What is England?

[chveik]

You should have chosen a better band than Genesis to make your point.

[Ferris]

I think we can agree that Canada's right out though

Steady on!

[Neville Chamberlain]

England is: a pint of warm ale resting on a nun's head, as she cycles along a misty lane carrying a cricket bat.

[Paul Calf]

this... the one thing that, unquestionably, english people do better than anyone else, is rock music. I'll grudgingly allow a few scots & welsh into the sentiment, but this island does rock music better than anywhere else in the world.

Totally this, in fact rock, pop and dance music were all perfected in Britain. America were always playing catch-up as far as music goes, although you have to give them credit for inventing house music.

Northern Europeans are tone deaf. The only music they're good at is music that's had all the music sucked out of it: Kraftwerk-type graph paper compositions, gabber, shitty europop; music written by people who know music inside out but have none of it in their soul.

[Emma Raducanu]

Apart from London, I've never been down south. What I missing?

[manticore]

affected kindness to suburban hedgehogs.

How dare you! My love is heartfelt and profound, I even follow them on twitter.

Also I was recently internet talking to a Swiss and a German and it seems their nations are even more devoted to the creatures than we are, ordinary citizens out every evening with their cat food and water bowls, rescue centres all over.

[Icehaven]

Really? 100 islands? That just makes me want to visit them all.

Don't say that too loud or Neil Oliver will nick the idea.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Apart from London, I've never been down south. What I missing?

Yeovil aerodrome.

[Spoon of Ploff]

Apart from London, I've never been down south. What I missing?

If you haven't seen the Medway Viaducts then you haven't seen the Medway Viaducts.

[Buelligan]

[tag]be a real man and hope it goes away[/tag]

[bgmnts]

Totally this, in fact rock, pop and dance music were all perfected in Britain. America were always playing catch-up as far as music goes, although you have to give them credit for inventing house music.

Northern Europeans are tone deaf. The only music they're good at is music that's had all the music sucked out of it: Kraftwerk-type graph paper compositions, gabber, shitty europop; music written by people who know music inside out but have none of it in their soul.

Isn't early British rock music influenced by jazz and blues, originating from America?

[gilbertharding]

[split topic] For What is Chatteris?

[Neville Chamberlain]

England is: a pint of warm ale balancing on a robin's head as a nun in a tweed suit cycles along a misty lane, sipping a pint of warm ale balancing on a robin's head.