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Constables don't carry guns (or need to).

It is legal to cross the street with a beer in your hand.


Originally posted by moonbus
Constables don't carry guns (or need to).

It is legal to cross the street with a beer in your hand.
But not a chair leg that looks like a gun or you will be shot.

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There are more umbrellas in the UK than there are guns. (4.2 million sold last year).

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
There are more umbrellas in the UK than there are guns. (4.2 million sold last year).
Guns are not very effective at keeping you dry in a rain shower.

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Umbrella-guns are the next must-have accessory for homicidal metrosexuals.

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Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
Umbrella-guns are the next must-have accessory for homicidal metrosexuals.
so I hear

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Originally posted by The Gravedigger
Guns are not very effective at keeping you dry in a rain shower.
Unless you have a gun and the guy with the umbrella doesn't.


Originally posted by The Gravedigger
Guns are not very effective at keeping you dry in a rain shower.
Patrick Macnee of the original Avengers (not the stupid recent comic-book movie of the same title) would have looked pretty daft with a gun in his hand instead of that suave umbrella.

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Originally posted by The Gravedigger
But not a chair leg that looks like a gun or you will be shot.
What about a gun that looks like a chair leg?

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Originally posted by Suzianne
What about a gun that looks like a chair leg?
Risky

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17. British people are all great mathematicians.


18. Baby Spice is actually an adult woman.

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For a couple of decades, Monmouthshire effectively ceased to be. But it's there again now.

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