15 British Memes: Pretty Dank, Innit?

The United Kingdom is made of four nations situated on islands north of Europe, and those four nations, in addition to creating and/or conquering several other nations around the world, have made a great many memes. You might already know about the British passion for tea, football, royalty, and sprawling overseas empire, and wish to learn more. If you want to access the deeper level of the culture and understand what it’s really like to be British, then these memes won’t do it. But they’re a good start. Here, you’ll find information about how bonafide British posters on r/britishmemes feel about topics from the much-beloved NHS to the less-beloved Boris Johnson, from the Queen to the metric system, along with some quality burns on the other big English-speaking imperial nation across the pond.

In Britain, both the metric and the customary system are used for different things, leading to much confusion. For example, beer is drunk in customary, and temperature measured in metric. Nobody knows why.

Gregg's, a 7/11-esque chain, sells a sausage roll for one quid/pound/sterling (there are several names for money in Britain) which is made of predictably sketchy meat.

For example: St. Helena, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands….

The British had the good idea of providing healthcare to everybody funded by the state, and the NHS remains one of the most popular institutions in the country.

They broke up the Last Supper, but they didn't break up BoJo's Last Boozer (British for drinking party).

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