This is a topic that I've heard being discussed quite a bit lately, for a multitude of reasons and I thought I'd have my say on things as well. This has also been a topic I was thinking about today as my family and some friends went down to the trooping of the colours at Buckingham palace today.
Whilst we were stood at the side of the mall early this morning, making jokes about stuff we probably shouldn't have with quite a lot of cops around, and getting a bit tired with all of the standing around and 'queuing', it hit me.
Personally, it feels like, to be British is to not openly acknowledge that you are patriotically British. Does that make sense? It seems like only with really big nationwide occasions do you find people being overly, actively patriotic.
Also going down the more stereotypical route, the British love to polite but secretly annoyed, like if people push in near to where your queuing. Now in that instance we may not say much but you can be 100% sure that in our heads we are coming up with whole conversations and witty come backs that we really want to say.
Last but not least, queuing. Again personally I feel British people don't have strong feelings one way or the other, its just some innate instinct we have as a society that if there's a queue you join it and if there isn't one you start it.
These are just my quick rambling thoughts but it would be nice to hear what other people think, whether British or not.
