Interesting comments from everyone.
Character-wise I think we Brits are generally a contradiction in terms...You know the thing...we can be rowdy but the rest of the time we are either reserved or repressed etc....
It does'nt surprise me how the song 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen....' came about either.
On the point raised about technical creativity, technology, and British product reliability.....I think that as a nation one thing that tends to define the British is that we are (and have just about always been) primarily 'Men in Sheds'....I think deep down we even quite like the idea of things breaking down because it gives us the chance to disappear in to Shed-land and start 'tinkering' or 'ripping stuff apart' (which ever your persuasion is).
I wonder though if our 'oily hand heritage' is on the wain due to our 'throw away world' today combined with a young generation of software/app geeks ?....answers on a postcard to......
