Hello, I am really interested to know facts about Uk. Tell me about traditions :) Please?

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FoolishDancer@reddit

Look up Morris dancing and Punch and Judy puppet shows.

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MiTcH_ArTs@reddit

along with pantomime, bonfire night and the maypole

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Hate_Feight@reddit

Gotta love the tongue in cheek of punch and Judy

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In Wales, when you turn 14 you have to find someone old enough to buy two-litre bottles of Woodpecker for you, and then you drink it with your mates behind the Rec. Gary will bring the fags, and Lynne will bring the depression.

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GodSaveTheKing07@reddit

We have that in Cambridge too! Accept with Tatchers Gold.

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EquivalentFormal6497@reddit

I commend your efforts to find British penpals to chat about the UK with. I hope good comes from it.

...but cosplaying as a Brit is dishonest. Particularly given that what you're saying isn't 100% accurate 🤗

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Ok-Blackberry-3534@reddit

I accept.

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Ok-Frosting8550@reddit

Couple of bottles if Merrydown then a couple of hours if puking while your mates take it in turn to look after you.

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FoolishDancer@reddit

Who brings the weed? You forgot to mention that.

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eyeball-beesting@reddit

Yeah, it was weed in my teenage years. We rarely drank alcohol.

Weed and valium from our mate who we contacted through his pager.

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dinobug77@reddit

It was Strongbow and 20 B&H back in my day.

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FancyMigrant@reddit

Strongbow? Alright, Moneybags, calm down.

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iolaus79@reddit

White lightening you mean

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Every_Ad7605@reddit

Frosty jacks where I grew up

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Electric_Death_1349@reddit

When I was that age, White Lightning was the budget cider of choice

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FancyMigrant@reddit

Ah, the good stuff. White Lightning for the boys, Thunderbird Red for the girls.

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Every_Ad7605@reddit

Frosty jacks was where it was at

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Ok-Blackberry-3534@reddit

Strawberry MD 20/20 for the sophisticate.

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factualreality@reddit

Every year in england we build an effigy of a Catholic terrorist and set it alight on a big bonfire, celebrating his failure to blow up parliament. We have done that for the past 420 years in a row so far (usually in multiple places across the country, although much fewer now).

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Grouchy-Reflection97@reddit

Our version of the ongoing mystery of the identity of The Zodiac Killer is the identity of the (kiddy TV show) Blue Peter garden vandals.

They poured oil in the fish pond and made Percy Thrower cry, so, for those of us watching as young kids, it was pretty dark, core memory type stuff.

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guyacrossthehall@reddit

Today is the first of the month so the first words I said, before I even got out of bed, were “white rabbit”. I’m from Middlesex and I’ve been doing this every month for 50+ years.

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Eso_terrA@reddit

I thought it was "Pinch and a punch for the first of the month"

Then you proceed to assault everyone you love.

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Accomplished_Alps463@reddit

Don't forget to add " and no returns from you" to save you getting hit back.

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

A punch and a kick for being so quick

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colin_staples@reddit

My SO is from a different part of the country than me. She insists on doing this on the first of every month, and I still have no clue what the fuck is going on.

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I_waz_Perce@reddit

That's interesting. I was taught its white rabbits if the month has an "r" in it and "a pinch and a punch for the start of the month" from May to August. The kicker is that it has to be done before talking with someone. Pinch or white rabbits with as many people as possible before talking to them. I'm not a morning person, and I barely grunt before 2 pm, so I've never managed to do this properly 🙃

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

I also had the “months with an r” extension to this but cannot find any reference to this variant online. Where did you grow up?

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I_waz_Perce@reddit

The midlands, Dad from Birmingham, Mum from Newcastle.

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

I grew up in Staffordshire

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boroxine@reddit

Meanwhile I woke up, told the cats they were good boys for a few mins, checked my watch, and went "oh fuck I didn't say white rabbits again".

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

I thought white rabbit was only for the months with an r in!

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sgehig@reddit

I heard that too, I'm from Merseyside.

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LilithXCX@reddit

Where I come from in the Midlands it’s pinch punch first of the month and you pinch and punch someone in the arm 😅

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Weekly-Reveal9693@reddit

Why?

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

In Oxfordshire there is an old game called aunt Sally, played in pub garden where players throw sticks at a wooden block (the dolly) the aim being to hit it off without hitting the post it stands on.

It's taken quite seriously. There are leagues.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Sally

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Responsible_Heron394@reddit

Guy Faukes night is fun. Have you heard of it? Afternoon tea Pubs Queuing Hogmanay Burns night Cheese rolling Maypole dancing Nettle eating Pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) The Queen's, Oh King's speech on Christmas day Boxing day New year's eve Easter Poppy Day or Remembrance Day

Ask me about any of these

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Fyonella@reddit

Fawkes

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Responsible_Heron394@reddit

Oops

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Ok-Start8985@reddit

Why?

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mearnsgeek@reddit

If you want a more unusual one, google The Burryman.

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Fyonella@reddit

Sadly, as you can hopefully discern from the responses some of the people in Britain are incapable of answering a straight question without taking the piss and making us all sound like twats.

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colin_staples@reddit

The comment above this one says :

Look up Morris dancing and Punch and Judy puppet shows.

Anyone who looks those up will think it's a piss-take.

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llynglas@reddit

And your point being?

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Fyonella@reddit

Well, I think if you don’t understand my point, then you’re generally proving it.

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llynglas@reddit

That was the point....

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Fyonella@reddit

Ok…

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moreidlethanwild@reddit

I mean, that IS British culture at its finest.

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RRC_driver@reddit

Wassailing

Normally in January,A procession, making lots of noise to the local orchard where we march round three times and wake the tree spirits, to ensure a bountiful harvest of fruit.

Happens all over the country, but my local one is in an urban orchard

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Dense_Imagination984@reddit

Google Wales Mari Lwyd.

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seven-cents@reddit

We like to sacrifice tourists at Midnight on Tuesdays and feed their blood to our newborn babies.

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lunettarose@reddit

Not far from me, there's a town called Gawthorpe that holds a Coal Carrying Championship race each year in April - that's pretty good fun, and harks back to the area's coal mining heritage.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

You salute the first magpie of the day with the greeting "Good morning, Mr Magpie. Give my love to Mrs Magpie and the little Magpies." But only to the first Magpie of the day, and only if it's by itself.

You can also say "Good morning Mr Magpie. I'm sorry you're alone. And therein lies all my sorrow."

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IAmNotDrDavis@reddit

I was taught to greet all magpies "Morning Bill, how's your wife?" Yesterday there were two at once so I decided to address the second one as James. Just in case.

Also we have the fortune-telling-by-number-of-magpies rhyme, "one for sorrow".

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sbaldrick33@reddit

Admittedly, that does sound a little less insane. 😄

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Fuzzy_Possibility@reddit

There’s a village in Staffordshire (Abbots Bromley) which holds an annual Horn Dance. It’s around 800 years old and is held on Wakes Monday (first Monday after fiesta Sunday in September). Meant to be one of the oldest traditions still going I think.

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snapper1971@reddit

Here in Oxfordshire we have a game called Aunt Sally - to throw three standardised short sticks at a standardised turned wooden "Sally" sitting on a pole. The aim is to knock the "Sally" off. It's quite fun. There's usually alcohol involved, which is usually Real Ale.

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copperpin@reddit

It's traditional to respond to earnest posts such as this one with withering sarcasm.

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StonedJesus98@reddit

Eeee never!

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Haunting-Guidance150@reddit

Ur lying?!

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llynglas@reddit

Really?

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Hamsternoir@reddit

The annual Bude Tunnel run is an unusual event that involves a race around the town and swim.

It starts and finishes at the tunnel and by midnight all the runners are expected to have discarded their last item of clothing with only a merkin remaining to cover their modesty.

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Hivemind_alpha@reddit

In Mytholmroyd, a village near Hebden Bridge, they hold the annual Dock Pudding World Championships. Dock is a weed; Dock Pudding is pretty gross.

Hebden Bridge is famous as (a) being listed in the top ten best places to live in the world by British Airways flight magazine; (b) being described as the lesbian capital of the north of England.

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Wiedegeburt@reddit

And dock leaves are an old wife's tale cure over here for nettle stings (probably sap being below ambient temperature so the coolness has a soothing effect)

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VeeMon21@reddit

We worship the lord in the house of Toby Carvery every Sunday

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Floor-Goblins-Lament@reddit

There's a traditional ball game in Kirkwall, which is the largest town in Orkney (a collection of Scottish Islands off the north-east coast) called the Ba'. The entire town gets together and is split into two teams, the uppies and the doonies. The doonies are those who live at the lower end of the town, closer to the sea and where historically seafarers by profession. The uppies are those that live at the upper end of the town and where historically farmers.

The goal is, starting in the town centre, to move a ball to one side of the town or the other. The doonies are trying to get it in the harbour, the uppies are trying to get it past what used to be the town boundary. There are, to my knowledge, no official rules as to how this is achieved. This game is played twice a year, one christmas eve and one on new years, and can last for hours.

I only know about this tradition because my dad is from Kirkwall and watches a livestream of the event every years. I don't pay that much attention but I don't think I've ever seen the uppies win. The doonies goal is downhill of the start point, and I think actually slightly closer.

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pm_me_your_amphibian@reddit

This sounds superb

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q-the-light@reddit

I'm from Yorkshire where we have a grand and longrunning tradition of hating on Lancashire (they're still mad about the war).

We also have a few non-Roses related traditions, including beautiful meals such as toad in the hole and the use of a dialect featuring as few syllables as possible.

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scared-of-clouds@reddit

There's always the madness that is the Mari Lwyd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd?wprov=sfla1

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Wiedegeburt@reddit

We say "yeright" (are you alright) as a greeting but it isn't a real question , regardless of you are severely depressed or elated you Allways say "not bad yourself?" Or something similar

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Haunting-Guidance150@reddit

Anyone gunna bring up the tea time alarm…?

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useless_wonders@reddit

I'm from Gloucester and every year in May we throw an expensive wheel of cheese down a very steep hill and chase it, whoever gets to the bottom of the hill first gets to keep the cheese. Many I juries happen, we aren't a smart bunch 😂

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ministryofboops@reddit

The best part is that in a sea of unserious comments, THIS one is actually true

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bibonacci2@reddit

You may not know about Conkers. In autumn, when the horse chestnut trees start dropping their nuts (Conkers) the kids will collect them to play the game of Conkers.

To play, you make a hole through the centre of the nut and then put a piece of string through the hole, tying off the end.

You then can play. It’s a two player game.

The first player holds the string with the conker hanging down. They must hold it steady.

The second player then holds their conker with the string taught, then swings the conker to try to hit the other players conker. The objective is to cause the other player’s conker to break.

Players take it in turns to hit and the survivor wins.

Winning the game adds a counter to that conker. So you can have a 1er, 2er, 3er, etc. ranked conker based on the number of wins.

Kids would try various things to strengthen their Conkers - soaking, pickling, cooking, drying out etc. to harden them for battle.

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Bose82@reddit

Google exists

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SallyNicholson@reddit

Ah, traditions. How do they start? When does a thing become a tradition? Who knows?

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carreg-hollt@reddit

Yesterday the air temp was 31°C and what felt like 99% relative humidity. Every single person with whom I interacted complained about it.

Today, 24°C and what feels like 20% RH.

Guess what? Everyone - every one - complained that the warm weather has gone.

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R2-Scotia@reddit

Trick or treat has its origins in a Celtic tradition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#Guising

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GodSaveTheKing07@reddit

In a lot of places, mostly rural, we celebrate our nations patron saint’s day. Every one knows about St. patrick’s day (because the Irish don’t know the art of subtlety) but we also celebrate Sts. George’s , Andrew’s, and David’s day. St. Andrews day is in the middle of winter, so it’s harder to celebrate; But st george’s day and st. David’s day are in spring, and we usually celebrate by having village fetes and garden parties.

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coffeewalnut08@reddit

At Christmas, we have a lot of traditional carols and hymns that are really beautiful. Many people still like to sing them in church services and associated events. My favourites are Jerusalem the Golden, Yorkshire’s Wassail song and Once in Royal David’s City.