"Don't like making a scene" "insular manner"
Give me a fucking break. The anount of vile pikeys in replica shirts shouting their way through playgrounds/pubs/shopping centres etc of England, far surpasses that of any other Euro nation.
This mild mannered England populated by reserved and polite folk was a myth put out to increase the sales of Enid Blyton books, and is now only believed by xenophobic Mail readers.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 11:39, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I think you'll find
that "most people" are the middle English Tory types, not chavs. You can't disagree with a sweeping generalisation of an entire nation by pointing out one sub-culture. That's like saying "the English don't wear green, look at the Goths!"
( Kroney, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 11:42, Reply)

There are no goths to look at.
The sun is shining and they are all inside pretending to read Camus.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 12:18, Reply)

I don't like goths
They refer to themselves as "beautiful people", thus flying in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. I just can't get along with people who're capable of that amount of self-delusion.
( Kroney, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I have to say
that I was quite dissapointed when I came here. I was expecting a lot of gentlemen and ladys walking around, being polite and offering tea at 5 o'clock. I discovered a new England in Stockport.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 2 Aug 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I would be delighted to offer to take you for some afternoon tea

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 11:45, Reply)

You live in an ideal town for 'tea-taking'.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Your discovered old England
in Stockport. The Victorians invented the other one.
( Kroney, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 11:46, Reply)