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[mickdarabuka]

The weather? We know it's summer in the North of England because the rain gets warmer.

[davidcripps]

The weather complaining is really just small talk, not meant seriously

[SuperDancingdevil]

“Stiff upper lip” refers to us being Stoic in the face of adversity.

[bigbananna]

We talk about the "Weather" to avoid talking about sensitive or private things

[johnbath]

bonfire night celebrates the failure of the event and not the event

[waynenorris]

A stiff upper lip means not complaining and being brave in the face of adversity..just get on with it ..the British way

[TukikoTroy]

Okay, the two taps! It's not a case of having to keep moving your hands from one stream of water to the other to wash them. It works like this.... The taps hang over a thing called a basin. At the bottom of the basin is the plug hole. Put the plug in the plug hole and then turn on the taps. Notice how the water doesn't disappear... it stays in the basin, and you can make it as warm or as cold as you want. You now have a whole basin of water in which you can wash your hands. Notice also how you aren't wasting water and money by having all your water going straight down the aforementioned plughole while you use just a teeny a tiny amount of the running water to wash your hands. Cost effective, ecologically sound and you don't have to rush. Try it, it works a treat.

[ronhill]

Without having the weather to talk, complain about, us Brits would not talk to each other.

[andysutcliffe]

For the accents, if it helps, remember that it was only the Victorian railways that synchronised time across the country. People just didn’t travel any distance before that if they weren’t rich. So there were a huge number of isolated communities, which developed their own dialect. Where I’m from in Yorkshire, you can practically tell which town someone is from, by their accent, within a very small distance

[em-jaytaylor]

No-one actually cares much about the weather- it’s simply a non-personal / non-offensive conversation opener, as we find say, an American “Hello!” A bit direct. It allows pleasantries to be exchanged with strangers as well as familiars. It allows a moan. The British bond with a good grumble.

Not really sure wia spot on observation

[denewst]

"so, are you celebrating the fact he tried to blow up parliament, or the fact that he failed?"
"yes"
"....okay but which one?"
"shhhh... just enjoy the pretty lights"

[chloemaeox]

Who’s watching this in January 2020 thinking I bet you regret saying “it’s only rained twice” 😂😂😂

[Jabber-igiw]

We don’t have weird habits, it’s the rest of the world that weird😉😉

[chasfaulkner]

Your fellow Aussie, Shane Warne, recently described the British weather as "9 months of bad weather and 3 months of winter".

[idoneakw]

I don't think most of us Brits mind the weather. We just like to joke about it self-deprecatingly cos that's our style of humour. It's like an inside joke for the whole of the UK to take the piss out of our weather even though it's not that bad.

[MrPaulMorris]

Accents simply arise from isolation. Before the start of the industrial revolution most people would not have travelled outside the community into which they were born. Since the majority had no means of transport other than walking and no 'time off' from their daily labours they were, by and large, limited to the distance they could cover in a single day's return trip---probably a range no more than 10-15 miles across rough ground--just enough to reach the next village or market town to sell any excess produce.


America has a different accent from Britain (if we could settle on a single representative accent for Britain) for a few reasons. Firstly, settlers did not come to North America only from Britain but from many different countries so the country was not 100% anglophone in the first place and this continued as they welcomed immigrants from around the world. Secondly, the British settlers arrived with a whole range of different accents but were then pushed together in new settlements and pretty much averaged out the differences over a couple of generations. Thirdly, the American population was, for all practical purposes, cut off from the British mainstream by distance so in many cases continued usages that are now archaic in British English. In fact many of the terms that seem characteristically American, such as using 'fall' instead of 'autumn' were actually in common use in British English at the point that the settlers left but changed later in Britain while our American cousins continued the older usage. Another case in point is the use of 'gotten' --common in #american English but now totally lost in mainstream British English (other than in one or two specific phrases such as 'ill gotten gains').


I'd guess that similar things happened in Australia; isolation from the mother tongue, a particular mix of accents among the earliest settlers and the blending within communities as diverse accents rubbed together to come to a common mean.

[becky]

It is on the 5 th of November. We are celebrating that he got caught and killed. And more often people make like wood figure of him and burn them on the fire

[louiselane]

“Stiff upper lip” It’s about being strong in the face of adversity, we don’t bottle things up

[graeradt]

I think that your experience with the Welsh being particularly loud and proud about their nationality is because Wales is so often forgotten as a country. Foreigners often think that UK, Britain and even England are the same thing by different names. Many will have heard of Scotland because of historical characters like Robert the Bruce, and more modern stories like Harry Potter and Highlander. Ireland is also known (although often Ireland and Northern Ireland are confused) again because of history, and also because of GoT. In all of this, Wales is often forgotten about and the Welsh want to draw our attention to their own identity.
The same is often true about New Zealanders who are very proud of their nationality, particularly when people consider them to just be Australians.

[shtbEaN]

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