If You Are A Brit, Clap Your Hands!

[Girino]

What is the secret behind the Brits cold temper? I so wish I was raised by English parents, instead of having this very Latin snappy attitude that keeps getting me into trouble.
Is there a sort of coaching to learn to keep your temper?

Thanks in advance to all the Brits that will chime in.

 

[clooz]

The rain and cloud, the Roman, Viking and Norman invasions, the feudal social structure, the Church - all these played a part. So yeah, stand under a shower for a few months, get painted with woad ....

 

[sleslie23]

Is there a sort of coaching to learn to keep your temper?

I'm not a Brit, but I've spent time in their lands. I'm going to guess you've never been in a pub. Certainly you've never been to a football match.

 

[Girino]

I am sure they have their share of bozos and lowlifes, but overall I am always in shock when I read/hear their polite answers and understatements even in the most irritating situations.
I can hardly keep my mouth shout (this might be because I am woman, though) but I am also very easily caught up emotionally in the most annoying situations (which weren't few in Italy, to be honest).

Just the fact of having a person paced like a tortoise in front of me makes me wanna scream "C'mon, do you really have the WHOLE day to wast wandering like this?!", instead I keep it into my head, but nevertheless ruin those 5 minutes of my day.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I'm not a Brit, but I've spent time in their lands. I'm going to guess you've never been in a pub. Certainly you've never been to a football match.

The Brits may have invented soccer violence, but they have at least gotten their barras under control.

 

[asador]

"I so wish I was raised by English parents..."
Let me translate that for you: you wish you were raised by white, upper class, public school educated English parents or by characters from a Victorian novel. It's the only context in which your stereotypes make the slightest sense, and it's not a very common one in today's Britain.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Hey, you guys are clapping backwards! It's right hand into the left!

 

[Joe]

I know a well respected forum member that was very poorly treated by the Brits - I think he may have even been imprisoned. They called him Red.

 

[PhilipDT]

I can hardly keep my mouth shout (this might be because I am woman, though) but I am also very easily caught up emotionally in the most annoying situations (which weren't few in Italy, to be honest).

STOP CHANGING YOUR NAME. Jeeeez it's making me dizzy.

 

[Girino]

So many non-Brits here, and yet another thread has gone rotten!

4 name changes in 6 months, I hope this one will last. There is a solid reason behind each change, though.