Hello,
Brits rule supreme because:
Imagination - The Brits have far more interesting and equivalent words for the US ‘brain-dead’. For example, thundering dunderhead, planky-bonse, Squonka, mole-brain, Glaswegian.
Though most women over 60 in the inner cities, in a sort of tribal union, all wear the same pale-buff raincoats, similar plastic rain-hats and ‘sensible’ shoes, and all look like Joan Plowright, they still manage to have sons who are SAS hit men or Yorkshire cricketer’s.
Confidence - Take for example your common or garden down the pub Englishman. Totally out of shape physically, skin like last weeks boiled chicken, pendulous gut issuing from a brown tea-shirt that was once white, trousers held up by prayers and now cutting ridges very slightly above the pubic region. His lank hair washed last month, necessary or not, gaping black holes where teeth once were. He leans against the bar gloriously displaying his bare and hairy belly and noticing a girl, who is obviously a world-class model, with a PHD, and definitely to the manor born, he winks at her expecting her to be impressed. Now that is confidence!
Fortitude - Millions of Brits live in tiny homes that are the replica of their neighbors homes, on huge housing estates which are replicas of other huge housing estates and still manage to have nothing in common with anybody else on the planet.
I am sure E’Man and Duncan can heartily add to this list.
Best regards - HS