What The World Thinks Of Brits

A recent post included details of the most hated nations and there sat Britain at number 11 between India and Japan and i thought , 'Phew, got away with that then'  because some nations are hated for their past actions and Britain did not covered itself with glory when it ran an Empire so why then, if it isn't our past, what do others hate about Britain?  
The British Council put out a report a little while ago called 'As Others See Us' which was a poll by 5,000 18 to 34-year-olds from all around the world who gave an assessment of what they think of Britain.
The most negative things they could think of about this sceptred isle included drink too much alcohol,  bad eating habits, rude, unfriendly, ignorant of other cultures, lazy and Complain Too Much' which all seems a little vindictive so lets dive into each of the top thongs other nations dislike about us Brits
Worst trait was that we drink too much alcohol (27%) which is nonsense, we also drink tea and sometimes put whisky in it so how can they...oh i see, moving on to the second worst trait that we have bad eating habits which 23% said.
I did wonder exactly what this meant at first and assumed it was eating ice cream with our hands or licking our plates but it's to do with the way we just chuck all our food onto a plate so it is one big mix, and then smother it in Mayonnaise or Tomato Sauce which is fair because go to a restaurant, and unless it is one of those posh ones where you pay £568,000 for a single slice of chicken in some French sounding sauce, it will arrive at you table 'mixed'.
Next up is we are too nationalistic according to 22% and as we gave the World trains, television, the first computer, DNA, gravity, evolution, Slash, the industrial revolution and the telephone, us Brits do feel they we have basically won history and feel smug about it and nobody was smug until we Brits invented it so add that to the list also.
Another 22% east of Kent said we are intolerant of other cultures which will be much higher if Nigel Farage and his right wing buddies get their way but the next two, Rude (17%) and unfriendly (13%) we should lump together because it is very much a British trait that most of us would really rather you didn't try and strike up a conversation with us unless you are holding us hostage. Sure it may come across as rude and unfriendly but in our minds if we show any interest in a conversation it will lead to an 8 hour discussion on your trip to Dover Castle along with photos.    
Brits complain too much is what 13% thought which again is something i don't recognise or rather i don't because who has the time with all i have to do and with the trains being  so lousy and expensive and don't get me started on the weather, seems to be raining so hard you could swim home some days or it's baking and we have to look at men in shorts two sizes too small so the belly hangs and who wants to see that? Not me because after work i have to do the housework although the last thing i want after a hard days graft is to run around with a bloody vacuum cleaner but anyway, i digress and the last trait other nations dislike about us Brits is that we are lazy (10%).
Lazy! LAZY!! They think that British people employ foreigners to do everything they don’t want to do which is an outrageous slur and not one that my Indian house-cleaner or the Greek lady who comes in twice a week to do the ironing agreed with when i asked them.  
So there you go Brits, that's what the rest of the world thinks of us.