What is something about the UK you love?

[Zuni]

I'll start---Ali G

[trotsky]

1. Doctor Who

And I'll second you on Ali G.

[supernova]

2. Shakespeare and all the really cool UK guys

[soothsayer]

19. Cuban cigars!

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Wallace & Gromit

[Zuni]

7. Good show, old chap

I like them a lot myself

[trotsky]

11. Excellent show, and are you ready for their new movie this fall?

http://www.wandg.com/

[Zuni]

16. That is uber-cool

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. Nick Park is pretty amazing.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Dylan Moran

Actually, he's Irish...hmmm...

Monty Python...and British humour in general.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Their zany sense of humor - the flip side of their stiff upper lip. . .

and their penchant for understatement.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. I love London. I am just sick about this.

I just woke up to this. This is awful.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Black Sabbath.

[Zuni]

Sabbath are teh roxs

[motely36]

9. Elton John, David Bowie, The Beatles,

Basically the entire British Invasion.

[RebelOne]

10. I love all of the UK.

I've visited there twice and my favorite part is Scotland.

[meegbear]

They show breasts and bottoms on the tele

[DS1]

13. and used to have a little red star on the corner of the telly when those

shows were one so you knew exactly when to stop clicking. Mind you, it didn't exactly take a lot of clicking to flip the dial if you missed it the first time - so your odds of finding a star were about 1 in 5

[DS1]

12. The countryside, the small little villages

that aren't infested with megasuperstores, drivers know how to drive, doesn't typically get too hot, milder winters, much more culturally diverse than most of the U.S. - and mostly without the racism. I love the pubs, both the night-oriented ones and the day oriented ones that you'll find on the side of a canal somewhere. Where you can get a pint and go sit on a river bank and watch the ships trundle by. I like the lack of social uptightness you find here, religious, sexual, drugs, etc.

[SmokingJacket]

14. Monty Python, the streets of London, the tube...

I just bought the complete Python DVD collection. I can't recommend it more highly.

[Mizmoon]

My buddy Sue

She uses the word "shall" in casual conversation.

[barb162]

15. Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, St. Martin in the Field, the British

Museum, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the Tate....

[Zuni]

18. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. It is, in practice, the World Capital of Formula One.

Most F1 teams are based in Britain. Even "foreign" ones like Renault and Toyota.

[Trigger Hippie]

21. Absolutely Fabulous, sweetie darling!

[jus_the_facts]

22. Led Zeppelin...The Beatles.....Douglas Adams....A. C. Clarke.....

...on and on and on..and last but not definitely not least...a place I'd love to be able to see before I die..The Castle Amberley as that's my name and the Village of Amberley near Sussex has been there since the 600's and the Castle built in the 1100's...*dreams on*

http://www.amberleycastle.co.uk/gallery/tours.html

[ET Awful]

23. The outspokenness in Parliament :)

You have to love the booing, catcalling, etc. that goes on when someone is making an ass of themselves while speaking to Parliament.

[Zuni]

28. Do you watch PM's questions on C-Span

I love it. It is great watching Parliament act like Sports Fans

[ET Awful]

31. Not regularly, but I've seen bits and pieces :)

Sometimes just hearing them boo is good for a laugh

[quisp]

24. Bass Ale...

oh, and Scotland

[Lannes]

25. Robert Adam

18th century architect.

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

I thought I'd be the contrarian and say something about the food...

[distantearlywarning]

27. I went to England in 1995

We toured Manchester and the Lake District and the northern border. To this day it is my favorite foreign country I ever visited. I remember how beautiful the countryside was, and I was so amazed by how old things were there - everywhere you went there was a stone circle or a fairy castle sitting up on a nearby hill, and the gravestones in the village graveyards dated back 800 years. I was just so impressed by the sense of gravity and age and history there (we don't have that here in the US really). And I loved the rain and mist and the "greenness" of everything - everything seemed magic all the time because of the weather. I even liked the food! Just thinking of how lovely and wonderful England was makes me nostalgic for that trip.

[demnan]

29. The EastEnders

[asjr]

30. I believe I lived there in a previous life. I felt

it when I made my first trip to the UK.

[progmom]

32. My best friend from high school - Kirstie

She is in London - I need to make sure she's safe.

[Zuni]

33. Give her our best wishes

I hope she and her loved ones are all ok

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Too many things to mention:

the mystery novels, the many fine television dramas and comedies, the English cathedral choir repertoire, the accents, and when I was on my one visit there many years ago, the delightful discovery that English people are not stuffy and inhibited, as the stereotype goes, but friendly and funny.

Today is a very sad day.

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. My crabby buddy Paul in the next office.

He's a good bloke.

FSC

[eyepaddle]

36. Judas Priest, Pyranha kayaks, my friends Bob, Kevin and

Aaron, geez the list goes on and on.

This is terrible, truly terrible.

[amazona]

37. Dinosaurs!!!!

I can spend whole days in the Natural History Museum.

[JimmyJazz]

38. my friends.....and the entire Punk Rock

scene of the 1970's

[Zuni]

42. A Big shout out to the late Joe Strummer!

[Union Thug]

39. The Wig and Quill Pub in Salisbury! n/t

[dbt]

40. Glorious CORNWALL!

Bodmin Moor, St. Ives, Penzance, Charles Winpenny's www.cornwallcam.co.uk webcam, pasties, the best cream on Earth and the landscape.

me some Cornwall!

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Real Ale!

Good, cask ale in the pubs. If i lived there, i'd never leave the pub. I'd have to buy one so i could live upstairs.
The Professor

[Malikshah]

43. all of it

if we could, my partner and I would pick up and move there permanently.

the US is too F&*Ced up right now.