You have a “local”, a pub near you that you frequent. A pub is a stop along the way to meet someone… or an end in and of itself.
You call football… well football. This is the round ball game played with the feet as opposed to the American or Canadian type where you throw an oblong ball and wear crash helmets.
On this subject, English folk (and English-Estonians) go through the pain of expectation and disappointment every four years during the World Cup. Leafs fans suffer annually! The English World Cup drought (since 1966) is a year longer than the Leafs’ Stanley Cup drought!
You have a football team that you support/follow and you can answer the question “who is your team?” relatively convincingly.
You play a round of golf in under four hours and you carry your clubs.
You can tie a bow tie. Wearing a pre-tied one is frowned upon if you are over twelve years old.
In England, the term winter sports means a game of darts at the pub. It’s difficult to believe that the British are credited with inventing downhill skiing. They invented football as well–enough said!
You can place people by their accents. Even the English-Estonians are loosely grouped into cohorts from the south, midlands, or north, perhaps reflecting the locations of the Estonian Houses in London, Leicester, and Bradford.
You can certainly pronounce Leicester correctly!
You know how to play cricket (the second most popular sport in the world incidentally), and that “The Ashes” is the pinnacle of the English/Australian cricket rivalry, played every two years. You know that the trophy they play for is a small urn, six inches high, reputedly containing the ashes of some bails (the two wooden sticks standing on top of the stumps) that the bowlers endeavour to knock over. It’s a long story, Google it!
Since Brexit, you definitely have an Estonian passport so you have unfettered access to Europe if required.
You think zero degrees Celsius is cold and you don’t own a proper winter coat or jacket.
Lastly, as you can tell by the tone of this article, you are somewhat prone to snobbery. Moreover, when you live in North America people tell you that things said with an English accent carry more weight. Rightly or wrongly, after a while you start to believe them.
