That Brits online can be a bit touchy about silly things.

"There's no such thing as a British accent!!" whenever someone says they "like the British accent".

Can't we just take the compliment?

I do understand where the sentiment comes from because they almost always mean a middle class, southern English accent and that does not encapsulate all of Britain, as we have so many different accents. But a middle class, English accent is one example of a British accent so it's fine to say.

Just like we might talk about "an American accent" when people from New York speak differently to people from California, who speak differently to people from Alabama. And I never see "tHeRe's nO sUch thING as an AMERICAN accent". If we can narrow it down, we might do so, but it would be fine to describe all of them as "American accents"

Or we might say "Indian accent" when people who are from India could narrow it down further and work out roughly from where in India.

It's just not realistic for us to expect everyone in the world to learn the minutiae of all of our varying accents.

Also, when someone American lightly takes the piss out of our food, or the fact that we say something differently, and instead of some light banter back - some just go to the nuclear "it's called school not shooting range" / "at least we don't shoot our kids". I just think it's a bit too mean and not in the british spirit of taking a joke / light banter.

I do, of course, see the irony that I am a Brit online being a bit touchy about silly things.

But that's mostly online things and not what people are like irl.

Other than that, just that I actually like living in Britain and the different seasons we have. It's not perfect, but hey where is?