R.ip. British Culture.

[Theland]

Whatever happened to British culture?
Is it completely dead or terminal?
Can it ever be revived, or do we need to adapt to the new foreign landscape?

[steg]

//think a lot of our culture and traditions have been erradicated through the the extremism of political correctness and #metoo! //

Aye bring back smoking in pubs

[NoMercy]

I look forward to both events, though Ms Markle strikes me as more than an ardent feminist so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out.

[NoMercy]

I'd rather they didn't, Steg. People are increasingly taking their children to family friendly pubs.

[ummmm]

I'd never bring back smoking in pubs. When I was a kid the door from upstairs was behind the bar and I remember walking down and barely being able to see through the thick of smoke.

Many smokers don't want others second hand smoke either.

[steg]

I would rather it didn’t come back either, but if you want rid of pc and back to what it was before, then that was one part of “British culture”

[-Talbot-]

I would rather it didn’t come back either, but if you want rid of pc and back to what it was before, then that was one part of “British culture”


Yes, only the British smoked in pubs.

[steg]

Talbot //Yes, only the British smoked in pubs.//

I think you may be wrong there, smoking is part of quite a few cultures not just British and I think some countries still let you smoke in pubs

[Old_Geezer]

An evolving culture isn't the same and a culture being replaced by another's. Change should be gradual so folk don't feel they are no longer in the country they recognise as their own. But a flavour of foreign exotic and improved practice is a good thing. (We've watched American cartoons for years, had Mickey Mouse on TV when I was knee high to a duck: it's traditional.)

[Old_Geezer]

..AS A...

[douglas9401]

11: 36, I allowed myself a small smile at that.

[steg]

//union jack BUNTING//

We call it toilet roll up this way ;)

[New Judge]

"Yes, only the British smoked in pubs."

That's because only the British have pubs. Other countries have bars, cafes and the like. If you'd visited a bar or cafe anywhere in France up to about ten or fifteen years ago you would have been hard pressed to see beyond the end of your nose because of the smoke from the "Les Gauloises".

British culture is being eradicated because it only takes one or two people to "take offence" at a particular habit to see the full panoply of the law (usually in the form of some Local Authority "jobsworths") to step in and ban it. The overriding principle of the new culture is that nobody must be offended by anything.

[Ellipsis]

> Culture
> 1. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
2. the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

We 1) create and 2) are our own culture.

[Zacs-Master]

I see we, predictably, never actually defined what British Culture is. That’s because it’s impossible.

Nice of Theland to join in his own post (he said ironically).

[NoMercy]

He's busy drinking lager, ZM.