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Yes, it's an exercise in publicity, but who cares?

http://www.icons.org.uk/

What are you going to vote for? Doctor Who? Samuel Pepys? Real Ale?

This seems like exactly the sort of Organised Fun that would drive ILX0rs Disgusted In Tunrbidge Wells.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I'm a strategically placed black person! I like phone boxes!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

(It would help if I could spell Tunbridge Wells!)

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

i never knew blood could actually boil till i visited that site.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean, "buggery" isn't an icon?!?!?

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, why does it make your blood boil? A few years ago on ILX, we were trying to come up with one, with the Geezathetics crew and their whole "let the national symbol of England be a pub" and all that.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

oh God, I wonder if they realised that they'd be getting themselves into hot water because loads of the nominations/icons are actually british rather than english.... but it's because the funding comes from DCMS, which only covers england.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

this is state-funded? ffs.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if they realised that they'd be getting themselves into hot water because loads of the nominations/icons are actually british rather than english....

I love it when people suggest King Arthur as an icon of Englishness, given that he became iconic for his skill of defeating the English in battle.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a whole load of them, I was a bit "hang on - Hadrian's Wall? Surely that's British" but then again, I guess it's English becuase it was designed to keep the Scots *out*.

x-post, Arthur became an icon of the Normans because he defeated the *Saxons*. Which is what the Normans were all about.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

x-post, Arthur became an icon of the Normans because he defeated the *Saxons*. Which is what the Normans were all about.

which doesn't make him 'english', rly.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

god help my county when its culture is dead enough to allow for bullshit like this

― ,,, Monday, 23 January 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say that it was very London centric, what with all the tube and bus stuff, but actually, there is quite a bit from regions all around England.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

the pub has already been considered and dismissed in this thing (i remember the story on BBC news 24 before i think and thought oh pub! and then they mentioned it as one that didn't make the list)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

except this must be different as it's on the list of nominations!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

"the pub" can't be an icon. actually what the fuck do they mean by icon?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Well, this is nominations based on popular demand. Hence why foxhunting is doing so well!

I mean, as annoying and organised fun as this is, it's infinitely preferable to all that bloody flagwaving and "ooh, let's a have a Fourth of July" crap.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

wrong again

― ,,, Monday, 23 January 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

foxhunting can't be an 'icon' either.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

A disembowelled fox would make a smashing symbol of countryside ideals.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

And in my case also urban ideals ;)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually not disembowelled, just gagged.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Foxgagging, a quintessentially English pastime.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/basilbrush/images/basilindex.jpg

BOOM BOOM

― 'Curt' Russell (noodle vague), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

pub icon
http://www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/navimg/pub.gif

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

fox hunting icon
http://www.freedownloadgamescenter.com/imagesc/-aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hc3RvbnNoZWxsLmNvbS9waWMvZm94LmdpZg==-32-32.gif

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

another
http://www.equinfo.hu/pikt/vadaszlovaglas.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

My vote

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

god help my county when its culture is dead enough to allow for bullshit like this

like a peach? their apologies for having a land area slightly smaller than Oregon.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Doctor Who? An English icon? Is that why Tennant's not got his own accent then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Well, apparently James Bond is an *English* icon, too, despite clearly (well, both in the books and in Sean Connery's accent) being Scots.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)