Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time

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A couple of chapters are in a different, more lengthy format, which were not as funny, and I found myself skimming over these; I think the original tweets work best.

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As Rob pointed out, a lot of similar accounts that also pay homage to British humor simply repost already popular memes. Ich nehme an es wäre lustiger, wenn mein Tag nicht so traurig gewesen wäre und das Buch nicht nur aus Clippings bestanden hätte.

I have long since been disabused of my initial notion that the British are actually polite robots that run on tea (though after eight years in the UK I am now as fond of a lovely cup of tea as any Brit), but his generalizations still prompted an occasional chuckle.

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I bought this book after seeing a list of quotes from it that had me doubled over with laughter going 'That's me! Jokes I hadn't seen before were the biggest part of the book - the bits I (and probably all those people who didn't retweet) couldn't relate to. Being a bit of a people-pleaser myself, I was pleasantly surprised how many of these situations do not make me feel awkward. Much like the Twitter account, Very British Problems lists the various awkward and uncomfortable situations that British people often encounter.Rob Temple's hilarious new book reveals all the ways in which we are a nation of socially awkward but well-meaning oddballs, struggling to make it through every day without apologising to an inanimate object. As I read for myself I'd rate it 2 stars, but I'd rate it as 4 stars to give as a gift, so I settled on 3. I bought this for my Kindle and found it to be a case of a small joke stretched too far and I also found the kindle format very poor - it's more like a PDF than a proper e-book. Whatever you do, do not (as I did) read it all the way through, beginning to end, in a few sittings. Here you can see new VBPs, as well as the greatest hits, in lovely pictorial form in many jazzy, as well as muted, colours.

Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet (Paperback)

Yes, I recognised my own behaviour a few times but more often than not, I was just left thinkings "Please tell me that we're really not quite that ridiculously pathetic".So it turned out to be a half awkward read, where I knew some things and could chuckle about them dreading the next time I will apologise to a chair. Unfortunately that list turned out to be all the best quotes from the book, so I gained little more from actually reading the whole thing. We and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our site to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze our traffic.