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- Waited for forty minutes in the rain for a bus and then two come at once.
- Fought someone bodily for the last packet of butterscotch Angel Delight in the convenience store.
- Failed to find Last of the Summer Wine at all amusing.
- Danced with delight the morning after a general election.
- Shouted at Radio 4.
- Bought Marks & Spencer's underwear.
- Made bubble and squeak.
- Complained about the weather.
- Stood in the doorway or by the window gazing out at rain/snow/hail as though it were a new phenomenon.
- Tried to use a public loo and been forced to walk out again and cross your legs till you got home due to sheer disgustingness of same.
- Had a Hornby train set.
- Said 'ah well, mustn't grumble'.
- Honestly believed that Marmite is an actual foodstuff.
- Thought that cider was a girlie drink and only realised the error the day after, when that whole hideous karaoke striptease incident comes flooding back and you realise you're wearing someone else's pants.
- Made Heath Robinson-esque sculptures out of Meccano.
- Used leaf tea, warmed the teapot, and put the milk in last. - now, milk in last is just *daft*, because if it's off, you've wasted a whole cup of tea, as any fule kno.
- Been taken to 'The Nutcracker' as a Christmas treat.
- Taken ballet lessons.
- Been to a panto.
- Read Noddy books as a child.
- Had riding lessons and joined the Pony Club.
- Watched 'Blue Peter' twice a week, every week, for at least five years. Maybe not five years.
- Know that 'Dr Who' had an existence prior to his incarnation as Tom Baker.
- Consider 'Blake's 7' the apotheosis of British TV science fiction.
- Had nits.
- Seen a performance by Morris Dancers.
- Been to the Glastonbury festival.
- Said 'bollocks' a lot.
- Played on an old Second World War bombsite as a child.
- Had a father/grandfather who fought in the War but never talked about it.
- Know that the Second World War started in 1939, not 1941.
- Have parents/grandparents who remember the Blitz and rationing.
- Been hunt sabbing.
- Played in a children's playground floored with SOLID CONCRETE!
- Been stuck on the Tube for more than 20 minutes for no reason that is ever divulged to anyone.
- Gone Christmas shopping in Harrods/Selfridges.
- Bought the Big Issue.
- Given old clothes/books/stuff to Oxfam.
- Been to France on a school trip.
- Made a crown for a nativity play with old-style Rowntree's Fruit Gums.
- Made anything from a Blue Peter programme. (Bonus points if you attempted the comedy Christmas Wreath using M&S food bags.) Tracy Island! Yeah!
- Carry an umbrella for more than three hundred days a year. (How else are you supposed to make sure it doesn't rain?)
- Had a parent who stood, most embarrassingly, for local council elections.
- Managed to live in the UK but not visit all of its constituent countries. Despite my (slightly) Scottish heritage, I've never been there.
- Been to a foreign supermarket and stocked up on Nutella to a ludicrous extent.
- Been on a booze cruise to Calais.
- Holidayed at the seaside every year and caught crabs (THE SHELLFISH THANK YOU VERY MUCH!) in rockpools.
- Consider 'Europe' a foreign country. (Okay, a collection of foreign countries.)
- Were christened CofE, but have never been to church except for weddings, christenings and funerals. I was christened Presbyterian, and I used to go to chapel an awful lot.
- Had a Sindy doll. quite a few, actually.
- Remember 'Marathon', 'Opal Fruits', 'Jif' and 'Oil of Ulay'.
- Consider fish 'n' chips a basic food staple, not a Quaint British Novelty.
- Had curry sauce on your chips.
- Don't celebrate St Patrick's Day. Still less call him 'St Pat', 'St Paddy' or, as I have seen today, 'St Patty'. Nothing against it, but I've never really celebrated it as such.

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Hah! At last! One of those daft so-called memes that's written in UK-cultural English! Because it's a local meme, for local people. Not for the likes of them, oh no. :P :P :P

In the words of an old friend/employer of mine, Long John Baldry: "It may be rubbish, but it's British rubbish." Hee, he said that over 30 years ago, but it's the perfect quote for the moment!

~starts thinking about Sainsbury's and the smell of wet diesel on cobblestones and morning mist on the old Swindon-Wantage road and gets all soppy and homesick~

LOL, yeah, that's why I did it, really!
Ooh, you don't want to get homesick about Sainsbury's! At least get homesick about Kwik Save, now there's a proper British supermarket! Where the veg is limp and hopeless and the beans may contain maggots!

Arrrggh! KwikSave! Noooo!

's funny, even the small NPQ "pile it high and sell it cheap" grocery chain here is far more, um, civilised than the Horror of KwikSave. And also on the plus side, we have Aldi here now. Hurrah for cheap good-quality foods, cheap good bedlinens, cheap decent external hard drives...hee.

Ooh, I just dyed my hair utterly screaming electric blue!!!