Being British

(Disclaimer : Not an original post)

Being British is about driving in a German car , made with Indian Steel from scrap iron exported from Sharpness, insured by a French Insurance company, filled with Saudi Arabian fuel brought to the UK in a Panamanian Ship to Southampton, going to an Irish pub for an Australian lager, then travelling home having your windscreen cleaned at the traffic lights by Serbian illegal immigrants , then grabbing a Pakistani curry or a Turkish kebab on the way to sit on Swedish pine furniture and watch American films on a Japanese TV while drinking a glass of water from a French owned Water company.
 
Then the following morning having a wonderful breakfast of an Egg from God knows where, fried in Spanish Sunflower oil, Danish Bacon, Spanish tomatoes, Kenyan Baked Beans, all washed down with a lovely cup of Sri Lankan Tea, French Milk, and West Indian Sugar, before going to the Ugandan/Indian Newsagent to get your newspaper made from a depleted Brazilian rain-forest.



As an aside, this e-mail was sent from a computer with a Korean hard-drive, Chinese CD-ROM , Taiwanese RAM, Singaporian Modem.  The Elecricity was supplied with the curtesy of the Siberian Gas fields and Russian Coal, to power the French Owned Power Stations, built with Le Farge cement in Holland.
 
And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.
 
By the way, Do not display the Union Jack as it may upset the residents !!!!!!!! 

Oh and......
Only in Britain, can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Britain. do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Britain. do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Britain. do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Britain. do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Britain. do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Britain. are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.