But nerdy and pasty can be kind of attractive if you have a bit of the dark British sense of humour to set it off.

otherwise, I find it's not too difficult to pick out the English because they tend to be quite reserved and shy (until they've had a drink or two)

Lucky bastard. I had to settle for bits of it on the radio.

I'm not English, but leather shoes and tweed jackets along with a very fair complexion makes many people here assume I'm Scottish. Scottish name probably helps too.

here the "classic" Englishman :




and above a bit less "classic"


and below the only too infamous picture

Wollishofener, your post is utterly unfair and biased. In international use, there is an ISO-Standard telling you that you must always use an “appropriate” sample as a basis for generalization. Otherwise, the outcome of some international comparison might lead to a false result. Let me give you a few examples:

England (London) is way more international than Switzerland (Appenzell-Ausserrhoden).
English Students (going to Eaton) have much better manners than Swiss students (going to School in Schwammendingen).

Thus, when looking for the typically English person, you shall always use a selection of people from Mayfair as a starting point. It is unfair to include people from Tottenham (seven sisters), Hackney or Brixton....

I noticed that a great many English women know how to dress.....on the contrary to English man.

We´re good at fighting too

We are usually way ahead of most other countries in the fashion stakes. ( yes I know we have our share of fashion victims!) Our high street is the best in the world. Our teenagers just know how to put stuff together and look cool. Other countries copy us about 2 years later.

We also chat to one another in a very animated way - and laugh a lot (usually at ourselves).

We are FAR TOO politically correct, and could learn a lot from the Swiss, they're not.

Yup, Swindon beats Milan every time...

...lol, reminds me...yesterday I was in Basel...and this English guy was sitting next to us in the tram. He wore flimsy khaki pants and a flimsy khaki jacket...along with some weird black leisure runners.

My impression: too short dresses, showing too much white skin.

Don't English women learn how to dress?

...what color skin should they show you...purple, green, navy blue maybe?

I think white as in never exposed to the sun, and when exposed to the sun turns this colour:



Just to be clear: that's not me

Englishmen keep looking down to the ground, as if they are secretly inspecting their fly.

And later in the evening,

they are the ones trying to look down but are too drunk to fixate their vision on one thing. And they speak with an English accent.

Are you kidding? Wearing sandals in the winter or for a formal event? i mean those open end sandals...

This topic could have a forum of its own.

Two of my observations:

1) When waiting in line for the ski lift, English are the ones standing there saying things like "Did you see what she did? She just jumped the queue!"


2) Start to grit your teeth and turn an angry tinge of red whenever some uses the word "soccer"

You are not up to date. They don't show white skin anymore. Nowadays they slap on tons of fake tan, fake nails, fake lashes, probably fake legs and arms and most definitely fake brains

You're not in any way biased, are you?

Not quite what I meant.....no (if we are being pedantic about wording)

I was asking everybody what makes US English (coz thats what I am) stand out as being English!

I thought I knew what the stereotype was.....and just wanted to explore it and see if it still held

Reminds me of a comment I heard on the radio about the changing face of Dublin - that men used to go to Ireland for the white skin and the orange hair of the girls, now its the white hair and orange skin!