-Asshole-As-The-Rest-Of-Them-American stereotype, except I hate N. American culture, too. (Except the purest Canadian… give me vinegar on my chips/fries instead of ketchup)

However, I’m still not sure it makes sense, because there’s been new research that seems to show that they don’t just see in gray, they see in colors, but fewer colors than humans see.

And in any case it’s useless if you’re hunting birds, which can see more colors than humans can.

Or, you could start your ice pick carving tour in the north, there-by ensuring your supply of ice picks as you travel further south.

This is what we (me) tend to think of Americans from the south
http://ninesisters.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/get_a_brain_morans.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/dark_orange/2336478964/sizes/l/in/set-72157594287297879/

Tho to be honest, youtube and hollywood may have skewed my opinion slightly:D

I tend, however, to agree with Ben: no matter where you go, people are just people. the US is so huge, that the West, the East, the North and the South all have the same kinds of cultural differences that you see between different countries, but what’s really different? Not much — some learnt behaviours, some learnt attitudes, some learnt styles of speech. You’ll get heroes and villains from anywhere. Cool people you’d want to hang out with, and massively irritating people you’d want to carve on with an ice pick. Except that in the South you’d be hard put to find a bloody ice pick.

CAUSE IT’S KILLING ME!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As an American who has for the past 3 years lived in England I find the English more pleasant to talk to than Americans. I’ve learned to listen better if only to navigate my way around some of the thick local accents. I find many elements of British society to be quite scary as well. Violent kids, hooliganism, young drinking age, as a father these things concern me.

The English tend to be more honest about what is wrong with their society and this is at every level. Even the man on the street is keenly aware of what is actually wrong with things and whilst he may feel unable to solve the problem he can certainly talk about it once you break through his reticence with a pint or two.

Customer service is bollocks though in some places, as long as nothing is going awry, they do put on good airs. The amount of bureaucracy here is crippling, particularly in the educational sector. English baked goods, oh my god, wow. Chinese and Indian food are also superior here. Driving is much, much more fun here, roundabouts rule.

Completely rational.

Yep.

Some of these guys should take off their vests.

like the American stereotype, i don’t know nearly enough about world affairs.

http://marks-marathon-trip.blogspot.com/2008/05/australian-disgrace.html

I’m not sure what I think of the British.
I have watched alot of british drama and comedy, which highlight the same things in a different light.
But then, I have watched alot of things like music dvd doco’s, by the likes of Tricky and that is entirely different view.

I like the British general public a little bit more then the Americans and slightly less then my own public, Australians.

Tho in reality, I am finding that by and large, ppl every where are the same, esp, as individuals.
Sure there are local quirks to each person,particular habits, words, sayings or methods, but stripped down of those, ppl aren’t different.
The reason I ignore those local quirks is that every one has a set and therefore they cancel out.
I tend to approach questions like this in a semi-mathematical kind of way and being that I am half way thru my first double espresso of saturday morning, I also ramble on.

This isn’t really appropiate for this discussion thread, but I had to mention this somewhere and it was to good to not mention.
At work, we are required to wear high vis clothing at all times. That means reflective stripes on everything that we put on (before you die, be sure to watch a person ride a bike in the dark wearing high vis clothes, it is very amusing).
Anyways, I was watching a guy walk towards me whilst we were underground, I was wearing a cap lamp that was about as bright as tealight candle that is barely alight (<that’s a pun, get it?). All I could see of him was his bright stripes. Once he was about 1m infront of me, I could see what he was wearing.
A camo vest. A jungle camo vest. With high vis stripes.
Well done.
The other ironic, but not so funny thing was the rolled over truck on the highway that had been transporting wrecked cars.

I don’t know what I think of the British. I watch too much British TV to really get a sense of it anymore. I’m also fascinated by accents of all kinds so I’m usually too distracted by that.