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UK teenagers among heaviest drinkers in EU

• Government facing calls to increase alcohol prices
• Schoolgirls binge drinking more than boys

Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent

Friday 27 March 2009 00.01 GMTFirst published on Friday 27 March 2009 00.01 GMT

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The government yesterday faced fresh calls to increase the price of alcohol, after research showed young people in the UK reported some of the highest levels of teenage binge drinking, drunkenness and alcohol-related problems in Europe.

British girls aged 15 and 16 are binge drinking more than their male classmates, with fresh evidence that their behaviour is contributing towards high rates of teenage alcohol-related accidents and unprotected sex. Yet British teenagers were the most likely to claim that they expected "positive consequences" from drinking, such as "forgetting my problems".

The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (Espad) is the most detailed international study of its kind, covering teenagers' drinking, smoking and drug-taking habits in 32 European countries. The UK sample involved 2,179 teenagers: 1,004 boys and 1,175 girls.

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The study was carried out in 2007 by the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. Professor Martin Plant, who led the exercise, said: "The UK retains its unenviable position in relation to binge drinking, intoxication and alcohol-related problems amongst teenagers. This problem is both serious and chronic. I hope that the government will prioritise policies that are effective to reduce heavy drinking and alcohol-related disorder and health problems amongst young people."

UK teenagers ranked third highest (after Denmark and the Isle of Man) in terms of saying they had been drunk within 30 days of the survey, on 33%. In 2003 it was revealed that teenage girls in the UK (as well as Ireland and the Isle of Man) were more likely than boys to have been binge drinking in the previous 30 days.

Just over a quarter of students (26%) said they had suffered an accident or injury as a result of getting drunk, and 11% said they had had sex without a condom.

The report concludes: "The fact that some teenage girls are binge drinking even more than boys suggests that in the UK and elsewhere a profound social change has been taking place. It is clearly no longer socially unacceptable for females to drink heavily or to become intoxicated."

Dr Patrick Miller of the UWE said: "Some of the girls who drink to excess will die. The government has a chance to save lives by increasing the price of alcohol."

Don Shenker, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said: "Not only are UK children getting drunk more often than most of their European peers, they're drinking larger amounts when they do. These figures show that the widespread practice of binge drinking in the UK has now filtered down to school-age children."

The Wine and Spirits Trade Association said: "The survey's authors are entirely wrong to advocate higher taxation of alcohol and higher prices to curb misuse when it is illegal for under 18s to purchase alcohol in the first place. What the survey does show is that proper education on alcohol in schools is needed."

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Association football is the national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country as well as the world's first club (Sheffield F.C.), the world's oldest professional association football club (Notts County F.C), the oldest national governing body (the Football Association), the first national team, the oldest national knockout competition (the FA Cup) and the oldest national league (the English Football League). Today England's top domestic league, the Premier League, is one of the most popular and richest sports leagues in the world, with six of the ten richest football clubs in the world.

Premier League era (1992—present)

Under Scottish manager Alex Ferguson, Manchester United were the dominant team in the first 20 years of the Premier League

In the 1991–92 season, following two years of widespread speculation about the leading clubs of English football forming a breakaway league from the Football League, the 22 clubs competing in the First Division resigned en masse from the Football League, forming a new top-level competition, The FA Premier League, overseen by the FA, largely to capitalise upon their status as the biggest and most wealthy clubs in the country, and negotiate more profitable television rights.

The new league came into force for the 1992–93 season. Its first champions were Manchester United, who ended their 26-year wait for a top division title, while Aston Villa came second and Norwich City third.

The Football League was consequently reorganised, with the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions renamed as the First, Second and Third Divisions respectively. Thus, the First Division, while still the top level of the Football League, became the second level of the entire English football league system with the top clubs inheriting the promotion play-off system from the old Second Division. The Premier League was reduced to 20 teams after the 1994-95 season. The Premier League has been won by 6 clubs in its 24 seasons, with Manchester United winning on 13 occasions. They have set many precedents in the process, becoming the first team to win a second double of the league title and FA Cup in 1996 (their first double being won in 1994), and in 1999 they won a unique treble of the league title, FA Cup and European Cup.

English clubs have also won European tournaments since being permitted to compete after the Heysel disaster, the first English team to win the UEFA Champions League being Manchester United in 1999. The 2008 final, for the first time, was played between two English teams, Manchester United and Chelsea. Manchester United won the final in Moscow on penalties after a 1–1 draw.

The early Premier League years saw the transfer record fee in English football broken many times in a relatively short period of time, and rise at a rate barely comparable with even that of the late 1970s. The biggest fee paid by an English club during the Football League era was the £2.9million paid by Liverpool for Dean Saunders in July 1991. The national record was broken the following summer when Blackburn Rovers paid £3.3million for Alan Shearer. The national record was broken again in June 1993 when Manchester United signed Roy Keane for £3.75million. Blackburn then broke the national record in the 1994 close season by signing 21-year-old Norwich City striker Chris Sutton for £5million. In 1995, the record fee was broken three times in the space of six months. At the turn of the year, Andy Cole arrived at Manchester United in a deal worth £7million. After the season's end, Arsenal paid £7.5million to Inter Milan for Dutch forward Dennis Bergkamp, but Bergkamp had just spent days with his new club when Liverpool paid £8.5million for Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore. A year later, Alan Shearer became the most expensive player not only in England but in the world when he left Blackburn Rovers to sign for Newcastle United in a £15million deal. This fee, however, remained unsurpassed for more than four years.

Premier League clubs have been increasingly successful at attracting foreign players, particularly since the removal of the limit on fielding players from common market countries in the mid 1990s.

Despite the dominance of Manchester United for most of the Premier League era, a number of other clubs have enjoyed considerable success since 1992. Although Liverpool have not won a league title since 1990, they have won a further two FA Cups, four League Cups, a UEFA Cup and a European Cup. The first team to interrupt Manchester United's dominance were Blackburn Rovers, who won the third Premier League title by a single point in 1995. They had only returned to the top flight of English football in 1992, in time for the new league's formation, after a 26-year exile, bankrolled by the wealth of steel baron owner Jack Walker, who had enabled Blackburn to compete for some of the best players in English football. However, Blackburn failed to remain competitive with the best English clubs, their only subsequent major trophy being the League Cup in 2002, and they have never finished higher than sixth in the Premier League since their 1995 title triumph. They endured a two-year exile from the Premier League after being relegated in 1999, and since their second relegation in 2012 they have still yet to gain promotion. Under Arsène Wenger, Arsenal have so far been Premier League champions three times; in 1998, 2002 and 2004. On the first two occasions, they completed the double of the league title and FA Cup, while on the third occasion they won the title without losing a single league game all season. Chelsea made history in 1997 when they won the FA Cup under Dutch manager Ruud Gullit, the first foreign manager to win a major trophy in English football. They won the European Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup a year later under Gullit's successor Gianluca Vialli, who added a further FA Cup in 2000. Chelsea's biggest successes however, have come since the arrival of new Russian owner Roman Abramovich in June 2003 and the appointment of Portuguese coach José Mourinho as manager 12 months later. Mourinho was in charge for more than three years until his sudden departure from the club in September 2007, before returning for a second spell as manager six years later (which lasted two years before getting sacked in December 2015). In the interim, Chelsea were managed by seven different managers over the course of six seasons, but continued to win trophies on a regular basis. Since Abramovich's takeover of Chelsea, the West London club have been Premier League champions four times, FA Cup winners four times and League Cup winners three times, and have also won the European Cup and the Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup). Manchester City, bankrolled since August 2008 by wealthy Arab owners, ended their 35-year wait for a major trophy by winning the FA Cup in 2011, and then won their first league title in 44 years the following season, both under the management of Italian coach Roberto Mancini. His Chilean successor Manuel Pellegrini became the first non-European manager to win a major trophy in English football when he guided City to the Premier League title and the League Cup in 2014. After narrowly avoiding relegation the previous season, outsiders Leicester City won an unprecedented league title in 2016, having never previously won the top flight title. The winning squad was worth just one-tenth of that of Manchester City's.

Leeds United, the last champions of English football before the creation of the Premier League, played in the first 12 seasons of the Premier League, peaking at third place in 2000, before being relegated in 2004 in the midst of a serious financial crisis which was the direct result of heavy spending on players in the previous few seasons and a failure to net the extra revenue that successful challenges for domestic and European silverware would have brought them. They have yet to return to the Premier League more than a decade later, and even spent three seasons in the league's third tier. A spectacular decline in similar circumstances also befell Portsmouth, who reached the Premier League in 2003 and stayed there for seven seasons, lifting the FA Cup in 2008. The South Coast club were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2009–10 season, having become the first club at this level to enter administration, and were deducted nine points at a result. In 2013, a third relegation in four seasons saw them relegated to the league's fourth tier for the first time in 35 years.

Since the creation of the Premier League, a number of England's leading clubs have relocated to new stadiums. After several smaller clubs adopted this approach rather than update their ageing homes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, newly promoted Middlesbrough became the first top flight club to relocate to a new stadium when they moved into the Riverside Stadium for the 1995–96 season, ending a 92-year residence of Ayresome Park. Two years later, Middlesbrough's north-east rivals Sunderland left their historic Roker Park home for the new 42,000-seat Stadium of Light (which has since been expanded to hold nearly 50,000 seated fans) on the banks of the River Wear. Also in 1997, Derby County, Stoke City and Bolton Wanderers all moved into new all-seater stadiums.

A number of clubs who initially chose to convert their existing homes into all-seater stadiums went on to relocate to new stadiums to gain a larger capacity from the turn of the 21st century, particularly those who had progressed throughout the league and attracted a higher demand for tickets since the early 1990s. Southampton relocated to St Mary's Stadium in 2001 after more than 100 years at The Dell, with their new 32,000-seat stadium holding more than twice as many fans as their previous home had during its final years, as an all-seater stadium. Leicester City relocated to the Walkers Stadium (now known as the King Power Stadium) in 2002 after 111 years at Filbert Street. Having originally decided to stay at Maine Road, which was redeveloped to hold 35,000 seated fans by 1995, Manchester City moved into the City of Manchester Stadium (built for the previous year's Commonwealth games) at the start of the 2003–04 season. Arsenal had converted Highbury into an all-seater stadium capable of holding just under 39,000 fans by 1993, but within five years the club's owners had decided that such a capacity was inadequate and, after local residents objected to any expansion of Highbury (parts of which were listed structures) and a bid to buy Wembley Stadium from the Football Association was rejected, decided to build a new stadium at nearby Ashburton Grove. Their new stadium, the Emirates Stadium, was completed in time for the 2006–07 season, holding more than 60,000 spectators.

Wembley Stadium had been converted to an all-seater format by 1989, but its capacity was reduced to 78,000 from its previous capacity of 100,000. By the mid 1990s, plans were afoot for refurbishment or complete reconstruction of the stadium. The eventual plan was for the old stadium to be demolished and a completely new 90,000-seat stadium to be built in its place. The old stadium finally closed in October 2000 and it was anticipated that the new stadium would be completed in 2003, but a series of delays meant that demolition of the old stadium did not take place for two years after the last game was played, and the new Wembley was not opened until March 2007.

West Ham United moved from the Boleyn Ground into the ~60,000 capacity Olympic Stadium at the end of the 2015-16 season.

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We All Had Nannies and Au Pairs: Fiction

While Prince George will have at least one wonderful nanny who dotes on his every little need, this isn’t the typical British experience. You might think that we all grew up with our own Mary Poppins, but I’m afraid this is one that’s best left in Disney films. We don’t all have nannies, and I’m sure more of us are au pairs than have had au pairs.

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Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person of a victim without them noticing the theft at the time. It happens a  lot in Britain

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Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person of a victim without them noticing the theft at the time. It happens a  lot in Britain

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Waiting for cars to stop at zebra crossings!

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Waiting for cars to stop at zebra crossings!

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Ramsay werd geboren in

Schotland, maar groeide op in Engeland omdat zijn ouders verhuisden naar Stratford-upon-Avon. Hij heeft geen makkelijke jeugd gehad, in het Britse TV-programma '60-minutes' vertelde Ramsay dat zijn vader een alcoholist was die zijn moeder mishandelde. Zijn broer was heroïneverslaafde. Ramsay groeide op in armoedige omstandigheden en wilde weg.[1] In zijn jongere jaren speelde hij in het jeugdelftal voetbal voor de in de Football League Two spelende voetbalclub Oxford United, tot hij op zijn twaalfde werd ontdekt door een scout van de Schotse voetbalclub -Glasgow- Rangers FC. Hij moest stoppen met voetbal door een niet meer genezende knieblessure.[2]

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This seems ridiculous to other nations, apparently, but in Britain there is nothing more sacred than knowing how to queue. Hell, it's not even about "knowing" how to queue - British people are just born with the inherent ability to do so. There is nothing more unnerving than watching somebody pushing in line, because it means that the foundations of normal life are being shattered before your very eyes whenever this decides to actually happen. When we visit other countries, Brits can often be seen staring at people in dismay when they decide that an orderly line isn't appropriate. This is because, in the mind of a British person, there is never a point at which an ordinary line isn't appropriate.

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Chelsea Football Club  is an English professional football club based in Fulham, London, that competes in the Premier League. Founded in 1905, the club's home ground since then has been Stamford Bridge.

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Sunshine makes the front pages.

The sight of a thermometer hitting 30 degrees in this country is enough to have journalists and photographers scurrying to the beach to snap happy-looking Brits getting their kit off. Good weather is so shocking in this country, it’s news.

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Changing the Guard

Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace encompasses colourful spectacle and British pageantry. The ceremony lasts about 45 minutes and usually takes place daily at 11:30 from April until the end of July and on alternate days for the rest of the year, weather permitting. Please see the provisional schedule below.

The privilege of guarding the Sovereign traditionally belongs to the Household Troops, better known as ‘the Guards’, who have carried out this duty since 1660. For operational and other reasons, this privilege is periodically extended to other regiments of the British Army. The Guards consist of five infantry regiments - the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards - and two regiments of the Household Cavalry – the Life Guards and Blues and Royals. Most of the Guards will have seen action overseas.

During the Changing the Guard ceremony, also known as ‘Guard Mounting’, one regiment takes over from another. The Queen’s Guard consists of the St James’s Palace and Buckingham Palace detachments. The New Guard, who during the course of the ceremony become The Queen’s Guard, march to Buckingham Palace from Wellington Barracks.

Find out more about the ceremony with the Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace app, which is priced at 69p and is available for download here.

Provisional Schedule

August 2016 - March 2017 Alternate days. For more detailed schedules see the British Army website. Please note that this schedule is set by the British Army and is subject to change.

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Cup of tea aside, there's nothing that feels quite as "right" to a British person than to sit in the midst of a pub. Again, this is one of those "it's embedded in our DNA" things that we can't really explain - it just make sense. There are lots of different "types" to choose from, of course, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. As long as you're inside one, all is right with the world. But you can never just have one pint. That would be madness. If you actually decide to remove yourself from the premise of your own home to drink in a pub, you must ingest at least four or five pints before going home. Same goes for if you head to a pub after work. People will be confused if you say that you're leaving after one drink, because that just doesn't make sense. "Stay for one more, mate."

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Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up comedian, television host and actor, known for his signature laugh, deadpan delivery, dark humour, and use of edgy one-liners.

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Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up comedian, television host and actor, known for his signature laugh, deadpan delivery, dark humour, and use of edgy one-liners.

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They have the worst beer ever.

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Everyone has a charming accent like the English folk on the TV

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Well, have you seen the weather here, guys? (that reminds us: must chat about the weather at some point). Do you really think it's feasible for us to have lovely tanned, brown skinned when the sky is a constant shade of grey? Uh-uh. You automatically know when somebody has been on holiday - even for a few days - when they turn up and their face isn't as white and pasty as a glass of milk. So, yes, have a wander around pretty much any ol' British town, and you'll find that everybody resembles something akin to a frightened ghost. We don't like it, but there's not much we can do. There's a reason why the entire population of Britain tries to cherish every second of sunshine, because - quite frankly - it doesn't happen a lot, and people need to make the most of that sort of thing.

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Being convinced that their way of spelling is the right way.

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Being convinced that their way of spelling is the right way.

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Great Britain, also known as Britain i/ˈbrɪ.tən/, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), Great Britain is the largest European island and the ninth-largest in the world.[5][note 1] In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan.[7][8] The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, comprise the British Isles archipelago.[9]

The island is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and constitutes most of its territory.[10] Most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island. The term "Great Britain" often extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales, and is also sometimes loosely applied to the UK as a whole.[13]

A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England (which had already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland by the 1707 Acts of Union. More than a hundred years before, in 1603, King James VI, King of Scots, had inherited the throne of England, but it was not until 1707 that the two countries' parliaments agreed to form a political union. In 1801, Great Britain united with the neighbouring Kingdom of Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" after the Irish Free State seceded in 1922

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Mr. Bean is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and starring Atkinson as the title character. Atkinson co-wrote all 15 episodes with either Curtis, Robin Driscoll, or both, with Ben Elton co-writing the pilot. 13 of the episodes were broadcast on ITV, from the pilot on 1 January 1990,[1] until "Goodnight Mr. Bean" on 31 October 1995.[1] A clip show, "The Best Bits of Mr. Bean", was broadcast on 15 December 1995, and one episode, "Hair by Mr. Bean of London", was not broadcast until 2006 on Nickelodeon.

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Britain is the only country that doesn’t mention the name of their country on their stamp.

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That everyone drinks Strongbow. Like Fosters and Australians, it's wrongly thought that the British love this stuff and drink it all the time. It's also associated with quality outside of the UK when in fact it's the Bud Light of ciders, just like almost anything made by Gaymer Cider Company

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Being convinced everybody BUT them is driving on the wrong side of the road

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Being convinced everybody BUT them is driving on the wrong side of the road

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The queen isn't dead yet

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No, no and no. The chances of seeing a man wearing a bowler hat emerging from a red telephone box and hopping in a black cab in Britain are slimmer than seeing Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fight in the street (unless filming on ‘Bridget Jones 3’ has started already).

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These are very typical.

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1)The handshake
A handshake is the most common form greeting among the British people and is customary  when you are introduced to somebody new.
2) The kiss ;)
It's only when you meet friends, whom you haven't seen for a long time, that you would kiss the cheek of the opposite sex. In Britain one kiss is generally enough
3)Thanking someone
We sometime say 'cheers' instead of thank you. You may hear 'cheers' said instead of 'good bye', what we are really saying is 'thanks and bye'

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Along with tea, the Royal Family and James Bond, Big Ben is such an iconic part of Britishness 

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Along with tea, the Royal Family and James Bond, Big Ben is such an iconic part of Britishness 

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cricket Everybody agrees that the most popular sport in the world today is soccer. But which is the second most popular? Is it basketball? Maybe rugby? Tennis perhaps? No, as you've probably guessed by now, the answer seems to be cricket. The reason for this is that cricket is the number one sport in many countries with huge populations, such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is popular in many other countries as well, including the U.K., Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Cricket is, like baseball, a "bat and ball" game in which bowlers "bowl" the ball and batsmen try to hit "shots" with a bat and score runs for their team. As in baseball, batsmen are "out" if their shot is caught, or if they don't get to a "safe haven" in time when they're making runs. What is very different, however, is the time taken to play the game. In cricket, a single game in the traditional "Test match" format can take five full days to complete! But thankfully there are shorter formats for people who love to play the game but also have to go to work sometimes.

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cricket Everybody agrees that the most popular sport in the world today is soccer. But which is the second most popular? Is it basketball? Maybe rugby? Tennis perhaps? No, as you've probably guessed by now, the answer seems to be cricket. The reason for this is that cricket is the number one sport in many countries with huge populations, such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is popular in many other countries as well, including the U.K., Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Cricket is, like baseball, a "bat and ball" game in which bowlers "bowl" the ball and batsmen try to hit "shots" with a bat and score runs for their team. As in baseball, batsmen are "out" if their shot is caught, or if they don't get to a "safe haven" in time when they're making runs. What is very different, however, is the time taken to play the game. In cricket, a single game in the traditional "Test match" format can take five full days to complete! But thankfully there are shorter formats for people who love to play the game but also have to go to work sometimes.

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Cheerio - Not a breakfast cereal. Just a friendly way of saying goodbye. Or in the north "tara" which is pronounced sort of like "churar".

Not my cup of tea - This is a common saying that means something is not to your liking. For example if someone asked you if you would like to go to an all night rave, they would know exactly what you meant if you told them it was not exactly your cup of tea!

don't get your knickers in a twist

When one gets upset or crazy over something most people think is unimportant

Bollocks - This is a great English word with many excellent uses. Technically speaking it means testicles but is typically used to describe something that is no good (that's bollocks) or that someone is talking rubbish (he's talking bollocks). Surprisingly it is also used in a positive manner to describe something that is the best, in which case you would describe it as being "the dog's bollocks".

A fiver & a tenner - 5£ & 10£

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This one depends on where in Britain you mean: in England, cricket is a big deal and there are many people that play it. But when you remember what the weather’s like in Britain, can we really have a summer sport when we don’t even have a summer?

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1. Wearing summer clothing at the first sight of sun

2. Apologising automatically
Love it: We just can't resist a good queue (Photo: Rex)

3. Ability to talk at length about the weather

4. Making a cup of tea in response to a crisis

5. Finding queue-jumping the ultimate crime

6. Forming a queue for pretty much anything

7. The typically British ‘stiff upper lip’
Ahhhh: A nice cup of tea (Photo: Getty)

8. Grumbling throughout a meal, but not telling staff so as not to cause a fuss

9. Making sarcastic/dry jokes

10. Having a beer at the airport even though it’s before 8am

11. Giggling at innuendos

12. Making a cup of tea when you have no time to drink it
Weather: An endless source of conversation (Photo: PA)

13. Getting sunburnt on the first warm day of the year

14. Finding the American forwardness ‘a bit much’

15. Avoiding eye contact on the tube

16. Binge drinking at the weekends

17. Insisting the other person goes through the door first
Binge drinking: We just can't resist it (Photo: Getty)

18. Searching for a fry-up when on holiday abroad

19. Mistaking brightness for warmth

20. Finding nothing better than a bacon sandwich

21. Not asking for help so as not to ‘put anyone out’

22. Insisting the barbecue will still go on despite rain
Bacon buttie: A true British tradition (Photo: PA)

23. Bringing out fancy biscuits on a plate for visitors

24. Feeling extremely patriotic during sports events

25. Indulging in a pint and a packet of crisps

26. Reading newspapers in the morning

27. Feeling at home to the tune of EastEnders or Coronation Street
Is is raining? Let's have a barbecue anyway (Photo: Getty)

28. Wearing extra layers rather than putting the heating on

29. Feeling appreciative that the person in front put the ‘next customer’ barrier on the conveyor belt

30. Doing anything possible for a light tan

31. Owning a picnic hamper but only ever using it once a year
Got one of these: Then you're definitely British

32. Starting a controversial statement with ‘I’m not being funny, but...’

33. Being vague about your plans rather than decline an invitation

34. Thanking someone when you’ve done them a favour

35. Not correcting someone when they pronounce your name wrong

36. Loving your cat/dog more than your child
Spare change: Yep, we've always got come of that (Photo: Getty)

37. Searching your pockets when asked for spare change

38. Feeling extreme excitement over a Sunday roast dinner

39. Having mixed feelings towards the ill colleague who is still coming to work

40. Being skilled in writing a letter of complaint

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That British people are very serious. British humour is fantastic if you can keep up with it, and it's comedy productions are being increasingly appreciated across the pond, with many British comedies being "Americanized" for local consumption.

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That British people are very serious. I don't know if this is a common stereotype, but I've certainly heard it before. British humour is fantastic if you can keep up with it, and it's comedy productions are being increasingly appreciated across the pond, with many British comedies being "Americanized" for local consumption.

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What about the typically British TV programmes? I think we all know "Keeping Up Appearances", it illustrates that Britain has a class society. "Monty Python", known by their different genre of humour, a bit morbid ... Many people can appreciate the programmes.
What about you, guys? Let me know. 👇👇👇

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The typical London underground is known all around the world.

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The typical London underground is known all around the world.

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They Love Talking About the Weather: Fact

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They Love Talking About the Weather: Fact

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If there is a lull in conversation with a British person, watch them go for their get-out-of-jail-free card: the weather. It can be raining, snowing, or just averagely gray and we will talk about the weather. Though if you experienced the hourly changes in weather we had, then you would probably talk about it a lot, too!

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Having aesthetically displeasing teeth is every Brit’s right. Turn up at an American dentist’s with a gob full of wonky enamel, and they’ll probably assume you’re British, or grew up in a vile cult that outlawed orthodontics.

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It is a well-known fact that since the Americans tried to make tea in Boston Harbor, using harbour water, they have had a hard time making a 'proper' cup of tea!

As a 'proper' Englishwoman, I will instruct those of you (especially all my friends in the Boston area) that wish to learn, how to make a 'proper' cup of tea the English way.

You will need

A kettle (no microwaves, please)
A proper tea pot (with more than one hole inside the spout!)
A tea cosy, to keep the tea pot warm (which can also warm your hands on a cold day)
Loose tea, or tea bags (tea bags with no tags, strings or outer wrappings)
A tea strainer if you use loose tea. I don't use mine much any more now that I have found the round tea bags that don't have the excessive outer wrappings, string and staples!

Step 1: Boil the water

Boil the water in the kettle. THE WATER MUST BE BOILING!
Take your 'proper' tea pot (one which has several holes inside the spout) to the kettle and put a small amount of boiling water into it. Replace the lid.

Empty out the hot water from the tea pot. This is called 'warming the pot' and is absolutely essential. You cannot make a nice cup of tea in a cold pot.

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200m downhill cheese chase, 400m egg & spoon race, tin bath rowing and 100m bog snorkelling for starters.

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So this one might be true… many of us do love a cup of tea (or 20) a day. We also prefer to take tea breaks instead of coffee breaks. Afternoon tea is such a huge treat; who doesn’t love scones, clotted cream (thick, yummy cream made from cow's milk), and jam? If you don't embrace this one, then you're really missing out.

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Typically British is the English breakfast with sausages, eggs, mushrooms, bacon, red beans ...

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What are the most common stereoptypes about the British? Summarize the information you find, look up the meaning of difficult words, add illustrations. 

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What are the most common stereoptypes about the British? Summarize the information you find, look up the meaning of difficult words, add illustrations. 