People shared the aspects of British life that TV and film makers always get wrong – 23 especially irritating on-screen fails

13.

‘That we can afford a four bedroomed detached house in the Cotswolds on a used book salesman’s income.’
–sjbaker82

14.

‘For films set in London: The route from A to B, and how it always seems to take in Tower Bridge or some other iconic London landmark.

‘Off the top of my head, the most accurate seems to have been the drive from Notting Hill to the Savoy via the Ritz, in the film Notting Hill.’
–Mickleborough

15.

‘The working class always being thick, bigoted alcoholics.’
–Fudubaders

16.

‘Yes, some people drink tea, yes some people eat pies, yes some people even eat a cooked breakfast and a sausage or bacon sarnie on a Friday but we don’t DO ALL THOSE THINGS EVERY DAY. Except drink tea.’
–orbtastic1

17.

‘That someone finds a parking space immediately where they need it.’
–Stratospheric-Ferret

18.

‘School life. Schools are always depicted as gritty and dramatic and/or exceedingly posh. I think it’s the Skins effect. What I wouldn’t give for a slightly nicer portrayal of an ordinary British school.’
–Square_Quarter_229

19.

‘That we haven’t got electricity yet. No one has an electric kettle we all use the ancient metal ones that you put on an old fashioned stove then it whistles when it boils. I haven’t seen anyone use one of those in almost 50 years.’
–flashass

20.

‘That the British come in three categories:

1. Aristocrats

2. Professionals (say teachers)- that always appear to have a home that their salaries could not provide for.

3. Poverty struck and live in a terraced hovel.’
–surreyade

21.

‘Characters are always able to sit in the pub having long conversations. They never have to shut up for a football game or a pub quiz, or just because the music is being played blaringly loudly.’
–Gilded-golden

22.

‘That we’re all in the pub, all the time, every day. Nobody ever watches television, and we’re all criminals. Eastenders anyone?’
–DavidJonnsJewellery

23.

‘Not enough swearing I find.’
–Douglesfield_

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