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“Sometimes you see English people going out to pub, bar or disco with friends, standing awkwardly together drinking beer or gin and tonic and waiting for something ‘romantic’ to happen. Usually nothing happens apart from everybody getting drunk, which is hardly romantic. So, typically, instead of meeting Mr or Miss Right they meet Mr or Miss Right Now, which lasts as long as there is enough alcohol circulating in the blood vessel.”

Romance Romantic Dating Alcohol English People

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“Shitting and bleeding. Always had a problem with shit and blood. The English love to talk about shitting, so other nationalities can skip this bit.”

Blood Punk Shit British Culture Shit Happens English People

Book:Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“(About a generic Englishman Arthur Dent) “Yeah,” said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, “you’d just have to program it to say What? and I don’t understand and Where’s the tea? – who’d know the difference?”

Humour English People

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: Tertiary, Quandary & Quintessential Phases

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: Tertiary, Quandary & Quintessential Phases

“English people don’t like to be told ‘enjoy your meal’. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.”

Eating England Foreigners Dining English People

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“In the mind of The English, kissing in the rain, as well as other public displays of affection, belongs to the category of soft porn. Sane people don’t do soft porn in public. Only animals do. And aliens.”

England Foreigners Kissing Quotes English People Soft Porn

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“Typical English holidaymakers prefer not to mingle with foreigners since they strongly believe that they already have too many of them in England. The last thing they need during their holiday is to see and meet more aliens. Actually, that is the main reason why they choose a holiday abroad, to escape from aliens who occupy England.”

England Foreigners Holidays English People

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. ‘Love it or hate it.’ There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.”

England Love Hate English People Marmite

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“Indians abroad tend to stick together. They join Indian clubs, regularly visit mosques, temples and gurdwaras and eat Indian food at home or in Indian restaurants. Very rarely do they mix with the English on the same terms as they do with their own countrymen. This kind of island-ghetto existence feeds on stereotypes - the English are very reserved; they do not invite outsiders to their homes because they regard their homes as their castles; English women are frigid, etc. I discovered that none of this was true. In the years that followed, I made closer friends with English men and women than I did with Indians. I lived in dozens of English homes and shared their family problems. And I discovered to my delight that nothing was further from the truth that the canard that English women are frigid.”

England Family Life Familiarity Englishmen Stereotypes Mannerism English People Stereotyped Prejudices Subcontinent Manners And Class Indians Abroad

Book:Truth, Love & A Little Malice

Source: Truth, Love & A Little Malice

“Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules.”

Drinking Alcohol Health And Safety English People

Book:How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“In America, they use exclamation marks to make everything terrific, in France to make everything terrible, but here in England we don't use them at all.”

English Language Punctuation Stiff Upper Lip English People English Culture

Author:Neel Burton

“We also like our sauces to be spicy. As Chaucer said, "Woe to the cook whose sauces had no sting!" Incidentally, I can't help wondering if there is an ancestral link between our Worcestershire Sauce and the garum sauce so beloved of the Roman legionaries. Could this be another legacy of Caesar's invasion? REVD. WALTER ALFORD, Chester”

Romans Sauces Spicy Food English People Ancestral Continuum

Book:Good Taste

Source: Good Taste