Mainly as lies but it's funny so we watch it Honestly, most places in the world like tea, we are just stereotypically associated with drinking it as we used to use cups and saucers and they fit the age old English stereotype of being fancy --- Post updated --- so do you drink decaf or anything?
noun, Chiefly British Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. 1. a person who wears fashionable brands, flashy jewelry, etc., but is regarded as having bad or lower-class taste. basically similar to a ricer but they take their rice tastes everywhere with them
No, I've been there and most Americans are no fatter that a typical British person. --- Post updated --- Someone who drives these
Y: You C: Chav This guy: Y: It's a nice day today, time to go to the shops. *Hmm, whats that sound?* C: YO DUBSTEP M8 U WONT SUM GO P URSELF YOU PIECE OF S Y: Oh lord... *Gets into car* C: JEE M8 WHY THE F ARE YOU DRIVING LIKE 2 MILES AN HOUR M8 Y: Go away...
Are radar detectors legal? That guy who got sent to jail for a year for revving near a Muslim - what was he actually accused of? How did the rule-obsessed "safety culture" where if you drift a roundabout, and a video of it surfaces months later, you lose your license and are threatened with jail, get started? Why did no one try to stop it?
Most places don't go quite so insane over it, that I know of. Also, I've seen unverified YouTube comment stories of British cops getting their beat cars supertuned on the government dime (even if that wasn't supposed to be happening) and taking them to car shows on the sly to drag race people - as recently as the 1990s! Obviously something changed significantly at some point, and that's what I'm trying to figure out - when did this change occur and who pushed it?
@DriftinCovet1987 I don't know what made this post informative as I'm not British and I'm still trying to figure something (unless those stories were wrong and things were always like that; then it's probably fruitless to try to figure further).
There's no evidence to back that ever happening. Nor do cops actually get to take their beat cars off beat to do that anyway. If it's ever happened it'll be with forces knowledge as a PR stunt. Normally you turn up to work, pick up the car there, do your beat, take car back to police impound, it stays there until another officer takes it, no opportunity to take it home to modify it and drag race it. There are cases of prosecution for video footage across the entirety of Europe and it's not unheard of in the states either.
As an American, What is the most British car you have ever seen? I think it is a Ford Scorpio. Or maybe it is just the taxis. Just a monocle and some tea would make this even more British.
