I am deeply saddened to find out that there aren't bears strolling through central Moscow :)

British people definitely do love drinking tea. I'm on my fifth cup of the day. It's best not to try and tell us how it should be made :)

It nearly caused an international incident earlier this year.

Anyway. Can't hang around. I need to go and buy a new Bowler hat and cane. Then take the horses to my castle, and get upset about how the Americans spell things. Pip pip.

This YouTube video will give you a good idea of a British stereotype as perceived by people in the United States:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MtoF4m0nok" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry-Thomas</a>

Warning: I'm old enough that I might know <em>out-of-date</em> stereotypes. There may be newer stereotypes!

In the United States, we have a set of stereotypes of British people that are probably based on comic stage and movie depictions, P. G. Wodehouse's books about dumb aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his brilliant butler Jeeves, the recent TV series "Downton Abbey," and Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. That is, our stereotypes are distorted versions of upper-class British in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, before World War I.

My apologies in advance to Brits.

1) The British say "Ta-ta!" and "Pip-pip!" and "Cheerio!" and "Old boy!" and "Eh what?"

2) British kings are all like mad King George III and Henry VIII. But British queens are OK.

3) The British are pompous, formal, and "stuck-up."

4) The British all love cricket.

5) The British all go to schools like Hogwarts (in the Harry Potter books).

6) London is always covered by a "pea-soup fog."

7) The British eat almost nothing but mutton. Except the kids, who eat treacle, but we don't know what treacle is.

8) We don't think of Scotland as being part of England. That's a different stereotype. Scottish men all wear kilts all the time, they all play bagpipes, they all eat haggis, and they are all stingy (or, politely, "thrifty"). (The "thrifty Scot" is such a stereotype that our favorite brand of sticky tape is "Scotch tape," and the branding features a tartan pattern.

As a Canadian, the stereotype we have the most is that they have bad teeths, they're really stuck up and drink tea all the time. Of course it's mostly false, but here's something : the british drink waaaaaay more alcohol than the americans.

We've spent a lot of time in the UK, mostly in London, and I will tell you something about the Brits that even they can NEVER deny ~ They LOVE, simply LOVE, to QUEUE UP ~ They will queue up when they don't even know what they're queueing up for. And the word queue in and of itself is quintessentially British. Go figure! From a Yank who knows!

@Lvcivs The alcohol thing is definitely true. A friend of mine went to uni/college in Boston and they thought he was an alcoholic because he would have more than a couple of beers when they went out. In the UK, three pints is a warm up, or lunch. Maybe that's why we have bad teeth :)