it comes in pints?

To echo Dave's beautiful choice of post below, I have to add:

Shakespeare! FUCK YEAH!

Churchill! FUCK YEAH!

For all my criticism of him and slavish devotion to the Tory Party, this is when I'll say: Tony Blair! FUCK YEAH!

Douglas Adams! FUCK YEAH!

Fox hunting! FUCK YEAH!

Hugh Grant! Er...fuck yeah!

Alistair Cooke! FUCK YEAH!

Those two fat English ladies who used to have that cooking show where they taught you how to make disgusting food! FUCK YEAH!

"Mind the gap"! FUCK YEAH!

Rowan Atkinson! Fuck Yeah!

Benny Hill! Fuck Yeah!

John Cleese! Fuck Yeah!

Graham Chapman! Fuck Yeah!

Eric Idle! Fuck Yeah!

Tim Curry!! FUCK YEAH!

David Beckham! FUCK YEAH!

Edward Heath! FUCK YEAH!

Prince Harry! FUCK YEAH!

Newcastle! FUCK YEAH!

Edward Heath? I don't know if I personally would go quite THAT far. ;-) His old intraparty rival, OTOH...

Margaret Thatcher! FUCK YEAH!

Everything British short of unmitigated evil is FUCK YEAH! today, Dave.

Ian Flemming!! FUCK YEAH!!

Occam! FUCK YEAH!!

Thomas Hobbes! FUCK YEAH!!

Bertrand Russell! FUCK YEAH!!

Yorkshire Pudding! FUCK YEAH!

Wellington! FUCK YEAH!

Um, Emily, Heath is one thing but I think Guy Fawkes is a poor choice.

You're right, Ken. Duly noted and edited with a slightly less offensive famous Brit, given the occassion - E.

Whitehall! FUCK YEAH!

The River Thames! FUCK YEAH!

C.S. Lewis! FUCK YEAH!

The Isle of Wight! FUCK YEAH!

Manchester United! FUCK YEAH!

The Full Monty! FUCK YEAH!

Clive Owen! FUCK YEAH!

Bernard Cornwell! FUCK YEAH!

Kicking French butt over and over and over! FUCK YEAH!

Extremely long land wars in Asia! Fuck Yeah!

Guy Ritchie (but not Madonna)! Fuck Yeah!

Jason Statham! Fuck Yeah!

Everybody else in Guy Ritchie movies! Fuck Yeah!

Driving on the wrong side of the road! FUCK YEAH!
Greasy fish dripping through a newspaper! FUCK YEAH!
Page Three! FUCK YEAH!
Alfred Hitchcock! FUCK YEAH!
Eric Clapton! FUCK YEAH!
Going to see Mark Knopfler Tonight in London,ON! FUCK YEAH!
Crabtree and Evelyn! FUCK YEAH!
Shortbread from Marks and Spencer! FUCK YEAH!
Rudyard Kipling! FUCK YEAH!
Lord Stanley and his Cup given to Canada! FUCK YEAH!
Tweed with patches on the elbows! FUCK YEAH!
And The Magan Carta! BIG FUCK YEAH!

Thomas More,
GK Chesterton,
James Bond,
Sherlock Holmes,
Premier League footie and Badgers Badgers Badgers,
The RAF,
Sliproads and roundabouts,
Earl Grey, hot,
and Dangermouse!
FUCK YEAH!

Crazed soccer hooligans! FUCK YEAH!

Beefeaters! FUCK YEAH!

Roger Bannister! FUCK YEAH!

Oooh, Dangermouse. Good one.

Not to derail our chain of thought too much here, but when I was a kid, Nickelodeon was like PBS for kids, in a way. There was a lot of culture. What happened?

P.G. Wodehouse! FUCK YEAH!

Barbara Woodhouse! FUCK YEAH!

I already said Beefeaters, Ken. Keep up, man.

Cullen - I haven't watched Nickelodeon in over a decade. I have no idea.

Spinal Tap! FUCK YEAH!

Hey. Spinal Tap isn't fair. If you say Spinal Tap!Fuck Yeah! You might as well say,

America! Fuck Yeah!

But that's okay.

How so? They were England's loudest band!

Professor Norm! FUCK YEAH!

England's fictional loudest band. They are English in that they were spawned in America which was spawned by England. You could get schizophrenic on this I'm sure.

But David Guest absolutely pwns! so I'll second the Fuck Yeah!

I can't believe I forgot:

DOCTOR WHO!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arthur Dent! FUCK YEAH!

David Guest? I think you mean Christopher Guest, who, while born in NYC, as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Saling, is about as British as one gets.

Yes. Christopher "And this is my beach ball collection" Guest. Sorry about that. Was not aware of the 5th Baron etc. stuff. Learn something new every day.

Well then, learning something new!! Fuck Yeah!!

Dave - and it helps that Count Rugen, the six-fingered man, looks like Shakespeare's Evil Twin.

Cullen - a little bit of a comeback for Nickelodeon; my cousins keep me informed. Nice call on Dr. Who. I'd like to add: Guinness! Fuck Yeah! Bulldogs! Fuck Yeah! The Duke of Wellington! FUCK YEAH!

I like Beefeaters. I have family that raises beef.

Roll Royce! FUCK YEAH!

Bentley! FUCK YEAH!

Jagua...never mind.

Guinness is Irish....but what the hell...

Ireland! FUCK YEAH!

Ken,
Let's try it phonetically:

Jag-ooo-war! FUCK YEAH! (Especially if you're a mechanic!)

"Especially if you're a mechanic"

Yeah, that's why I didn't finish the thought.

I must emphatically second the Rolls Royce FUCK YEAH!!

They make the engines for the Harriers with wich the RAF and our Marines deal much death. FUCK YEAH!!

Yes, Cullen, Christopher Guest does not use his title professionally, but he regularly attended sessions of the House of Lords until Blair kicked out most of the hereditaries.

They also made engines for the greatest fighter of the pre-jet era. FUCK YEAH!

Alexander Fleming! FUCK YEAH!

The East India Company! FUCK YEAH!

Pinky & Perky! FUCK YEAH!

Chips and malt vinegar! FUCK YEAH!

Harry Potter! FUCK YEAH!

W.H. Auden! FUCK YEAH!

Bob Hope! FUCK YEAH! (he was born there, after all)

Wallace and Gromit! FUCK YEAH!

We had Scotland, but what about:

Wales! FUCK YEAH
Northern Ireland! FUCK YEAH

Then I guess we'd best also add:

England! FUCK YEAH!

Dorky wigs! FUCK YEAH!

Taxation without representation! Fuck ... er, um.

J.K. Rowling! FUCK YEAH!

Charlotte Church! FUCK YEAH!

Punting on the Thames! FUCK YEAH!

Medallioned walking tour guides! FUCK YEAH!

Jennifer Saunders! FUCK YEAH!

The Young 1s! FUCK YEAH!

Keira Knightley! FUCK YEAH!

and--

Hampton Court Palace! FUCK YEAH!

oh, and

Doc Martens! FUCK YEAH!

I'm done now.

The Clash! Fuck Yeah!
The Sex Pistols! Fuck Yeah!
The Damned! Fuck Yeah!
Charged GBH! Fuck Yeah!

Ken,
Continue as much as you like.

Oasis! FUCK YEAH!

Wembley Stadium! FUCK YEAH!

Mary Poppins! FUCK YEAH!

You reminded me, Cullen!

Stiff Little Fingers! FUCK YEAH!

I'll second the Keira Knightley: FUCK YEAH!

And in an entirely different spirit, add Lord Nelson! FUCK YEAH!

Bernard Cornwell, FUCK YEAH

Richard Sharpe, FUCK YEAH

Richard Curtis!

Dawn French!

John Hannah! (Oh, wait. He's Scottish, does that count?)

Matthew MacFadyen! (from Snoops or in the US, MI5)

The Cast of Coupling!

Trinny and Susannah!

(I'm thinking I watch too much BBC-America)

A bunch of influential British guitarists, including:

Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Phil Collen, David Gilmour, George Harrison, Steve Howe, Brian May, Jimmy Page

FUCK YEAH!

The Giant's Causeway! FUCK YEAH!

Hadrian's Wall! FUCK YEAH!

That little sign near my sister's ex-boyfriend's grandma's house in England that reads "THIS SIGN HAS BEEN ERECTED FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY" though there is no readily apparent danger nearby! FUCK YEAH!

Jane Austin! FUCK YEAH!

Of course the Scots counts, Lisa: they're British. Hell, they run the UK: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are both Scots, even though Blair's seat in the Commons is for the English constituency of Sedgefield.

Ken, I just caught an old episode of The Young 1s a couple of days ago and practically died laughing: you cannot fully grasp Britain in the 80's without that show.

Oh, and Keira Knightley! FUCK YEAH! (can't be repeated enough)

Pink Floyd! FUCK YEAH!

You know, I finally got my hands on The Jacket (my effing video store only got 3 effing copies of it and I only just got a copy) and can't wait to watch it. All this talk of Ms. Knightly, think I'm gonna have to rewatch King Arthur soon.

FUCK YEAH!

William Thackeray! FUCK YEAH!

(Bingley, you BASTARD!! It was my turn to say Jane Austin, shit for brains, since you always get to say 'Jane Autin'. Shit for brains BASTARD.)

Horatio Hornblower! FUCK YEAH!!

The Secret Garden! FUCK YEAH!!

Hugh Grant (had to hear it again)! FUCK YEAH!!

Freddy Laker! FUCK YEAH!!

Sir Robert Morley! FUCK YEAH!!

Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burroughs! OH FUCK!! FUCK YEAH!!

Judy Dench! FUCK YEAH!!

The Black Watch! FUCK YEAH!!

Kilts! FUCK YEAH!!

(Brilliant idea from you guys? FUCK YEAH!!)

Red Devils! FUCK YEAH!

Lewis Carroll! FUCK YEAH!

This is from memory, BTW:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son:
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jub-Jub Bird
And shun the frumious Bandersnatch!

He took his vorbal sword in hand,
Longtime the manxome foe he sought,
Then rested he, by the tum-tum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Cme whiffling through the tulgy wood
And burbled as it came!

One-two, one-two!
And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjuous day! Calloo callay!
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Speulling with manuy extrau U's! FUCK YEAH!

To completely paraphrase (read: desecrate) Monty Python: And there was much Fuck Yeah-ing.

Strange accents! FUCK YEAH!

Crumpets! FUCK YEAH!

Gin and Tonics! FUCK YEAH!

Lyle's Golden Syrup! FUCK YEAH!!

Cullen,
May a thousand "FUCK YEAHS!" bloom!

Worcester sauce! FUCK YEAH!

Apocryphal though it may be, the story behind British vs. American spelling is that Samuel Johnson wanted English to look more French and Noah Webster wanted it to look more German.

Samuel Johnson! FUCK YEAH! Especially as played by Robbie Coltrane on Blackadder:

DOCTOR JOHNSON: This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language!
PRINCE GEORGE (Hugh Laurie): Hmmm.
BLACKADDER (Rowan Atkinson): Every single one, sir?
JOHNSON: Every single word, sir!
BLACKADDER: Oh. Well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
JOHNSON: What?!
BLACKADDER: Contrafibularities, sir? It is a common word, down our way.
JOHNSON: Damn! [scribbles in his book.]
BLACKADDER: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm andyspeptic, transmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.

Crumpets with lemon curd and tea! FUCK YEAH!

Dead parrots pining for the fjords! FUCK YEAH!

Awesome spoof spots! FUCK YEAH!

Oh!

Colin Firth! FUUUUUUCK YEAH!

Hugh Laurie! FUCK YEAH!

Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!

Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!

Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!

Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!

Oops, sorry, got caught in the loopy day dream...

And how could I possibly have forgotten this one?

DYLAN THOMAS! FUCK YEAH!

I have a cunning plan! FUCK YEAH!

The Imperial War Museum (time to start planning a new installation)! FUCK YEAH!

High tea! FUCK YEAH!

The ploughman's plate! FUCK YEAH!

The Buzzcocks! FUCK YEAH!

The Who! FUCK YEAH!

The Kinks! FUCK YEAH!

Sir Edward Pellew! FUCK YEAH!

Lord Acton! FUCK YEAH!

Shagging! FUCK YEAH!

Cadbury's! FUCK YEAH!

The Magna Carta! FUCK YEAH!

Cars with steering wheels on the wrong side! FUCK YEAH!

The food halls at Harrod's! [drool] FUCK YEAH!

Better Indian food than India! FUCK YEAH!

Finally getting rid of stupid early closing times for pubs! FUCK YEAH!

Openly biased newspapers! FUCK YEAH!

I think Lennie takes top honors.

As long as there's lots of snogging! FUCK YEAH!

Smoking fags! FUCK YEAH!

Tolkien! FUCK YEAH!

Trafalgar Square! FUCK YEAH!

Pound coins! FUCK YEAH!

Christopher Marlowe! FUCK YEAH!

Calling fries "chips"! FUCK YEAH!

Eddie Izzard! FUCK YEAH!

Alfred Hitchcock! FUCK YEAH!

Spice Girls! FU--wait, what?!?

Tolkien! FUCK YEAH!!!

Ken,

Thanks. Does top honors include a case of Mr. Brain's Faggots? Because if it does, FUCK YEAH!

PM's Question Time! FUCK YEAH!

The House of Commons! FUCK YEAH!

Calling chips "crisps"! FUCK YEAH!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but...the BBC! FUCK YEAH!

I further can't believe I forgot,

Simon Bisley!! FUCK YEAH!!

And there's nothing wrong with the BBC, they gave us Doctor Who.

AND Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! FUCK YEAH!

Cullen, there's plenty wrong with the BBC, but that's a subject for another time.

Led Zeppelin! FUCK YEAH!!
Radiohead! FUCK YEAH!!
The Verve! FUCK YEAH!!
Stereophonics! FUCK YEAH!!
Franz Ferdinand! FUCK YEAH!!
Spiritualized! FUCK YEAH!!
Coldplay! FUCK YEAH!!
Embrace! FUCK YEAH!!
Doves! FUCK YEAH!!
Starsailor! FUCK YEAH!!
Keane! FUCK YEAH!!

All Brit Rock! FUCK YEAH!!

Dave,
We'll have to have this discussion in a "What's wrong with the BBC?" sometime. As for now, reviving Doctor Who means a lot of forgiveness in my book.

AND, Peter Sellers!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

Lennie, I don't know what Mr. Brain's Faggots are, but I trust it's a British term with an entirely different meaning from our usage (much like Emily's use of the phrase "smoking fags", which is a hate crime here).

Depends on how you are defining "smoke" in this instance, Ken.

Abbey Road! FUCK YEAH!

Christmas crackers! FUCK YEAH!

Boxing Day! FUCK YEAH!

British Pounds! FUCK YEAH!

Bacon Butty! FUCK YEAH!

Okay, I am going home to drink British alcohol now, but if this thread isn't well past 100 by the time I return tomorrow, I am going to be *very* disappointed in all of you.

Love,

Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards! FUCK YEAH!

Double Devon Cream! FUCK YEAH!

Greenwich Mean Time! FUCK YEAH!

And I, too, will be hoisting a pint (or five) tonight. FUCK YEAH!

The Official Raving Monster Loony Party! FUCK YEAH!

Post #100! FUCK YEAH!

Wensleydale! FUCK YEAH!

Working a second late-night job!! Fuck Yeah!!

No, wait. That's me.

Oh, well then ...

British Stoicism!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

Righto, Cullen. Keeping a stiff upper lip! FUCK YEAH!

How could we forget . . .

THE 2012 OLYMPICS! FUCK YEAH!

England's cricketers, for playing on despite everything and beating the Aussies by nine FUCK YEAH! wickets today!

A link from Andrew Sullivan! FUCK YEAH!

(He's British, right? The Dave that posted at 11:06 was singled out as "the money quote." You guys rule.)

Fish and chips in Whitby?
With mushy peas, no less?

FUCK YEAH!!!

Wimbledon! FUCK YEAH!
The Royal Family! FUCK YEAH!
Prince Charles (and his ears)! FUCK YEAH!
Big Ben! FUCK YEAH!
Scotland Yard! FUCK YEAH!
Cambridge! FUCK YEAH!

Fish and chips anywhere with yummy malt vinegar! FUCK YEAH!

Before I forget,

Slugger O'Toole! FUCK YEAH!

Harry's Place! FUCK YEAH!

The Portadown News! FUCK YEAH!

Hammer and Tongs! FUCK YEAH!

Taking the piss! FUCK YEAH!

Sully doesn't have trackbacks? I thought with all those huge fundraisers for "bandwidth" he could afford that sort of thing.

Oh well: Andrew Sullivan! FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and I really do simply love the way malt vinegar affects fries...er, chips. Soggy, yes, but in a good way. And with lots of salt, too, of course.

Tonight: Bombay Sapphire gin on ice with lime! FUCK YEAH!

Tomorrow morning: Bombay Sapphire gin on ice with lime! FUCK ME!

Neil Gaiman! FUCK YEAH!
The Common Law Tradition! FUCK YEAH!
Geoffrey Chaucer! FUCK YEAH
The Jam! FUCK YEAH!
The Wilton Diptych! FUCK YEAH!
Withnail and I! FUCK YEAH!

Liz Hurley! FUCK YEAH!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - fuck yeah

Thom Yorke! FUCK YEAH!
Cant be bothered! FUCK YEAH!
Heinz Baked Beans! FUCK YEAH!
Sunday Roast! FUCK YEAH!
Bognor Regis! FUCK YEAH!
Bloody Wankers! FUCK YEAH!
Pints of Brains! FUCK YEAH!
Scampi Chips! FUCK YEAH!!!

Oooh, I second "Liz Hurley! FUCK YEAH!"

King Richard the Lionheart-Fuck Yeah!

George Orwell! Fuck Yeah!

Dr. Who! FUCK YEAH!
Jo Guest! Page 3! FUCK YEAH!
Syd Barret! Fuck Yeah!
Mary Shelly! FUCK YEAH!

Marmite! Fuck Yeah!

Punting! Fuck Yeah!

Warm Beer! Fuck Yeah!

Paul H,
I must warn you that the topic of beer is considered nearly religious in this place. While we accept the sick, disgusting, mind-blowing, curious habit of other cultures who engage in the fucked up practice of drinking beer warm, it is only during the discussion of this day that we will allow the subject to be breached on this space.

William Tyndale, hero for the ages

Haggis. FUCK OUI!

The Great Bed of Ware! Fuck YEAH!
The British Library! Fuck YEAH!
Hadrian's Wall! Fuck YEAH!
Morris Dancing! Fuck YEAH!
Coventina's Well! Fuck YEAH!

St. Patrick AMEN
Thomas More AMEN
The Thin Red Line FUCK YEAH
Isaac Newton FUCK YEAH
Charles Darwin FUCK YEAH
Stephen Hawking FUCK YEAH
Watson & Crick FUCK YEAH
John Locke FUCK YEAH
J.S. & Jas. Mill FUCK YEAH
Russel & Whitehead FUCK YEAH
the BEF FUCK YEAH
the Royal Navy & Marines FUCK YEAH
every British Regiment (past & present) FUCK YEAH
the Red Duster FUCK YEAH
Edward Elgar FUCK YEAH
Thomas Tallis FUCK YEAH
John Wesley AMEN
R Vaughn-Williams FUCK YEAH

Discworld! FUCK YEAH!

If John mentions the Red Duster, then I'll add, the White Ensign! FUCK YEAH!

Dammit I am SO late to the party - but this is genius, and I'm almost in tears.

Clive Owen. FUCK YEAH
Jane Austen FUCK YEAH (oops, you hate her, right, Emily??)
Kate Winslet FUCK YEAH
Rubber Soul FUCK YEAH
Charlotte Bronte FUCK YEAH
Geoffrey Chaucer FUCK YEAH
Eddie Izzard FUCK YEAH
Alex Guinness FUCK YEAH

John Lennon, Sandy Denny,Gary Oldman,Richard Butler, Martin Amis, Andrew Sullivan and Peter O'Toole...FUCKin' A YEAH !!!!

Dave, really ~ Liz Hurley?! Fucked Up!!

Stilton! FUCK YEAH!!

The Original Bingley! FUCK YEAH!
wait..

Oh wait and I MUST add one more:

Question time FUCK YEAH!

John Milton! FUCK YEAH!

Steeleye Span! FUCK YEAH!

Bass Ale! FUCK YEAH!

Shakespeare's Globe! FUCK YEAH!

Edmund Spenser! FUCK YEAH! (I never thought I'd ever say that. Fuck yeah.)

Kenneth Branagh! FUCK YEAH!

Mark Rylance! FUCK YEAH!

Sam West! FUCK YEAH!

Benjamin Britten! FUCK YEAH!

The RSC! FUCK YEAH!

Shakespeare got a FUCK YEAH but he deserves another one. FUCK YEAH!

The Bay City Rollers! HELL FUCKIN' YEAH

Wondering around Bath on a sunny day - Fuck Yeah!
Wondering around London on a rainy day - Fuck Yeah!
Hob Nob biscuits - Fuck Yeah!
Bourbon biscuits - Fuck Yeah!
Having an aggressive press - Fuck'n A Yeah!
Douglas Adams - Fuck Yeah!
60s British music invasion - Fuck Yeah!
Watching performers at Covent Gardens - Fuck Yeah!

Emily, you are a true treasure for starting this. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Edmund Kean. FUCK YEAH.

Terry Pratchet! FUCK YEAH!
John Locke! FUCK YEAH!
Billion = Trillion! FUCK YEAH!
Aldous Huxley! FUCK YEAH
H. G. Wells! FUCK YEAH
The Ecomomist! FUCK YEAH!
Surrendering at York... er, founding America in the first place! FUCK YEAH! (Out of line, but I couldn't resist.)
Oh, and of course, Founding Canada! FUCK YEAH!

Stonehenge: Fuck Yeah!

SAS!
Longbow! (the weapon, not the helicopter)
Merlin!
(American created but British characters):
Spike!
Giles!
FUCK YEAH

Crystal Palace Football Club! FUCK YEAH!
Lilly the Pink! FUCK YEAH!
Biggles of the Interpol! FUCK YEAH!
Sherlock Holmes! FUCK YEAH!
Bateman's Victory Ale! FUCK YEAH!
Red Dwarf! FUCK YEAH!
School Milk! FUCK YEAH!
Rounders! FUCK YEAH!
Toad in the Hole! FUCK YEAH!

"Emily, you are a true treasure for starting this. I mean that from the bottom of my heart."

Sheila, that means more to me than the Sullivan link. I hope you KNOW this.

For you and a handful of other friends, I give the only "FUCK NO" allowed:

Oliver Cromwell.

john henry bonham! FUCK YEAH!!

hahaha Thank God you have my back.

Sheila, I put Question Time on there up there somewhere already, but there's no real problem with repeats. And it's Alec Guiness, with a "c" at the end. :-p

Pubs in Parlament... FUCK YEAH!

Oh my God, how could I forget THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE OF ALL???

Archie Leach aka Cary Grant FUCK YEAH!!

As a Jew I was in fact tempted to give a Fuck Yeah! to Cromwell, but knew better not to.

Curry sauce or Vinegar on chips FUCK YEAH
Oxford town FUCK YEAH specificaly Magdalene College Man that place is beautiful

Shit, Dave J - I didn't read all of them when I added my own. Come on now.

Zaphod Beeblebrox - he's just this guy, you know? Fuck Yeah!

Thank you Arthur Dent. :)

The Cure! FUCK YEAH!

The Smiths! FUCK YEAH!

Nick Hornby! FUCK YEAH!

Union Jack! FUCK YEAH!

Oscar Wilde! FUCK YEAH!

Ian McEwan - FUCK YEAH!
Joan Fontaine - FUCK YEAH!
Samuel Pepys - FUCK YEAH!

Evelyn Waugh, fuck yeah!
Alec Guinness, fuck yeah!
G.K. Chesterton, fuck yeah!
Kingsley Amis, fuck yeah!
Martin Amis, fuck yeah!
The Inklings, fuck yeah!
Boswell and Johnson, fuck and fuck yeah!
T.H. White, fuck yeah!
J.M. Barrie, C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Charles Kingsley, George McDonald, A.A. Milne, J.K. Rowling, etc., fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, etc., yeah!

The very IDEAS of pubs in Congress: oh hell yes, but what's with the fucking anti-fun squad.

More importantly, why am I fucking around on the internet at this hour?

How could I miss these, today most of all?

Double-decker buses! FUCK YEAH!

The Tube! FUCK YEAH!

Michael Gambon - FUCK YEAH
Helen Mirren - FUCK YEAH

"The very IDEAS of pubs in Congress: oh hell yes..."

There ARE places to get a drink in the Capitol and the congressional office buildings, but even most of the staffers (let alone the public) don't know where they are, nor would they be let in if they did, unlike the pubs in the Palace of Westminster.

Vivien Leigh - FUCK YEAH!
William Wordsworth - FUCK YEAH!
Milton - FUCK YEAH FUCK YEAH FUCK YEAH

Roman,
THE INKLINGS. THE INKLINGS. DO I SENSE ANY FELLOW FANS OUT THERE?

(I'm not doing this on purpose by the way. My caps lock is stuck. I have a very tired pinkie.)

The Rolling Stones! FUCK YEAH!!

Ted Hughes - FUCK YEAH!

David Bowie! FUCK YEAH!

PJ Harvey! FUCK YEAH!

Philip Larkin! FUCK YEAH!

Free Republic American site Fuck yeah
Twinings tea Fuck yeah

Queen Betty HELL YEAH

Tony Blair we Americans on other side of the pond got your back

Ozzy Osbourne Fucking Prince of Darkness

TS Eliot - FUCK YEAH!

And also particularly appropriate to today:

The Metropolitan Police! FUCK YEAH!

The London Fire Brigade! FUCK YEAH!

A pint or ten of Dogbolter at the Ferret & Firkin in Chelsea. God, my head is still spinning. FUCK YEAH!

Tom Baker fighting Daleks, which, much like Al Qaeda, never really stood a chance against determined Brits. FUCK YEAH!

The Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane. FUCK YEAH!

Masterpiece theatre Fuck yeah
Mystery Fuck yeah

Sky news Fuck yeah
Rupert Murdoch Double fuck yeah

Hayley Mills FUCK YEAH!

THE AVENGERS with Mrs Emma Peel FUCK YEAH

ITN World news Fuck yeah
CS Lewis Fuck yeah

The terrorists (like the Nazis and militaristic Japanese before them) have made a fatal mistake.

Those of us in the Anglosphere are NOT like Zeropeans. While we might come across as a lazy, self-indulgent, self-absorbed people when we are hit we hit back harder! Fuck Yeah!

We will not back down. Fuck Yeah!

We will not give up. Fuck yeah!

THE ANGLOSPHERE WILL PREVAIL!!!! Fuck yeah!

Queen Betty Corgis Fuck yeah
Lord Louis Mountbatten aka Uncle Dickie HELL YEAH
Lady Maggie Thatcher FUCK YEAH

Andrew Marvell! FUCK YEAH

The Faerie Queene! FUCK YEAH!
Queen! FUCK YEAH!

Iron Maiden -- FUCK YEAH!!!
Adam Smith -- FUCK YEAH!!!

Mary Wroth! FUCK YEAH!

Led Zeppelin FUCK YEAH
Jeff Beck Fuck yeah
Jimmy Page DOUBLE FUCK YEAH

Austin Powers: FUCK YEAH!

Keith Richards: FUCK YEAH!

The King James Bible: HECK YEAH!

:-D

Cats!

somebody else do it...

Basil Brush FUCK YEAH!
Bill and Ben FUCK YEAH!
Andy Pandy FUCK YEAH!
Play School FUCK YEAH!
Jackanory FUCK YEAH!
Children's Hour in the 1970s FUCK YEAH!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! FUCK YEAH!

Adam Smith FUCK YEAH
Edinburgh Festival FUCK YEAH
David Hume FUCK YEAH
Manchester FUCK YEAH
London FUCK YEAH
Thatcher and Blair FUCK YEAH

Alistair Cooke - FUCK YEAH!

Peter Sellers Fuck yeah
Michael Caine Fuck yeah

ORIGINAL James Bonds Sean MR Sean Connery FUCK YEAH

Ladbroke Grove! FUCK YEAH!
Portobello Road! FUCK YEAH!
White Man in Hammersmith Palais! FUCK YEAH!
Pimms! FUCK YEAH!
Darts! FUCK YEAH!
Stilton Cheese! FUCK YEAH!
Keeley Hazell! FUCK YEAH!
Patsy Kensit! FUCK YEAH!
Best Beer on the face of the planet! FUCK YEAH!
Michelle Marsh! FUCK YEAH!
Stone Roses! FUCK YEAH!
Transvision Vamp! FUCK YEAH!
All Saints! FUCK YEAH!

Duran Duran - FUCK YEAH!

Original Mary Poppins aka Julia Andrews FUCK YEAH

Angela Lansbury aka Mrs Jessica Fletcher FUCK YEAH

Kelly, he's actually SIR, not MR Sean Connery now, so...

Knighthood for celebrities! FUCK YEAH!

PINK FLOYD FUCK YEAH
Syd Barrett FUCK YEAH

Osbournes FUCK YEAH

Oh Okay

I SEE
Well how about this
SIR PAUL McCarthny FUCK YEAH

King Henry the Eighth FUCK YEAH

King Henry the Second FUCK YEAH and his wife Elendor of Atriedes FUCK YEAH

Christian Bale FUCK YEAH!

Single Malt Scotch FUCK YEAH

(Hey, Scotland's in Britain, last I checked!)

OHH Galleger Brothers of Oasis FUCK YEAH

Send them to whetever country that terrorists are in trust me they be beginning surrendering

Those Red Double decker Buses FUCK YEAH

hairy armpits - fuck yeah
crooked teeth - fuck yeah

Elendor of Atreides? Any relation to Paul "My Name is a Killing Word" Muad'Dib Atreides? ;-)

Eleanor of Aquitaine! FUCK YEAH!

Sheila,
I'm so fucking drunk, on this great English alcohol...how many of my Irish friends would forgive:

Bloody Sunday! FUCK YEAH!

The good ones will. The good ones won't.

For the Trekkies on board

Patrick Stewart aka Jean Luc Picard FUCK YEAH

DUH he is Shakepeare actor

200 comments! FUCK YEAH!

hahaha yeah, that one could go either way.

Christopher Marlowe - FUCK YEAH!

Chips and curry ... FUCK YEAH

Christopher Lambert aka original Highlander FUCK YEAH

Emmy Rossum! FUCK YEAH!
JG Ballard! FUCK YEAH!
Large Bosoms! FUCK YEAH!

Cliff Richard you going say WHAT THE FUCK LOL!

Eurythmics FUCK YEAH

Sweet Dream are made of this FUCK YEAH

How about this

YOUNG ONES FUCK YEAH

Patsy Stone FUCK YEAH

The word "snog"- FUCK YEAH!
Kate Bush- FUCK YEAH!
John Milton- FUCK YEAH!
T.E. Lawrence- FUCK YEAH!

TERRY PRATCHETT- FUCK YEAH!

Western Civilization - Fuck Yeah!
All my ancestors - Fuck Yeah!
Ian Fleming - Fuck Yeah!
Bad teeth - Fuck Yeah!
Tony Blair - Fuck Yeah!
Winston Churchill - Fuck Yeah!
Fish & Chips w/Vinegar - Fuck Yeah!
James Joyce - Fuck Yeah!
Virginia Woolf - Fuck Yeah!

Black Sabbath FUCK YEAH

DAMIAN LEWIS
JULIET STEVENSON
DANIEL DAY LEWIS
ALAN RICKMAN
FUCK YEAH!!!!

Henry breaking the Cathoic church stance in UK to form Church of England FUCK YEAH

Steven Rea of the Crying Game WHAT THE FUCK you didn't it was a dude LOL!

Daniel Day Lewis is Irish. James Joyce is Irish.

Are You Being Served? - FUCK YEAH!!
Absolutely Fabulous - FUCK YEAH!

Prime Suspect FUCK YEAH

Cracker BRIT VERSION FUCK YEAH

Dame Diana Rigg! FUCK YEAH!
The Avengers! FUCK YEAH!
Steed and Mrs Peel! FUCK YEAH!
Danger Man! FUCK YEAH!
The Prisoner! FUCK YEAH!
The Saint! FUCK YEAH!
Are You Being Served?! FUCK YEAH!
Keeping Up Appearances! FUCK YEAH!
Ralph Vaughan Williams! FUCK YEAH!
Edward Elgar! FUCK YEAH!
Benjamin Britten! FUCK YEAH!
William Walton! FUCK YEAH!
Malcolm Arnold! FUCK YEAH!
St George! FUCK YEAH!

The United Fucking Kingdom!
FUCK YEAH!
FUCK YEAH!
FUCK YEAH!

Lady Di (rip)
Fuck Yeah!!!

Oh and please - here is a total guilty pleasure:

Robbie Williams - FUCK YEAH!

How about this for American viewers THE Equalizer aka Edward Woodward FUCK YEAH

Sheila,
Thanks for pointing those out. I'm too drunk on English liquor to manage otherwise. I'm checking out.

There were only half as many messages an hour ago.

The Office! FUCK YEAH!
The Hot Chicks from Coupling! FUCK YEAH!
The Spitfire! FUCK YEAH!
HMS Nelson and Rodney? Fuck yeah? eh.
Carrier Aviation! FUCK YEAH!
The Composite Bow! FUCK YEAH!
The British Square! FUCK YEAH!
Beating Napoleon! FUCK YEAH!
Subways! FUCK YEAH!

Okay, somebody please finally tell me who the fuck Robbie Williams is?

Oh yeah...The Lord of the Rings! FUCK YEAH

Sorry Charlie.
Daniel Day Lewis was born in London, England.

He was in the British equivalent of a Backstreet Boys - a boy band - and he has now "gone solo" and he's a total bad boy - and he rocks!!

Favorite Robbie Williams quote:

Interviewer: What is the craziest thing a female fan has given you?

Robbie: Herpes.

Marks & Spencer sandwiches FUCK YEAH!

Holding off Hitler until the Yanks finally decided to get involved FUCK YEAH!

A national leader who speaks proper English FUCK YEAH!

A country free enough to be as multicultural as London FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and seconding Shakespeare and Jane Austin and Led Zepplin and the Rolling Stones and David Bowie and Nick Hornby and so on FUCK YEAH!

And most of all

RUPERT BEAR - FUCK YEAH!

Bill - how could I forget The Office???

I must echo you: FUCK YEAH!

Andrew Sullivan - Fuck Yeah!
Christopher Hitchens - Fuck Yeah!

Was Rupert Bear the one John Mortimer defended from obscenity charges?

John Mortimer! FUCK YEAH!
Rumpole of the Bailey! FUCK YEAH!

Emily - Robbie's big crossover hit, which got some play in the US, was "Millennium". When I was in Ireland in 1999, you literally COULD. NOT. GET. AWAY. from Robbie Williams. He DOMINATED the airwaves.

Alan Moore! FUCK YEAH!!

Dave Gibbons! FUCK YEAH!

David Bowie! Fuck Yeah!

Sir Ian McKellen! Fuck Yeah!

Patrick Stewart! Fuck Yeah!

Christopher Lee! FUCK YEAH!
Peter Cushing! FUCK YEAH!
Shaun of the Dead! FUCK YEAH!
Ian McDiarmid! FUCK YEAH!
Off to bed! FUCK YEAH!

Juliet Stevenson - FUCK YEAH!

Shelley! FUCK YEAH!
Byron! FUCK YEAH!
Keats! FUCK YEAH!
Coleridge! FUCK YEAH!
EP Taylor! FUCK YEAH!
And for the uncoolest band in human history, who were actually fast, loud, brilliant'n'fun (up to 1975, after which bail out quickly an avoid all their works, ye mighty, to avoid despair): ladies and gentlemen, Emerson, Lake and Palmer! FUCK YEAH!
aLSO, British barmaids! FUCK YEAH!

Everything England, from the USA: FUCK YEAH

except George Galloway, FUCK OFF

ALL OF THE ABOVE: FUCK YEAH! And...

Tom Stoppard! FUCK YEAH!
Oliver Fucking Cromwell! FUCK YEAH!
Literary hawt chick Lady Antonia Fraser! FUCK YEAH!
Lady Fraser's lust for teh beheaded! FUCK YEAH!
Christopher Fucking Hitchens! FUCK YEAH!
The Rolls Royce Merlin engine*! FUCK YEAH!
Absolutely Fabulous! FUCK YEAH!
The Lion in Winter! FUCK YEAH!
Habeas corpus! FUCK YEAH!
Blackadder! FUCK YEAH!
Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore! FUCK YEAH!
The Goons! FUCK YEAH!
Winnie-the-Pooh! FUCK YEAH!
Adam Smith! FUCK YEAH!
Saying "Couldn't be fucked!" FUCK YEAH!
Pints of bitter! FUCK YEAH!
James "Gay online diarist/wit/HTML monkey/slut" Coates! FUCK YEAH!
M�t�rhead! FUCK YEAH!
David "Maybe I am and maybe I'm not" Bowie! FUCK YEAH!
Brian "Win95 startup sound" Eno! FUCK YEAH!
Robert "Fans scare me" Fripp and King Crimson! FUCK YEAH!
Trainspotting! FUCK YEAH!
Helena Bonham Carter (when still curvy)! FUCK YEAH!
Gary Oldman! FUCK YEAH!
Joe Orton's Loot! FUCK YEAH!
The Importance of Being Earnest! FUCK YEAH!
Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Alec Guinness and all high-powered British actors in cheesy American flicks! FUCK YEAH!
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, in a class of their own! FUCK YEAH!
The Mayflower! FUCK YEAH!
Turned New Amsterdam into New York! FUCK YEAH!
King Arthur! FUCK YEAH!
John Boorman! FUCK YEAH!
Stephen Frears! FUCK YEAH!
Charles II nailed this chick...
...
...
*boggles*
Oh, FUCK YEEAAAHH!!

* The RR Merlin engine turned the American P-51 Mustang into the longest-ranged, fastest figher the Allies had while whitening your teeth and freshening your breath which was important after you vomited all over your cockpit from the G-forces and stress.... FUCK YEAH!

Ok, couldn't be arsed to read everything so I hope there aren't any repeats but....

The Underground FUCK YEAH (I meanm hello?! after today they deserve at least one round of teh fuck yeah)

A.A. Milne FUCK YEAH

The Tate Museum FUCK YEAH

Westminster Abby FUCK YEAH

Hot British Men FUCK YEAH

The East Enders FUCK YEAH

Regents Park FUCK YEAH

The Millenium Bridge FUCK YEAH

The Tiger Lillies FUCK YEAH

Sullivan and Hitchens (I agree, FUCK YEAH!)

Parliamentary government FUCK YEAH (though technically Spain had a form of this much earlier, but still...)

Anglicanism FUCK YEAH

J.R.R Tolkien FUCK YEAH

C.S. Lewis FUCK YEAH

Margaret Thatcher (er...fuck yeah?)

and lastly

TOM STOPPARD FUCK YEAH (even if he IS Czech)

Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company ! FUCK YEAH!
Ian McDiarmid! FUCK YEAH!

The Canucks.

The Yanks.

The Aussies.

The Kiwis.

The whole FUCKIN' ANGLOSPHERE!

FUCK YEAH, ad infinitum!

The real Canadians are all with you today. It's a piss-poor family if the younger kids won't stand up with the elder brother.

Sir Not-Appearing in this film! FUCK YEAH

Hey hey, Upstart Crow, why the question after Maggie? She got her "FUCK YEAH!" from me before we got anywhere near even 100 comments and became the wonderful insane phenomenon that this has snowballed into.

some more (British characters):

Sir Lancelot- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Galahad- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Percival- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Lionell- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Tristam- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Bedevere- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Kay- FUCK YEAH!
Sir Ector- FUCK YEAH!
Uther Pendragon- FUCK YEAH!
The Round Table- FUCK YEAH!
The Lady of the Lake- FUCK YEAH!

(and a big FUCK NO for Sir Mordred, of course)

Edmund Burke- FUCK YEAH

These 2 quotes in particular come to mind today:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

Ian M Banks! FUCK YEAH!
Ken MacLeod! FUCK YEAH!
Charles Stross! FUCK YEAH!

Emily,

A good pint of bitter, warm - FUCK YEAH!

With a slice of stale bread slathered with Marmite - FUCK YEAH!

Jugged Hare and Suede! Fuck YEAH!

The Duke of Norfolk! Fuck YEAH!

DaveJ: I think there are 5 million repeats on this list. i've seen about 10 Patrick Stewarts.

As a matter of fact, I didn't list him myself - so in that case:

Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH
Patrick Stewart - FUCK YEAH

Oh dear, someone's gone and spoken well of Cromwell. Emily'll have something else to go with the hangover in making her mad in the morning. ;-)

Dorothy L. Sayers FUCK YEAH
George Eliot FUCK YEAH
Susan Cooper FUCK YEAH
and Zadie Smith, and her fabulous book about fanaticism and diversity in London... FUCK YEAH!

Sting! Fuck Yeah!
The Police! Fuck Yeah!
Ozzy! Fuck Yeah!
Black Sabbath! Fuck Yeah!

Not sure how they didn't get listed yet but:
Gilbert and Sullivan- FUCK YEAH!

Oh yeah don't forget George Galloway otherwise known as Saddam little bitch LOL!

Faltwy Tower FUCK YEAH

Are you being served FUCK YEAH

Lord Nelson FUCK YEAH

Lord Wellington FUCK YEAH

Sir,
The Underground FUCK YEAH (I meanm hello?! after today they deserve at least one round of the fuck yeah)

Wrong. They deserve twenty plus.

The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!
The Underground! FUCK YEAH!

John Constantine! FUCK YEAH!
Jelly Babies! FUCK YEAH!
Paddington Bear! FUCK YEAH!
Daleks! FUCK YEAH!
Blake's 7! FUCK YEAH!
Richie Rich's butler! FUCK YEAH!
The Loo! FUCK YEAH!
Rhyming slang! FUCK YEAH!
Teletubbies! Umm, fuck...yeah? Yeah! FUCK YEAH!

Magna Carta: FUCK YEAH!

Earl Grey FUCK YEAH

India Tea company turn to Twilning tea company later FUCK YEAH

Ozz Fest FUCK YEAH

Penzance! FUCK YEAH!
All of Cornwall! FUCK FUCK YEAH YEAH!
Christopher Fry! FUCK YEAH!
Lush! FUCK YEAH!
Kate Rusby! FUCK YEAH!
George MacDonald! FUCK YEAH!
Margery Kempe! FUCK YEAH!

Someone else mentioned british barmaids, but let me give an extra: FUCK YEAH!

how about just a general FUCK YEAH! for british women: FUCK YEAH!

and given the gravity of the day, and I'm no homo but for british men: FUCK YEAH!

Nearly, but never quite, excessive use of the word 'fuck'! FUCK YEAH!

Longbows! FUCK YEAH!

Dave J: I like Maggie, too. I put the ? mark because I don't know many others who do is all. ;)

Emily: I appreciate your enthusiasm for the Underground Staff. But I am a lady, not a gentleman ;).

John Donne! FUCK YEAH!

Ben Jonson! FUCK YEAH!

Laurence Olivier! FUCK YEAH!

John Gielgud! FUCK YEAH!

Derek Jacobi! FUCK YEAH!

Yorkshire pudding! FUCK YEAH!

(...are the words "fuck yeah" starting to lose all meaning through repetition to anyone else?)

William Langland! FUCK YEAH!

Fairport Convention! FUCK YEAH!

William Byrd! FUCK YEAH!

Cycle dramas! FUCK YEAH!

Beowulf! FUCK YEAH!

Wilfred Owen! FUCK YEAH!

Henry V! FUCK YEAH!

"...are the words "fuck yeah" starting to lose all meaning through repetition to anyone else?"

No, but thank you for asking. On that note, I too am going to bed. I look forward to seeing just how many more comments show up overnight.

KATE BUSH:FUCK YEAH!

Bombay Gin update (the declining hours),
Unless nobody comments before me, this will be the 260th comment on this post. I'm not tooting a horn (I'll do that alone - later) or anything. I'd just like to point out that this is one of the longest blog threads I've seen where nothing turned nasty. Everybody just showed up and screamed "FUCK YEAH!" for the British. It started with just my friends, and ballooned into a lot of fucking people.

Every time I get close to giving up on the human race, I see this kindness and solidarity and for all of my sadness that is slowly turning into cynicism, with the kindness of the people who post here, I can tell myself everything is okay The world is getting better, at least for me.

oh gods, how could I forget Sir Derek Jacobi? another big FUCK YEAH from me.

Everyman FUCK YEAH
Theatre Museums FUCK YEAH
Ben Jonson FUCK YEAH
Cyril Tourner FUCK YEAH
Fletcher and Beaumont FUCK YEAH
Thomas Middleton FUCK YEAH
Christopher Marlowe FUCK YEAH
Thomas Kyd FUCK YEAH
John Ford FUCK YEAH
John Webster FUCK YEAH (and the Duchess of Malfi gets its own FUCK YEAH)
Elizabethan Theatres FUCK YEAH
The restored Globe FUCK YEAH
Oscar Wilde FUCK YEAH
Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood FUCK YEAH
Aestheticism FUCK YEAH
Victorian Fairytales FUCK YEAH

ok done now.

DAME CLARA BUTT...FUCK YEAH!!

BENJAMIN BRITTEN and PETER PEARS....FUCK YEAH!

THE OMEGA WORKSHOP...FUCK YEAH!!

Upstart Crow,
From one lady to another, please accept my apologies for the presumptuous mistake.

Salt and vinegar crisps! FUCK YEAH!

Orange squash! FUCK YEAH!

Rounders and netball! FUCK YEAH!

Prime Minister's Questions! FUCK YEAH!

The OED- FUCK YEAH!

Isaac Newton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel! FUCK YEAH!

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore! FUCK YEAH!

Alec Guinness and Ealing Studios! FUCK YEAH!

Josephine Tey - FUCK YEAH!

Martin Carthy, the Watersons, Peter Bellamy, June Tabor, and all the rest of the self-righteously lefty persnickety Brit trad scene - FUCK YEAH!(although I think Bellamy would have been a neo-con hawk had he lived to see 9-11)

Laphroig_FUCK YEAH
Any other Isley single malt scotch FUCK YEAH!
The ROAYAL NAVY FUCK YEAH

And the men that will most likely be responding to the events yesterday--
The SAS FUCK YEAH
The SBS FUCK YEAH
The Gurkhas FUCK YEAH SAHIB!!!

The Boston Massacre! FUCK YEAH!

I am too drunk on Pusser's Navy Rum to chek whether these have been cited before but:

Hawkwind! FUCK YEAH!
Charles Dickens! FUCK YEAH!
Joe Strummer! FUCK YEAH!
The Housemartins! FUCK YEAH!
The June Brides! FUCK YEAH!
World Domination Enterprises! FUCK YEAH!
Norman Tebbitt! FUCK YEAH!
Edwina Currie! FUCK YEAH!

And the men that will most likely be responding to the events yesterday--
The SAS FUCK YEAH
The SBS FUCK YEAH
The Gurkhas FUCK YEAH SAHIB!!!
Posted by: hist_ed at July 7, 2005 09:50 PM

can I add an Amen!?

Emily:

No harm done at all, and no presumption on your part! :) I'm just glad to post here and share the Anglove.

Red Ken --- FUCK YEAH!
Derek and Clive --- FUCK YEAH!
George Formby --- FUCK it all turned out nicely now YEAH!
public school bijoux --- FUCK YEAH!
Paco Banton --- FUCK YEAH!
Elvis Costello (at least up through "Armed Forces") --- FUCK YEAH!
The Bollock Brothers --- FUCK YEAH!
Attila the Stockbroker --- FUCK YEAH!
Iain M. Banks --- FUCK YEAH!
Isaiah Berlin --- FUCK YEAH!
Karl Popper --- FUCK YEAH!
Daniel Waterhouse --- FUCK YEAH!
Alan Turing --- FUCK YEAH!
George Soros (through 1958) --- FUCK YEAH!
John Maynard Keynes --- FUCK YEAH!
Graham Greene --- FUCK YEAH!
PFC "Arthur Thomas" --- FUCK YEAH!

Eyehat,
NOT COOL. Not in this thread. Not today.

Being stuck on the M5 at Bristol: FUCK YEAH!

beer terminology: FUCK YEAH!

Ralph Richardson: FUCK YEAH!

Derek Jacobi: FUCK YEAH!

Vanessa Redgrave: (I'm old I admit it) FUCK YEAH!

i know quite a lot of these have probably already been chanted from the rooftops, but once more unto the breach:

(to Britain and London, from an American who loves you)

William Hazlitt! FUCK YEAH
Damon Albarn and Blur! FUCK YEAH
Salman Rushdie! FUCK YEAH
Christopher Hitchens! FUCK YEAH
Geoffrey Chaucer! FUCK YEAH
John Keats! FUCK YEAH
Lord Byron! FUCK YEAH
Percy Shelley! FUCK YEAH
Edmund Spenser! FUCK YEAH
Paul Weller! FUCK YEAH
Morrissey and the Smiths! FUCK YEAH
Mark E. Smith and the Fall! FUCK YEAH
J.M.W. Turner! FUCK YEAH
Falstaff! FUCK YEAH
Nicolas Nickleby! FUCK YEAH
Henry II! FUCK YEAH
Thomas a' Beckett! FUCK YEAH
Sienna Miller! FUCK YEAH
John Constable! FUCK YEAH
Richard Branson! FUCK YEAH

I could go on...

Edward Gibbon! FUCK YEAH!
The SAS! FUCK YEAH!
David Lean! FUCK YEAH!
Adam Smith! FUCK YEAH!
Marlowe! FUCK YEAH!
Wallace! FUCK YEAH!
Gromit! FUCK YEAH!
Cockney slang! GROUND CHUCK YEAH!
The Virgin Queen! My word, yes.
Francis Drake! FUCK YEAH!
Empire! FUCK YEAH!
Hong Kong! FUCK YEAH!
Fanny Hill! **FUCK** YEAH!!!

Christopher Fry (RIP) --- FUCK YEAH!
The Lady's Not for Burning --- FUCK YEAH!

Any racing fans out there?

Stirling Moss - FUCK YEAH!

Jack Brabham - Fuck Yeah!

Graham Hill - Fuck Yeah!

Damon Hill - Fuck Yeah!

Nigel Mansell - Fuck Yeah!

Jenson Button - Fuck Yeah!

2005 Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon - FUCK YEAH!

Not a Uk'er, but would like to say

Keira Knightley! FUCK YEAH!

Kate Winslet! FUCK YEAH!

Cate Blanchett! FUCK YEAH!

Emily Lloyd! FUCK YEAH!

JEnnifer Saunders!..er umm

MORE:

The cast of the current production of Henry IV at the National Theatre! FUCK YEAH

Winston Churchill! FUCK YEAH

Robert Browning! FUCK YEAH

Edmund Burke! FUCK YEAH

Boswell and Johnson! FUCK YEAH

Oliver Goldsmith! FUCK YEAH

OSCAR WILDE (i know, i know)!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH

Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, the Redgrave clan, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant- FUCK YEAH!

Graham Greene- FUCK YEAH

George Herbert! FUCK YEAH

Gerard Manley Hopkins! FUCK YEAH

Wearing skirts in freezing weather on the way to a club! FUCK YEAH

Soho! FUCK YEAH

The South Bank! FUCK YEAH

Charing Cross Road! FUCK YEAH

Foyle's! FUCK YEAH

The British Museum! FUCK YEAH

Freddie Mercury! FUCK YEAH

Charles Darwin! FUCK YEAH

Richard Burton! FUCK YEAH

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool FC's! FUCK YEAH

All other, not as successful, Brit football clubs! FUCK YEAH

William Byrd, FUCK YEAH!
John Dowland, FUCK YEAH!
Thomas Tallis, FUCK YEAH!
"Wanker!", FUCK YEAH!
"Bollocks!", FUCK YEAH!
"Bugger!", FUCK YEAH!

Another FUCK YEAH for the RSC!

The National Theatre! FUCK YEAH

The Globe! FUCK YEAH

The Tate Modern (especially the main hall)! FUCK YEAH

Trafalgar Square! FUCK YEAH

Rita,
Watching the BBC series of "I, Claudius" with your dad and stalking the video store to get the next episodes together like they're selling crack...and then passing the Western Civ ten point quiz years later covering the book that you didn't read because it was boring, but still passing anyway! FUCK YEAH!

No, no. I really should read I, Claudius. I promised myself and I still own a copy of it.

Fuck.

BBC world news Fuck Yeah

UK Tabliods Fuck Yeah

Fleet Street Fuck Yeah

Stephen Fry! FUCK YEAH

Oliver Twist! FUCK YEAH

The Beatles! FUCK YEAH

Boiled Veg! FUCK YEAH!

And for the record, "wanker" and "pillock" are two of my favorite words, and I can never get away with using them in America without sounding like a pretentious ass. I really hate that.

Wanker! FUCK YEAH!
Pillock! FUCK YEAH!

DICKENS FUCK YEAH
Secret Garden FUCK YEAH

Little Lord Faultory FUCK YEAH

Emily,
Feeling one-up on everyone because I was watching "Brideshead Revisited" which had a very thin and a very young Jeremy Irons: FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and people...it's totally okay to post a FUCK YEAH! repeat at this point. I myself am still combing through the thread because I think I confessd a felony at one point, though I'm not sure if I posted it, courtesy of Bombay Sapphire gin.

The important thing is that this thread continues to be about British things that make you want to scream "FUCK YEAH!." Don't feel obliged to make sure noone else has said it before you.

James Wilby FUCK YEAH!

Western Civilization FUCK YEAH

Agincourt PLUCK YEW!

Moonrakers FUCK YEAH!

Edwardian fashions FUCK YEAH!

Red Dwarf FUCK YEAH!

Sydney Carton FUCK YEAH!

Tolkien and Hobbits FUCK YEAH!

Sexy accents FUCK YEAH!

Puddings FUCK YEAH!

Jack Aubrey FUCK YEAH!

Samuel Fielding FUCK YEAH!

Time Team FUCK YEAH! (Archaeology in two days)

really cool friends FUCK YEAH!

The phrase "Chin up!" FUCK YEAH!

Emily, Ken - that was a FABULOUS post. Thanks for the opportunity to yell out my support - FUCK YEAH!

Danger Mouse! FUCK YEAH!

Andy McNabb! FUCK YEAH!

Hawker Typhoon & Tempest! FUCK YEAH!

Sherman Firefly! FUCK YEAH!

Joan Collins! FUCK YEAH!

Kate Beckinsale! FUCK YEAH!

Roxy Music FUCK YEAH
Paul Weller FUCK YEAH
"Rosbeef" FUCK YEAH (And, BTW, FU m.Chirac)
Coleman's Mustard FUCK YEAH
Walker's Roast Chicken Crisps FUCK YEAH
Pickled Onions FUCK YEAH
Salad Cream FUCK YEAH
now I'm hungry...

Cribbage. FUCK YEAH!

Man, you guys have all the Fuck Yeah's covered.
So I'll just say: ENGLAND - FUCK YEAH!!!
Take it to the radical ragheads in your midst. Make em' feel it.

Bryan Ferry! FUCK YEAH!

Otis Ferry! FUCK YEAH!

T. Rex! FUCK YEAH!

XTC! FUCK YEAH!

Prefab Sprout! FUCK YEAH!

Brian Epstein! FUCK YEAH!

Alan Hollinghurst! FUCK YEAH!

That Bronte Brother! FUCK YEAH!

My friend Matt, he's from there! FUCK YEAH!

My friend Jack, he just lives there! FUCK YEAH!

The Sitwells! FUCK YEAH!

The Sitsloppys! FUCK YEAH!

Horace Walpole! FUCK YEAH!

Wallace Horpole! FUCK YEAH!

Gorblimeyatsabitoawlriightinnit! FUCK YEAH!

Beachcomber! FUCK YEAH!

Scenes from Married Life! FUCK YEAH!

Scenes from Metropolitan Life! FUCK YEAH!

Scenes from Later Life! FUCK YEAH!

The Two Cultures! FUCK YEAH!

Fuck! FUCK YEAH!

Alistair Cooke(rip): FUCK YEAH

It took me almost 30 minutes to write that next to his name.

Listening to "Letter from America": FUCK YEAH and if you don't know you better ask somebody.

John Henry Cardinal Newman-Heck Yeah!
Paul Scofield-Fuck Yeah!
Maggie Smith-Fuck Yeah!
Western Thought and Culture-FUCK YEAH!

non-decimal-based money...Fuck yeah!

non-decimal-based measures...Fuck yeah!

Tommies...Fuck yeah!

Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst...Fuck yeah!

HMS Invincible...Fuck yeah!

Rule Britannia...Fuck yeah!

Falklands War...Fuck yeah!

Sending all your crims to Australia FUCK YEAH!

Blur FUCK YEAH!

Absolutely Fabulous FUCK YEAH!

Jason Isaacs FUCK YEAH!

Ewan McGregor FUCK YEAH!

Portishead FUCK YEAH!

The Austens and The Brontes FUCK YEAH!

Because it can't be said enough:

Colin Firth FUCK YEAH!

EMMA FUCK YEAH

Jane Eyre FUCK YEAH
Willaim Shakepeare DOUBLE FUCK YEAH

Bronte Sisters FUCK YEAHHHH

M from James Bonds FUCK YEAH

Dame Judi Destuch FUCK YEAH

Redgrave Family FUCK YEAH

I can't believe no one mentioned these but -

Sid James! Fuck yeah!

The 'Carry On' Films! Fuck Yeah!

Brian Sewell! Fuck Yeah!

People who shout "OI!" Fuck yeah!

High street betting shops! Fuck Yeah!

Only Fools and Horses! Fuck Yeah!

Liverpudlians and their thieving styles! Fuck yeah!

Police Helmets! Fuck Yeah!

Last night of the Proms! Fuck yeah!

Brighton! Fuck Yeah!

Norman Cook (AKA 'Fat Boy Slim')! Fuck Yeah!

The Today Program! Fuck Yeah!

Woman's Hour! Fuck Yeah!

BBC Radio 4 in general! Fuck Yeah!

Lancashire! Fuck Yeah!

Blackpool Illuminations! Fuck Yeah!

Dropping your H's ('orrid I know)! Fuck Yeah!

Banning Guns! Fuck Yeah!

Seemingly endless bleak, grey weather! Fuck Yeah!

Spike Milligan! Fuck Yeah!

Propositions which consist of
"Fancy a Shag?"! Fuck Yeah! (Not you, Milligan!)

London Cabbies! Fuck Yeah!

Bank Holidays! Fuck Yeah!

Boxing Day! Fuck Yeah!

Stupid DJs like Mark and Lard! Fuck Yeah!

British Puddings! Fuck Yeah!

The National Health Service! Fuck Yeah!

and last but not least, The doctors and paramedics of the London ambulance service who saved so many lives, Fuck Yeah!

Joan and Jackie Collins FUCK YEAH
Dynasty
Hollywood Wives BOTH FUCK YEAH

Krays FUCK YEAHHHHH

Mills family FUCK YEAH

Joan and Jackie Collins FUCK YEAH
Dynasty
Hollywood Wives BOTH FUCK YEAH

Krays FUCK YEAHHHHH

Mills family FUCK YEAH

Rupert Murodoch Brit taibiod empire FUCK YEAH

UK Sunday Times FUCK YEAHHH
UK Sunday Telegraph FUCK YEAHHH
UK Sunday Observer FUCK YEAHH

Well, since someone already said XTC, how about a lateral move to...

Martin Newell! FUCK YEAH!

Can't think of Britain without thinking of him, Hitch, and Prime Minister's Questions. Strange trio, but what about it?

-Dave O'Connell
York, PA, USA

P.S. Oh yes, and my dad's side of the family! FUCK YEAH!

Back from my corner bar, and quite loopy . . .

Need I say this at all?

EMILY! KEN! DAVE! Mutha-fuckin'-YEAH!!!!

Blake's "Jerusalem" - FUCK YEAH!
Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, and David Sylvian - FUCK YEAH!

Just the Sunday Telegraph, dear? No love for the Daily and Weekly Telegraphs? Well, that's easy enough to remedy:

Daily Telegraph! FUCK YEAH!

Weekly Telegraph! FUCK YEAH!

And I'll raise you a...The Spectator! FUCK YEAH!

And while we're on the written word, how about...

Neil Gaiman! FUCK YEAH!

Okay, I'm done. Honest.

-Dave O'Connell
York, PA, USA

Oh yeah, and anything which resembles a man's sport including -

Rugby Union! Fuck Yeah!

Rugby League! Fuck Yeah!

Cricket! Double Fuck Yeah!

Rita,
Mr. Cooke had so much class.

Henry Morgan! FUCK YEAH!
Shit weather! FUCK YEAH!

Mr. Dave O'Connell,
If it was me you were calling "dear," please do not ever do it again.

Finding out from BBC dramas that homosexuality is

ok: FUCK YEAH

If you grew up in the 50's you know what I mean--you young people are so lucky.

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy": FUCK YEAH

Oblique Strategies: FUCK YEAH I needed that one right now Monkey Robbl

Now I can go to bed...thanks Emily

No wait, one more:

The crew of the H.M.S. Bedfordshire! FUCK YEAH!

(as obscurely immortalized in the book, In Some Foreign Field: Four British Graves and Submarine Warfare On The North Carolina Outer Banks)

-Dave O'Connell

Henry Fielding! FUCK YEAH!

Patrick Stewart! FUCK YEAH!

Anthony Head! FUCK YEAH!

Peter Davison! FUCK YEAH!

Adam Ant! FUCK YEAH!

William Shakepeare! FUCK YEAH!

Jane Austen! FUCK YEAH!

Hell, how could I forget patronising ways of addressing women like -

Love! Fuck yeah!

Ducks! Fuck yeah!

Dearest! Fuck yeah!

Obscene 1000-year-old riddles! FUCK YEAH!
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! FUCK YEAH!
The Miller's Tale! FUCK YEAH!
The Rape of the Lock! FUCK YEAH!
Gulliver's Travels! FUCK YEAH!
Inspiring Natsume Soseki to reinvent the novel in Japan! FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and pensive talk about the weather,
Fuck yeah!

Gilman,
Do men in Britain really get away with calling women ducks?

From the other side of the Pond (yes, I know many of these have been done already -- repeating them is a show of affection):

King Alfred. FUCK YEAH!!!

The Daily and Weekly Telegraphs. FUCK YEAH!!!

Sir William Blackstone and English Common Law. FUCK YEAH!!!

Malcolm Muggeridge. FUCK YEAH!!!

Christopher and Peter Hitchens. FUCK YEAH!!!

Queen Elizabeth II. FUCK YEAH!!!

MP Michael Gove. FUCK YEAH!!!

Richard Hooker. FUCK YEAH!!!

The Beatles. FUCK YEAH!!!

The Rolling Stones. FUCK YEAH!!!

Tony Blair. FUCK YEAH!!!

Edmund Burke. FUCK YEAH!!!

George Trevelyan. FUCK YEAH!!!

Holding off those motherfuckin' Nazis. FUCK YEAH!!!

Fish & chips. FUCK YEAH!!!

William Shakespeare. FUCK YEAH!!!

The Tories. FUCK YEAH!!!

Edward Gibbon. FUCK YEAH!!!

The Spectator. FUCK YEAH!!!

Oxblog. FUCK YEAH!!!

All the Harry Potter books. FUCK YEAH!!!

Winston Churchill. FUCK YEAH!!!

Whoops, how could I forget The Lord of the Rings? FUCK YEAH!!!

Only up North, and women refer to their men-folk as -

"Our Lad"! Fuck Yeah!

"Our Kid"! Fuck Yeah!

Or "Chuck"! Fuck Yeah!

Oh, and James Bond...sheesh, how'd I leave HIM out? FUCK YEAH!!!

AHHHH, I forgot Margaret Thatcher! FUCK YEAH!!!

Q (the old one, not John Cleese)! Fuck Yeah!

Singing "Who ate all the pies?" when you see an overweight supporter for the other team in a football match! Fuck Yeah!

Actually, I wasn't trying to patronizing, but that's words for you.

Besides, I prefer the term 'bird'.

-Dave O'Connell
York, PA, USA

One last one:

The Archers! Fuck Yeah!

This entire blog is retarded.

Full Monty? FUCK YEAH?? Do you have anything else to say?

"Agincourt PLUCK YEW!"

ROTFLMAO!

Cate Blanchett is an Aussie.

Dave J & Emily: Sorry about Cromwell, but I live in a country where a significant minority of so-called libertarians and Republicans think of Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant. If they be tyrants, then tyrants have gotten a bum rap.

*boggle*

I don't believe it... I forgot...

TIME BANDITS!

FUCK YEAH!

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Shoppe! Fuck Yeah!
Hugh Bonneville! Fuck Yeah!
Richard Burton! Fuck Yeah!
Steak & Kidney Pie! Fuck Yeah!
The Stone back at Scone! Fuck Yeah!
Ravens in the Tower of London! Fuck Yeah!

Enfield FUCK YEAH!
Lucas FUCK YEAH!
Monty Python FUCK YEAH!
Barnoldswick FUCK YEAH!
Rudyard Kipling FUCK YEAH!
Charles Babbage FUCK YEAH!

Good Morning me old duck. The tubes are running. And thanks to all of you for your appreciation.

Evolution! Fuck Yeah!
Richard Dawkins! Fuck Yeah!
Sir Roger Penrose! Fuck yeah!
Rosalind Franklin! Fuck Yeah!
Francis Crick! Fuck Yeah!
Michael Faraday! Fuck Yeah!
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art! Yeah!
West End! Fuck Yeah!
Sir Walter Scott! Fuck Yeah!
oh yeah, how about Samantha Fox? definitely a late 80s puberty-aided Fuck yeah!
and of course, King George the III. Because he lost the colonies but Britain gained a Friend and Ally. Fuck yeah.

God bless the UK and God save the Queen.

The Grenadier Guards - Fuck Yeah!
The Coldstream Guards - Fuck Yeah!
The rest of the Brigade of Guards - Fuck Yeah!
The rest of the infantry, especially the really aggressive highland regiments - Fuck Yeah!
The rest of the British Army - Fuck Yeah!
The thought they'll be knocking on some dusty doors soon - FUCK YEAH!

The Founding Fathers - Fuck yeah
Lord Nelson - Fuck yeah
The Duke of Wellington - Fuck yeah
Andrew Carnegie - Fuck yeah
Democracy - Fuck yeah
Capitalism - Fuck yeah
Defeat of communist insurgencies (e.g. Malaya)- Fuck yeah
Defeat of fascist regimes - Fuck yeah
Cream (Eric Clapton)- Fuck yeah
Beatles - Fuck yeah
The Who - Fuck yeah
The Police (Sting) - Fuck yeah
George Orwell - Fuck yeah
Adam Smith - Fuck yeah
John Stuart Mill - Fuck yeah
James Bond - Fuck yeah
Harry Potter - Fuck yeah

Bodie and Doyle - FUCK YEAH!

The Boys from the Blackstuff - FUCK YEAH!

The Young Ones - FUCK YEAH!

Purdy and Steed - FUCK YEAH!

Edwina and Patsy - FUCK YEAH!

Elephant & Castle - FUCK YEAH!

Ian Botham - FUCK YEAH!

Sharp and Harper - FUCK YEAH!

The discovery of the DNA code by Francis Crick
Smallpox vaccination by Edward Jenner
Monty Python
Godfrey Hounsfield's CT scanner
The old course at St Andrews
Baden-Powell's boy scouts
Rudyard Kipling
The Archers
Frank Whittle and the jet engine
The Tollpuddle martyrs and the birth of Trades Union
Dolly the sheep
The ss Queen Mary
Michael Faraday
The Medical Research Council and the randomised clinical trial
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The 1611 translation of the Bible
The link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer
The British Council
The eccentric scientist working alone (viz. Peter Mitchell)
John Wesley and Methodism
Brighton Pavilion
James Black's designer drugs
God's Englishman, Oliver Cromwell
Manchester United
The Royal Mail
The National Trust
William Harvey and the circulation of blood
The New Forest
The Spitfire
Lister's antiseptic surgery
The Lake District
Handel's Messiah
Public hanging at Tyburn
Ronald Ross's discovery of how malaria is transmitted
Poets' corner
Jarrow marchers
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Cranmer's book of common prayer
The 11-plus
Ration books
Sir Christopher Wren
Driving on the left
The Broad Street Pump incident
The Royal Society
The cathedral choir
The miners' strike
English cheeses
The parish council
Speakers' corner
Shirley Bassey
Yorkshire pudding
Hampden Court Maze
The E type Jaguar
The playing fields of Eton
Blackpool Tower and Pleasure beach
The Times crossword puzzle
Earl Grey tea
The blitz
The Raj
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Flying Scotsman
Dan Dare and the Mekon
Ballroom dancing
Coarse fishing
The London sewers
Dinosaurs in Dorset
The Arsenal offside trap
The Lancet
Cricket at Lords
Waterloo (the battle not the station)
"Brief Encounter"
Morris dancers
The Notting Hill Carnival
Mary Jones' Bible (Bala)
Understatement
Polo
Sun headlines
The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough
The smell at Lipton's and the Home and Colonial
Double Decker buses
Old English Marmalade
Real tennis
Litotes
The leg-before-wicket law
The Goons
The six wives of Henry VIII
Sherlock Holmes
Twickenham
FUCK Yeah

JOHN LYDON - FUCK YEAH!
ALABAMA 3 - FUCK YEAH!
COLDHARBOUR LANE, BRIXTON - FUCK YEAH!

Lawrence of Arabia! FUCK YEAH!
Kim of India! FUCK YEAH!
General Gordon! FUCK YEAH!
General Montgomery! FUCK YEAH!
Admiral Nelson! FUCK YEAH!
Jack Aubrey, Sir Joseph Blaine and Stephen Maturin, for all love - FUCK YEAH!

All the dead of 7/7/05 in London - YEAH!!

Arsenal Gunners! FUCK YEAH!
Iron Maiden! FUCK YEAH!
Judas Priest! FUCK YEAH!
Saxon! FUCK YEAH!

MOT�RHEAD - FUCK YEAH!
JUDAS PRIEST - FUCK YEAH!
LOTUS - FUCK YEAH!
ASTON MARTIN - FUCK YEAH!
DEEP PURPLE - FUCK YEAH!
BLACK GRAPE - FUCK YEAH!
MGA - FUCK YEAH!
MGB - FUCK YEAH!
TRIUMPH - FUCK YEAH!
LENNOX LEWIS - FUCK YEAH!

The English Gentleman about town - FUCK YEAH!!
Bespoke tailoring - FUCK YEAH!!
The English suit-cut - FUCK YEAH!!
Bowler hats - FUCK YEAH!!
Brigg umbrellas - FUCK YEAH!!
Saville Row - FUCK YEAH!!
Jermyn St - FUCK YEAH!!

Knowing that one should contain bad language and maintain standards of decency etiquette that England is famous for, under all circumstances, keeping your head while all about you are losing theirs, while sipping that tea - HELL, FUCK YEAH!!

I forgot Dire Straits

Up the Irons!

Real Ale Fuck Yeah!

THE WESTBOURNE AT 6 PM ON A SUNDAY: FUCK YEAH!

G. K. Chesterton FUCK YEAH!

The Brits going back to work today and saying "FUCK YOU" to the terrorist scum! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

i am american, but the people of the uk make me proud to be a english speaking human on this planet earth

Lovely! FUCK YEAH!
It's grrreat! FUCK YEAH!

Spanking as sex. FUCK YEAH!
Big Ben. FUCK YEAH!
Di. FUCK YEAH!
Boy George. FUCK YEAH!
Leigh Bowery. FUCK YEAH!
Lucien Freud. FUCK YEAH!
Francis Bacon. FUCK YEAH!
Trainspotting. FUCK YEAH!
Thomas Chippendale. FUCK YEAH!
Wren! FUCK YEAH!
Inago Jones. FUCK YEAK!
Alexander Pope. FUCK YEAH!
ROXY MUSIC! FUCK YEAH!

Scones FUCK YEAH

With cream FUCK YEAH

Bobbies on bicycles (do they still do that?) anyway, FUCK YEAH

Spinsters cycling across the village green on their way to holy communion FUCK YEAH

Half-timbered tudor cottages FUCK YEAH

Stiff upper lips FUCK YEAH!

Edmund Spenser, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Grant - FUCK YEAH!

Stonehendge - FUCK YEAH!

Charlotte and Emily Bronte - FUCK YEAH!

Supermarine Spitfires - FUCK YEAH!

Stiff Upper Lips - FUCK YEAH!

Sir Winston Churchill (AGAIN!) - FUCK YEAH!
-David P.

The Times Literary Supplement FUCK YEAH

OXFORD STREET, CLOTTED CREAM AND DIANA RIGG - FUCK YEAH

Mark Steyn - FUCK YEAH!

John Donne, Fuck Yeah

Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls

London-Edinburgh-London, a 1200K bicycle ride. FUCK YEAH! (ouch)

Martin Atkins & Pigface FUCK YEAH!!!

Douglas Adams FUCK YEAH!!!

The Office FUCK YEAH!
Coupling FUCK YEAH!

graham parker - FUCK YEAH!

joy division - FUCK YEAH!

ub40 - FUCK YEAH!

my girlfriend asking this brit-loving yank if i am cancelling my trip to london because of yesterday's events-- FUCK NOOOO!

The Rolling Stones FUCK, YEAH
The Special Air Services FUCK, YEAH
Richard, Couer de Lion FUCK, YEAH
Winston Churchill (again and again) FUCK,YEAH
Benjamin Disraeli FUCK,YEAH
The Royal Air Force, FUCK, YEAH
The Royal Marines FUCK, YEAH
T. E. Lawrence FUCK, YEAH
Queen Boudicca FUCK, YEAH
Queen Victoria FUCK, YEAH
The British Museum FUCK, YEAH

Three-hundred and seventy comments! It took so long to read from my last (up around forty or so) that four more happened while I was scrolling through. You rawk, Em.

Possible repeats:
Henry V! Fuck Yeah!
Squeeze! Fuck Yeah!
Custards and fools! Fuck Yeah!
Brit slang! Fuck Yeah!
Cockneys! Fuck Yeah!
Guv'nors! Fuck Yeah!

And let me add what seems to be a shocking oversight: THE PILGRIMS! Fuck Yeah!

The SAS FUCK YEAH!

The Victorians wearing stiff collars in the middle of jungles and deserts FUCK YEAH!

Stupid arguments about tea or cream first FUCK YEAH!!!

Alfred Russel Wallace FUCK YEAH!!!
Charles Darwin FUCK YEAH!!
Charles Lyell FUCK YEAH!!

Adam Smith FUCK YEAH!

David Ricardo FUCK YEAH!

Andrew Lloyd Webber FUCK YEAH!

Robert Baden Powell FUCK YEAH!

Tim Rice FUCK YEAH!

John Derbyshire FUCK YEAH!

Peter Hitchens FUCK YEAH!

Johnny Walker FUCK YEAH!

Rudyard Kipling FUCK YEAH!

Ray Bradbury FUCK YEAH!

Cheddar FUCK YEAH!

Stephen Hawking FUCK YEAH!

Thomas Paine FUCK YEAH!

Alexander Graham Bell FUCK YEAH!

T. E. Lawrence FUCK YEAH!

John Locke FUCK YEAH!

Beowulf FUCK YEAH!!!

Being invaded by Normans in 1066 but then turning the Normans into Brits FUCK YEAH!!!

Incomprehensible Cockney rhyming slang FUCK YEAH!!

Repeats, to be sure, but bear repeating:

An entertainment system of culture and sophistication. One that through the wonderful works of Douglas Adams and Doctor Who made a lifelong sci-fan out of me. FUCK YEAH!!

Cheerfully adding foreign words to the language so that the English language is postmarked with all the places it has been FUCK YEAH!!!

Marillion -- FUCK YEAH
Porcupine Tree -- FUCK YEAH
Peter Gabriel -- FUCK YEAH
Genesis -- FUCK YEAH
Sting -- FUCK YEAH
spotted dick -- FUCK YEAH
sheep everywhere! -- FUCK YEAH
stonehenge (where the demons dwell) -- FUCK YEAH
hanging out at Pontins on holiday -- FUCK YEAH
shifting gears with my left hand -- FUCK YEAH
takeaway fish and chips -- FUCK YEAH
pound coins -- FUCK YEAH
Picadilly Circus -- FUCK YEAH
The Crown Jewels -- FUCK YEAH
The Tower of London -- FUCK YEAH
The Tower Bridge -- FUCK YEAH
The Thames -- FUCK YEAH
lost at Heathrow -- FUCK YEAH
ROUNDABOUTS -- FUCK YEAH
taxing our tea -- FUCK YEAH (I mean, FUCK THAT)
Jeremy Bentham -- FUCK YEAH
007 -- FUCK YEAH
Liverpool wins! -- FUCK YEAH

Ethelred the Unready FUCK YEAH!

Clive Barker!! FUCK YEAH!!

Just a few I think got left out:

Sean Bean

Mark Knopfler

Clive Anderson

Brian Blessed

The Earl of Sandwich

Spotted Dick

Rule Brittania

Dunkirk

Fu..., Well, you get the idea

It ain't over yet, spacers!!!

John Stuart Mill--FUCK YEAH!

Patrick McGoohan--FUCK YEAH!

Leo McKern--FUCK YEAH!

Mark Knopfler--FUCK YEAH!

Nigella Lawson--FUCK YEAH!

Surfing in Newquay FUCK YEA
Cheese and onion sandwiches FUCK YEA

Salisbury Hill FUCK YEAH!

"And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance divine
Shine forth upon those clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold,
Bring me my arrows of desire;
Bring me my spear! O, clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."

FUCK YEAH!!

Opps forgetting the H in Yeah FUCK YEAH

Boudicca FUCK YEAH!

The Economist FUCK YEAH

Large Muslim immigrant minority FUCK YEAH!

Chutney! FUCK YEAH!

Lemon Curry? FUCK YEAH!

Unprovoked attack on Iraq FUCK YEAH!

Single Malt Whisky -- FUCK YEAH!!

THE SAS -- FUCK YEAH!! (oh, someone got that-- but fuck yeah!)

Harrier Jump-Jets -- FUCK YEAH!!

Blackstone's Commentaries on Law -- FUCK YEAH!

Lord Coke -- FUCK YEAH!

Hawker Hurricanes, Mosquitos, Lancaster Bombers, and Gloster Meteors -- FUCK YEAH!

1966 WORLD CUP -- FUCK YEAH!

The British Museum - FUCK YEAH

Triumph automobiles - FUCK YEAH

Sir Arthur C. Clarke - FUCK YEAH!

George Orwell - FUCK YEAH!

Shamelessly Trying to be post 400! FUCK YEAH!

Silly English Knnn-nig-its! FUCK YEAH!

Scones with clotted cream and honey! FUCK YEAH!

Itty bitty sandwiches with the crusts cut off! FUCK YEAH!

Tea time! FUCK YEAH!

Carrington and Strachey! FUCK YEAH!

The Bloomsbury Group! FUCK YEAH!

Empire and subjugation of 3rd world people - FUCK YEAH

Jesus H. Goddamn Motherfucking Christ on Rollerblades...opening the blog to see more than 400 comments? Wow. Keep up the good work, people. FUCK YEAH!

Rule of Law!
House of Lords, House of Commons, "The Right Honorable ...", Question Time!
Stonehenge! Castles!
The White Cliffs of Dover!
Stiff Upper Lip!
Kicking ass and staying strong in WWII!

The extra "u" in colour!
The "s" instead of "z" in "realisation"!
"Lift" for "elevator" and "jumper" for "sweater"!
Coolest accent EVAR!

Kind Hearts and Coronets!
Ealing Studios!
We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day!
The Bronte sisters!
Jane Austen!
Cold Comfort Farm!

Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves!

All my Nelson and Pennington ancestors, and my Uncle John (may God rest his soul!)

**FUCK YEAH**!!!

The word "fuck." FUCK YEAH!!

Vicars & Tarts! FUCK YEAH!

Scraping the barrel now:
Jeffrey Archer! FUCK YEAH!
Camilla Parker Bowles! FUCK YEAH!

I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
May this fair dear land we love so well
In dignity and freedom dwell.
Though worlds may change and go awry
While there is still one voice to cry - - -

There'll always be an England
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England
While there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel,
A million marching feet.

Red, white and blue; what does it mean to you?
Surely you're proud, shout it aloud,
"Britons, awake!"
The empire too, we can depend on you.
Freedom remains. These are the chains
Nothing can break.

There'll always be an England,
And England shall be free
If England means as much to you
As England means to me.

--- Parker & Charles

I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
May this fair dear land we love so well
In dignity and freedom dwell.
Though worlds may change and go awry
While there is still one voice to cry - - -

There'll always be an England
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England
While there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel,
A million marching feet.

Red, white and blue; what does it mean to you?
Surely you're proud, shout it aloud,
"Britons, awake!"
The empire too, we can depend on you.
Freedom remains. These are the chains
Nothing can break.

There'll always be an England,
And England shall be free
If England means as much to you
As England means to me.

--- Parker & Charles

FUCK YEAH!!!!

(This is like eating potato chips--er, crisps. One doesn't know when to stop.)

Sherlock Holmes! FUCK YEAH!
William Morris! FUCK YEAH!
Elevenses! FUCK YEAH!
Being decent enough to give India back to its inhabitants! FUCK YEAH!
The "Beeb" accent! FUCK YEAH!
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse! FUCK YEAH!
Agatha Christie! FUCK YEAH!
Clotted cream and lemon curd! FUCK YEAH!

Continuous, peaceful handover of power for the last FOUR HUNDRED YEARS! fuck YEAH!

Bangers and fried bread
Branston pickles
Turner at the Tate
Vera Lynn
Triffle
Lyons tea
Fergie
Wimbledon
Mrs. Minniver
and yes, Andrew Sullivan
FUCK YEAH

Cruelly subjugating my Irish ancestors, thereby forcing them to move off the damn 'tater farm and come to Amerikay! FUCK YEAH

Helen Mirren! FUCK YEAH!!!

Bangers and fried bread
Branston pickles
Turner at the Tate
Vera Lynn
Triffle
Lyons tea
Fergie
Wimbledon
Mrs.Minniver
and yes, Andrew Sullivan,
FUCK YEAH!

Helena Bonham Carter! FUCK YEAH!

Mott the Hoople! FUCK YEAH!
Spotted Dick! FUCK YEAH!
Shepherd Pie! FUCK YEAH!
Arthur Conan Doyle! FUCK YEAH!

Did I mention MOTT THE HOOPLE! FUCK YEAH!

Massive anti-war protests before the Iraq war. FUCK YEAH!!!!!

This is a long one, but:

The tradition of removing your cigar band after lighting...fuck yeah!!!

Henry VIII - for starting a new church based on trying to nail a lady in waiting!!! FUCK YEAH!!

Hypocritically re-electing a war criminal Tony Blair FUCK YEAH!

The League of Gentlemen - FUCK YEAH!
Little Britain - FUCK YEAH!

Bangers and fried bread
Branston pickles
Turner at the Tate
Vera Lynn
Triffle
Lyons tea
Fergie
Wimbledon
Mrs.Minniver
Privacy hedges and back gardens
English saddles
Jumpers and nappies
Bubble and squeak
Florence Nightingale
Ground Force
and yes, Andrew Sullivan.
FUCK YEAH!

Three litre bottles of White Lightning Cider FUCK YEAH!!!

Judas Priest - Fuck Yea!

the BBC - oh fuck yeah
the people who gave us Monty Python and taught us about real humour - fuck yeah
spelling that ends in "our" not "or" - fuck yeah
the beer - fuck yeah
the people - fuck yeah
the music - fuck yeah
the books - fuck yeah
britain - fuck yeah

Robin Hood
Richard Burton
Chimney Sweeps
Tate Gallery
London Bridge
English nursery rhymes (Baa Baa Black Sheep..., Mary Mary Quite Contrary..., Little Jack Horner...London Bridge is Falling/Broken Down...,etc.)
Aubrey Beardsley
John Constable
Thomas Gainsborough
David Hockney
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Henry Moore
And, he's been mentioned before but Francis Bacon has to be included in a very brief list of distinguished English fine artists of note

"Keeping Up Appearances"! FUCK YEAH!
"Are You Being Served?," the lady with blue hair, and endless double entrendres! FUCK YEAH!

The Guardian? FUCK YEAH!

All good television ever? FUCK YEAH!

The "Death or Cake?" version of Christianity? FUCK YEAH!

Gays in the military? FUCK YEAH!

Dunhills? FUCK YEAH!

And, once more: Doctor Who? FUCK YEAH!

Weight in stones - FUCK YEAH!

Bram Stoker - FUCK YEAH!

The Streets - FUCK YEAH!

Grime - FUCK YEAH!

Snogging - FUCK YEAH!

Blokes and slags - FUCK YEAH!

Oliver Twist - FUCK YEAH!

Warm beer - FUCK YEAH!

Slick Rick - oh baby. FUCK YEAH!

Chimley sweeps! FUCK YEAH!
"Tidy up, tidy up." FUCK YEAH!
Being smarter than us Americans and figuring out to worship Hendrix, The Ramones, The Muppets and The White Stripes before we did. FUCK YEAH!

And it cannot be said enough: Radiohead and The Clash--FUCK YEAH!!!!

Bertie Wooster & Jeeves. Fuck Yeah!

Julia Ormond
Kate Bush
Bananarama

Full English Breakfast - FUCK YEAH!

Southampton FC - FUCK YEAH!

Glastonbury - FUCK YEAH!

Holidays to the Costa Del Sol - FUCK YEAH!

Fawlty Towers! FUCK YEAH!
Mary Poppins! FUCK YEAH!
Come to think of it, Julie Andrews! FUCK YEAH!

Oh, yeah, I forgot the big one--

Teaching Americans how to make decent tea-- FUCK YEAH!

Triumph motorcycles FUCK YEAH!
BSA motorcycles FUCK YEAH!
Norton motorcycles FUCK YEAH!
Brough Superior motorcycles FUCK YEAH!
Vincent motorcycles FUCK YEAH!

Princess Diana God(s) Rest Her Soul,
British Pagans,
Gilbert And Sullivan,
Tea And Crumpets As An Art Form,
Lemon Curd, Lime Curd, Strawberry Curd,
Clotted Cream,
The Spirit Of The British People Themselves!
FUCK YEAH!!!

Buggery and the lash. FUCK YEAH!

Lord Alfred Hayes. FUCK YEAH!

Davey Boy Smith. FUCK YEAH!

Tommy "The Dynamite Kid" Billington. FUCK YEAH!

Matilda, The British Bulldog. FUCK YEAH!

Chris Taylor. FUCK YEAH!

William "Steven" Regal. FUCK YEAH!

Cash in the attic! Fuck Yeah!
Terry Gilliam! Fuck Yeah!
Chicks w/ English accents! Fuck Yeah!
Ali G! Fuck Yeah!
Kate Winslett! Fuck Yeah!

Asking "May I come by and knock you up?" FUCK YEAH!

Tanqueray! FUCK YEAH

During the Korean War a British Centurion main battle tank situated on a hilltop spotted a column of Chinese T34/85's approaching down a valley. The Centurion fired and destroyed one of the Chinese tanks from a distance of almost 4 kilometers away. This was in the old days where firing guns was all done by hand with none of that fancy auto-loading infra-red laser-guided stuff.

The training that British tank gunners and artillery crews get that made them one of the most leathal forces to ever appear on any battlefield anywhere. FUCK YEAH!

To the Patrick that posted at July 8, 2005 01:21 AM: You are an asshole.

To the person called "Vicabady": My god, I hope you didn't mean that the way I read it the first time. If you did, sick. SICK.

Everyone else - thank you for making this thread so much fun. Please continue with as many UK FUCK YEAHS! that you can muster.

Cheers, London. To better times.

Roarke's Drift. FUCK YEAH!

All those old Hammer Films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. FUCK YEAH!

28 Days Later. FUCK YEAH!

Shaun Of The Dead. FUCK YEAH!

Okay, I know this in't all directed specifically at me, but being British, I've just got a warm and fuzzy feeling now I know how much you love us really!

Emily - this post isn't callous at all, it's the sort of thing, that, as a whole, Brits love. Humour in times of strife, that sort of thing.

And may I add - the Blitz spirit - FUCK YEAH!

I hadn't seen these mentioned...

Terry Thomas
Brands Hatch
Colin Chapman
Brooklands
The Lancaster bomber
The Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12
The Harrier Jump Jet
The Thoroughbred
Ascot
Show Jumping
Robin Hood
Knights
Ladies
Lords
Gerry Anderson
Ken Tyrell
The Mini
Range Rover
Land Rover
BSA
Vincent Black Shadow
HMS Bounty
Mutiny On The Bounty
Warm Beer
Pubs
Hooliganism
The Italian Job (1969)
Michael Caine
Oliver!
Dickens
My Fair Lady
Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Dick Francis
Len Deighton
L.J.K. Setright
Audrey Hepburn
George Martin
John Barry
Aircraft Carrier Catapults
Heathrow
Sopwith Camel

FUCK YEAH! And then some...

Oasis! FUCK YEAH!

Did I say that out loud?

Led Zeppelin, FUCK YEAH!
Red Dwarf, FUCK YEA!

Edie and Patsy. Absolutely Fab Fuck Yeah!!

John Barbirolli - FUCK YEAH!
Walter Legge - FUCK YEAH!
Benjamin Britten - FUCK YEAH!

As an Englishman, might I be permitted to add;
pride at the length and contents of this list. Gosh, yes!

The Who and David Bowie: FUCK YEAH!

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle: FUCK YEAH!

The Newgate Calendar: FUCK YEAH!

Buggery: FU...erm... ok, FUCK YEAH!

The SAS and Paras: FUCK YEAH!

Trafalgar, Waterloo, Rorke's Drift, Omdurman, and Dunkirk: FUCK YEAH!

Lee-Enfield Rifles: FUCK YEAH!

Whatever fuck Cricket is supposed to be about: FUCK YEAH!

Twiggy: Old school FUCK YEAH!

Nappies, nannies, and prams! FUCK YEAH!!

from a brit to all brit lovers

the foodie ones:

mars bars - FUCK YEAH
chicken tikka masala - FUCK YEAH
custard - FUCK YEAH
custard creams - FUCK YEAH
trifle - FUCK YEAH
jellied eels - er, FUCK YEAH

the rest:

flanelled fools - FUCK YEAH
brick lane - FUCK YEAH
whitstable - FUCK YEAH
powell and pressburger - FUCK YEAH
john bull - FUCK YEAH

Jack Hawkins and the crew of the "Compass Rose" in "The Cruel Sea". FUCK YEAH!

Michael Caine and Stanley Baker in "Zulu". FUCK YEAH!

Boddington's Pub Ale - FUCK YEAH!
Meat pie, chips, and gravy - FUCK YEAH!

God Save The Queen!

Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. FUCK YEAH!

Peter Gabriel,
Kate Bush,
Adam Ant,
British Red,
English Complexions,
Chalice Well,
King Arthur,
Camelot,
Avalon,
The Lady Of The Lake,
Ha Fucking Za

MARMITE! FARK YEAH!

"Come on, Timmy!" Fuck Yeah!
Old Speckled Hen Fuck Yeah!
The Ashes Fuck Yeah!
Colin Montgomery Fuck Yeah!
The BEF Fuck Yeah!
Funny hats at weddings Fuck Yeah!

"I, Claudius", "Goobye To All That", and just about anything else by Robert Graves. FUCK YEAH!

Michele,
It's okay - I said it out loud somewhere above as well...

Lizzie at 8:33 am: humour in times of strife! FUCK YEAH!

Neil at 8:36 am: big smile. BIG smile.

John Snow's figuring out the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak! FUCK YEAH!!!

The Marble Arch
and the city where my wife said "Yes!"

"Slow down, pace yourself," he told one group. "Today is a day to be proud to be an American."

Rick Rescorla, VP of Security, Morgan Stanley, WTC South Tower, Sept 11, 2001. Only 6 of 2700 Morgan Stanley employees were killed in the WTC thanks to the evacuation plan developed by Mr. Rescorla after the WTC bombing in 1993.

Rick Rescorla was born in Cornwall, England. I'm sure that he'd agree that July 7, 2005 was a proud day to be British.

RIck Rescorla and all the rest of you. FUCK YEAH!

Alice in Wonderland! FUCK YEAH!
Beatrix Potter! FUCK YEAH!

Gin Gimlets Fuck Yeah!
Oxford University, where "new" college was founded in the early 1500s, Fuck Yeah!
The Bodlian Library, Fuck Yeah!
Hobbes and Leviathan, Fuck Yeah!
Brown Bess, Fuck Yeah!
The Piranha Brothers, Fuck Yeah!
Dreadnought, Fuck Yeah!
The Encyclopedia Britannica, double Fuck Yeah!
The Younger Pitt, Fuck Yeah!
The Venerable Bede, Fuck Yeah!

Lane at 8:46: beautiful.

Jim from Canada: I'd like to second your Rick Rescorla! FUCK YEAH!

The Oxford English Dictionary! FUCK YEAH!!!

One more thing...

The Concorde... the good parts of it!

Fuck yeah!

Brown's, the Stafford (and its bar) and THE Connaught. Fuck Yeah!!!

Okay... one more, one more...

The Western Half of the Chunnel! Fuck yeah!

Mr. Huffman,
Feel free to post as many as you like.

Same goes for everybody, no matter where in the world you are.

Driving the French out of North America: FUCK YEAH!

David Farrer! FUCK YEAH!

"...I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" HELL YEAH!

George Eliot,
John Bunyan,
Thomas Hardy,
Oscar Wilde (Ireland was still British when he was alive, same for several that follow),
Lewis Carroll,
Jonathon Swift,
Walter Scott,
James Joyce,
Bernard Shaw,
Samuel Beckett,
George Orwell,
Charles Dickens,

FUCK YEAH!!!

Samuel Pepys! FUCK YEAH!

Aston Martin! Fuck Yeah!

Setting fire to the White House in 1815

FUCK YEAH

Careful there, Rupert.

Digestive biscuits! FUCK YEAH!

Workers for the good of mankind:

Elizabeth Fry,
John Howard,
George Muller,
Dr Barnardo,
Andrew Carnegie,

Samuel Plimsoll,
Lord Shaftesbury
William Harvey,
Lord Joseph Lister,
Sir Charles Sherrington,
John Hunter,
Richard Doll,
Richard Bright,
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,
Thomas Hodgkin,
James Black,
FUCK YEAH!!

Jack Tar: FUCK YEAH!

The Lancet: FUCK YEAH!

Blackstone, Bracton, stare decisis, and the Common Law: FUCK YEAH!

The Union Jack: FUCK YEAH!

Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols: FUCK YEAH!

Driving on the wrong side of the road, with steering on the wrong side of the car: FUCK YEAH!

Roundabouts: FUCK YEAH!

Stonehenge: the Earth spirits cry out, FUCK YEAH!

the English language: FUCK YEAH!

Swearing! FUCK YEAH!

I'm amazed by this potted version of British culture!

London Calling! FUCK YEAH!
The Damned! FUCK YEAH!
Blackadder! FUCK YEAH!
The English Language! FUCK YEAH!

Tight Trousers: you reminded me of one I don't think has been mentioned yet.

The Rutles! FUCK YEAH!

Brassed Off, Billy Elliott, Love Actually: FUCK Yeah!

Ministry of Silly Walks FUCK YEAH!

Alcuin FUCK YEAH!

Book of Common Prayer FUCK YEAH!

Sir Alec Guinness FUCK YEAH!

Chris Rhea FUCK YEAH!

Englishmen who say "Gosh, yes!" FUCK YEAH!
My British boss who actually greets people with "What ho, fishface" a la Bertie Wooster FUCK YEAH!

Hammer Films - FUCK YEAH!
Michael Reeves/Witchfinder General - FUCK YEAH!
Cushing and Lee - FUCK YEAH!
Terry Fisher - FUCK YEAH!
Sir James Carreras - FUCK YEAH!
Val Guest - FUCK YEAH!
Don Sharp - FUCK YEAH!
The Standard pub in Rye - FUCK YEAH!

This is London (E.R. Murrow) FUCK YEAH

Stephen Fry! FUCK YEAH!

For:
Wagamama
the Crepe stand at Hampstead Heath (assuming it's still there...)
the University of Bristol
the Downs
Renatos Numero Uno
Sally Lunn bunns
and because there exists: the bright purple palace of-
Mohammed's Tijuano Taco Stand and Coffee Bar now serving Belgian Waffles!!
Fuck yeah!

Rumpole of the Bailey: FUCK YEAH!
THE PRISONER: FUCK YEAH!
Any thing else with Leo McKern: FUCK YEAH!
Leo McKern: FUCK YEAH!
Taxi Divers with "The Knowledge": FUCK YEAH!
That pub near Trafalgar Square with the sign that says "Warm Beer, Lousy Food" (is it still there?): FUCK YEAH!
Britain and America (and the rest of the Anglosphere) remembering who their true friends are: FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK YEAH!

Charles Lamb - FUCK YEAH!
Mary Lamb! FUCK YEAH!
Bert Cools, author of fine radio adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories! FUCK YEAH!
Richard Dadd - FUCKIN' INSANE!
Julian of Norwood - FUCK YEAH! ALL SHALL BE WELL, AND ALL SHALL BE WELL, AND ALL MANNER OF THING SHALL BE WELL!

Somment 500! FUCK YEAH!

Greenwich Standard Time FUCK YEAH!!

500th comment! FUCK YEAH!

Speaker's Corner! FUCK YEAH!
Rotten Row! FUCK YEAH!
Holland Park! FUCK YEAH!

The tank FUCK YEAH!
Bletchley Park FUCK YEAH!
Horatio Nelson FUCK YEAH!
Agincourt FUCK YEAH!
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
as modest stillness and humility.
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
then imitate the action of the tiger.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood
disguise fair nature with hard favored rage
then lend to the eye a terrible aspect" FUCK YEAH!
Sword and Gold Beaches FUCK YEAH!
RADAR FUCK YEAH!

Shepard�s Pie FUCK YEAH!

Prime Ministers Question Time FUCK YEAH!

Hyde Park FUCK YEAH!

Fried eggs on Pizza FUCK YEAH!

Scones with jam and cream FUCK YEAH!

Covent Garden FUCK YEAH!

Westminster Abbey FUCK YEAH!

St. Paul�s Cathedral FUCK YEAH!

The Tower Bridge FUCK YEAH!

The spires of Oxford FUCK YEAH!

Edinburgh (enough said) FUCK YEAH!

To echo the sentiments of my blog partners:

500 comments on how awesome the British are! FUCK YEAH!

GO LONDON! FUCK YEAH!

Sam Smith's beers: FUCK YEAH!

That random Texas restaurant in Trafalgar Square: FUCK YEAH!

The Yardbirds: FUCK YEAH!

Dame Judi Dench and "As Time Goes By" (and every one of the thousands of times my wife has watched her/it!). FUCK YEAH!

Bonnets: FUCK YEAH!

Boots: FUCK YEAH!

Loos: FUCK YEAH!

Getting pissed: FUCK YEAH!

Kate Beckinsale: FUCK YEAH!

The Battle of Cr�cy! FUCK YEAH!
Tottenham Hotspurs! FUCK YEAH!
Cornish pasties! FUCK YEAH!
Scotch eggs! FUCK YEAH!
Wookey Hole! FUCK YEAH!
The Dam Busters! FUCK YEAH!
Bomber Harris! FUCK YEAH!
Douglas Bader! FUCK YEAH!
Dad's Army! FUCK YEAH!

Diana Wynne Jones! FUCK YEAH!

St. Paul's Cathedral - FUCK YEAH!
Nelson's Column - FUCK YEAH!
Tate Modern - FUCK YEAH!
Bayswater - FUCK YEAH!
Portabello Road - FUCK YEAH!
Pastys - FUCK YEAH!
Marks and Sparks - FUCK YEAH!
Battersea Power Station - FUCK YEAH!
Chelsea - FUCK YEAH!
Charing Cross - FUCK YEAH!
Covent Garden - FUCK YEAH!
HSBC - FUCK YEAH!
The Gerken - FUCK YEAH!
Courage - FUCK YEAH!
The Tube - FUCK YEAH!
The Royal Albert Hall - FUCK YEAH!
St. Martins In The Field - FUCK YEAH!
For Fuck's Sake - FUCK YEAH!
Ricky Gervais - FUCK YEAH!
The Beeb - FUCK YEAH!
Sir Christopher Wren - FUCK YEAH!
Tottenham Court Road - FUCK YEAH!
Soho - FUCK YEAH!
The Gatwick Express - FUCK YEAH!
Garfunkel's - FUCK YEAH!
The Rat and Crow - FUCK YEAH!
Victoria Station - FUCK YEAH!
The London Eye - FUCK YEAH!

"That random Texas restaurant in Trafalgar Square" is called the Texas Embassy, and the food there sucks--to quote Dick Cheney--big time, but it's somehow nice to know it exists anyway. The Texas Embassy! FUCK YEAH!

British Monarchs:
Alfred the Great (871-899),
Edmund the Magnificent (940-946),
Edwig All Fair (955-959),
Edgar the Peaceable (959-975),
and everyone's favorite...
Ethelred the Unready (978-1016).
Fuck Yeah!

James Harriot! FUCK YEAH!
Merchant Ivory! FUCK YEAH!
Border Collies! FUCK YEAH!
Julie Christie! FUCK YEAH!
E M Forster! FUCK YEAH!

Egbert! FUCK YEAH!

Gulliver's Travels: FUCK YEAH!
Anthony Burgess: FUCK YEAH!
A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed (Soylent Green anyone?), 1985: FUCK YEAH!
Aldous Huxley: FUCK YEAH!

William Gladstone,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Lord Palmerston,
Robert Peel,
Thomas Cromwell,
Kier Hardie,
Wiliam Pitt the Younger,
Lord Chatham,
Richard Neville,
Earl of Warwick,
William Cecil,
Winston Churchill,
Margaret Thatcher.

FUCK YEAH!

Okay, running out of options, but:

Cornish Pasties- FUCK YEAH!!!!
Steak and Kidney pie- FUCK YEAH!!!!
Bangers and mash- FUCK YEAH!!!!
HP Sauce- FUCK YEAH!!!!
PG Tipps- FUCK YEAH!!!!
Imperial pints, not wussy American ones- FUCK YEAH!!!!

London!!! FUCK YEAH!

These are all new
Thomas Telford,
Richard Arkwright,
Reginald Mitchell,
James Hargreaves,
Samuel Crompton,
Peter Carl Goldmark,
James Brindley,
Henry Bessemer,
Geoffrey de Havilland,

FUCK YEAH!!

Oh, and that Chinese restaurant with the killer dim sum in Leicester square where I've seen Eric Idle a few times- FUCK YEAH!!!!

Liverpool FC: FUCK YEAH!
the Hawker Harrier: FUCK YEAH!
saving the West from Naziism via the Battle of Britain: FUCK YEAH!

Patrick O'Brien, who only pretended to be Irish

FUCK YEAH!

Tony Blair - FUCK YEAH

To "Reality Check" - thank you for taking this opportunity to express to the world how big of an asshole you are capable of being. Special kudos for your exhibition of bravery by posting anonymously. - Emily

Blackpool! FUCK YEAH!
Alton Towers! FUCK YEAH!
Chessington! FUCK YEAH!
Oakwood! FUCK YEAH!
Drayton Manor! FUCK YEAH!
Buntins! FUCK YEAH!
Pontins! FUCK YEAH!
Minehead! FUCK YEAH!
Dover! FUCK YEAH!
Cornwall! FUCK YEAH!
Pasties! FUCK YEAH!
Somerset! FUCK YEAH!
Weston-Super-Mare! FUCK YEAH!
Thomas the Tank Engine! FUCK YEAH!
Asda! FUCK YEAH!
Mars bars! FUCK YEAH!
Banzai! FUCK YEAH!
Chubby Brown! FUCK YEAH!
Jethro! FUCK YEAH!
Jethro Tull! FUCK YEAH!
Hull! FUCK YEAH!
Wookey Hole! FUCK YEAH!
Cheddar! FUCK YEAH!
Bath! FUCK YEAH!
Propellerheads! FUCK YEAH!

Almost forgot; The Fat Slags! FUCK YEAH!

ATTENTION: Please continue to post whatever FUCK YEAH! you like without worrying that someone has posted it already. This is a celebration, not a database. Nothing is being compiled for historical or statistical purposes so repetition will harm nothing.

Just have fun. Anyone caught being un-nice will either have their comment deleted or be ridiculed at great personal expense to their dignity, depending on my mood when I read it.

~Britain! FUCK YEAH!~

Yeah, what Emily said. Reading all 500+ comments would be insane...unless you'd read them mostly as they were being posted, like I and, I assume, she and Ken did.

The Japanese have calculated that 55% of all useful inventions came out of Britain so here's to
John McAdam,
Frederick Handley Page
Francis Crick,
Robert Hooke,
John Soulsdon,
Paul Nurse,
Sidney Brenner,
William Sanger,
Francis Kendrew,
Max Perutz,
Cesar Milstein,
Laurence Bragg ,
William Bragg,
Dorothy Hodgkin,
John Dalton,
Lord Kelvin (Joseph Thomson),
Charles Wheatstone,
Ernest Rutherford (in those days all New Zealanders were British subjects),
William Hooker,
Oliver Heaviside,
Humphrey Davy,
John Cockcroft,
James Chadwick,
Henry Cavendish,
James Dewar

Fuck yes.

Acker Bilk

FUCK YEAH!

Mark E. Fucking Smith! Fuck yeah!

John o' Groats! Fuck yeah!

Old Peculiar! Fuck yeah!

Motorhead! Fuck yeah!

Hawkwind! Fuck yeah!

Jeeves and Wooster! FUCK YEAH!

William Tyndale
Thomas Cranmer,
Bishop Hugh Latimer,
Bishop Nicholas Ridley,
John Wycliffe,
John Henry Newman,
George Whitefield,
William Carey,
William Temple,
William of Wykeham,
William Penn,
John Knox,
George Fox,
St Boniface,
Thomas a Becket,
Gladys Aylward,
St Patrick
CS Lewis
CS Spurgeon
Martin Lloyd Jones

Amen!

BENNY HILL FUCK YEAH

John Cleese FUCK YEAH
Roger Waters FUCK YEAH

Placenames that are not pronounced remotely like they're spelled!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

Baked beans on toast for breakfast FUCK YEAH
Canned stewed tomatos on toast for breakfast FUCK YEAH
Anything else you can think of ON TOAST for breakfast FUCK YEAH
The smell of Brussel sprouts after they have been boiled for 25 minutes into a tasteless, textureless mush FUCK YEAH (not that I'd eat it anymore unless my Mum made me)
Any of the other semi edible things my Mum made me eat growing up FUCK YEAH

I don't know if she qualifed she marry Henry the Eighth

Katherine of Aragaon FUCK YEAH

Bernard Cribbins FUCK YEAH! ('Right', said Fred...)
Stanley Holloway FUCK YEAH! (And Albert too)
Smokie FUCK YEAH! (Who the fuck IS Alice, anyway?)
AbFab! FUCK YEAH

And it's a crying shame that the last is the only one most Americans have any knowledge of...

Kelly, Catherine of Aragon was from (wait for it) Aragon, in Spain, but I think all six of Henry VIII's wives get a pass.

The relatively easy way to remember the is, "divorced, executed, died, divorced, executed, survived":

Catherine of Aragon! FUCK YEAH!
Anne Boleyn! FUCK YEAH!
Jane Seymour! FUCK YEAH!
Katherine Howard! FUCK YEAH!
Anne of Cleves! FUCK YEAH!
Katherine Parr! FUCK YEAH!

Pigeons around Trafalgar

Ravens at the Tower

"Birds" of all sort in Sloane Sq.

Fuck Yeah!

England Rugby FUCK YEAH!
Sorry, World Cup Winning ENGLAND RUGBY FUCK YEAH!
Sam Smith Ales FUCK YEAH!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!! FUCK YEAH!!

Ian McEwan - FUCK YEAH!

Gordon Ramsey - FUCK YEAH!

Michael Adams (and Nigel Short and Howard Staunton) - FUCK YEAH!

Claire Grogan and The Specials and The Jam and The Clash and the whole late 70s / early 80s music scene - FUCK YEAH! FUCK YEAH!!

Terence Stamp - FUCK YEAH!

Pauline Cowley (a girl I dated 20 years ago) - FUCK YEAH!

hist_ed,
"The smell of Brussel sprouts after they have been boiled for 25 minutes into a tasteless, textureless mush."

Hahahahaha. That is just classic.

By the by, I can't remember if anyone's given a:

Bad teeth! FUCK YEAH!

Because I think it's against the law in the US to talk about British people without bringing the subject up.

Tongue! (one my grandma's favourite dishes from home) With a nice side of Tripe! (another favourite)

Here are a couple I believe I forgot (again):

Joining together with us to kick terrorist's asses in Afghanistan!! FUCK YEAH!!

Smuggling beer to American soldiers in Afghanistan who weren't allowed to have any!! FUCK YEAH!!

Wirlygig - FUCK YEAH!
Muffin the Mule - FUCK YEAH!
Hank - FUCK YEAH!
Watch with Mother - FUCK YEAH!
Rag Tag & Bobtail - FUCK YEAH!
Bill & Ben - FUCK YEAH!
The Woodentops including Spotty dog - FUCK YEAH!
Andy Pandy & Loobylou - FUCK YEAH!
Noddy & Bigears - FUCK YEAH!
Sooty & Sweep - FUCK YEAH!
Torchy - FUCK YEAH!
Twizzle - FU um,er - SCREW YEAH!
Pinky & Perky - FUCK YEAH!
Basil Brush - FUCK YEAH!
The Herbs - FUCK YEAH!
Trumpton - FUCK YEAH!
The Moomins - FUCK YEAH!
Thomas the Tank Engine - FUCK YEAH!

Goes without saying that the Mekon can FUCK OFF as well!

Bobbies on bicycles
Peter Pan
Captain Cook
Penicillin
Golf
Oscar Wilde
Agatha Christie
Bowler hats
Berkeley Square
Miniskirts
Freddie Mercury
The Chunnel
Sherlock Holmes
Greenwich Mean Time
Telephones
Cecil John Rhodes
Enid Blyton
Thunderbirds
Edinburgh Castle
Seaside Rock
and Pubs!

Martin Parr - FUCK YEAH!
Doc Martins - FUCK YEAH
David Hockney - FUCK YEAH
the Flying Scotsman - FUCK YEAH
Black Sheep beer - FUCK YEAH
Beatrix Potter - FUCK YEAH
the Proms - FUCK YEAH
Richard and Judy - FUCK YEAH
Weetabix - FUCK YEAH
shortbread - FUCK YEAH
the Radio Times - FUCK YEAH
Laurence LLewelyn Bowen - FUCK YEAH
Changing Rooms - FUCK YEAH
Ann Robinson - FUCK YEAH
Harrods - FUCK YEAH
the A to Zed - FUCK YEAH
Parkinson - FUCK YEAH
the Mini - FUCK YEAH
Paddington Bear - FUCK YEAH
Dell Boy - FUCK YEAH

Good manners
Queues
The South Downs
Self-deprecating humour

Double Creme -- FUCK YEAH!
Buttered Scones -- FUCK YEAH!
Ploughman's Lunch -- FUCK YEAH!
Single Malts -- FUCK YEAH!
Yards of Ale -- FUCK YEAH!
Roundabouts -- FUCK YEAH!
St. Davids -- FUCK YEAH!
Speaker's Corner -- FUCK YEAH!
Mind the Gap -- FUCK YEAH!
Puffins -- FUCK YEAH!
Hedgehogs -- FUCK YEAH!
Stephen Hawking -- FUCK YEAH!
Isaac Newton -- FUCK YEAH!
Capability Brown -- FUCK YEAH!
William Wallace -- FUCK YEAH!
Robert Graves -- FUCK YEAH!
Have I Got News For You -- FUCK YEAH!
Dire Straits -- FUCK YEAH!
Chertsey -- FUCK YEAH!
Weybridge -- FUCK YEAH!
The Lake District -- FUCK YEAH!
Beatrice Potter -- FUCK YEAH!
Chester -- FUCK YEAH!
Ministry of Defense -- FUCK YEAH!
SAS -- FUCK YEAH!
Poppies -- FUCK YEAH!
Greenwich -- FUCK YEAH!
Tea Time -- FUCK YEAH!
Parliament -- FUCK YEAH!
Magna Carta -- FUCK YEAH!
Provision of Oxford -- FUCK YEAH!
Oxford -- FUCK YEAH!
Cambridge -- FUCK YEAH!
Land's End -- FUCK YEAH!
Glastonbury -- FUCK YEAH!
The Moors -- FUCK YEAH!
Tintagel -- FUCK YEAH!
Tintern Abbey -- FUCK YEAH!
Caerphilly Castle -- FUCK YEAH!
Isle of Wight -- FUCK YEAH!
The Cotswolds -- FUCK YEAH!
Chelsea Flower Show -- FUCK YEAH!
Great British Beer Festival -- FUCK YEAH!
Elvis Costello -- FUCK YEAH!
The Proms -- FUCK YEAH!
Pomp and Circumstance -- FUCK YEAH!
Royal Albert Hall -- FUCK YEAH!
The Premier League -- FUCK YEAH!
The Shambles -- FUCK YEAH!
The Needles -- FUCK YEAH!
The New Forest -- FUCK YEAH!
Bed and Breakfast -- FUCK YEAH!
Stilton Cheese -- FUCK YEAH!
Yorkshire Pudding -- FUCK YEAH!
Lord Nelson -- FUCK YEAH!
Duke of Marlborough -- FUCK YEAH!
Simon De Montfort -- FUCK YEAH!

The Belfast Grand Opera House! FUCK YEAH!

John Cabot,
Edmund Hillary (still a British subject),
George Vancouver,
Ernest Shackleton,
James Cooke
Lulworth Cove
Ellen Macarthur
Francis Chichester
Alec Rose
Jack Aubrey
Bolitho
Richard the Virgin
Rowing the Atlantic
Swimming the Channel
Crossing the Marylebone Road
All feats of derring do!

FUCK Yeah!

Spitting Image! FUCK YEAH!
Ginger Wine! FUCK YEAH!
Cricket at Lords! FUCK YEAH!

Robinson's! FUCK YEAH!

Withnail & I... FUCK YEAH!!!

ERRRMMM.....might want to take Whitehall off the list, for the W@nkers of Whitehall are the ones who have fostered the great appeasement and kow-towing to all muslims, which encouraged the muslim nutters, to the detriment of all other groups.

Foreskins... FUCK YEAH!!!

A city (London) that has pubs older than my country (Canada) - FUCK YEAH!

Stiff upper lips - FUCK YEAH!

And finally, a man who helped my through my childhood, a man who served his country well (in uniform and in civvies), a man who recognized bullies of all shapes, sizes, genders and ages, and who fought them at every turn: Roald Dahl - FUCK YEAH!

MommaBear,
That building is the place where the country that gave birth to modern democracy conducts its business. The people of Britain elected the party that is currently running the place. If her people don't like how things are being done, they will let their leaders in their next scheduled election. My FUCK YEAH! remains intact.

The American Bar at the Stafford Hotel
Blue Ball Yard, SW1A1NA, London
(God's honest truth; I couldn't make this stuff up.)

FUCK YEAH!

The British airmen, working for the Sultan of Oman, who on the day after Desert One, when the US Air Force elements were still at Masirah, drove up to the front of their tents, dropped off 2 cases of cold beer and drove off with out a word. Only a note on one of the cases:

To You All
From Us All
For having the guts to try.

Fuck Yeah!

Penfold Shush! Fuck Yeah!

Wellington, The Iron Duke! Fuck Yeah!

Hating the French! Fuck Yeah

Bletchley Park! Fuck Yeah!

All the great actors

Laurence Olivier,
John Guilgud,
Alec Guinness,
Ralph Richardson,
Henry Irving,
Peggy Ashcroft,
Tony Blair,
Judy Dench,
Michael Caine,
Sean Connery,
Anthony Hopkins,
Michael Redgrave,
Maggie Smith,
Pete Postlethwaite
Cary Grant,
David Niven,
Joan Plowright,
Derek Jacobi
Paul Schofield,
Vanessa Redgrave (but not her politics)
Richard Harris
Richard Burton,
Peter O'Toole,
Kate Winslet,
Clive Owen
Sean Bean

Fooking Fuck Yeah!

Sean Bean! FUCK YEAH!

(He gets an extra one for being beautiful.)

Prick with a silent "P" FUCK YEAH

The Great Kings

William I,
Henry VII,
Cnut,
Elizabeth 1st,
Henry VIII,
Edward I.
Judy King (my first snog)

FUCK Yeah!

The British airmen, working for the Sultan of Oman, who on the day after Desert One, when the US Air Force elements were still at Masirah, drove up to the front of their tents, dropped off 2 cases of cold beer and drove off with out a word. Only a note on one of the cases:

To You All
From Us All
For having the guts to try.

This one deserves an extra FUCK YEAH! as well.

Christopher Wren,
Inigo Jones,
John Vanbrugh,
Lancelot (Capability) Brown,
Robert Adam,
John Nash
Jethro Tull (the agriculturist not the pop group)

FUCK YEAH!

For Chad & Jeremy, FUCK YEAH!

"hist_ed,
"The smell of Brussel sprouts after they have been boiled for 25 minutes into a tasteless, textureless mush."

Hahahahaha. That is just classic.
Posted by: Emily at July 8, 2005 11:31 AM"

Cheers, Emily and may I add

Saying "Cheers" instead of "thank you", "Goodbye" or half a dozen other things--FUCK YEAH

And even though it is an American product, since I was raised on it by my English Mum, I have to add: Eating lots of Spam-FUCK YEAH

Mum instead of Mom--FUCK YEAH

Bobby Moore,
Bobby Charlton,
John Charles
Len Hutton,
Dennis Compton,
Fred Truman,
Ian Botham
Fred Perry
Martin Johnson
Sebastian Coe

FUCK YEAH!

Sir Charles Siemens,
Nathan Meyer Rothschild,
Cecil Rhodes,
Lord Nuffield,
Lord Northcliffe,
Beaverbrooke,
Allen Lane,
Thomas Gresham
The Empire

FUCK YEAH!

Sir Francis Bacon..... FUCK YEAH
Bacon in an English Breakfast..... FUCK YEAH
"The Dog's Breakfast".....FUCK YEAH
Providing a drinking song we could use for our national anthem.....FUCK YEAH
Getting drunk in Bath......FUCK YEAH
Getting drunk in Cambridge......FUCK YEAH
Getting drunk in Oxford......FUCK YEAH
Getting drunk in England.....FUCK YEAH
Getting drunk on Britrail....FUCK YEAH
Fitting in because I'm drunk in all the above...FUCK YEAH
Madness, the Beat, Specials....FUCK YEAH
Bangers.....FUCK YEAH
"She's really fit"......FUCK YEAH
Queueing up..... FUCK YEAH
Screaming English Chefs (Ramsey)....FUCK YEAH
Brave, brave, Sir Robin....FUCK YEAH
Coaxing an almost coherent performance out of Andie McDowell.....FUCK YEAH
Robert Fulton.....FUCK YEAH
The Tort System......FUCK YEAH
Royals with big goofy ears.....FUCK YEAH
Cool Brittania.....FUCK YEAH

carry on....um, er- fuck yeah.

monty python - FUCK YEAH
eric clapton - FUCK YEAH
nice manners - FUCK YEAH
Pound Sterling - FUCK YEAH
and ditto the entire list that precedes me - FUCK YEAH

John Henry Cardinal Newman FUCK YEAH
The Venerable Bede and his Ecclessiastical History... FUCK YEAH
St. Augustine of Canterbury FUCK YEAH
George Orwell FUCK YEAH
F.C. Copleston FUCK YEAH
Gerard Manley Hopkins FUCK YEAH
Gazza FUCK YEAH

Lock Stock and 2 Loaded Barrels FUCK YEAH
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Super Star FUCK YEAH
Stonehendge FUCK YEAH
Wassail FUCK YEAH
English Muffins FUCK YEAH
Legends of King Aurther FUCK YEAH
Shakespeare FUCK YEAH
Ozzie Fucking Ozborne FUCK YEAH
Thomas Augustine Arne FUCK YEAH
The British music invasion of the 60's FUCK YEAH
Douglas Adams and JK Rowling FUCK YEAH
Thomas Gainsborough FUCK YEAH
and all my Ancestors! Fuck YEAH

To add to what has already been mentioned (I didn't see these yet. Sorry if I'm repeating):

David Bowie - FUCK YEAH!
Foppery - FUCK YEAH!!
Men Playing Women's Roles in Comedy - FUCK YEAH!
Whose Line Is It Anyway? - FUCK YEAH!
Jude Law - FUCK YEAH!
Cary Elwes - FUCK YEAH!
Oscar Wilde - FUCK YEAH!
The Muse - FUCK YEAH!
Blur - FUCK YEAH!
Radiohead - FUCK YEAH!
context of the word "bloody" - FUCK YEAH!
billy clubs - FUCK YEAH!

"Lock, Stock and Two SMOKING Barrels," Tiffani...but who I am to quibble? ;-)

OMG! Also:
Queer As Folk - FUCK YEAH!
Metrosexuality - FUCK YEAH!
Rikki Beadle Blair - FUCK YEAH!
Spiked hair - FUCK YEAH

I just want to take a moment to thank everyone for showing up here and exhbiting so much class. We're at nearly 600 comments, and only one person has written something jerky. I haven't had to delete a single post yet.

You guys are the best.

Keep 'em coming.

Team Britain! FUCK YEAH!

Captain Kremmen - FUCK YEAH!
Cupid Stunt - FUCK YEAH!
Sid Snot - FUCK YEAH!
Mayfair Anger - FUCK YEAH!
Hot Gossip - FUCK YEAH!
"Supernature" - FUCK YEAH!
Naughty Bits- FUCK YEAH!

...KENNY EVERETT - FUCK YEAH!!!

Margot Fonteyn
General Charles Gordon,
John, Duke of Marlborough,
Earl Montgomery
Edward Coke
John Reith
Monty Zuma and the Aztecs
Throwing bread rolls at dinner
Swing Low Sweet Chariot at Twickers
The Mortar Board
Hornby Railways
Furlongs
David Lean
Worcester County Cricket Ground
Black Pears
Balisha beacons
Gerrard Manley Hopkins
Dennis Buses
Littlehampton
Aldershot Town Football Club
Haystacks
Loud Farts
Fair Isle jumpers
Grannie glasses
Paper Nylon Petticoats
The DH Vampire and Sea Vixen
The Comet
The Cavebdish Laboratory
Campanologists
Spelaeologists
Father Christmas rather than Santa Claus
Donald Campbell and the Bluebird
Bobby Wilson the last amateur at Wimbledon
Irony
The Ministry of Silly Walks
Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby
And Ber-nerd
Basil Brush
Jim'll Fix it.

Fuck YEAH!

British Rock like:

The Elgin Marbles,

The Rosetta Stone, and

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Fuck Yeah!

mushy peas -- fuck yeah!

driving on the wrong side of the road -- fuck yeah!

spotted dick -- fuck yeah!

Calling stupid people "nipples,' or "tits."
Alan Patridge
Most good pop music from the last 45 years-

fuck yeah.

English country gardens, english formal gardens
english country houses, Fuck Yeah
Laura ahsley Fuck Yeah
Auld Lang syne fuck yeah
for he's a jolly good fellow fuck yeah

adjective--"bloody" fuck yeah
"old boy" fuck yeah
Oxford dons fuck yeah

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what exactly is spotted dick?

John Thaw; Fuck Yeah!

Kate Bush....FUCK YEAH!!!

Hey Emily, Take courage.

Spotted Dick:
Yield: 6 servings

8 oz self-raising flour
1 pn of salt
4 oz margarine
2 oz castor sugar (superfine)
4 oz to 6 oz sultanas (big
-raisins)
6 tb water

1) Have ready a sheet of foil or a double thickness of grease proof
paper brushed with melted margarine. 2) Make the pudding crust: Sieve
the flour and the salt. Rub in the margarine. Add the sugar and
sultanas. Mix in the water to make a soft dough. 3) Turn out onto a
floured board and form into a roll. 4) Wrap loosely but securely in
the grease proof paper or foil. Tie or seal the ends. 5) Place in the
steamer and cover tightly. Steam for 1.1/2 to 2 hours. 6) Serve with
hot custard sauce or sprinkle with castor sugar. Variation: At stage
3: Put the mixture in a medium-sized (1.1/2 pint) pudding basin with
a round of grease proof paper in the bottom and brush all round
inside with melted margarine. Smooth the top. Cover with foil, or
double grease proof paper brushed underneath with melted margarine
and steam for 1.1/2 to 2 hours. Serve with hot Custard sauce or
sprinkle with castor sugar.

Fuck Yeah!

Thanks for clearing it up, Chafe. I have to say, however, I remain hesitant to put anything called "spotted dick" into my mouth. That, and I hate raisins.

I think someone attempted to have its name changed to "Spotted Richard" to be "less offensive" or something equally idiotic. Bloody fokking wanker!

Re: Spotted Dick Recipe

You can always substitute Brussel Sprouts that have been on the boil since noon and forget the raisins.

Fuck Yeah!

BANANAMAN! FUCK YEAH!
...Big Ben! Parliament! FUCK YEAH!
Nigella Lawson! FUCK YEAH!
British Premier League Soccer! FUCK YEAH!!
Clotted cream! FUCK YEAH!

Ford Prefect!! Fuck Yeah!!

Ford Prefects!! Fuck Yeah!!

Giving us the Spice Girls so we didn't feel so bad about the music coming out of our own country at the time!! FUCK YEAH!!

Tom Baker!! FUCK YEAH!!

William Hartnell!! FUCK YEAH!!

Patrick Troughton!! FUCK YEAH!!

Jon Pertwee!! FUCK YEAH!!

Peter Davidson!! FUCK YEAH!!

Colin Baker!! FUCK YEAH!!

Sylvester McCoy!! FUCK YEAH!!

Paul McGann!! FUCK YEAH!!

Christopher Eccleston!! FUCK YEAH!!

The Daleks!!! FUCK YEAH!!

Spotted Dick Recipe: Take one diseased French whore...

600th comment! FUCK YEAH!

Triumph Motorcars-FUCK YEAH
Wallace and Gromit-FUCK YEAH
Dangermouse-FUCK YEAH
Sean Connery-FUCK YEAH
For continuing to produce good beer, while our American companies produced swill only slightly better than moose urine-FUCK YEAH

"Hip, hip, hooray and "Hear, hear" Fuck yeah

The city of LIVERPOOL home of the Beatles and the European Soccer Champions: FOOK YEAH!!

Edinburgh! fUcK yEaH!

Chafe - as much as I hate raisins, that doesn't really sound any more appealing.

Ken, don't make me send you to your room without your toys again. Unless, of course, you are trying to share your pain resulting from a bad past experience or something, in which case, carry on. Tell us about the French whore.

The night a friend and I got sauced on vodka and actually sat through the whole of Spice World! FUCK YEAH!

Henry VIII!!! FUCK YEAH!
Thomas Cranmer!!! FUCK YEAH!
Augustine of Canterbury! FUCK YEAH!
The Venerable Bede! FUCK YEAH!
St. Anselm!!! FUCK YEAH!
St. Cuthbert!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
The First Prayer Book!!! FUCK YEAH!
The King James Bible! FUCK YEAH!!!
The Black Prince! FUCK YEAH!!!

"Giving us the Spice Girls so we didn't feel so bad about the music coming out of our own country at the time..."

You know, Cullen, their music was the most contrived and cheesy bubble-gum pap, but I'll actually always have a place in my heart for the Spice Girls, because they became the Big New Thing just at the moment I was living there, and thus they always make me think of London.

All those restaurants in the Earl's Court Area that may or may not still be in business, like Mr. Wings, The Star of India, Boswell's (cheese fritters in Raspberry Sauce): FUCK YEAH!

The Jews of Hatton Garden: FUCK YEAH!

Calling eating a sandwich on a park bench in the drizzle a picnic: FUCK YEAH!

Colin Firth!! FUCK YEAH!!

Hugh Laurie!! FUCK YEAH!!

Sean Bean!!FUCK YEAH!!

Naveen Andrews!! FUCK YEAH!!

Orlando Bloom!! FUCK YEAH!!

Jeremy Northam!! FUCK YEAH!!

(At least two were already mentioned, but deserve more than one mention.)

I have to confess, that tellmewhatyouwantwhatyoureallyreallywant song makes me want to hurt people. The first time I watched that video, I thought the Spice Girls were the most freakish thing I had ever seen perform.

The Spice Girls breaking up! FUCK YEAH!

I was just in England- I"m moving there soon and these are the things that formerly annoyed me, but from here on out I love:

Banning hoodies- FUCK YEAH!
Narrow roads- FUCK YEAH!
Round abouts- FUCK YEAH!
Big brother- FUCK YEAH!
Coldplay everywhere you go- FUCK YEAH!
Bad customer service- FUCK YEAH!
No air conditioning in the tube- FUCK YEAH!
The "model" signs in doorways in Soho- FUCK YEAH!

David Niven - fuck yeah!

I've got to say this (hometown loyalty and all that) - Southend, home of the longest pleasure pier in the world! Fuck yeah!

Emily's bravery in watching Spice World - fuck yeah!

Victoria Beckham's repeated denial that she's had a boob job when it's obvious to even a blind man - fuck yeah!

IPA! FUCK YEAH!
Black & Tan! FUCK YEAH!
ESB! FUCK YEAH!
Barley Wine! FUCK YEAH!
Oatmeal Stout! FUCK YEAH!
Old Peculier! FUCK YEAH!
Samuel Smith's! FUCK YEAH!

jenbl4 - "Coldplay everywhere you go- FUCK YEAH!"

FUCK NO NO NO NO NO! (I seriously hate that whiny little bitch Chris Martin and his sanctimonious smugness and his miserable voice and just ugh ugh ugh!)

Can't believe there's been no mention of

BEN ELTON: FUCK YEAH!

Not rinsing the soap off the dishes when you do the washing-up: FUCK YEAH!

The English Language... FUCK YEAH!
Rhodes Scholarships... FUCK YEAH!
Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Clash... FUCK YEAH!

(A couple that have been said, but need to be repeated):

Edmund Burke... FUCK YEAH!
America... FUCK YEAH!

A glass of Pimms on a warm day - FUCK YEAH!!

A mug of Earl Grey on a chilly day - FUCK YEAH!!

Warm champagne and a slice of fruit cake at a summer wedding - FUCK YEAH!!

The smell of freshly mown grass - FUCK YEAH!!

Black Pudding from the Black Isle - FUCK YEAH!!

Haggis, neeps and tatties - FUCK YEAH!!

Milk in tea - fuck yeah!

Newcastle Brown Ale especially fuck yeah even if they have closed down the original factory and so ended an era!

Please help your ignorant American cousins here - what are neeps and tatties? Are they more frightening-sounding foods?

Turnips and potatoes!

John Steed
Patrick Macnee

Emma Peel
Diana Rigg

Purdy
Joanna Lumley

Fuck Yeah!

Thanks, Lizzie.

This thread is actually turning out to be educational!

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Reverend W. W. Awdry
Nigel Gresley
William Stanier
George Jackson Churchward
Gordon, Henry, and all of Thomas's friends

Lizzie, with regard to Coldplay, I don't care for them either, but as Emily said about a zillion comments ago with respect to my questioning praise for Ted Heath, in this thread, everything British short of unmitigated evil (e.g., George Galloway) gets a FUCK YEAH!

Oooaaaawwww all right then!

Ye powers wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill of fare,
Old Scotland wants no stinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if you wish her grateful prayer
Give her a Haggis!

Robert Burns - FUCK YEAH!!

Lizzie got there first with the neeps and tatties, but:

Smokies - FUCK YEAH!!

Cloutie Dumpling - FUCK YEAH!!

Drop Scones - FUCK YEAH!!

Finan Haddie - FUCK YEAH!!

Cullen Skink - FUCK YEAH!!

and

Pan Drops - FUCK YEAH!!

What, pray tell, are those things you've just mentioned, Arthur?

i may have missed it in the hundreds of posts, but:
Alan Rickman gets a HUGE FUCK YEAH!!!

Lizzie - re: Spice World. It had nothing to do with my own personal bravery. I couldn't have done it without the vodka. If memory serves - and it rarely does when liquor is involved - the film actually featured an alien encounter.

Chafe - definitely Joanna Lumley.

Patsy Stone on "Absolutely Fabulous" going to bed with a cigarette in one hand and a lighter in the other so that she can begin smoking the instant she wakes up the following morning! FUCK YEAH!

Finan haddie and drop scones I can Fuck Yeah along with Arthur, but he's going to have to explain the rest to us, because I can't!

Dave,
I think I should finally just link to a British slang dictionary for reference already. I have no idea what any of those things are either.

Calling diapers "nappies"! FUCK YEAH!

a) fish (smoked)

b) suet and fruit dumpling

c) pancakes...mmmm

d) more fish

e) soup made with bits of a) and d)

f) small peppermint sweet (candy) - or "sooker"

Right, I've Googled 'em, and apparently Cullen Skink is a soup, Cloutie Dumpling is a suet pudding boiled in a cloth, and Smokies are also smoked haddock (as are Finan Haddie)

Right, I've Googled 'em, and apparently Cullen Skink is a soup, Cloutie Dumpling is a suet/fruit pudding boiled in a cloth, and Smokies are also smoked haddock (as are Finan Haddie).

The Scots speak entirely their own language!

Oops. And double Oops as Arthur already explained.

Turning the SAS loose on these merchants. FUCK YEAH.

The incomparable Mark Knopfler. Just YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. Cannot be improper with this one.

English nurses in the U.S.
My English wife
My 1/2 English children
English weddings
Funny Easter hats that don't look a little strange no matter how generous you feel about them.
Brighton Rock the candy
Brighton Rock the book
Guitar amplifiers that go to 11
Mr. Smoketoomuch (so he'd better cut down a little)
The world's funniest (deadliest) joke
The soapbox (when stood upon)
Hercule Poirot
Inspector Morse
Virgin Air
Apples and Pears (stairs)

J.B. (George) Statham, none better. FUCK YEAH.

So sorry, FUCK YEAH.

Hahahaha. "The world's funniest joke."

"Two peanuts vere valking down ze shtreet. Vone vas assaulted...peanut." FUCK YEAH!

George Bush waving to the aviation enthusiasts at Prestwick Airport today and the hundreds of large policemen and cute policewomen who let us be there. FUCK YEAH!

The same enthusiasts giving the finger to Chirac's plane. FUCK YEAH!

CAMRA. FUCK YEAH.

WOODFORDE"S WHERRY. BIG FUCK YEAH.

"Two Nations divided by a common language" - AYE RIGHT!!

Thanks for the sentiments, chaps (and chapesses)!

FUCK YEAH!!

The incomparable Mrs. Beeton!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

David,
PLEASE tell me that you got photos of people flipping off Chirac's plane and that you are going to post them on your blog. I would LOVE to see that.

Has anybody mentioned Christopher Nolan yet? Oh well, just in case...

Christopher Nolan! FUCK YEAH!

Emily

Curses. I didn't think of that. They were also shouting out: "Has anyone got an Olympic flag?"

Someone was asking why the French had two planes. I replied: "The other one is for Chirac's supply of deep-fried Haggis."

Flanders & Swann
Eddie Izzard
creative insults...fokkin 'ell!

Brigg's Umbrella--expensive

Lobb's Shoes--too expensive

Memories of UK vacations with my folks--priceless

Fuck Yeah!

In the absence of a photo of the departure from Prestwick you might pop a caption to this one from earlier today. (Anything has to be better than the one already there):
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=53205840&cdi;=0

Scrumpy! FUCK YEAH!
Perry! FUCK YEAH!
And every other sort of filthy, cloudy Real Zoider! FUCK YEAH!
Wells Cathedral! FUCK YEAH!
Druids, dead and living! FUCK YEAH!

- Stomaphagus

David,
Hahahaha. How great would it have been if somebody *did* have an Olympic flag?!?!?

"Hey, Jacques! We have a parting gift for you!"

British people flipping off Jacques Chirac! FUCK YEAH!

...and this man has obviously just spotted David in the crowd at Gleneagles...
http://about.reuters.com/pictures/galleries/preview.aspx?gallery=Life&story;=632552279179519212&picture;=X000660020050708e178000gq.jpg

Sod Off Swampy! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

Treacle Tarts! FUCK YEAH!

Not enough religion in this list!

The C of E! FUCK YEAH!
The Archbishop of Canterbury! FUCK YEAH!

Someone already said Gerard Manley Hopkins but I'm going to say it again! FUCK YEAH!

And, on the subject of religious experiences: Galaxy bars! FUCK YEAH! Flake bars too! FUCK YEAH!

Flanders and Swann on another French President:

Vive de Gaulle!

This old man, he played one,
He played knick-knack at Verdun.
Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, World War Two,
He told Churchill what to do,
Free French general, crosses of Lorraine,
He came rolling home again.

This old man, he played trois,
Vive la France, la France c'est moi!
Gimcrack governments, call me if you please:
Colombey les deux Eglises.

This old man, he played four,
Choose de Gaulle or civil war!
Come back president, govern by decree,
Referendum, oui, oui, oui!

This old man, he played five,
France is safe: I'm still alive.
Plastique, Pompidou, sing the Marseillaise,
Algerie, n'est pas francaise!

This old man, he played six,
France and England, they don't mix.
Eytie, Benelux, Germany, and Me:
that's my market recipe.

This old man, sept et huit,
NATO give me back my fleet!
*kiss kiss* Adenauer ratified in Bonn.
One old man goes on and on.

This old man, nine and ten,
He'll play knick till God knows when,
Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune,
This old man thinks he's Saint Joan.

Fuck Yeah!

Not enough English Food. This might be the one day we celebrate it!

Wheatabix! Fuck Yeah
Callard & Bowser Chocolates Fuck Yeah

And English dentistry: fuck yeah!

2nd round...

St. Andrews -- FUCK YEAH!
Robert the Bruce -- FUCK YEAH!
Tom Jones -- FUCK YEAH!
The Mayflower -- FUCK YEAH!
Geordies -- FUCK YEAH!
Cockney Rhyming Slang -- FUCK YEAH!
Dropped "h"s -- FUCK YEAH!
Silly Walks -- FUCK YEAH!
Henly-on-Thames -- FUCK YEAH!
Eric A. Blair -- FUCK YEAH!
Lemon Curry -- FUCK YEAH!
"Ruby Murray" -- FUCK YEAH!
"Trouble and Strife" -- FUCK YEAH!
Robyn Hitchcock -- FUCK YEAH!
Trainspotting -- FUCK YEAH!
Anoraks -- FUCK YEAH!
Cornish Pasties -- FUCK YEAH!
Fish and Chips -- FUCK YEAH!
Harrod's -- FUCK YEAH!
Burberry's FUCK YEAH!
Saville Row -- FUCK YEAH!
Fleet Street -- FUCK YEAH!
Baker Street -- FUCK YEAH!
Betws-y-Coed -- FUCK YEAH!
Brecon Beacons -- FUCK YEAH!
Hadrian's Wall -- FUCK YEAH!
Offa's Dike -- FUCK YEAH!
Pub Crawls -- FUCK YEAH!
"Do Us a Favor" -- FUCK YEAH!
The Chunnel -- FUCK YEAH!
Isle of Man -- FUCK YEAH!
Jersey -- FUCK YEAH!
Guernsey -- FUCK YEAH!
Hebrides -- FUCK YEAH!
Orkney Islands -- FUCK YEAH!
Scara Brae -- FUCK YEAH!
West Kennett Long Barrow -- FUCK YEAH!
Eton -- FUCK YEAH!
Their Finest Hour -- FUCK YEAH!
Queen Elizabeth II -- FUCK YEAH!
Fawlty Towers -- FUCK YEAH!
Nudge Nudge Say No More -- FUCK YEAH!

Art teachers that complete your assignments! Fuck Yeah.

amberspyglass,
Feel free to add all the religion you like to the list, as long as you don't post anything hateful or sectarian. Cheers!

Church of Scotland intimations

Free Church of Scotland psalms

Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland sermons

Anglo Catholic Evensong

The Cramner Prayer Book

FUCK YEAH!!

English Reserve RATHER GOOD

oops, sorry wrong post

Charles,
Nudge Nudge Say No More! FUCK YEAH!

The Greek philosophers versus the German philosophers football match with Confucius as the referree! FUCK YEAH!

Emily taking the time to generate a master list of all that is great and good about the UK -- FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and a PROPER ENGLISH BREAKFAST with streaky bacon, bangers, hard eggs, Heinz beans, stewed tomatoes and a REAL SCONE, not those yuppified pieces of shit you get at Starbucks- FUCK YEAH!!!!

Thanks for hosting this nonsense!

I like those yuppified pieces of shit you get at Starbucks, but there is nothing better than a real scone. Which reminds me - my Grandma's baking - Fuck Yeah!

Heinz beans?!?!? You guys eat beans for breakfast? Oh well...

Beans for breakfast! FUCK YEAH!

the pragmatic chef�, you forgot fried mushrooms and fried bread. And pretty much anything else you can chuck in a frying pan, actually. We're not fussy about our breakfasts!

Cup of Cocoa

Dressing Gown and Slippers

Wife in bed

Home Sweet Home

Night Night!!

Good night, Arthur. Thank you for all you've contributed.

Having sweet dreams! FUCK YEAH!

Visiting Poosie Nansie's Hostelry on the way back from seeing Airforce One. FUCK YEAH!

Royal St. Georges. FUCK YEAH!

Carnoustie. FUCK YEAH!

St. Andrews. FUCK YEAH!

Tommy Morris. FUCK YEAH!

Colin Montgomerie. FUCK YEAH!

Nicky Faldo. FUCK YEAH!

Sandy Lyle, FUCK YEAH!

Justin Rose. FUCK YEAH!

Lee Westwood, who's killed the Yanks in every Ryder Cup he's ever played in. FUCK YEAH!

Renton on the commentary team. FUCK YEAH!

For inventing the damn infuriating and beautiful game in the first place. FUCK YEAH!

Right! Lizzie for remembering the fried mushrooms and toast- FUCK YEAH!!!!

The incomparable Noel Coward

London pride has been handed down to us,
London pride is a flower that's free.
London pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it forever will be.
Grey city
Stubbornly implanted,
Taken so for granted
For a thousand years.
Stay, city,
Smokily enchanted,
Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.
Every Blitz
Your resistance
Toughening,
From the Ritz
To the Anchor and Crown,
Nothing ever could override
The pride of London Town."

Fuck YEAH!!!

terjoha,
That was beautiful. Thank you for posting it.

Those glorious ships past and present Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth I and II fuck yeah

Those wonderful British butlers and English nannies everwhere! fuck yeah

The magnificent RAF during WWII fuck yeah

The lovely, mystical, foggy days in London town and the Thames (Tims) fuck yeah!

I can't believe no one said it, so I must...

Lea & Perrins FUCK YEAH!

John Ludlow, a surgeon in Chipping Sodbury, who apprenticed a young boy called Eddy Jenner as assistant apothecary. When the boy became a man he invented smallpox vacination and was responsible for the first time for wiping an infectious disease from the face of the earth.

Edward Jenner - FUCK YEAH!
John Ludlow - Fuck Yeah!

Henway,
I did mention worcester sauce somewhere above, though not specifically Lee & Perrins, but I definitely second your FUCK YEAH!

Nick Drake ("Pink Moon") FUCK YEAH

Wooorcestcestercistershershire sauce? Mmmm...FUCK YEAH!

Leonard Rossiter---FUCK YEAH!
"The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"---FUCK YEAH!
"Love Actually"---FUCK YEAH!
Keira Knightley---FUCK YEAH!
Bill Nighy----FUCK YEAH!
Geoffrey Palmer---FUCK YEAH!
"As Time Goes By"---FUCK YEAH!
Onslow on "Keeping Up Appearances"---FUCK YEAH!
Felicity Kendall---FUCK YEAH!
Richard Briers---FUCK YEAH!
"Good Neighbours"--FUCK YEAH!
"The Two Ronnies"--FUCK YEAH!
Elisabeth Sladen--FUCK YEAH!
The Oxford Movement--AMEN!

Mmmmm...Keira Knightley! FUCK YEAH! That hasn't been said in at least 150 comments. ;-)

This list has gone from funny to deeply moving. There really isn't another country on Earth that Americans are so intimately and affectionately familiar with. All the political speeches in the world don't get at what you've gotten at here. A real gift. I wish it came in a poster. Bloody brilliant and wonderful.

A.

P.S. Mini Coopers and Balti curries and vicars at the pub.

"...are the words "fuck yeah" starting to lose all meaning through repetition to anyone else?"

Fuck NO!

That'd be a pretty fucking big poster, Adam. ;-) Seriously, though, you're totally right: thanks again, Emily.

The people that are posting on this thread are the ones who are making it great. I'm overwhelmed by the response of so many generous people sharing their kind thoughts in the aftermath of yesterday's events.

Thank YOU. All of you (except that dickhead Patrick who called us retarded).

3rd round...

The High Street -- FUCK YEAH!
Marks and Sparks -- FUCK YEAH!
Tesco -- FUCK YEAH!
B.A.D. -- FUCK YEAH!
Eric Clapton -- FUCK YEAH!
St. Martin in the Fields -- FUCK YEAH!
(and the) Cafe in the Crypt -- FUCK YEAH!
Alfred Hitchcock -- FUCK YEAH!
M -- FUCK YEAH!
Q -- FUCK YEAH!
The Stone of Scone -- FUCK YEAH!
The Crown Jewels -- FUCK YEAH!
Exmoor -- FUCK YEAH!
Dartmoor -- FUCK YEAH!
The Wasdale Head Inn -- FUCK YEAH!
Wadworth's 6X -- FUCK YEAH!
Old Peculiar -- FUCK YEAH!
Winter Warmer -- FUCK YEAH!
Wellies -- FUCK YEAH!
John O'Groats -- FUCK YEAH!
The Court of St. James -- FUCK YEAH!
Saint George -- FUCK YEAH!
Shepperton Studios -- FUCK YEAH!
Salisbury Plain -- FUCK YEAH!
Salisbury Cathedral -- FUCK YEAH!
Winchester Cathedral -- FUCK YEAH!
GMT -- FUCK YEAH!
The Golden Hind -- FUCK YEAH!
Bushy Park -- FUCK YEAH!
Nottingham Forest -- FUCK YEAH!
The Firth of Forth -- FUCK YEAH!
Mousehole, Cornwall -- FUCK YEAH!
Gilbert & Sullivan -- FUCK YEAH!
Prime Minister's Question Time -- FUCK YEAH!
Alfred the Great -- FUCK YEAH!
Christopher Wren -- FUCK YEAH!
James Clerk Maxwell -- FUCK YEAH!
David Hume -- FUCK YEAH!
Jonathan Swift -- FUCK YEAH!
The Globe -- FUCK YEAH!
Conkers -- FUCK YEAH!
Punters -- FUCK YEAH!
Canal Boats -- FUCK YEAH!
Crystal Palace -- FUCK YEAH!
Box Junctions -- FUCK YEAH!
Pelican Crossings -- FUCK YEAH!

KILLING BEARS TO MAKE REALLY UGLY HATS!! FUCK YEAH!!!

No one has yet mentioned Herman's Hermits?? WTF is wrong with you people??

Herman's hermits - FUCK YEAH!

Bunni, FYI, Napoleon started it, but the Brigade of Foot Guards wear them in commemoration of beating his Imperial Guard at Waterloo, so that also falls under the subset of:

Kicking French ass 5 zillion times! FUCK YEAH!

Being the huge Roger Miller fan that I am (go ahead and laugh if you want to), I can't believe I didn't post these lyrics sooner.

Now if you huff and puff and you finally save enough
Money up to take your family on a trip across the sea,
Take a tip before you take your trip; let me tell you where to go,
Go to England, Oh

England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles two by two
Westminister Abbey
The Tower of Big Ben
The rosey red cheeks of the little children

Mama's old pajamas and your papa's mustache,
Falling out the window sill, frolic in the grass,
Tryin' to mock the way they talk fun but all in vain,
Gaping at the dapper men with derby hats and canes.

England swings! FUCK YEAH!

Ralph Vaughn Williams! Fuck Yeah!
John Fields! Fuch Yeah!
God Save The Queen/My Country 'Tis of Thee! Fuck
Yeah!
Bad Teeth! Fuck yeah!
Polo ponies! Fuck Yeah!
Sir Thomas More! Fuck Yeah!
Thomas Becket! Fuck Yeah!

fried egg and bacon sandwiches, with the bread fried in the bacon fat�FUCK YEAH
Sandwiches�FUCK YEAH
Deep fried candy bars and Twinkies�FUCK YEAH

Turning the almost barren island of Hong Kong into the world�s greatest economic success story and then, 150 years later, walking away from it because the lease was up�fuck yeah

The most ridiculous sport in the world, tossing the caber (Burly men in skirts throwing around telephone poles) FUCK YEAH

I kinda forgot she is from SPAIN LOL!

NEVER MIND LOL
Michael Wilding FUCK YEAH

Gladys Cooper FUCK YEAH
Trevor Howard FUCK YEAH

And don't forget Jacko homegirl

Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fronteky FUCK YEAHHH

Well she is from England ORIGNALLY

Mrs. Brown's Lovely Daughter! FUCK YEAH!!

Skiffle Bands! FUCK YEAH!

Pop Round to see the family FUCK YEAH
SHAUN OF THE DEAD! FUCK YEAH!
PUBS FUCK YEAH!!

MONTY PYTHON FUCK YEAH!!!

WILLIAM WALLACE FUCK YEAH!!!

Standing Stones @ http://www.stonepages.com/scotland/callanish.html
FUCK YEAH!!!

If it were for a Scotsman we would not even have Television.

If it weren't for Winston Churchill, we would fear other things.

And to answer the William Wallace above: Edward I! FUCK YEAH!

Holy shit! 700 comments? SEVEN-FUCKING-HUNDRED COMMENTS?! FUCK YEAH!

Here's to the Brits for giving us what has got to be the most widely used word in the world:

***FUCK!*** so, Fuck Yeah!

The English language FUCK YEAH!
With an different dialect every 10 miles FUCK YEAH!
(Not kidding, I love them all - even the snooty 'I'm upper class and you are not' one...)
Rhyming Slang FUCK YEAH (except for 'seppo' - FUCK NO)
'Knock me up in the morning' FUCK YEAH! (I think that was a bi-lingual double-entendre...).

TEAM BRITAIN: FUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAH!

Kathy, I believe it was Henry Higgins who said you could place an Englishman within 10 miles and a Londoner within 10 blocks.

Emily - you've just made me dig out an old, old vinyl (it's called Fun Rock and it dates from 1976) that has England Swings on it! I'm going to put it on tomorrow when I get up (it's too late to do that now) - there's also Running Bear, Knock Three Times, The Clapping Song, Woolly Bully, Flying Purple People Eater, and plenty more. Fuck Yeah!

Not Guido himself, nor gunpowder and treason, but a penny for the Guy on Guy Fawkes Day, FAWK YEAH!

WHich reminds me... Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison - FUCK YEAH!

Laurence Oliver FUCH YEAH
Danny Kaye FUCK YEAH

Alfred Hitchcock FUCK YEAH

How's this?

The Industrial Revolution! FUCK YEAH!
Freedom and Personal Liberties! FUCK YEAH!
Habeas Corpus! FUCK YEAH!

etc.

MUSHY PEAS: FUCK YEAH!
KIDNEY PIE: FUCK YEAH!
YELLOW TEETH: FUCK YEAH!
SHRIMP FLAVORED POTATO CHIPS: FUCK YEAH!
NOT FRENCH: FUCK YEAH!
AWFUL CIGARETTES: FUCK YEAH
GREAT BEER: FUCK YEAH!
PRINCESS DI: FUCK YEAH!
ANGUSTORA BITTERS: Umm fuck that...

Cathy Rogers and Scrapheap Challenge ("Junkyard Wars" for the western side of the Atlantic)- FUCK YEAH!

Jenny Agutter FUCK YEAH!
Massive Attack FUCK YEAH!

To all of you guys who've left me in stiches on this website - FUCK YEAH!

Has anyone mentioned TONY BLAIR (Fuck Yeah!) for having the balls to go to war? FUCK YEAH!

For my girlfriend who's half-British - FUCK YEAH!!

Ned's dead and we all get to split his 6.8 million pound lottery ticket! - FUCK YEAH!!!

The whole British Invasion - the soundtrack to my youth. FUCK YEAH!

did anyone do William Blake? FUCK YEAH

who wrote Jerusalem:

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

FUCK YEAH

dark satanic mills - FUCK YEAH

arrows of desire - FUCK YEAH

thanks for that - it was fun ...

Dave J,
I know. I'm just dumbfounded at the response. The original post must have taken less than two minutes to conceive of and type out. I am completely amazed.

I don't know where everybody's coming from - mostly Sullivan, I'm guessing - but every last one of them is welcome to this space. This is the coolest thing I have ever been a part of in my 3 1/2 years as a blogger.

Henry Higgins! FUCK YEAH!
Eliza Doolittle! FUCK YEAH!
"Get Me To The Church On Time"! FUCK YEAH!
The rain in Spain staying mainly in the plain! FUCK YEAH!
Fetch my slippers! FUCK YEAH!

All of you people make me want to say, in the immortal words of Charles Dickens's Tiny Tim: "God bless us, every one." FUCK YEAH!

Stanley and Dr. Livingstone (Dr. Livingstone, I presume) Fuck yeah

A superb mystery writer, P.D. James fuck yeah

Lady Godiva- absolutely!! fuck yeah

Echo and The Bunnymen FUCK YEA!
Cats Protection League FUCK YEA!

I shall now list some of the things that make me love my country, but I feel I must punctuate them with a more British refrain.

Robin Hood and the Peasant's Revolt - fudge yes!
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe - fudge yes!
The Royal Navy and the Levellers - fudge yes!
The Glorious Revolution and the mother of all Parliaments - fudge yes!
London gin and Yorkshire pudding - fudge yes!
William Blake and Charles Babbage - fudge yes!
Socialism and the Labour movement - fudge yes!
Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde - fudge yes!
The RAF and the BBC - fudge yes!
The Dunkirk and Blitz spirits - fudge yes!
Spitfires and Bletchley Park - fudge yes!
Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee - fudge yes!
George Orwell and Graham Greene - fudge yes!
Beating the Nazis and creating the welfare state - fudge yes!
NATO and the NHS - fudge yes!
(And therefore, Ernest Bevin and Nye Bevan - fudge yes!)
The end of Empire and the forging of the Commonwealth - fudge yes!
David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock - fudge yes!
The permissive society and thw swining sixties - fudge yes!
The Beatles and the Stones - fudge yes!
'Doctor Who' and 'Coronation Street' - fudge yes!
David Bowie and Marc Bolan - fudge yes!
Acid House and Brit Pop - fudge yes!
Tolerance and diversity - fudge yes!
Tea and taking this in our stride. FUDGE YES!

Would somebody here please explain to me what kidney pie is?

Learning about British cuisine! FUCK YEAH!

Thomas Mahon and www.englishcut.com! FUCK YEAH!

Strictly Come Dancing (aka "Dancing with the Stars")! FUCK YEAH!

Anne Robinson! FUCK YEAH!

Sean Connery! FUCK YEAH! (He's Scottish, that counts)

Of course it counts, Erbo. Tony Blair is Scottish, too. The Scots practically ran the Empire, and some people might even say the UK is run by a "Scottish Raj," but we won't get into that on this thread. There's plenty of FUCK YEAH!s to things Scottish among these comments, and rightly so.

Has anybody mentioned bagpipes?

Bagpipes! FUCK YEAH!

Dare I say, "If it isn't Scottish, it's crap!" -- FUCK YEAH!

Something I got rid of 2 months ago...

Spotted Dick! FUCK YEAH!

One more...

Triumph Motorcycles -- FUCK YEAH!

You guys also ahve a link from vodkapundit. Let's lift a pint to that dear chap Green!

Afternoon tea -- FUCK YEAH!
Cucumber sandwiches -- FUCK YEAH!
Emma Thompson -- FUCK YEAH!
Eddie Izzard -- FUCK YEAH!
Blackadder -- FUCK YEAH!
The Prisoner except for the last episode -- FUCK YEAH!
Python -- FUCK YEAH!
Flanders & Swann -- FUCK YEAH!
Douglas Adams -- FUCK YEAH!
Alan Moore -- FUCK YEAH!

Marillion -- FUCK YEAH!
The Beat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Damned -- FUCK YEAH!
Tull -- FUCK YEAH!
Robert Fripp -- FUCK YEAH!
Saxon -- FUCK YEAH!
...trying reeely hard to think of bands that you yobbo bastards haven't already -- Oh! Mike Oldfield! FUCK YEAH!

and my Mini Cooper S -- FUCK YEAH!

Hannibal Lector aka Antonry Hopkins FUCK YEAH

Anna Duchess of Bedford the lady created Afteroon tea FUCK YEAH

Stephen Green - FUCK YEAH!

Bridget Jones and her diary! V. Fuck Yeah!

Masterpiece Theater & Allister Cooke! Fuck Yeah!
Are You Being Served! Fuck Yeah!
(now I'll never get to bed-this is addictive)

Thick-fingered gloves and watch caps from the Underground gift shop--FUCK YEAH!

George Orwell--FUCK YEAH!

Chicken tikka khorma in the convenience stores--FUCK YEAH!

Harrods--FUCK YEAH!

Boat tours of the Thames--FUCK YEAH!

The Puppetry of the Penis--FUCK YEAH!

Pashmina kiosks that are open even when nothing else is--FUCK YEAH!

People walking their dogs in the Mall when it's raining and 40 degrees, just as if the weather were good--FUCK YEAH!

Wimbledon--FUCK YEAH!

Pints of dark beer with creamy beige heads--FUCK YEAH!

Shandy--FUCK YEAH!

Buildings that look like they ought to be famous for something, just because they're so old, but they're just office flats--FUCK YEAH!

Speaking of Anna, Duchess of Bedford, Kelly, the whole Russell family (headed by the Dukes of Bedford) were the real estate developers of 18th century London, hence Russell Square, Bedford Square, Tavistock Square (the Duke of Bedford is also Marquess of Tavistock)--all rather of note since yesterday--and many other places bearing their names. The Russells! FUCK YEAH!

The Mary Whitehorse Experience - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!
Double-decker buses - FUCK YEAH!

OMG, just from this from Vodkapundit. Over 700 posts and I get the first:

Def Leppard -- FUCK YEAH!

You get the first what, Jim?

The first FUCK YEAH! for Def Leppard.

George Orwell - FUCK YEAH!
Muriel Spark - FUCK YEAH!
John Le Carre - FUCK YEAH!
Jane Austen - FUCK YEAH!
Joseph Turner - FUCK YEAH!
Richard Burton (both of them) - FUCK YEAH!
Honor Blackman - FUCK YEAH!
Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchings - FUCK YEAH!
Susannah York - FUCK YEAH!
Malcolm McDowell - FUCK YEAH!
The Earl of Sandwich - FUCK YEAH!

I'm afraid not, actually. I know they're up in the earlier comments somewhere. But that's OK: we gave up on trying to prevent repeats ages ago.

Oops, never mind: running the find function determines that you are indeed correct, so congratulations on an increasingly difficult accomplishment. ;-)

Eccles Cakes FUCK YEAH

Iced Buns FUCK YEAH

Maltesers FUCK YEAH

Roast Lamb with Onion Sauce FUCK YEAH

Never liked them before but FUCK YEAH they're still going... STATUS QUO

The Anglosphere sticking together through thick and thin... a monumental FUCK YEAH.

I can't add much. But shall we make it scan so we can sing along?

Fish and chips! FUCK YEAH!
Football! FUCK YEAH!
The Queen! FUCK YEAH!
Marmalade! FUCK YEAH!
Boxing Day! FUCK YEAH!
Oxford! FUCK YEAH!
Agincourt! FUCK YEAH!
Marxists! FUCK YEAH!

FUCK YEAH!

Shakespeare! FUCK YEAH!
Newton! FUCK YEAH!
Warm beer! FUCK YEAH!
Palaces! FUCK YEAH!

Punk rock! FUCK YEAH!
Page Three! FUCK YEAH!
Earl Grey! FUCK YEAH!
The Union Jack! FUCK YEAH!
Roundabouts! FUCK YEAH!
Spotted dick! ...fuck, yeah... fuck... yeah...

Magna Carta! FUCK YEAH!
The dole! FUCK YEAH!
Monty Python! FUCK YEAH!
Crumpets! FUCK YEAH!
Marks & Spencer! FUCK YEAH!
Churchill! FUCK YEAH!
The Beeb! FUCK YEAH!
Question Time! FUCK YEAH!

Stonehenge! FUCK YEAH!
Mad cows! ...fuck, yeah... fuck... yeah...
Sportsmanship!
Tweed!

Not a problem Dave. I was just a bit suprised. And I got to post 500 before I thought to use the "Find on page" function myself. Go figure. :-O

Royal Shakespeare Company - Fuck Yeah!
The Stranglers - Fuck Yeah!
J.G. Ballard - Fuck Yeah!
Ernest Rutherford (spent his adult life in England) - Fuck Yeah!
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Fuck Yeah!
Graham Swift - Fuck Yeah!
Phillip Kerr - Fuck Yeah!
Rudyard Kipling - Fuck Yeah!
Charles Dickens - Fuck Yeah!

This is cool. Thank you.

Catford FUCK YEAH
ZEBRA walks FUCK YEAH
Sainsburys FUCK YEAH
PG Wodehouse FUCK YEAH
Jane Austen FUCK YEAH
Gin and Tonics down the pub FUCK YEAH
All of my best friends laughing this off and going for a drink FUCK YEAH!

Goodnight again, everybody. 747 and counting...wow!

OHH you know what one of earlier poster say something about I Claduis that mini series on DVD through BBC or PBS here in the US
I score it

Dont' forget

UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIR ENTIRE SERIES FUCK YEAH
First Churchills first mini series on Masterpiece theatre DOUBLE FUCK YEAH
Which start John Neville aka later on Well maincutred man on X-files

OHH you know what one of earlier poster say something about I Claduis that mini series on DVD through BBC or PBS here in the US
I score it

Dont' forget

UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIR ENTIRE SERIES FUCK YEAH
First Churchills first mini series on Masterpiece theatre DOUBLE FUCK YEAH
Which start John Neville aka later on Well maincutred man on X-files

Books!

OOPS SORRY ABOUT DOUBLE POST LOL!

OH how about another how about
David Starsky Brit historian FUCK YEAH

Especially that mini series he did Sixth wives of Henry the eighth DOUBLE FUCK YEAH

Anthony Burgess - FUCK YEAH!
George Bernard Shaw - FUCK YEAH!
Robert Conquest - FUCK YEAH!
John Brunner - FUCK YEAH!
JG Ballard - FUCK YEAH!
Michael Moorcock - FUCK YEAH! (even if he lives in TX)

Speaking of Skiffle: I can't believe I haven't seen them on this list but maybe my eyes are getting blurry but they soooo belong here big time--THE KINKS! FUCKITY FUCK YEAH!!

Pembroke and Cardigan Welsh Corgis--FUCK YEAH!

Haggis with enough 21 year old single malt scotch to wash the taste and feel out of your mouth--FUCK YEAH!

Pimm's in a big pitcher with tons of fruit and cucumber in the summertime--FUCK YEAH!

inches, feet, yard, miles, acres, cups, pints, quart, gallons, etc.--FUCK YEAH!

tea without the bag (miffed not tiffed)--FUCK YEAH!

Michael Palin...FUCK YEAH!
Terry Jones...FUCK YEAH!

Can't believe it's only been said one: Wallace and Gromit: FUCK YEAH!

The African Queen: FUCK YEAH!

Pub Crawls: FUCK YEAH!

Jordan - FUCK YEAH!
Spanking Fetishes - FUCK YEAH!
The Light Brigade - FUCK YEAH!
Humiliating lawyers with powdered wigs - FUCK YEAH!
Isaac Newton - FUCK YEAH!
Sopwith Camels - FUCK YEAH!

And I'm amazed no one's said this:
Sheltering Salman Rushdie - FUCK YEAH!

Somewhat after the event, but please allow me to add/repeat, as a Brit who has been deeply touched by this exhuberent, incoherent, spontaneous outpouring of Anglophilia:

The Queens' English (and its derivatives overseas)
Adam Smith & The Wealth of Nations
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Industial Revolution
James Watt
Swallows & Amazons
John Wyndham
Enid Blyton
Pelagius
English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw - (the English, Scottish & Welsh historic monuments' commissions)
More Castles than you can shake a stick at!
Tommy Atkins
Jack Tar
The Brylcream Boys
Durham Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral
The central London skyline
London
Kingston-Upon-Thames (Sorry, hometown plug there)
Hobbes, Locke, Mill
William of Occam, Newton, Darwin
The Philharmonic Society, London - for commissioning Beethoven's 9th Symphony in 1822!

A resounding FU-- YE--, er, JOLLY GOOD to them all!

The first FUCK YEAH! for Def Leppard.

Posted by: Jim in Washington state at July 8, 2005 09:02 PM

Any British band with a one-armed drummer gets a special FUCK YEAH!

Please forgive me for being so late to the party. I just found out about this from Andrew Sullivan's website. And forgive me also for stopping reading halfway through and skipping to the end so I can post my F-Yeah's

James Burke
Peter Fairly
The cartoon that ITV would show at 7:55 PM before it was time to put the kids to bed. I did stay up a little later, being an American kid of an Air Force dad.

Seeing tits on tv in 1974

Stars On Sunday
Dr. Who
The Sky's The Limit
A whole bunch of 70's tv on ITV and BBC-1 and 2
Vulcan Bombers
Brill-had nice slopes to roll down.

And in these latter days:

John Peel (RIP)
Annie Nightingale

Goldfrapp
Saint Etienne
All of the friends I've made on the messageboards of the two bands named above.

I could go on, but I will stop here. I trust there will be more time to rave on.

One more reason to say F-Yeah; Mary Ruff. Born in Southhampton, a veteran of the WREN's, a member of my church and a good friend of mine. For her I say(and she would definitely blush if she heard me say such a thing, which is just another reason to say it in a decent Christian spirit)...

FUCK YEAH!

God Bless And Protect Great Britain

Most Secret War by RV Jones FY!
Battle of Britain RAF FY!
all of Churchill's speeches FY!
Q. Elizabeth I FY!
Q. Elizabeth II's first speech FY!
Q. Elizabeth herself FY!
The Queen mother and her hats FY!
All Creatures Great and Small FY!
Margaret Tudor FY!
Laurens van der Post FY!
Prince Charles FY!
St. Swythin FY!
Peter Pan FY!
Kipling FY!
Wm Blake FY!
Chariots of Fire FY!
New Jerusalem FY!
our heritage of rule of law HUGE, GRATEFUL FY!
STAND UP NOW TO THE DESPOTIC ZEALOTS FY!

Paddington Bear FUCK YEAH!

The Young Ones FUCK YEAH!

My British friends aka The British Invasion FUCK YEAH!!!

Fran
Zara
Sam
Sharon
Johnny
Irene
Pam
Jon
Mina
Pete
Emily
Annie
Jon (another one)

The Underground FUCK YEAH!
If I were there, I'd be on it defiant as Hell.

London FUCK YEAH!
You gave me my first true perspective on the significance of history and time.

British sirens that go EEEEOOOO EEEEEOOOO EEEEOOOO FUCK YEAH!

Mind the Gap FUCK YEAH!

Greetings, salutations and big bear hugs from Texas. We stand behind you in this time of sadness and grief brought on by the fanaticism, the ignorance, the downright uselessness that was perpetrated yesterday. I truly admire the abundant defiance and solidarity that I see here on this board. Bless you all for having that attitude. FUCK YEAH!

Linda

Houston, Texas

If Emily's question hasn't been answered yet,

it's not Kidney pie

it's steak and kidney pie

a classic english, really stodgy, really heavy, fill-u-up meal that so weighs you down that you're completely unable to

FCUk YEAH

Steak and kidney pie's not particularly stodgy, methinks you mean steak and kidney pudding, Caroline. F-Y!

Fuck yeahs for British race drivers...

Graham Hill...
Jim Clark...
Jackie Stewart...
James Hunt...
Mike Hailwood..
Stirling Moss...
David Hobbs...

Fuck Yeah!

And another F-Y for...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed... Fuck Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Found this "occurrence" from Ith's site. BRILLIANT!

And I can only add (what I think hasn't already been added):

Sir Reginald Dwight (Elton John)! FUCK YEAH!

Nigella Lawson!

Elizabeth David!

Jane Grigson!

Chariots of Fire!!

Jan Morris!

Sir George Somers and the Sea Venture!!
(thanks to him we have The Tempest . . . and Bermuda)

Rugby!

Eton!

Eton mess!

Oxford!

Cambridge!

The V&A;

and the British Museum

Governors in plumed hats!

The Hudson Bay Company

OK, I'm getting carried away . . .

FUCK YEAH!!!!

Hyacinth Bucket! (It's Bouquet!) Phuque Yeah!

GORMENGHAST and MERVYN PEAKE, FUCK YEAH!

'LANGUAGE' AND NUDITY ON TV AFTER 9! FUCK YEAH!

i'm from NYC, been living here a year and i love it. :-)

The Rights of Englishmen, FUCK YEAH!

The right of Protestants to keep and bear arms (gotta start somewhere), FUCK YEAH!

Triumph 500, FUCK YEAH!

Beowulf, FUCK YEAH!

Y'all want any help chopping Grendel into dog food?

should read above re dixon wright 'alcho', of course!

ikg

Great British Queens, Fuck Yeah!
Norman Hartnell, Fuck Yeah!
Cecil Beaton Fuck, Yeah!
Freddie Ashton Fuck, Yeah!

and apropos Trevor Howard, Fuck Yeah!
I am bound to shout Celia Johnson, utterly Fuck Yeah!

John
Paul
George
&
Ringo---FUCK YEAH!

Who you lookin at! FUCK YEAH!

Gerry and the Pacemakers - FUCK YEAH!

The Searchers - FUCK YEAH!

Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas - Fuck Yeah!

The Hollies - FUCK YEAH!

The Wombles - FUCK YEAH!

David Hemmings - FUCK YEAH!

Terence Stamp - FUCK YEAH!

Julie Christie - FUCK YEAH!

Mary Quant - FUCK YEAH!

Jean Shrimpton - FUCK YEAH!

Twiggie - fuck yeah!

The original mini for �440 - FUCK YEAH!

Lonnie Donegan - FUCK YEAH!

Don Cockell and all British horizontal heavyweights- FUCK YEAH!

Ringo - FUCK YEAH!

Cassandra - FUCK YEAH!

Tim Roth! FUCK YEAH!!!

Santa Pod - best name ever for a dragstrip - FUCK YEAH!

Steak and kidney pie is a little tike chicken pot pie only with grey gravy and without the three each carrot dice and green peas but FUCK YEAH anyway.

The axial flow turbine - most complex and radical invention ever by a single individual - FUCK YEAH!

Maltezers - FUCK YEAH!

McVities Penguin Chocolate biccies - FUCK YEAH!

Yorkshire Gold - FUCK YEAH!

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS - FUCK YEAH!

Someone brought it up, and I can't BELIEVE I've forgotten until now, but:

Private Eye! FUCK YEAH!

Ian,
I have NO IDEA what you are on about in most of your posts, but they are delightfully weird, so thank you for taking us over 800 comments. FUCK YEAH!

The original black and white Forsyth Saga Fuck Yeah

Pingu -- FUCK YEAH!
Postman Pat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Mousehole Cat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Housemartins -- FUCK YEAH!
Newsagents -- FUCK YEAH!
Loxley -- FUCK YEAH!
Ivanhoe -- FUCK YEAH!
Friar Tuck -- FUCK YEAH!
The Ravens at the Tower of London -- FUCK YEAH!
The Surrey Countryside -- FUCK YEAH!
Hastings -- FUCK YEAH!
York -- FUCK YEAH!
Northumbria -- FUCK YEAH!
Keith Floyd -- FUCK YEAH!
Gordon Ramsey -- FUCK YEAH!
Lenny Henry -- FUCK YEAH!

Pingu -- FUCK YEAH!
Postman Pat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Mousehole Cat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Housemartins -- FUCK YEAH!
Newsagents -- FUCK YEAH!
Loxley -- FUCK YEAH!
Ivanhoe -- FUCK YEAH!
Friar Tuck -- FUCK YEAH!
The Ravens at the Tower of London -- FUCK YEAH!
The Surrey Countryside -- FUCK YEAH!
Hastings -- FUCK YEAH!
York -- FUCK YEAH!
Northumbria -- FUCK YEAH!
Keith Floyd -- FUCK YEAH!
Gordon Ramsey -- FUCK YEAH!
Lenny Henry -- FUCK YEAH!

Pingu -- FUCK YEAH!
Postman Pat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Mousehole Cat -- FUCK YEAH!
The Housemartins -- FUCK YEAH!
Newsagents -- FUCK YEAH!
Loxley -- FUCK YEAH!
Ivanhoe -- FUCK YEAH!
Friar Tuck -- FUCK YEAH!
The Ravens at the Tower of London -- FUCK YEAH!
The Surrey Countryside -- FUCK YEAH!
Hastings -- FUCK YEAH!
York -- FUCK YEAH!
Northumbria -- FUCK YEAH!
Keith Floyd -- FUCK YEAH!
Gordon Ramsey -- FUCK YEAH!
Lenny Henry -- FUCK YEAH!

I have just come from the What'sMarvellousAbout FranceAndTheFrench.com "Merde Oui" website -which has been running for two weeks now - total of 3 posts and all in English ! FUCK YEAH !!

How could the single most important solid source of epicurean nourishment in the British Empire have been overlooked until now ?
McVitie's Milk Chocolate Digestive Biscuits - FUCKING FUCK YEAH !!

Minder and Yes, Minister! FUCK YEAH!
Dickie and David Attenborough! FUCK YEAH!
John, Juliet and Hayley Mills! FUCK YEAH!
Thames Television! FUCK YEAH!
Gustav Holst! FUCK YEAH!
[the original] League of Gentlemen! FUCK YEAH!
The Morris Minor! FUCK YEAH!
Old South Wales! FUCK YEAH!
The Vickers Wellington Bomber! FUCK YEAH!
Bludgeoning Troublesome Priests! FUCK YEAH!
Taylors of Harrogate Tea! FUCK YEAH!
Inventing Rugby League! FUCK YEAH!
Hibernian F.C. FUCK YEAH!
Teenage Fanclub! FUCK YEAH!
Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians! FUCK YEAH!
Airfix, Matchbox, Corgi and Hornby! FUCK YEAH!
Vera Lynn! FUCK YEAH!
Messrs Hanky & Bannister! FUCK YEAH!
Judge Dredd and 2000 AD! FUCK YEAH!
Mayfair magazine! FUCK YEAH!
George VI! FUCK YEAH!
The Goodies! FUCK YEAH!
Tripe! FUCK YEAH!
Sarah Brightman when she was in Hot Gossip! FUCK YEAH!
4AD Records! FUCK YEAH!
Kate Moss! FUCK YEAH!
Antidisestablishmentarianism! FUCK YEAH!
John Gould! FUCK YEAH!

The Arsenal! Highbury! FUCK YEAH!

McVitties milk chocolate HobNobs

Tunnocks Caramel Wafers

and Barrs Irn Bru...

The fact that this thread is still going...

FUCK YEAH!!

Ian,

then there was servelan with the cropped hair who bacame a sort of dominatrix fantasy icon for sad men everywhere

Hahahahahaha.

Your contributions here are a true joy. Thank you very much.

Nice to see you again, Arthur.

Monty Python - FUCK YEAH!
Christopher Hitchens - FUCK YEAH!
The Edinburgh Festival - FUCK YEAH!
Clement Attlee - FUCK YEAH!
Association Football (Soccer) - FUCK YEAH!
Adam Smith - FUCK YEAH!
The National Health Service - FUCK YEAH!
Winston Churchill - FUCK YEAH!
Chips called Crisps - FUCK YEAH!
French Fries called Chips - FUCK YEAH!
George Orwell - FUCK YEAH!
Glasgow Rangers - FUCK YEAH!

emily wrote :

'Your contributions here are a true joy. Thank you very much.'

thanks. it's the way i tell 'em!

'see emily play' - FY - the amazing psychedelic hit single by the pink floyd, which i just love

'arnold layne' (the flip side IIRC) was a song of theirs, about a guy whole stole women's underwear from washimg lines - which perhaps tells as a bit about the acid-addled mind of syd barrett FY

a guy at wymondham college had a hit single with his wife - oh yes indeedy !

'we do it ' by R and D Stone reached number seven in the charts IIRC - and is still a stock filler for crap disco albums everywhere

russell stone left the college to join the black and white minstrals TNY (tres naff, yeah?)
who were very big at the time -

www.wcremembered.co.uk/fame.html#russ

also see mark strong's entry etc and other luvvie heart thobs

(annoyingly, i'm not in the 'famous alumni section' where i should be, really - but, instead, i am have my very own infamous 'discalimer' on the home page:

www.wcremembered.co.uk/index.html#menu

'infamy!! infamy! , there all got it infamy' - famous brisith poove, kenneth williams FY

talking of very non-PC (well now, at any rate) british music like the 'black and white minstrals'

'dat ole man river, mazza' etc

- jethro tull FY did a whole concept album about a paedophile, called 'aqualung'!

bizarre, but true!

'sitting on a park bench, eyeing small girls with bad intent - aqualung. snot running down his nose...etc etc'

- and other disturbing lyrics by ian anderson, who looks yonger and younger as he gets older amazingly

and there was radio caroline FFFFYYY and the other pirate radio staions- which were a massive big deal over here

where my uncle, eugene, was financial director in the 1960's glory days, as recounted here:

www.wcremembered.co.uk/radioandtv.html

'careful with that axe, eugene' -= PF

Whisky! fUcK yEaH!

George Orwell! fUcK yEaH!

Stonehenge!! Double Fuck YEAH!!

The English Language!!!!! Fornicate Yeah!

The word 'Fuck'! Fuck Yeah!!!!

Alistair Sim FUCK YEAH

Margaret Rutherford FUCK YEAH

Basil Rathbone FUCK YEAH

J.H.Prynne FUCK YEAH

Tom Raworth FUCK YEAH

Basil Fawlty FUCK YEAH

Mr.Tourette and Modern Toss FUCK YEAH

Spring onions dipped in salt FUCK YEAH

Woolwich Ferry FUCK YEAH

Kim Philby FUCK YEAH

William Cobbett FUCK YEAH

Dexy's Midnight Runners FUCK YEAH

Nye Bevan FUCK YEAH

Mary Seacole FUCK YEAH

Twiglets FUCK YEAH

Sloe Gin FUCK YEAH

Gang of Four FUCK YEAH

Derek Raymond FUCK YEAH

Parks where you can walk on the grass FUCK YEAH

Bacon sandwiches FUCK YEAH

Fighting the Nazis before November 1941 FUCK YEAH

Private Bill Speakman, VC FUCK YEAH

Kathy Burke FUCK YEAH

Ray Winstone FUCK YEAH

Not having flags flying everywhere FUCK YEAH

Free Proud,
"Not having flags flying everywhere FUCK YEAH"

So, I'm guessing you've never visited Belfast in July? ;)

"Fighting the Nazis before November 1941 FUCK YEAH"

So, I'm guessing you've never heard of the Eagle Squadrons? Or the Americans who flew with the RAF even before then?

Premier Drums -- FUCK YEAH!

Kim Philby? -- FUCKER

Emily, if I'm out of line for calling out this commnuist traitor, then please delete this comment.

David Beckham's goal from 60 yards,
Roy Carroll's save that had already crossed the line,
Liverpool's goal that didn't,
Seb Coe running like shit in the 800 metres,
Seb Coe winning the 1500 metres,
Seb Coe winning the 1500 metres again,
The 4 x 100 squad at Athens,
Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal,
Ian Botham's century at Headingly,
The Scottish Curling team,
Linford Christie pumped up to win the 100 metres,
Christian Bale pumped up as American Psycho,
David Jenkins pumping up everyone else,
Pumps (what we wore before trainers),
Ernie Wise,
Nick Faldo stalking and consuming the Great White Shark,
Cutting up sharks for A level Biology,
Nick Leeson gambling �829 million on the stock market
Losing

But pick yourself up and start all over again!

FUCK YEAH!

Four foot eight and a half inches is exactly the width of two horses arses

The Union Jack! FUCK YEAH!
The Royal Marines FUCK YEAH!
The "Boys from Hereford" FUCK YEAH!
Colonel Tim Collins (Royal Irish Regiment) FUCK YEAH!
The Black Watch FUCK YEAH!

KORG synths FY

[they are japanese, you idiot , are you STILL here? - Ed.]

but the quirky mellotron, as favoured by rick wakeman who owned six of the things, until he famously set fire to one (he played mellotron on 'space oddity' by david bowie FY) IS VERY DEFINITELY, BRITISH

OH YES INDEEDY!

www.mellotron.com/

there you are - it's even got union jack wallpaper!!!

we have HAD the union jack FY , i hope? - if not, WHY not?

whcih reminds me union jack minis as popularised by peter sellars qv , the beatles qv , twiggy qv , david hemmings qv ad other assorted british sixites, kings road, chelsea FY swingers (when 'swinging' meant something else entirely , to what it does now!)

i'll send the boys round, if someone doesn't profile the history of the union jack - symbolising when these celts up here got dragged into the UK etc

i trust you DO all know that there IS a difference between 'the UK' and 'great britain' - even though the words are often used synonymously?

and that the scots get VERY upset indeed, when americans (usally) refer to 'england' when they obviously mean 'the UK' - or even 'great britian'?

there's such a resurgance in interest in the mellotron (which used loads of tape loops - a sort of pre-digital sampler, i suppose you could call it) along with all the retro interest in analogue synths generally now, that the son of the inventor of the mellotron (of steetley electronics) and another guy, are doing a roaring trade in refurbished mellotrons (that's a point, he owes me an interview)

www.vemia.co.uk/mellotron/

Colonal Tim Collins Speech commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom FUCK YEAH!

We go to liberate, not to conquer.
We will not fly our flags in their country
We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own.
Show respect for them.

There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly.
Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send.
As for the others, I expect you to rock their world.
Wipe them out if that is what they choose.
But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.

Iraq is steeped in history.
It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham.
Tread lightly there.

You will see things that no man could pay to see
-- and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis.
You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing.

Don't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country.
Their children will be poor, in years to come they will know that the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.

If there are casualties of war then remember that when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day.
Allow them dignity in death.
Bury them properly and mark their graves.

It is my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive.
But there may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign.
We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back.
There will be no time for sorrow.

The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction.
There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires of hell for Saddam.
He and his forces will be destroyed by this coalition for what they have done.
As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity.

It is a big step to take another human life.
It is not to be done lightly.
I know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts.
I can assure you they live with the mark of Cain upon them.

If someone surrenders to you then remember they have that right in international law and ensure that one day they go home to their family.
The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please.

If you harm the regiment or its history by over-enthusiasm in killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer.
You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest -- for your deeds will follow you down through history.
We will bring shame on neither our uniform or our nation.

(On Saddam's chemical and biological weapons.)

It is not a question of if, it's a question of when.
We know he has already devolved the decision to lower commanders, and that means he has already taken the decision himself.
If we survive the first strike we will survive the attack.

As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.

Our business now is north.

Copyright Tim Collins, 2003

"i'll send the boys round, if someone doesn't profile the history of the union jack - symbolising when these celts up here got dragged into the UK etc"

Crosses of Saint George (for England) and Saint Andrew (for Scotland) combined after the 1707 Act of Union creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain. "Cross of Saint Patrick" (for Ireland, even though Patrick wasn't a martyr and therefore wouldn't really have his own cross) made up and added in after the 1801 Act of Union creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

"i trust you DO all know that there IS a difference between 'the UK' and 'great britain' - even though the words are often used synonymously?"

The UK (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as of 1922) is a state; Great Britain is an island (as opposed to "Little Britain," i.e., Brittany in France). The UK includes Northern Ireland, while GB does not.

Ian,
Having studied British politics a lot in school, it makes my brain melt when somebody says "England" when they mean "Britain" and "Britain" when what they mean is the UK. Americans who can't understand the peeve, imagine if a foreigner substituted "Iowa" for "USA" or called Puerto Rico "America."

Charles,
I won't delete your comment and am not angry at your reaction, but everybody - PLEASE - I do not want this thread to turn into an ugly political bicker-fest FOR ANY REASON. We are not here to fight with each other and I ask that you unleash your inner ideologue long enough to maintain this thread for the supportive, fun, and celebratory purpose it was intended for in the first place. I never expected the large reaction, but it's really made me smile and I don't want anything to change that.

I've received a few e-mails now from some Brits who've written that our support on this thread has brought tears to their eyes and made them feel a little bit better after the shit events of the last week. Any comment that spoils that spirit will be removed. Period. We are here for THEM.

That being said, using archaic words like "colonials"! FUCK YEAH!

Oh, and Wales is not separtely represented in the Union Jack, with a number of possible explanations/excuses: it was legally annexed to England in 1536; it is a principality rather than a kingdom; as far as I know, there is no "Cross of Saint David" (though that didn't make any difference with respect to Ireland); and even if there was, it's hard to see where there's room to add anything else.

FYI, most people also don't know that the Union Flag is really only properly the Union Jack when flown from the jackstaff of a warship, and that it's not symmetrical (which means it's easy for people to accidentally fly it upside-down).

English ivy and holly

Wassail and wassailing--Anyone want to post a good wassail recipe for this Yank lady

Exquisite English bone china

The Loch Ness Monster "Nessie"

Fuck Yeah to all of above

Totally late to the party, but:

Daniel Craig (I don't think he's been mentioned) FUCK YEAH!

Agatha Christie Fuck yeah!

The Whitaker Family (showjumping) Fuck Yeah!

Stomping divots! Fuck Yeah!

Cadbury Chocolate! Fuck Yeah!

Taking the bridge over to Tate Modern!

The word Piccadilly! Fuck Yeah!

Newcastle Brown Ale! Fuck Yeah!

Dry humor! Fuck Yeah!

Bill Bailey FUCK YEAH!
Black Books FUCK YEAH!
Irony FUCK YEAH!
New Labour FUCK YEAH!
Resisting Germany in 1941 largly on its own FUCK YEAH!
Commons debates FUCK YEAH!
Liberating Iraq FUCK YEAH!
Tom Baker FUCK YEAH!
Dylan Moran FUCK YEAH!
Shaun of the Dead FUCK YEAH!
Blackadder FUCK YEAH!
Dead Ringers FUCK YEAH!

Ian,
I figured as much. ;)

AND...Doctor Strangelove! FUCK YEAH!

Characters who grew up with me...

Rinceweed,
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy,
Harry Wharton,
Bob Cherry,
Frank Nugent,
Dr Watson,
Peter Pascoe,
Albert Fitzwilliam Digby,
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy,
James Bigglesworth, the Hon Algernon Montgomery Lacy and Ginger Hebblethwaite

FUCK YEAH!

Peter Cushing! FUCK YEAH!
Christopher Lee! FUCK YEAH!
Hammer Films! FUCK YEAH!
Bodingtons! FUCK YEAH!
Murphy's Stout! FUCK YEAH!
Eton! FUCK YEAH!
James Bond! (all of 'em, and why not?) FUCK YEAH!
Tetleys! FUCK YEAH!
Stratford on Avon! FUCK YEAH!
The new Globe theatre! FUCK YEAH!
Punting! FUCK YEAH!
The Prime Meridian! FUCK YEAH!
Alan Turing! FUCK YEAH!
Quintin Crisp! FUCK YEAH!
Bentleys! FUCK YEAH!
Triumphs! FUCK YEAH!
Twee! FUCK YEAH!
Bubble and squeak! FUCK YEAH!
Are You Being Served? FUCK YEAH!
Jamie Oliver! FUCK YEAH!
Ian McKellan! FUCK YEAH!
Patrick Stewart! FUCK YEAH!
Aero bars! FUCK YEAH!

Address by Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Collins to his 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish on the eve of battle in Iraq:

WE GO TO LIBERATE, not to conquer.

We will not fly our flags in their country.

We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them.

Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there.

You will see things that no man could pay to see and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing.

Don't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country. Their children will be poor. In years to come they will know that the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.

The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls, and they are stoking the fires of hell for Saddam.

He and his forces will be destroyed by this coalition for what they have done.

As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place.

Show them no pity.

There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly. Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send. As for the others, I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose.

But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.

If there are casualties of war then remember that when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury them properly and mark their graves.

It is my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive but there may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign.

We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back. There will be no time for sorrow.

It is a big step to take another human life. It is not to be done lightly. I know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts, I can assure you they live with the mark of Cain upon them.

If someone surrenders to you then remember they have that right in international law and ensure that one day they go home to their family. The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please.

If you harm the regiment or its history by over enthusiasm in killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer.

You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest for your deeds will follow you down through history.

We will bring shame on neither our uniform or our nation . . .

As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there. Our business now is north."

FUCK YEAH!

Can we Brits join in?
Christopher Hitchens! FUCK YEAH!
All other drink-sodden ex-trotskyite popinjays for war! FUCK YEAH!

Just a little Brit appreciation from Tampa:
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
Jos Stone
Bridget Jones' Diary
Fuck Yeah!

spreading the word about this site to others (including the military geeks at Strategy Page--welcome artyengineer)--FUCK YEAH

big jock knowing about torbett towers??? FUCK YEAH!!!

(How could we forget) Altoids! FUCK YEAH!!!!

Bletchley Park & Ultra Secret (cracking the German code in WWII)! FUCK YEAH!!!

Mary Cicely Barker! FUCK YEAH!!!

The Daily Mail. FUCK NO!

Dorothy Dunnett! FUCK YEAH!
Francis Crawford! FUCK YEAH
Chancer! FUCK YEAH

Northcliffe, The Daily Mail is a part of the vibrant an opinionated British press to which I gave a hearty FUCK YEAH! hundreds of comments ago. That you don't like the Mail is absolutely no reason for petty disparagement like that, not in this thread, where "everything British short of unmitigated evil gets a FUCK YEAH!" If I can give the BBC a FUCK YEAH!, then you can do the same for the Mail, or you can politely say nothing. Just to prove this, I'm going to now heap praise on the leftwing papers I despise:

The Guardian! FUCK YEAH!
The Independent FUCK YEAH!
The Observer! FUCK YEAH!
The Daily Mirror! FUCK YEAH!

Yes, Brits can join in. Many already have.

I must second the Altoids! FUCK YEAH!, even though most British ex-pats I've met in the US said they'd never heard of them until they moved here.

Phileas Fogg! FUCK YEAH!

I remember reading Around the World in 80 Days as a kid and being somewhat confused at British spelling and grammar.

Emily,

I think we're running out of steam

How are you going to end this?

"you just think scotland is part of england, don't you, really?"

Given who runs the UK, it's really almost more like England is part of Scotland. At least that's what the people at the Campaign for an English Parliament often seem to be ranting alongside their (IMHO) otherwise eminently reasonable demands.

The West Lothian Question! FUCK YEAH!

"i thought one usually had to pay child prostitutes, not inherit half of london as a result of shagging them?"

Hahahahaha.

Well said in response to the Daily Mail poster, Dave. We may not like certain newspapers and we may choose not to read them, but we love freedom of the press and will fight for their right to be published always. FUCK YEAH!

Beau Brummel! FUCK YEAH!!!

The Buzzcocks!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!

terjoha,
I will let this thread die a natural death. People can continue posting FUCK YEAHS! here for as long as they wish.

Hobbits! FUCK YEAH!
Fairies in the bottom of the garden!!! FUCK YEAH!!
"Take your dog with you by rail"! FUCK YEAH!!!

Ken (THE DEVILS, LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM) Russell! FUCK YEAH!!!

The Wicker Man! FUCK YEAH!!!

Crazy Frog Ringtone! Um...

The Sweet, Alan Moore, & Alfred, Lord Tennyson! FUCK YEAH!!!

The Hawker Hurricane! FUCK YEAH!

Claymore swords! FUCK YEAH!

Douglas Bader! FUCK YEAH!

Hobart's Funnies! FUCK YEAH!

Lord Wellington at Waterloo! FUCK YEAH!

Lord Nelson! FUCK YEAH!

The Brit RN guy aboard the USS Winston Churchill! FUCK YEAH!

Bomber Harris! FUCK YEAH!

Monty! Um...Why not? FUCK YEAH!

Gentleman Johnny Howe! FUCK YEAH! (He was the best failure the British Army ever had)

HMS Ark Royal! FUCK YEAH!

Gibraltar! FUCK YEAH!

The SMLE Enfield! FUCK YEAH!

HMS Conqueror! FUCK YEAH!

HMS' Achilles, Ajax, and Exeter! FUCK YEAH!

Perhaps that should specifically read "Gibraltar, which BTW is British and not Spanish, thank God, you defeatist Spanish bastards!" FUCK YEAH! Or maybe that's just me. ;-)

cowboy blob seems to have a distictly 'military skew' to his list

is this the 22 SAS invasion, which we have been promised then?

Samizdat! FUCK YEAH!

Cryptic Subterranean! FUCK YEAH!

Test Match Special
Crumpets
Lemon curd
Taking the high road
Wimbledon fortnight
Mince 'n tatties
A nice cup of tea and a sit down
Taking the low road
Hearts of oak have our ships
Per Ardua ad Astra
White pudding suppers
Dandelion and burdock
Sir Isaac Newton
The Smiths
The Boat Race
The Queen on Christmas day
The Lake District
Charles Darwin
Jolly Tars are our men
George Best
Radar
Squeeze
David Hume
Ploughman's Lunch
Ten number six please
Glasgow Rangers & Liverpool FCs
Lancashire hot pot
Cat's eyes
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Forth Bridge
Toodle pip
Penicillin
Chicken Tikka Massala
The Who
Conkers
If music be the food of love, play on
The MG midget
James Clerk Maxwell
Rabbie Burns
Red post boxes
Foxes who don't give a shit anymore
Hooray Henrys
Crusties
The Naked Rambler
Cornish pasties
Caernarvon Castle
Hello campers
Benny Hill
Pulling a bird
Pulling a pint
Sinking a pint
Sinking a birdie
The Queen Mother (Gawd bless ya)
Robins in the garden in winter
Bluebells in the woods in Spring
Swifts round the steeples in Summer
Horse chestnuts under the trees in Autumn
Jumpers for goalposts
Guy the Gorilla
Ask the Family
The Morris Minor
The Ulster fry
Changing the guard
Blackpool rock

FUCK YEAH!!!

Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to an almost ridiculous but refreshing point - FUCK YEAH!!

The whole Mods thing, including scooters and miniskirts and The Who! Fuck YEAH!

Saying "Alyoominium" instead of 'aluminum'! FUCK YEAH!

The Magic Roundabout (yeah, I know it sounds like something you see when you're on acid in London, but my husband swears it was on the telly when he was a kid)... FUCK YEAH!

Saying "Telly" instead of "TV"! FUCK YEAH!

Tom Conti, Michaels York and Caine, Bob Hoskin, Ben Kingsley, (can I say Sean Connery even though he's a Scot?), Alan Rickman, Jonathan Pryce!! FUCK YEAH!

Ooh, let's get 80s: Adam Ant, Hazel O'Connor, Gang of Four, The Human League, ABC, Flock of freakin Seagulls, Haircut One Hundred, Spandau Ballet, The Jam, Elvis Costello, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Boomtown Rats (Sir Bob Geldof!!), The English Beat, Fun Boy Three, Bananarama, The Specials, Madness, Psychedelic Furs, Killing Joke, Thomas Dolby, The Cure! FUCK YEAH!!!

Calling canned whipped cream "Squirty Cream"! FUCK YEAH!!

Mummy,
I very nearly filed part of your comment under "too much information" when I misread one of the items on your list to read "Blueballs in the woods in Spring!

And please, nobody tell me what "crusties" are. I DO NOT want to know.

Duran Duran! FUCK YEAH!

And has anybody done garden gnomes? Garden gnomes! FUCK YEAH!

Gina -- "Squirty cream"?!?!? Oh, that is just brilliant.

I wonder if British kids have discovered whip-its?

The English Language, double fuck yeah!

Yeah, "Squirty Cream" - hilarious, especially coming from my sweet 74-yr old mum-in-law. So here's to going out to a bar (pub?) tonight and ordering an Irish Coffee "with lots and lots of Squirty Cream, please, sir..." FUCK YEAH!!

Bridgnorth town, fuck yeah!
Burlton, Shropshire, Fuck yeah!
Middleton Scriven, fuck yeah!
70's TV variety shows, fuck yeah!
Bullseye, fuck yeah!
Oliver Reed, fuck Yeah!
Des Lynam, fuck yeah!

those 'jumpin jack flash' lines, which would have been nearly all censored out in the US TV versions:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306/quotes

OK, some of the things that this homo yank appreciates about the UK:

Civil partnerships for same-sex couples! FUCK YEAH!
Sir Ian McKellan! FUCK YEAH!
Gays in the military! FUCK YEAH!
Brian Paddick (openly gay chief spokesman for London police)! FUCK YEAH!
Joe Orton! FUCK YEAH!
Quentin Crisp! FUCK YEAH!
Alan Hollinghurst! FUCK YEAH!
Rob Halford! FUCK YEAH!
Francisc Bacon! FUCK YEAH!
Foreskins! FUCK YEAH!
My Beautiful Laundrett! FUCK YEAH!
The Queen! FUCK YEAH!

Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thomas Kyd, Samuel Butler, Laurence Sterne, Magna Carta, Newton, Oxford English Dictionary, Conan Doyle, Butterworth, tanks, Samuel Pepys, cockneys, English language, global navigation, Greenwich Mean Time, Johnson/Boswell, The Tatler, populating North America, James Clerk Maxwell, common law, Royal Society,...

Rob,
You're not the first person to bring up foreskins! Hahahahaha. I love it.

And I will second your Ian McKellan FUCK YEAH! as I take a deserved lazy Saturday afternoon to plop on the couch with an adult beverage and watch X-Men.

Cheers everybody. Carry on with the FUCK YEAHS as you like...I'll be back later.

The Spanish Armada on the sea floor - FUCK YEAH!
Merlin - FUCK YEAH!
The Highlands - FUCK YEAH!
Numerous Redheaded Scottish girls - FUCK YEAH!
Lord Byron enlisting in the Greek War of Independence - FUCK YEAH!

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis! DOUBLE FUCK YEAH!

Kipling and Kitchener

re all the robin hood band of outlaws mentioned by someone:

The Ballad of Robin Head` - by Keith Christmas (bristol folk singer)

[`head` being hippie-speak for a druggie - ian]

`Twas in the forest of Sherwood,
In the year twelve hundred and ten,
There lived a pusher called Robin Head,
And his band of VERY merry men.

They lived on nuts and berr-i-ies,
And the occasional blue deer.
Doing the macrobiotic thing,
And dispensing much good cheer.

The sound of merry la-au-ghter
Echoed round the forest green.
There was old Frair Tucker, the gay motherf*cker,
And Maid Marion, the acid queen.

Said Little John: `let`s get some meat`,
Said Robin: `Oh, what`s the point?,
I`ve tired of doing this venison thing,
Let`s go and roll a joint`.

Then there burst upon the scene,
A band of the Sherrif`s men,
Saying: ``Ullo, `ullo, `ullo, wot`s going on `ere?
An` wot`s all this `ere then?

`You`ll have to come along with us,
To the palace of the king`.
Said Robin: `Hey man, don`t get so uptight,
I was only doing my thing`.

So Robin bade a sad farewell,
And to Marion, he gave a kiss,
So they took him off with "certain substances",
For further analysis.

And then the news, it spread both far and wide,
And the people all came to see,
For the man who always gave good deals,
Was of great popularity.

And Robin was brought before the throne,
Of Nottingham`s terrible king,
Who said: `For years I`ve been after you,
And now you`re going to swing,

`But before I sentence you,
For the things which you have done,
Tell me, what is this plant that you grow in the forest?
For I think that I`ll try some`.

Then the minutes, passed in silence,
And the air grew mightily thick,
Said the Sherrif: `I feel fine!
and perhaps very slightly sick`.

But now my story has to end,
As happily as it began,
For Robin now deals for the countryside,
And the Sherrif does Nottingham.

Copywrite - Keith Christmas `

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900th comment! FUCK YEAH!

have you actually counted them, then?

god! you are even sadder than i am

Well, no, I haven't, but the counter was at 899 when I posted that, so it's probably only a fair guess, but at least close.

The Jaguar E-Type! FUCK YEAH!
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage! FUCK YEAH!
The Land Rover! FUCK YEAH!
The Range Rover! FUCK YEAH!
The MGB! FUCK YEAH!

Agincourt FUCK YEAH!
HENRY V FUCK YEAH!
Waterloo FUCK YEAH!
The Iron FUCK YEAH!
SAS FUCK YEAH!
Royal Marines FUCK YEAH!
1st Para FUCK YEAH!
Royal Navy FUCK YEAH!
RAF FUCK YEAH!
El Alamein FUCK YEAH!
D Day FUCK YEAH!

In case someone forgot,
Doctor Who!! FUCK YEAH!!

Oh, and I finally watched The Jacket last night. Decent flick. But what I got most from it was,
Keira Knightley!! Fuck yeah!!

Venerable Bede
Domesday Book
Hadrian's Wall
Victorious Battle of Britain
FUCK YEAH!

I think we should go through all 60 million or so names of our British persons and say fuck yeah, might take a while though, what qwith people being born lots and stuff

Yeah, lets just say Everyone in thwe UK, fuck yeah! Well almost everyone, of course.

Being spied upon and threatened by the TV Licensing Authority: FUCK YEAH!!

Those TV detector vans: FUCK YEAH!!

The two-fingered salute: FUCK YEAH!!

"Get stuffed!" FUCK YEAH!!

Being "out on the pull" with the girls: FUCK ME!!

Er..sorry Emily, had a flashback.

Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen, fuck yeah! He has a website
http://www.llb.co.uk/
Magdalen College, Oxford students jumping off a bridge in to a low river, and breaking legs and stuff, fuck yeah!

Karl Marx when in England wrote...Das Kapital FUCK YEAH!

Clement Atlee FUCK YEAH!

Trade Unions FUCK YEAH!

Aneurin Bevin (Welsh but he's ours!) FUCK YEAH!

The Chartists FUCK YEAH!

The NHS FUCK YEAH!

Drinking at 18 FUCK YEAH!

Drinking cheap cider at 14, outside the youth centre, fuck yeah!

"Knock me up on Friday, because that's when I get laid." FUCK YEAH

The aircraft engined racing cars called specials FUCK YEAH

To answer the question above, Sir Charles Parsons invented the axial flow turbine. He filed his first patent, for a fully functioning device, in 1884, and continued improving it and the technology to produce and apply it into the 1920s. Including the turbojet engine, which Frank Whittle developed by putting a combustion chamber in the middle, a major percentage of all rotary motion generated since was the result of this one breakthru.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - FUCK YEAH!!

And this poem/song, Jerusalerm - FUCK YEAH!

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen

And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills
And was Jerusalem builded there
Among those dark Satanic mills

Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire

I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land

I found out the Brits weren't acting superior they ARE superior..FUCK YEAH

Jeremy Clarkson's tight jeans, fuck yeah!

How could i forget Bernard Matthews, and his dirty processed crappy turkey drumsticks

Bernard Matthews, fuck yeah!

Bird's custard

The NHS! FUCK YEAH!
The BBC! FUCK YEAH!
Ending the civil war in Sierra Leone! FUCK YEAH!
Inventing the hovercraft! FUCK YEAH!
George Orwell! FUCK YEAH!
Kate Silverton presenting BBC News 24! FUCK YEAH!
Chris Morris! FUCK YEAH!
Wales! FUCK YEAH!
National epidemics of binge-drinking! FUCK YEAH!
Killing lots of Nazis in the 1940s! FUCK YEAH!

Times of London BOTH daiiy and Sunday PAPER FUCK YEAH

Daily Standard FUCK YEAH
FOX News turn SKY News turn Fox news AGAIN FUCK YEAH here in the US

Robinson's Barley Water - Fuck Yeah!
Hop picking in the summer hols Fuck Yeah
Reginal Hill - Fuck Yeah!
David Jason - Fuck Yeah!
Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins racing each other to the death on the Hog's Back - Fuck Yeah!

WTF!! Birmingham center is being evacuated.

Emily, I know what you said about politics but I have to post a quote from Churchill, actually a snip. The entire speech is on the hyperlink which follows

.."Never give in. Never give in. Never, never,

never, never--in nothing, great or small, large

or petty--never give in, except to convictions of

honour and good sense. Never yield to force.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/NEVER.html

Rainbow, including Zippy, Bungle, George, and Jeffrey, fuck yeah!

Sooty and sweep and Sue, and Matthew fuck yeah!

Trapdoor, the plasticine cartoon, fuck yeah!

Tony Hart, fuck yeah!

I forgot to add to the Churchill quote: FUCKIN YEAH!!!

He was half-american so he would appreciate the slang I am sure.

Crop circles! FUCK YEAH!

John Bonham! FUCK YEAH!

Captain Sir Richard Francis and Isabel Burton FUCK YEAH!
Flashman FUCK YEAH!
The Two Fat Ladies, ESPECIALLY Clarissa who defends such unpopular traditional British liberties as fox hunting and coursing-- may they rise again! FUCK YEAH!
Coursing FUCK YEAH!
T H White and The Sword in the Stone FUCK YEAH!
John Buchan FUCK YEAH!
Best London shotguns-- Purdey, Boss, Holland and Holland, Evans-- FUCK YEAH!
The Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford FUCK YEAH!
The Sladmore Galley FUCK YEAH!
Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin (I know they have been done) and Roy Campbell who hasn't FUCK YEAH!
The Mitfords FUCK YEAH!
Evelyn Waugh FUCK YEAH!
Mallory and Irvine FUCK YEAH!
Shipton and Tilman FUCK YEAH!
English lurchers, especially ones bred by David Hancock FUCK YEAH
D. Brian Plummer FUCK YEAH!
Jack Russell terriers FUCK YEAH!
Twitchers FUCK YEAH!
Darwin's heirs: Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins, William Hamilton, Jonathan Kingdon FUCK YEAH!
Reginald Farrer and all the other plant explorers FUCK YEAH!
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen FUCK YEAH!
Shackleton FUCK YEAH!
Bruce Chatwin and Redmond O'Hanlon FUCK YEAH!

That'll do until I think of more...

Oh and-- Emily, you do have one real troll. "Reality Check" added Tony Blair's name to a list of mass murdrers and serial killers, all obscure over here.

Thank you Rita...

"We will never surrender!" FUCK YEAH!

Gina--squirty cream, what else haven't you told me?

Rita,
I don't mind quotes and stuff like that at all! I just know how people can be when it comes to politics and I don't want any shouting debates or name calling in here.

Ian,
Dave's not counting the comments. On the main page of the blog, there's a counter that shows how many comments and how many track backs are under each post. Your last comment was number 936.

Twinings peach summer tea! FUCK YEAH!

Match of the Day on Sundyas, before ol' Rupert took over, fuck yeah!

St and Greavesie, fuck yeah!

Gazza, fuck yeah!

Gary Lineker selling crisps (chips to our American breadren) to kids, fuck yeah!

Willie Carson and other little fellas riding horses, fuck yeah!

Steve,
Thank you for bringing trolls up, since I'm not around to watch this thread 24/7, I would like anyone with malicious intentions to know that I also have the power to edit comments posted here, and am not above replacing nasty remarks to read things like "I have recently found myself strangely aroused while in the presence of goats," stuff like that.

Ted Hughes! FUCK YEAH!

William Blake - FUCK YEAH!

Thomas the Tank Engine - FUCK YEAH!

The Flying Scotsman - FUCK YEAH!

Unarmed Policemen - FUCK YEAH!

The monkey-hanging citizens of Hartlepool - FUCK YEAH!

Chasing cheeses down that fuck-off steep hill - FUCK YEAH!

"It's a Knockout!" - FUCK YEAH!

John Arlott - FUCK YEAH

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - FUCK YEAH!

My mate John in London, whose favourite expression is "Fuck my old boots" - FUCK YEAH!!

"there is a great 'rainbow' chrismas thing for the staff, which is full of the most hilarious double entendres
this is hilarious - i must remember where i put the link
all about bungle 'playing with his balls' and stuff like that"

I have that on my comp, i thought it was real for about a minute, but it is still funny.

My twanger, fuck yeah!

David Dickenson and his creosote tan, fuck yeah!

Blackadder, hello Darhling! Fuck yeah!

British airway adverts circa 1980's, fuck yeah!

Zaphod Beeblebrox: "if there's anything bigger than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot." FUCK YEAH!

Earnest Shackleton & the voyage to the Antarctic! FUCK YEAH!!!

Apropos of Emily's comment about the counter, I would like to remind our new guests that we have a whole big blog here with other posts and an archive and everything, and they're more than welcome to look around and comment anywhere else, too.

'when someone does want me to have something, then i want to have it even more' - ZB

i paraphase that when press officers , bearocratic minions etcsay to me 'you don't need to know that'

i am still a named researcher on the H2G2 site, which everyone has lost interest in since adam's death - but a BBC guy whom i was talkig to last week assures me that trhe project is still very muchh alive

'whom - i just love you british accent, jack' - tery doolittle to jack in 'jumpin' jack flash', where you only hear his voice as his words come on her computer sceeen - until he appears at the very end of the film - which i defy ANYONE not to shed a tear to

'all this for a date?' - dumb blonde carol kane after the place has been shot up

Marmite FUCK YEAH!
Spotted Dick FUCK YEAH!
Gentleman's Relish FUCK YEAH!
Morning tea and toast with marmalade FUCK YEAH!
Lamb with mint jelly FUCK YEAH!
Overcooked roast beef and overcooked peas FUCK YEAH!
(Can you tell I haven't had dinner yet?)

OTOH... was just watching a speech 'sound byte' on the telly, so:
George Galloway FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (I think he has been defined as 'evil' and I can get away with that?)

PENALTY SHOOT OUTS, FUCK YEAH!!!! Maybe one day, maybe.

Bergerac, fuck yeah!

Students spending their loans on beer and clothes, fuck yeah!

Left wingers hating Tony Blair, fuck yeah!

John Major and Edwina Currie, oh hell fuck yeah!

Me being drunk and posting copiously on this site, and being patriotic, fuck yeah!

Holy crap, this just goes on and on..LOVE the Brits...Fuck Yeah!

"John Major and Edwina Currie..."

Ewww (or as the Brits say, "eugh"). But FUCK YEAH! anyway.

Morrissey and his English Heart and Irish Blood - FUCK YEAH!

E-Type Jaguar FUCK YEAH!

re john arlot above , cricket commentator

brian johntsone FY - who announced solomly: 'bowler's holding, batsman's willie' - until he totally cracked up laughing, when he was told what he had just inadvertently said!

micheal holding was a fearsome west indian fast bowler (at that time the windies were best team in the world, by far) and willie was an australian

at one time, the australian team featured willey, dilley and lillie iirc

Highland Dancers.... Fuck Yeah!

U.S. Scottish/Celtic Festivals...Fuck Yeah!

Clans of the Highlands.....Fuck Yeah!

Clan Tents.... Fuck Yeah!

Highland Games ....Fuck Yeah!

Bagpipes......Fuck Yeah!

Rob Roy (the movie) .....Fuck Yeah!

Braveheart (the movie)..... Fuck Yeah!

As an American with Scottish ancestry, I get only what we see here in America.. It's all good! This site is really ....Fuck Yeah!

Space raiders, fuck yeah!
Monster munch, fuck yeah!
Sherbett dip, fuck yeah!
Fiery gobsoppers that burnt your mouth, fuck yeah!
Dropping out the ERM, fuck yeah!
Normon Lamont, fuck yeah!

John Arlott.

Was once commentating on England's 1948 test match against South Africa. The SA bowler NBF Mann sent down a fearsome, bouncing delivery that nearly took the head off FG Mann, the England batsman.

Arlott described it thus: "Another example of Mann's inhumanity to Mann."

Link from Andrew Stuttaford in the Corner?! FUCK YEAH!

re 'it comes in pints'

why have elephants got four feet?

cos they would look pretty silly with just six inches

Alan Clark MP (RIP), oh hell yeah, lets show some quotes, fuck yeah....

Mr Clark once admitted finding Margaret Thatcher "attractive" but added: "I didn't want to jump on her."

"Cecil Parkinson loathed me - particularly because I used four-letter words in front of the PM which he thought monstrously intimate," Mr Clark wrote in his famous diaries.

He once called Kenneth Clarke "A pudgy puffball." As for Douglas Hurd, he said he "might as well have a corncob up his arse". While he dismissed Michael Heseltine as the kind of person "who bought his own furniture".

Someone who buys their own furniture, how base.

"The Queen is all right and Princess Diana is a goddess, but most of the rest are so awful it is quite a work to describe their vulgarity."

On vegetarianism ...

Mrs Thatcher: "You eat meat don't you?"

Alan Clark: "No, I do not, prime minister."

Mrs Thatcher: "Well, you wear leather shoes, don't you?"

Alan Clark: "I am sure, prime minister, you would not wish to see your ministers walking around in plastic footwear ... "

Clearly everyone thought that someone else had said ...

Brian Clough - Fuck Yeah!

... already?

The Premiership - FUCK YEAH!

Relegation if your team sucks ass - FUCK YEAH!

Davey Boy Smith, Dynamite Kid, and William Regal - FUCK YEAH!

Cradle of Filth, Carcass, and Raging Speedhorn - FUCK YEAH!

Metal Hammer magazine - FUCK YEAH!

Frank Bruno - FU...eh, he was okay.

Ginger Spice's old nude photos showing up in tabloids - FUCK YEAH!

Vinnie Jones - FUCK YEAH!

The British pound being worth more than the American dollar - FUCK YEAH! (sucks for us Americans though)

Ali G - FUCK YEAH!

'Someone who buys their own furniture, how base.'

'homebase' i think you mean - or was that a deliberate pun?

No pun, Alan had his furniture in place in his castle, so the thought of anyone buying it was repellant, fuck yeah!

For creating most of the modern world, directly or indirectly.. FUCK YEAH!

For Bob Hope (who was English before he was American) FUCK YEAH!

For the "Special Relationship" and the Anglosphere

FUCK YEAH!

Status Quo, at Band AID 1985' and being off their tits on cocaine, fuck yeah!

Rio video from Duran Duran, fuck yeah!

1024 x 768 with netscape 8 beta fuck yeah!

Harry Flashman ! Fuck yeah !!!
Saki ! Fuck yeah !!!
Bacon and eggs ! Fuck yeah !!!
Andrew Wiles ! Fuck yeah !!!
Tim Berners-Lee ! Fuck yeah !!!

Simon Cowell and his high trousers, fuck yeah!

Ken Livingstone, being statesman like, and not having a mustache anymore, but still having pet newts, fuck yeah!

Jane Austen - FUCK YEAH!

Ian Curtis -- FUCK YEAH!
Ian Astbury -- FUCK YEAH!
Ian Mccullough -- FUCK YEAH!
Peter Hook -- FUCK YEAH!
Peter Saville -- FUCK YEAH!
Peter Medewar -- FUCK YEAH!
Harry Beck -- FUCK YEAH!
Chelmsford -- FUCK YEAH!

Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger

Flippers and Googlies! - Fuck Yeah
The Larch - Fuck Yeah!
Q branch - fuck Yeah!
and lastly,
Not France - Fuck Yeah!

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- FUCK YEAH!
Oliver Cromwell -- FUCK YEAH!!

George Smiley - Fuck Yeah
Not John LeCarre - Fuck Yeah

GLC circa 1980's, fuck yeah!

Little and Large, fuck yeah!

Cannon abd Ball, fuck yeah!

Orville and Keith, fuck yeah!

Bros, especially the lyrics; "You've read Karl Marx", which was my introduction to him at 8 years old, fuck yeah!

Going to bed, or walking away from the pub when you know you have had enough, goodnight Fuck yeah!

Being a Londoner born and bred, I would like to say a big thank you to all our friends accross the pond who have shown us support after these terrible attrocities.

I think the appropriate term for our American friends is - Fuck Yeah!

Ian, and I believe it was the King's Cross Fire that ended smoking on the Tube, correct?

Lotus cars! FUCK YEAH!
Triumph cycles! FUCK YEAH!
Stirling Moss! FUCK YEAH!
Jack Brabham! FUCK YEAH!
Yes! FUCK YEAH!
Colin Chapman! FUCK YEAH!

Holy shit! Comment Number ONE THOUSAND! FUCK YEAH!!

Shepherd's Pie! FUCK YEAH!
Sir Martin Reese! Fuck YEAH!

Oh ... ya... Hobbes! FUCK YEAH!

A link to a truly great English hymn on a great organ: http://www.phoenixorgans.com/thaxted1.mp3

I Vow To Thee, My Country (FY)
by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice

I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love:
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.

Tune: "Thaxted" bu Gustav Holst FY

And...
Lord Peter Wimsey FY
Busman's holiday FY
Gaudy Night FY
Wearing academic gowns to class FY
Frederick Handel FY to the heavens
"Bedazzled" version with Dudley Moore FY
Henry Purcell FY
Thomas Tallis Fy, all ye saints and angels

If you were to stand on a hill during any Sunday afternoon in winter and listen carefully, you would hear a low, rustling, crunching sound. It is the entire English nation, eating celery.

--Adrian Bailey, quoting his father in _The Cooking of the British Isles_ (from Time Life Books)

FUCK YEAH!

These gentlemen also must be mentioned for their outstanding contributions to Western culture and geopolitical thought, especially as it relates to the present troubles:

Bernard Lewis FY
Paul Johnson FY
John Derbyshire FY

I'm not going to go so far as to strike Derbyshire from that comment, Anna, but his incessant whining pessimism in the past few days has been almost singularly annoying.

Trying to find something not yet used:

The Balfour Declaration - FUCK YEAH!

"Tipping The Velvet" - FUCK YEAH!

For this work, and other work,
The until now unmentioned actresses:

Keeley Hawes
Rachel Stirling (And her mum!!! gets double-fuck yeah!)

The mannish yet strangely attractive Anna Chancellor - FUCK YEAH!

For MI-5, the show: Kudos gets a FUCK YEAH!

My many, and long dead, ancestors in the ground get a FUCK YEAH! (Hope to visit!)

Hopelessly femmy given names for men? - FUCK YEAH!
(Whatever is she blathering about, Percy? I have no idea, Rupert.)

Placenames pronounciations that bear no resemblance whatever to their spelling. - FUCK YEAH!

Cute swear words and exclaimations - FUCKING BLOODY BRILLIANT YEAH!

Thatcher? - Riding off to save the motherfuckin' day, YEAH!

Tony Blair's large brass pair - FUCK YEAH!

stiff upper lip, fuck yeah!
falkland islands, fuch yeah!

basil fawlty, fuck yeah!
trafalgar, fuck yeah!

Oh, and ...

Warm beer - FUCK YEAH!

Telling the tots that the French "eat children's ponies." - FUCK YEAH!

The very concept of the novel - FUCK YEAH!

London Fog coats - FUCK YEAH!

The band Queen
The real Queen
The anthem, God save the Queen - FUCK YEAH!

Powdered wig costume dramas - FUCK YEAH!

Tea time - FUCK YEAH!

The global standard language - FUCK YEAH!

The notion of fair play, and other fine and necessary requirements of civilization - FUCK YEAH!

... and the many mentions in the prior 700+ posts. - FUCKING DITTO YEAH!

Calling soccer "football": FUCK YEAH!
Those stupid open-topped tour buses: FUCK YEAH!
Bernie Taupin not getting any credit: FUCK YEAH!
Prince Harry dressing up as a Nazi: uh, sure, what the fuck, FUCK YEAH!

Isaac Newton FUCK, YEAH!
Jane Austen FUCK, YEAH!
Agatha Christie FUCK, YEAH!
Freemasonry FUCK, YEAH!
Lord Balfour FUCK, YEAH!