This is not to be callous in light of the horrors that happened today in London, but I thought our British friends could use as many gestures of support as possible. If you want to read further, check the extended entry and feel free to add anything to the list that you like.
Bangers! FUCK YEAH!
Mash! FUCK YEAH!
Goofy hats! FUCK YEAH!
The Queen! FUCK YEAH!
Boddingtons! FUCK YEAH!
The MI-5! FUCK YEAH!
Monty Python! FUCK YEAH!
Blood pudding! ER...fuck yeah!
Mad Cows! FUCK YEAH!
Scotland! FUCK YEAH!
The Royal Navy! FUCK YEAH!
The Beatles! FUCK YEAH!
PG Tips! FUCK YEAH!
Page Three Girls! FUCK YEAH!
Black taxis! FUCK YEAH!
Beefeaters! FUCK YEAH!
The Union Jack! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by Emily at July 7, 2005 09:53 AM | TrackBack (42) |To echo Dave's beautiful choice of post below, I have to add:
Shakespeare! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:02 AMChurchill! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 10:04 AMFor all my criticism of him and slavish devotion to the Tory Party, this is when I'll say: Tony Blair! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 10:07 AMDouglas 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:11 AM"Mind the gap"! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 10:20 AMRowan Atkinson! Fuck Yeah!
Benny Hill! Fuck Yeah!
John Cleese! Fuck Yeah!
Graham Chapman! Fuck Yeah!
Eric Idle! Fuck Yeah!
Tim Curry!! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 10:20 AMDavid Beckham! FUCK YEAH!
Edward Heath! FUCK YEAH!
Prince Harry! FUCK YEAH!
Newcastle! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:23 AMEdward Heath? I don't know if I personally would go quite THAT far. ;-) His old intraparty rival, OTOH...
Margaret Thatcher! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 10:31 AMEverything British short of unmitigated evil is FUCK YEAH! today, Dave.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:33 AMIan Flemming!! FUCK YEAH!!
Occam! FUCK YEAH!!
Thomas Hobbes! FUCK YEAH!!
Bertrand Russell! FUCK YEAH!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 10:40 AMYorkshire Pudding! FUCK YEAH!
Wellington! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 10:40 AMUm, 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.
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 10:42 AMWhitehall! 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:43 AMBernard Cornwell! FUCK YEAH!
Kicking French butt over and over and over! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 10:46 AMExtremely 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!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 10:53 AMDriving 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!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 11:15 AMOooh, 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?
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 11:16 AMP.G. Wodehouse! FUCK YEAH!
Barbara Woodhouse! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 11:17 AMI 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 11:18 AMHey. Spinal Tap isn't fair. If you say Spinal Tap!Fuck Yeah! You might as well say,
America! Fuck Yeah!
But that's okay.
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 11:25 AMHow so? They were England's loudest band!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 11:28 AMEngland'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!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 11:35 AMArthur Dent! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 11:36 AMDavid 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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 11:38 AMYes. 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!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 11:44 AMDave - 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!
Posted by: Nightfly at July 7, 2005 11:48 AMI like Beefeaters. I have family that raises beef.
Roll Royce! FUCK YEAH!
Bentley! FUCK YEAH!
Jagua...never mind.
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 11:49 AMGuinness is Irish....but what the hell...
Ireland! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 11:50 AMKen,
Let's try it phonetically:
Jag-ooo-war! FUCK YEAH! (Especially if you're a mechanic!)
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 11:51 AM"Especially if you're a mechanic"
Yeah, that's why I didn't finish the thought.
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 11:53 AMI 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!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 11:53 AMYes, 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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 12:00 PMThey also made engines for the greatest fighter of the pre-jet era. FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 12:01 PMAlexander Fleming! FUCK YEAH!
The East India Company! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 12:07 PMPinky & Perky! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Lennie at July 7, 2005 12:07 PMChips and malt vinegar! FUCK YEAH!
Harry Potter! FUCK YEAH!
W.H. Auden! FUCK YEAH!
Bob Hope! FUCK YEAH! (he was born there, after all)
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 12:08 PMWallace and Gromit! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 12:10 PMWe had Scotland, but what about:
Wales! FUCK YEAH
Northern Ireland! FUCK YEAH
Dorky wigs! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 12:14 PMTaxation without representation! Fuck ... er, um.
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 12:16 PMJ.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!
Posted by: Ken Hall at July 7, 2005 12:20 PMThe 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 12:24 PMI'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
Posted by: Bill McCabe at July 7, 2005 12:26 PMRichard 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)
Posted by: Lisa at July 7, 2005 12:29 PMA 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!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 12:35 PMThe 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 12:38 PMJane Austin! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 12:56 PMOf 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)
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 01:00 PMPink Floyd! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 01:05 PMYou 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!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 01:06 PMWilliam Thackeray! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 01:10 PM(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!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 01:19 PMLewis 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!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 01:21 PMTo completely paraphrase (read: desecrate) Monty Python: And there was much Fuck Yeah-ing.
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 01:23 PMGin and Tonics! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 01:24 PMLyle's Golden Syrup! FUCK YEAH!!
Posted by: tree hugging sister at July 7, 2005 01:24 PMCullen,
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!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 01:34 PMOh!
Colin Firth! FUUUUUUCK YEAH!
Hugh Laurie! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 01:35 PMColin Firth! FUCK YEAH!
Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!
Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!
Colin Firth! FUCK YEAH!
Oops, sorry, got caught in the loopy day dream...
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 01:41 PMAnd how could I possibly have forgotten this one?
DYLAN THOMAS! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 01:52 PMI 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!
Posted by: Ken Hall at July 7, 2005 01:54 PMShagging! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Lennie at July 7, 2005 02:01 PMCadbury's! FUCK YEAH!
The Magna Carta! FUCK YEAH!
Cars with steering wheels on the wrong side! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 02:04 PMThe 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!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 02:34 PMI think Lennie takes top honors.
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 02:50 PMAs long as there's lots of snogging! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 03:32 PMSmoking fags! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 03:35 PMTolkien! 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!!!
Posted by: Liam at July 7, 2005 03:52 PMKen,
Thanks. Does top honors include a case of Mr. Brain's Faggots? Because if it does, FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Lennie at July 7, 2005 03:52 PMPM's Question Time! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 04:00 PMThe House of Commons! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:01 PMCalling chips "crisps"! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:03 PMI can't believe I'm saying this, but...the BBC! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 04:05 PMI further can't believe I forgot,
Simon Bisley!! FUCK YEAH!!
And there's nothing wrong with the BBC, they gave us Doctor Who.
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 04:09 PMAND Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:12 PMCullen, there's plenty wrong with the BBC, but that's a subject for another time.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 04:22 PMLed 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!!
Posted by: Jeff at July 7, 2005 04:23 PMDave,
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!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 04:26 PMLennie, 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).
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 04:31 PMDepends on how you are defining "smoke" in this instance, Ken.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:37 PMAbbey Road! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr Bingley at July 7, 2005 04:38 PMChristmas crackers! FUCK YEAH!
Boxing Day! FUCK YEAH!
British Pounds! FUCK YEAH!
Bacon Butty! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:41 PMOkay, 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,
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 04:56 PMEddie "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!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 05:03 PMThe Official Raving Monster Loony Party! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 05:04 PMPost #100! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 05:05 PMWensleydale! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr Bingley at July 7, 2005 05:13 PMWorking a second late-night job!! Fuck Yeah!!
No, wait. That's me.
Oh, well then ...
British Stoicism!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 05:22 PMRighto, Cullen. Keeping a stiff upper lip! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 7, 2005 05:52 PMEngland's cricketers, for playing on despite everything and beating the Aussies by nine FUCK YEAH! wickets today!
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at July 7, 2005 05:59 PMA 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.)
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 06:00 PMFish 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!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 06:14 PMBefore I forget,
Slugger O'Toole! FUCK YEAH!
Harry's Place! FUCK YEAH!
The Portadown News! FUCK YEAH!
Hammer and Tongs! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 06:21 PMTaking the piss! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: AP at July 7, 2005 06:21 PMSully 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!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 06:23 PMOh, 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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 06:26 PMTonight: Bombay Sapphire gin on ice with lime! FUCK YEAH!
Tomorrow morning: Bombay Sapphire gin on ice with lime! FUCK ME!
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 06:26 PMNeil 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!
Posted by: John at July 7, 2005 06:29 PMHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - fuck yeah
Posted by: montdlaw at July 7, 2005 06:29 PMThom 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!"
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 06:30 PMKing Richard the Lionheart-Fuck Yeah!
Posted by: Eric at July 7, 2005 06:32 PMGeorge 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!
Posted by: Paul H at July 7, 2005 06:39 PMPaul 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
Posted by: John Hall at July 7, 2005 06:48 PMHaggis. FUCK OUI!
Posted by: troqua at July 7, 2005 06:56 PMThe 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!
Posted by: Acksiom at July 7, 2005 07:01 PMIf John mentions the Red Duster, then I'll add, the White Ensign! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:02 PMDammit 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 !!!!
Posted by: Diane Snyder at July 7, 2005 07:04 PMDave, really ~ Liz Hurley?! Fucked Up!!
Stilton! FUCK YEAH!!
The Original Bingley! FUCK YEAH!
wait..
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!
Posted by: Lea at July 7, 2005 07:07 PMThe Bay City Rollers! HELL FUCKIN' YEAH
Posted by: TS at July 7, 2005 07:12 PMWondering 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.
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:13 PMTerry 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!
Posted by: mike at July 7, 2005 07:15 PMSAS!
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.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 07:18 PMjohn henry bonham! FUCK YEAH!!
Posted by: steve elshoff at July 7, 2005 07:19 PMhahaha Thank God you have my back.
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:20 PMSheila, 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
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:20 PMPubs in Parlament... FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: William R. Barker at July 7, 2005 07:20 PMOh my God, how could I forget THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE OF ALL???
Archie Leach aka Cary Grant FUCK YEAH!!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:20 PMAs a Jew I was in fact tempted to give a Fuck Yeah! to Cromwell, but knew better not to.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:20 PMCurry 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. :)
Posted by: weboy at July 7, 2005 07:24 PMThe Cure! FUCK YEAH!
The Smiths! FUCK YEAH!
Nick Hornby! FUCK YEAH!
Union Jack! FUCK YEAH!
Oscar Wilde! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Rach at July 7, 2005 07:25 PMIan 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?
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 07:26 PMHow could I miss these, today most of all?
Double-decker buses! FUCK YEAH!
The Tube! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:26 PMMichael 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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:29 PMVivien 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.)
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 07:31 PMThe Rolling Stones! FUCK YEAH!!
Posted by: d-rod at July 7, 2005 07:34 PMTed Hughes - FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:35 PMDavid Bowie! FUCK YEAH!
PJ Harvey! FUCK YEAH!
Philip Larkin! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Rach at July 7, 2005 07:35 PMFree 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 07:35 PMTS Eliot - FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:39 PMAnd also particularly appropriate to today:
The Metropolitan Police! FUCK YEAH!
The London Fire Brigade! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 07:40 PMA 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!
Posted by: Eric at July 7, 2005 07:40 PMMasterpiece theatre Fuck yeah
Mystery Fuck yeah
Sky news Fuck yeah
Rupert Murdoch Double fuck yeah
Hayley Mills FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 07:43 PMTHE 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
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 07:52 PMThe Faerie Queene! FUCK YEAH!
Queen! FUCK YEAH!
Iron Maiden -- FUCK YEAH!!!
Adam Smith -- FUCK YEAH!!!
Mary Wroth! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 07:56 PMLed 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
Posted by: Chris at July 7, 2005 07:56 PMBasil 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!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at July 7, 2005 07:59 PMAdam 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!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:00 PMPeter Sellers Fuck yeah
Michael Caine Fuck yeah
ORIGINAL James Bonds Sean MR Sean Connery FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:01 PMLadbroke 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!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:02 PMOriginal 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!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 08:03 PMPINK FLOYD FUCK YEAH
Syd Barrett FUCK YEAH
Osbournes FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:04 PMOh 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:06 PMChristian Bale FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:07 PMSingle Malt Scotch FUCK YEAH
(Hey, Scotland's in Britain, last I checked!)
Posted by: Jeff Fecke at July 7, 2005 08:07 PMOHH Galleger Brothers of Oasis FUCK YEAH
Send them to whetever country that terrorists are in trust me they be beginning surrendering
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:08 PMThose Red Double decker Buses FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:08 PMhairy 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!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 08:09 PMSheila,
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.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 08:09 PMFor the Trekkies on board
Patrick Stewart aka Jean Luc Picard FUCK YEAH
DUH he is Shakepeare actor
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:10 PM200 comments! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 08:11 PMhahaha yeah, that one could go either way.
Christopher Marlowe - FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:12 PMChips and curry ... FUCK YEAH
Posted by: kevin at July 7, 2005 08:13 PMChristopher Lambert aka original Highlander FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:14 PMEmmy Rossum! FUCK YEAH!
JG Ballard! FUCK YEAH!
Large Bosoms! FUCK YEAH!
Cliff Richard you going say WHAT THE FUCK LOL!
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:15 PMEurythmics FUCK YEAH
Sweet Dream are made of this FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:16 PMThe word "snog"- FUCK YEAH!
Kate Bush- FUCK YEAH!
John Milton- FUCK YEAH!
T.E. Lawrence- FUCK YEAH!
TERRY PRATCHETT- FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Widget at July 7, 2005 08:18 PMWestern 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:19 PMDAMIAN 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:20 PMSteven Rea of the Crying Game WHAT THE FUCK you didn't it was a dude LOL!
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:21 PMDaniel Day Lewis is Irish. James Joyce is Irish.
Are You Being Served? - FUCK YEAH!!
Absolutely Fabulous - 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!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:26 PMHow about this for American viewers THE Equalizer aka Edward Woodward FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 08:28 PMSheila,
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?
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 08:30 PMOh yeah...The Lord of the Rings! FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Bill McCabe at July 7, 2005 08:31 PMSorry 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.
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:33 PMMarks & 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!
Posted by: Pauline at July 7, 2005 08:33 PMBill - how could I forget The Office???
I must echo you: FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:35 PMAndrew 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.
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:36 PMAlan Moore! FUCK YEAH!!
Dave Gibbons! FUCK YEAH!
David Bowie! Fuck Yeah!
Sir Ian McKellen! Fuck Yeah!
Patrick Stewart! Fuck Yeah!
Posted by: Cullen at July 7, 2005 08:42 PMChristopher 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!
Posted by: red at July 7, 2005 08:46 PMShelley! 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
Posted by: TommyTune at July 7, 2005 08:47 PMALL 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!
Mötörhead! 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!
Posted by: Peter at July 7, 2005 08:52 PMOk, 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)
Posted by: the Upstart Crow at July 7, 2005 08:52 PMRoyal 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.
Posted by: Jim From Canada at July 7, 2005 08:59 PMSir Not-Appearing in this film! FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Terri at July 7, 2005 09:01 PMHey 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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 09:02 PMsome 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."
Posted by: SteveJ at July 7, 2005 09:05 PMIan 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!
Posted by: Paul H at July 7, 2005 09:05 PMDaveJ: 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. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 09:06 PMDorothy 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 09:13 PMSir,
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!
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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!
Posted by: danny bloom at July 7, 2005 09:18 PMEarl Grey FUCK YEAH
India Tea company turn to Twilning tea company later FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 09:18 PMOzz Fest FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 09:19 PMPenzance! 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!
Posted by: Sean at July 7, 2005 09:24 PMNearly, but never quite, excessive use of the word 'fuck'! FUCK YEAH!
Longbows! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: marc at July 7, 2005 09:26 PMDave 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 ;).
Posted by: the Upstart Crow at July 7, 2005 09:30 PMJohn 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!
Posted by: Lea at July 7, 2005 09:31 PM"...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.
Posted by: Dave J at July 7, 2005 09:34 PMKATE BUSH:FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Scott at July 7, 2005 09:34 PMBombay 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.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 09:35 PMoh 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!!
Posted by: Ed at July 7, 2005 09:37 PMUpstart 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!
Posted by: laura at July 7, 2005 09:40 PMThe OED- FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Josh at July 7, 2005 09:41 PMIsaac 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)
Posted by: Yehudit at July 7, 2005 09:41 PMLaphroig_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!?
Posted by: Sean at July 7, 2005 09:53 PMEmily:
No harm done at all, and no presumption on your part! :) I'm just glad to post here and share the Anglove.
Posted by: the Upstart Crow at July 7, 2005 09:54 PMRed 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!
Posted by: Leo at July 7, 2005 10:20 PMNot 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
Posted by: Frank at July 7, 2005 10:23 PMMORE:
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
Posted by: Red Weather at July 7, 2005 10:24 PMWilliam 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
Posted by: Red Weather at July 7, 2005 10:26 PMRita,
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.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:27 PMBBC world news Fuck Yeah
UK Tabliods Fuck Yeah
Fleet Street Fuck Yeah
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 10:28 PMStephen Fry! FUCK YEAH
Oliver Twist! FUCK YEAH
The Beatles! FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Red Weather at July 7, 2005 10:29 PMBoiled 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
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 10:35 PMEmily,
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.
Posted by: Emily at July 7, 2005 10:49 PMJames 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!
Posted by: sharon Ferguson at July 7, 2005 10:52 PMDanger Mouse! FUCK YEAH!
Andy McNabb! FUCK YEAH!
Hawker Typhoon & Tempest! FUCK YEAH!
Sherman Firefly! FUCK YEAH!
Joan Collins! FUCK YEAH!
Kate Beckinsale! FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: MKL at July 7, 2005 10:52 PMRoxy 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!
Posted by: Michael Schell at July 7, 2005 11:01 PMMan, 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!
Posted by: tom b at July 7, 2005 11:11 PMAlistair 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!
Posted by: Darren from Sacramento at July 7, 2005 11:18 PMSending 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!
Posted by: ange_louise at July 7, 2005 11:20 PMEMMA FUCK YEAH
Jane Eyre FUCK YEAH
Willaim Shakepeare DOUBLE FUCK YEAH
Bronte Sisters FUCK YEAHHHH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 11:22 PMM from James Bonds FUCK YEAH
Dame Judi Destuch FUCK YEAH
Redgrave Family FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 11:24 PMI 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!
Posted by: Gilman Grundy at July 7, 2005 11:24 PMJoan and Jackie Collins FUCK YEAH
Dynasty
Hollywood Wives BOTH FUCK YEAH
Krays FUCK YEAHHHHH
Mills family FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 11:25 PMJoan and Jackie Collins FUCK YEAH
Dynasty
Hollywood Wives BOTH FUCK YEAH
Krays FUCK YEAHHHHH
Mills family FUCK YEAH
Posted by: Kelly at July 7, 2005 11:25 PMRupert 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!
Posted by: Dave O'Connell at July 7, 2005 11:28 PMBack from my corner bar, and quite loopy . . .
Need I say this at all?
EMILY! KEN! DAVE! Mutha-fuckin'-YEAH!!!!
Posted by: Shannon at July 7, 2005 11:29 PMBlake'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!
Posted by: Gilman Grundy at July 7, 2005 11:36 PMRita,
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
Posted by: Rita at July 7, 2005 11:49 PMNo 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
Posted by: Dave O'Connell at July 7, 2005 11:50 PMHenry 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!
Posted by: BG at July 7, 2005 11:50 PMHell, how could I forget patronising ways of addressing women like -
Love! Fuck yeah!
Ducks! Fuck yeah!
Dearest! Fuck yeah!
Posted by: Gilman Grundy at July 7, 2005 11:56 PMObscene 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!!!
Posted by: Ken at July 8, 2005 12:16 AMWhoops, how could I forget The Lord of the Rings? FUCK YEAH!!!
Posted by: Ken at July 8, 2005 12:17 AMOnly up North, and women refer to their men-folk as -
"Our Lad"! Fuck Yeah!
"Our Kid"! Fuck Yeah!
Or "Chuck"! Fuck Yeah!
Posted by: Gilman Grundy at July 8, 2005 12:19 AMOh, and James Bond...sheesh, how'd I leave HIM out? FUCK YEAH!!!
Posted by: Ken at July 8, 2005 12:22 AMAHHHH, I forgot Margaret Thatcher! FUCK YEAH!!!
Posted by: Ken at July 8, 2005 12:25 AM
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!
Posted by: Gilman Grundy at July 8, 2005 12:31 AMActually, I wasn't trying to patronizing, but that's words for you.
Besides, I prefer the term 'bird'.
-Dave O'Connell
York, PA, USA
This entire blog is retarded.
Full Monty? FUCK YEAH?? Do you have anything else to say?
Posted by: Patrick at July 8, 2005 01:21 AM"Agincourt PLUCK YEW!"
ROTFLMAO!
Cate Blanchett is an Aussie.
Posted by: Yehudit at July 8, 2005 01:35 AMDave 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.
Posted by: Peter at July 8, 2005 01:59 AM*boggle*
I don't believe it... I forgot...
TIME BANDITS!
FUCK YEAH!
Posted by: Peter at July 8, 2005 02:15 AMYe 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.
Posted by: hambrough at July 8, 2005 02:36 AMEvolution! 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.
Posted by: roger at July 8, 2005 02:39 AMThe 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!
Posted by: Paul in London at July 8, 2005 03:30 AMThe 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
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