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  • ‘What is your favourite piece of UK trivia?’ – 23 absolutely fascinating facts unique to Britain
  • Somebody asked why banter in the UK is ‘so top tier’ – 21 answers that will make you proud to be British
  • What is a very British thing that British people don’t realise is British? – 17 weird ways of life that always confused

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thepoke.com /3 days ago

‘What is your favourite piece of UK trivia?’ – 23 absolutely fascinating facts unique to Britain

The UK is a quirky little place on a day-to-day basis, as anyone who lives here or has visited will know, but it gets even more bizarre and fascinating when you drill down into the...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

Somebody asked why banter in the UK is ‘so top tier’ – 21 answers that will make you proud to be British

While other countries are proud of their sporting prowess or cultural contributions, British people are inordinately pleased about their ability to rip the absolute piss in a frien...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

What is a very British thing that British people don’t realise is British? – 17 weird ways of life that always confused...

There are certain stereotypes that every British person is aware of, like how emotionally reserved we can be and how we say sorry far too often. However there are certain quirks an...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘What’s a common UK idiom that you use regularly, but didn’t learn the origins of for a long time?’ – 18 dips into Dicti...

Idioms are a beautiful thing. They add colour to speech and language, and it can be fascinating to discover new ways of saying things, as well as how they came about. Just ask Susi...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘Are there any “UK vs US” differences where you feel America gets it right?’ 21 ways the US may just come out on top

With so many people from the UK currently in the US for the World Cup, it’s inevitable that there has been a lot of online chatter about Brits discovering things they like – or don...

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thepoke.com /3 weeks ago

People not originally from Britain have been sharing things that other Brits take for granted – 23 things we could be mo...

Overfamiliarity with anything tends to deaden our appreciation of it, from small things like TV shows that we’ve watched too many times, to big things like marriages. But what abou...

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thepoke.com /4 weeks ago

‘What are your most ‘blasphemous’ UK takes?’ – 23 so-called British people who should be tried for treason

As a nation we can be terribly set in our ways, and very sure that there are certain things that we all love without question. So when someone pops up to say they actually think so...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

Brits shared the things that people assume we’ve all done but they’ve never ever got round to – 17 pursuits that remain...

Everyone in the UK chain drinks tea while wearing bowler hats and playing cricket, right? Well, not so much. In fact the cliches of British life may not be as prevalent as you may...

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survivefrance.com /5 days ago

Bangers and Back Bacon from Blighty

Wow… I am genuinely intrigued to know what’s it like living in a community overrun with UK’ers?.. Is it like living in an English shire but just a bit warmer?.

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thepoke.com /5 days ago

In a world gone wrong Reddit asked for things to be incredibly proud of in the UK – 23 heartwarmingly British plus point...

We live in increasingly uncertain and frankly terrifying times – not the first time we’ve used that phrase – so it was a very welcome break from the all-encompassing doom and gloom...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

An American asked if other nations constantly wang on about being the best country in the world and this Brit surely sai...

Over on Twitter the rather fabulous menswear writer @dieworkguy took time out from tailoring to ask a more general question of his followers. And it was in his capacity as an Ameri...

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thepoke.com /6 days ago

‘What is your biggest low-stake conspiracy on the UK?’ – 23 very inconsequential hypotheses about life in Britain

Conspiracy theories tend to be about big things like governments keeping the existence of aliens from us or the earth being flat. Big, and also silly. But some people enjoy specula...

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thepoke.com /4 days ago

An American asked Brits why they don’t ‘just take over a castle’ and these 23 responses will make you proud to be Britis...

Time now to return to the yawning cultural chasm between America and basically everywhere else. Specifically Britain, in this case, after this particular American asked why Brits d...

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survivefrance.com /1 week ago

Bangers and Back Bacon from Blighty

Explain, I may then put up a counter point for us to discuss.

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thepoke.com /6 days ago

People shared the aspects of British life that TV and film makers always get wrong – 23 especially irritating on-screen...

Anyone who grew up watching Neighbours has got a very particular image of Australia as a place full of swimming pools, diminutive female mechanics and zero ethnic diversity. Some o...

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thepoke.com /1 week ago

What’s a mundane thing that happened to you that you can’t forget? – 17 weird little moments that made a big impact

Life’s full of memorable milestones like getting married or starting a new job. But strange, little moments can be just as memorable. These small experiences are much more personal...

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thepoke.com /1 week ago

What’s something you’ve always wanted to own but never have? – 17 dream purchases yet to become a reality

We all have those bucket list items. Those products that we’ve always wanted but never got around to buying. Personally, I’d like a Dapol Tardis console room, but maybe that’s a bi...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

‘What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard a stranger shout out of nowhere?’ – 22 hilariously gobby people

If you hear people yelling things in the street, the chances are they’re drunk or angry, and it’s generally not something you want your ears bothered with. However, very occasional...

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thepoke.com /3 days ago

Brits shared the most ridiculous questions they get asked abroad – 23 of the funniest and most off the wall

Try as we might, it’s difficult not to fall into the trap of believing in stereotypical ideas we have about other nations. However, as anyone who has been disappointed to not see a...

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thepoke.com /6 days ago

‘What’s one thing you miss being free in the UK that isn’t anymore?’ – 23 things that we tragically no longer get for no...

The best things in life are free, as Luther Van Dross and Janet Jackson once sang, but they seem to be very few and far between these days. They’ve been discussing the lack of grat...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

A furious American accused ‘desperate’ Brits of nicking US place names as their own and got owned all the way across the...

Time to return to the transatlantic divide between the UK and the US which sometimes feels so much wider than just the Atlantic. And in this case the knowledge gap might just be of...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

People shared the minor etiquette rules that foreigners often miss but Brits immediately notice – 21 unwritten laws that...

Whether we’re cheering when someone drops a glass in a pub or treating Greggs like a religion, there’s no doubt that, as a nation, the British are a strange bunch. Imagine arriving...

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thepoke.com /1 month ago

An American writer asked what British people have for dinner, and the Brits went into full troll mode – 21 favourite win...

They say you should write what you know, which is all very well if you know about spies, international drug-runners, or mystic symbolism in the Vatican… or so we’ve heard. It’s les...

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survivefrance.com /4 weeks ago

What would make you go back to the UK?

I could easily live in Suffolk. Only been there once but I loved the place. Ghost Ship is Adnams is it not? Yum!

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