A cuppa, and some links.

[lachesis]

Since it's always, "tea first" (at least when I visit my family, anyway...):
Tea icons.

The next bit from unseelie's LJ

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[dionysios]

"We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we're still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs."

Now _that's_ funny.

[termofart]

"I've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!"

This is part of the reason I love the Brits so much. Seriously, those tough bastards.

Scene: London, WWII

Dignified UC Brit: "I say, my house has been blown to bits. Right then, better clean up this rubble."

Love it. They are not the nation of (please pardon me) big fat crybabies that we are.

[lachesis]

Yeah, totally.
My father came here in his 20s, after living thru a bit of WW2 (he was a kid) and _enlisting_ for VietNam before becoming a US citizen.

I'm so not allowed to complain about anything. :)